Rachel Weisz signs on to The Whistleblower, an indie political drama about…well, I think it’s about a whistleblower, but let me check to make sure. “Based on a true story, Whistleblower chronicles the trials of a female cop from Nebraska who serves as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and exposes a United Nations cover-up of a sex trafficking scandal,” Variety reports. See, I knew it!
If Wolverine is an X-Men spinoff, then what does that make Deadpool, a proposed Wolvervine spinoff starring Ryan Reynolds as the “wise-cracking mercenary played in the film by Ryan Reynolds”? An X-Men spinoff-in-law? “Deadpool is known as ‘the merc with a mouth,’ a character that under Reynolds lived up to his billing in Wolverine until the end, when the movie deviated from the comic book persona, imbuing him with several superpowers and sewing his mouth shut,” per The Hollywood Reporter. Hmm, that sounds like a spoiler to me.
Will Ferrell is ready to join the Neighborhood Watch. “Story chronicles an urbanite's journey as he moves to a suburban community, joins the neighborhood watch and uncovers a large conspiracy.”