* While the wait for a new film by Cary Fukunaga(Sin Nombre, Jane Eyre) is intolerable, at least the time will be filled with his Matthew McConaughey-led HBO series, True Detective. And when that's all wrapped up, Fukunaga will prepare for his next feature, an adaptation of Uzodinma Iweala's bestelling novel Beasts of No Nation, and he's just landed Idris Elba to star in it. It sounds like powerful stuff, too, as it follows a young West African boy named Agu, who is recruited as a child soldier in a unit of guerrilla fighters just as civil war is breaking out. Elba will play the unit Commander, who exerts his will over Agu and drags him further from his old life.
* Mad Men star Christina Hendricks and Midnight in Paris' Corey Stoll have joined Dark Places, the adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel, directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner. They join Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, and Chloe Moretz in the thriller about a woman who survived the brutal murder of her family as a teenager, sending her brother to prison for life for committing the crime. She's forced to relive the ordeal when a secret society comes looking for the truth about what really happened.
* The relationship between Guy Ritchie and Warner Bros. rolls along, with the Sherlock Holmes and The Man from UNCLE director lining up his next project for the studio. He'll direct an adaptation of Thomas Kelly's 2006 historical novel, Empire Rising, a romance set against the construction of the Empire State Building. Set in 1930, the Depression-era tale centers on a love triangle between Irish steelworker and IRA member Michael Brody; Johnny Farell, a bagman for corrupt Mayor Jimmy Walker; and the beautiful artist Grace Masterson. Kelly will pen the screenplay himself, and it's said to include a number of real life historical figures.[THR]
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