Jeff Bridges is Grendel, John Malkovich joins The Fantastic Four, and more casting news of the week

Michelle Yeoh, Nicolas Cage, Samuel L. Jackson, Alexander Skarsgård, Jeremy Strong, Taylor Lautner, and more were also in the headlines this week

By Emma Keates, Mary Kate Carr, Matt Schimkowitz, Saloni Gajjar | May 10, 2024 | 7:22pm

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Jeff Bridges is Grendel, John Malkovich joins The Fantastic Four, and more casting news of the week

L-R: Glen Powell, John Malkovich, Sydney Sweeney, Alexander Skarsgård, Michelle Yeoh Photo: Anthony Harvey; Shutterstock; John Salangsang; David Fisher; Anthony Harvey

Nicolas Cage will play Jesus Christ in a horror movie about his biblical childhood, and that’s not even the most exciting casting update this week. Michelle Yeoh continues her hot streak with Blade Runner 2099, Jeremy Strong might join fellow Jeremy (Allen White) in his Bruce Springsteen biopic, and Faye Dunaway, Harvey Keitel, and Andrew McCarthy are heading a film that director Jonathan Baker believes “will stand as one of the most memorable love stories of our time.” Now that’s how you get people back to the theaters!

Samuel L. Jackson and Henry Golding to play Head Games

Samuel L. Jackson and Crazy Rich Asians star Henry Golding are set to lead the psychological thriller Head Games. According to , the film “follows a corporate spy who poses as a personal chef to infiltrate the villa of a former founder of a neuroprosthetics firm in order to steal his seismic-shifting new invention.” Anthony Mandler (Monster) will direct from a script by Colin Liddle (Penny Dreadful: City Of Angels). [Mary Kate Carr]

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