Jason Sudeikis Joins 'Loomis Fargo'; Tom Hanks Goes to 'Ithaca'; Will Poulter Boards 'The Revenant'

* Jason Sudeikis, who is already set to lead a Fletch reboot, has joined the comedy formerly known as Loomis Fargo. Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson, and Kristen Wiig star in the Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) film about armored truck driver who teams up with a gorgeous co-worker and a group of inexperienced criminals to steal $20M from a bank. The spending sprees they on leave an obvious trail of evidence for the cops to follow, and the driver ends up getting double-crossed by his accomplices. Sudeikis will play a hit man in the story which is inspired by actual events. [TheWrap]

* Tom Hanks will make a cameo appearance in Meg Ryan's directorial debut, Ithaca, an adaptation of William Saroyan's 1943 novel, The Human Comedy. This will be the fourth collaboration between the two after they were America's favorite couple in some of the most memorable rom-coms ever made. The coming-of-age drama is set during WWII and tells the story of teenaged Homer Macauley, a telegraph bike messenger whose older brother Ulysses has been shipped off to war. Left to take care of his widowed mother, older sister, and younger brother, Homer delivers message of love, pain, death, and friendship revealing the true effects of war on the homefront. Hanks would play Homer's father. [THR]

* Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu already has Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy on board for his revenge thriller, The Revenant, and now he's made one more addition in Will Poulter. Last seen in We're the Millers, Poulter joins the film set in the 1820s and follows a "frontiersman on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling." [Variety]

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Kristen Wiig Joins Owen Wilson and Zach Galifianakis for Crime Comedy

Long in the works and once with Jim Carrey set for a lead role, the crime comedy formerly known as Loomis Fargo is still putting the cast together. Owen Wilson and Zach Galifianakis are on board with Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) set to direct, and now another piece of the puzzle is in place with the addition of Kristen Wiig.

Wiig will star in the heist caper which is based on the true events surrounding  "four dim-witted Southerners who pulled off one of the biggest heists in American history, robbing almost $20 million from a Loomis Fargo armored truck." Wiig will play a workplace crush, just as she did in 'Walter Mitty', only her character is more devious. She charms Galifianakis to get involved with a bank vault robbery by promising him a future hook-up she has no intention of following through on.

Filming begins in July. [THR]

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Zach Galifianakis to Join Heist Comedy with Owen Wilson

Although Jim Carrey had been loosely attached to the film formerly known as Loomis Fargo practically since the beginning, he's decided to exit the picture due to scheduling conflicts. The last we'd heard about the heist comedy was when Owen Wilson came aboard to co-star, and now a replacement for Carrey has been found in Zach Galifianakis.

Galifianakis, who starred in a trio of crime comedies you may have heard of, is in final talks to join Wilson in the untitled flick directed by Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) and based on an original idea by Up All Night creator Emily Spivey. Based on a ridiculous-but-true story, it centers on an armored car driver (Galifianakis) who teams up with a female co-worker and a team of bumbling crooks to steal $20M from a bank vault, only to leave an obvious trail of evidence by going on lavish shopping sprees after the robbery. Remember what happened to those spend-happy idiots in Goodfellas? Okay, well nothing that messy happens here, but the driver is eventually betrayed and flees to Mexico where he begins to plot revenge. Presumably Wilson will play a part of the gang, and it's unclear who will play their pretty female accomplice.

Sounds promising if only for Galifianakis and Wilson, but Hess has never done much for me as a director. Filming will begin next summer. [TheWrap]

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