Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas take the mic, Rosamund Pike pulls a rabbit from a hat, and more casting news of the week

Alden Ehrenreich, Tilda Swinton, Karen Gillan, Paul Walter Hauser, Andrew Garfield, and Claire Foy all joined new projects this week

By Emma Keates, Mary Kate Carr, Saloni Gajjar, Matt Schimkowitz | May 3, 2024 | 8:03pm

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Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas take the mic, Rosamund Pike pulls a rabbit from a hat, and more casting news of the week

(L-R): Paul Rudd, Nick Jonas, Rosamund Pike, Tilda Swinton Photo: David Fisher; Jordan Strauss/January Images; Erik Pendzich

This was a pretty huge week for casting news. Glenn Close and Henry Winkler are working on a comedy together, Zach Cregger’s Weapons added Alden Ehrenreich, Benedict Wong, and more to its already stacked cast, and Missy Elliott joined Pharrell Williams’ still-untitled coming-of-age musical. Beyond that, films continue to vie for buyers out of the Cannes market later this month.

Yul Vazquez boards The Last Bus

Yul Vazquez (Severance) has joined Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera in The Last Bus, according to . Based on Lizzie Johnson’s novel Paradise: One Town’s Struggle To Survive An American Wildfire, the film “is set during the disastrous 2018 Camp Fire that became the deadliest fire in California history.” It follows a school teacher and a bus driver helping to navigate a group of schoolchildren through a destructive natural disaster. Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Ultimatum) will direct with a script from Brad Ingelsby. [Mary Kate Carr]

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