James Badge Dale Joins 'Spectral'; 'Gods of Egypt' Adds Elodie Yung

* James Badge Dale, scene-stealer in Shame, The Lone Ranger, and World War Z, has come aboard to star in Spectral, which has been described in the past as a sci-fi Black Hawk Down. Nic Mathieu is directing from a script by George Nolfi and John Gatins, and it follows a special ops force trained in hunting the supernatural, who are put into battle against ghosts that have taken over Manhattan. This one has been in the works since 2011 when Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg were to helm it before leaving to direct Pirates of the Caribbean 5. [THR]

* Elodi Yung sliced up a bunch of ninja as Jinx in GI Joe: Retaliation, and now she'll go from that that to playing Hathor, the goddess of motherhood and joy in Gods of Egypt. Yung has joined the divine action flick directed by Alex Proyas, which stars Gerard Butler, Geoffrey Rush, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Brenton Thwaites, Chadwick Boseman, and Courtney Eaton. The story has humans and gods banding together to stop the evil god Set from plunging Egypt into darkness. Gods of Egypt opens February 12th 2016. [Deadline]

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Chadwick Boseman Joins 'Gods of Egypt'; Rebecca Hall Boards 'Tumbledown'; Nikki Reed Opens 'Email'

 * 42 star Chadwick Boseman has been keeping plenty busy ever since that Jackie Robinson biopic. He's currently filming Get On Up in which he'll play James Brown, and he'll be seen next in Draft Day opposite Kevin Costner. Now he'll go all divine and stuff by joining Gods of Egypt, directed by Alex Proyas. Starring Gerard Butler, Geoffrey Rush, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Brenton Thwaites, and Courtney Eaton, the film centers on a group of rebels battling against the evil god, Set. Boseman will play Thoth, the god of wisdom in the February 12th 2016 release. [Deadline]

* Rebecca Hall, soon to be seen in Transcendence opposite Johnny Depp, has joined the cast of rom-com, Tumbledown.  Directed by Sean Mewshew and starring Jason Sudeikis, Joe Manganiello, and Blythe Danner, the film follows a widow struggling to write a biography about her late husband, a famous musician. That changes when she meets a brash New York academic with a different take on her husband's life and death. The unlikely pair must collaborate to craft the famous singer’s story and begin to write the next chapter in their lives together.

* Just when you thought it was safe to use Yahoo Mail, Nikki Reed goes and signs on for Email, a horror from director Kelvin Tong. Reed will play "a journalist who travels to Singapore to investigate the mysterious circumstances of her sister’s death and discovers a string of bizarre killings involving a cursed email. Along the way she meets Ted, an ex-pat technology reporter, and together they face the supernatural forces and unravel a mysterious conspiracy far bigger than they expected." So basically it's You've got Mail meets The Ring? Blergh. 

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Lake Bell Joins 'The Coup'; Brenton Thwaites in 'Gods of Egypt'; Salma Hayek Learns "Hot to Make Love"

* The multi-talented Lake Bell (In a World...) is moving back in front of the camera for The Coup, joining Owen Wilson and Pierce Brosnan in the thriller directed by John Erick Dowdle. Co-written by Dowdle and his brother Drew, the film centers on an American family living in Southeast Asia who must flee a dangerous rebel leader when a violent coup erupts. Bell will play "Annie Dwyer, a woman who is loved by everyone and has a seemingly perfect family life, but wonders sometimes if she should be happier than she is." [THR]

* Fast-rising star Brenton Thwaites, who has the Disney adaptation Maleficent and the lead role in The Giver coming up, has added another major project. He'll join Alex Proyas' Gods of Egypt, which stars Gerard Butler, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and Geoffrey Rush. Thwaites will play a human thief who teams up with the god Osiris to get revenge on Set, who murdered his own brother and cursed the land. [Deadline]

* Salma Hayek has won the lead role in How to Make Love Like an Englishman, a sexually-charged romantic comedy that stars the suddenly ubiquitous Pierce Brosnan and Jessica Alba. Directed by Tom Vaughn, the story has Brosnan as a hedonistic Cambridge University professor who falls for the perfect woman played by Hayek. Unfortunately it happens after he's already impregnated her grad student stepsister, played by Alba. [Deadline]

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