* The busy year for Joel Edgerton(Warrior) continues, but the cool thing about it is he's not taking a simple route to making a name for himself. After selling his script for One Night Stand, and aiding his Aussie buddy David Michod develop The Rover with Robert Pattinson, Edgerton is set to produce, write, and star in a new thriller titled Felony. He'll play a police officer who has a couple of drinks and accidentally runs a cyclist off the road. He lies when questioned about it, leading to a situation that only gets worse for everybody. Matthew Saville(Noise) will direct when production gets underway in November. [THR]
* John Cusack wants you to forget about The Raven. Badly. He has to want that, otherwise I've lost all faith in the man. Unfortunately, the latest film he's joining continues to sound like an atrocious piece of crap. He'll join Elijah Wood in Grand Piano, which has a retired concert pianist with extreme stage fright forced back at the keys when a threat is made against his family. No joke. Adding to the jambalaya of stupid is Damian Chazelle(The Last Exorcism 2) as writer, and Eugenio Mira as director. Oi. [Variety]
* Max Greenfield(New Girl) has joined They Came Together, the promising rom-com spoof starring Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler. Directed and co-written by David Wain, the film is basically a send up of every romantic comedy trope we've all come to expect. Rudd will play an exec whose corporation is trying to take over the little shop owned by Pohler's character. Greenfield will play Rudd's no-good younger brother. [Deadline]
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