Topher Grace Seeks 'Truth'; Tyson Ritter will 'Miss You Already'; Nikki Reed Joins 'The Highway is for Gamblers'

It's the Tophernaissance! Okay, maybe not, but Topher Grace is definitely on the way up again with a role in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, and now he's scored another major gig by joining Truth, about the infamous 60 Minutes "Rathergate" scandal. Robert Redford, Cate Blanchett, Elisabeth Moss, and Dennis Quaid star in James Vanderbilt-directed drama about Rather's story on George W. Bush's sketchy military service record. Grace will play researcher Mike Smith, who exposed the the truth and ruined Rather's career. [Deadline]

All-American Rejects frontman Tyson Ritter, who also has a recurring role on NBC's Parenthood, has joined Toni Collette and Drew Barrymore in Miss You Already. He'll get to snuggle up to one of the ladies in the film about childhood friends who experience a rift when one struggles to have a child and the other develops breast cancer. Fun times. Dominic Cooper, Paddy Considine, and Jacqueline Bisset co-star with Catherine Hardwicke directing.

Twilight's Nikki Reed and Harry Potter's Bonnie Wright will star in The Highway is for Gamblers, a Kickstarter-funded film from writer/director Alexandra McGuinness. Vikings star Joe Jonas also has a role in the desert-set story about "Jane (Reed), a newly crowned rodeo queen who goes missing, and her friend Heidi (Wright), who uncovers secrets and encounters the violence of life on the road while searching for her pal."

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Octavia Spencer Joins 'Las Madres'; Frank Langella Sails 'Driftless Area'; Nikki Reed Rides 'The Sunday Horse'

* Oscar-winner Octavia Spencer has joined Leslie Mann in the female bounty hunter comedy, Las Madres. No director is on board yet but Pam Brady's script centers on three unemployed friends who decide to make some cash by tracking down a dangerous criminal and claiming the reward. [Variety]

* John Hawkes, Alia Shawkat, Anton Yelchin, Zooey Deschanel, and Ciaran Hinds will have some company in Driftless Area as Frank Langella has come aboard. Tom Drury's novel will be directed by Zachary Sluser, with Deschanel as an enigmatic woman who falls in love with a bartender played by Yelchin. Their romance is complicated when they happen upon a bag of stolen cash, drawing the attention of a volatile criminal played by Hawkes.

* Twilight's Nikki Reed will play U.S. equestrian champion Debi Connor in The Sunday Horse. Directed by Vic Armstrong (Left Behind) and sounding like it could draw in the faith-based crowd, it tells the story of how Connor overcame a tough upbringing and a near-fatal accident to win the championship on a horse that was saved from being slaughtered. Good vibes all around. [Deadline]

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New Trailer for Joss Whedon-Scripted Supernatural Romance ' In Your Eyes'

Oh, and you expect Joss Whedon to do a traditional romance movie? Of course not, and he's taking a couple of different tracts with In Your Eyes, a supernatural romance he wrote with Brin Hill directing. The film only just debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival a few days ago, and yet it's already available for purchase On Demand through Vimeo. Is it worth the $5 price tag? Check out the trailer and judge for yourself.

Starring Zoe Kazan (Ruby Sparks) and Michael Stahl-David (Cloverfield), the story centers on the metaphysical connection between a bored east coast housewife and a New Mexico ex-con, sparking a long-distance romance that defies description. Whedon's usual wit and charm seem to be at play here, and Kazan is an actress who has an endless amount of appeal.

In Your Eyes also stars Nikki Reed, Steve Harris, Jennifer Grey, Mark Feurerstein and Steve Howey.

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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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Catch .44 adds Twilight, True Blood Vamps

How do you follow up starring in one of the most successful movie franchises and popular TV shows in recent memory? If you're Twilight's Nikki Reed and True Blood's Deborah Ann Woll, you trade in the mainstream craziness for something more indie.  Both have signed on to star in Catch .44 alongside Bruce Willis, Forest Whittaker, and Malin Ackerman.

The Aaron Harvey directed actioner is about three beautiful assassins sent on a dangerous mission that could prove to be their last. Reed got her start co-writing and starring in Catherine Hardwicke's 2003 film, Thirteen. She currently plays Rosalie Hale as part of the Twilight franchise. Deborah Ann Woll is best known as Jessica, the newbie vampire in HBO's True Blood.

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