Elizabeth Banks is very close to finalizing her contract to star alongside Russell Crowe in Lionsgate’s The Next Three Days. The movie is adaptation of the French thriller Pour elle, which Academy Award winner Paul Haggis is writing, directing and producing.
The thriller focuses on an ordinary couple who find themselves in an unthinkable situation and has to make desperate choices that will test the limits of love.
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Variety reports that James McAvoy, Elizabeth Banks, Laura Linney and Anna Friel have joined the cast of upcoming black comedy The Details.
The film will follow a couple – McAvoy and Banks – who discover an infestation of raccoons in their back yard. They argue over how to deal with the animals, which leads to an escalating series of events.
Jacob Estes has written the script and is set to direct the feature. Shooting begins this summer in Seattle.
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Elizabeth Banks is set to star in DreamWorks workplace comedy Forever 21 according to Variety.
Actress is set to produce the project through her shingle, Brownstone Prods.
Banks brought the spec script, written by Mike Culbert and Mike Pellettieri, into DreamWorks, where the high-concept storyline is being kept under wraps.
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The Uninvited is based on Kim Jee-Woon’s 2003 Korean horror film, “Changhwa Hongryon.” Anna (Emily Browning) returns home following her mother’s tragic death and discovers that her mother’s former nurse, Rachel (Elizabeth Banks), has moved into their house and become engaged to her father, Steven (David Strathairn).
Anna is visited by her mother’s ghost, who warns her that Rachel has evil intentions. Anna and her sister (Arielle Kebbel) must convince their father that his new fiancée is not who she pretends to be, and what should have been a happy family reunion becomes a lethal battle of wills between stepdaughters and stepmother.
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