'True Detective' Season 2 Adds Kelly Reilly, Abigail Spencer, and Leven Rambin

With Colin Farrell, Taylor Kitsch, Rachel McAdams and Vince Vaughn set for the second season of HBO's True Detective, there are still a number of supporting roles left to be filled. If the first season is anything to go by, these parts could be just as juicy as the leads. Just ask Alexandra Daddario who did probably the best work of her career in a small but pivotal role. And hopefully we'll be able to say the same thing for Kelly Reilly, who has just joined the cast after previously being up for the role McAdams won.

Reilly is joining True Detective along with Abigail Spencer (This is Where I Leave You), Leven Rambin (The Hunger Games), and Michael Irby. Reilly was great earlier this year in Cavalry, and has done impressive work in Flight, Chinese Puzzle, and more. She'll be playing the "self-possessed Morgan", Irby would be partner to McAdams' character, Rambin is a drug-addicted beauty, and Spencer is the survivor of a sexual attack.

Filming on True Detective should begin early next year with Justin Lin helming the first two episodes. [Deadline]

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1st trailer and poster for 'The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia'

Three years ago The Haunting in Connecticut served up hearty haunted house scares on a meager budget, coasting its way to over $77M at a time when animated movies were dominating the box office. Not exactly world-beating numbers, but enough that a sequel was likely, and soon we learned that Gold Circle Films had two in the works, centering on families haunted in two very different locales. Like the original, it would be based on an alleged real life encounter with the paranormal, and would be directed by 'Connecticut' editor Tom Elkins.

First announced as The Haunting in Georgia, it now goes by the overlong and confusing title of The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia(wait, what?), and with a release date right around the corner, we're finally getting a look at the trailer. The film is comprised mostly of TV vets, Chad Michael Murray(One Tree Hill), Katee Sackhoff(Battlestar Galactica) and Abigail Spencer(Mad Men), following a family that moves into a historic Georgia home, only to discover they aren't alone. As you might expect, the new location gives way to a deeply Southern Gothic approach, but the poster looks like someone saw The Last Exorcism once too often.

Presumably, if this does well, we'll see the next chapter in the series, which takes place in New York and has Sean Hood(Halloween: Resurrection) penning the screenplay. The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia will get a small theatrical run and VOD release on February 1st 2013. Check out the trailer below.....[IGN/Yahoo!]

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Trading Up: Zoe Kazan replaces Abigail Spencer in Joss Whedon-written romance, 'In Your Eyes'

Nothing against Abigail Spencer. She's a good actress and her addition to In Your Eyes, the metaphysical romance written by Joss Whedon, was a solid choice. Certainly it would've been a step up from her forgettable supporting turns in Cowboys & Aliens and this week's action comedy, This Means War. She's an actress on the move, though, as she's set to produce and star in Wrong Number, based on her own script.  With Spencer's schedule getting a little crowded, Zoe Kazan has taken over the In Your Eyes lead, and if you ask me it's a definite step up.

The granddaughter of Hollywood icon, Elia Kazan, Zoe has been forging a very distinct career for herself over the last decade. A star of both stage and screen, she's been featured in a number of Broadway production, as well as writing her own theater productions. Recently she appeared in Josh Radnor's directorial debut, happythankyoumoreplease, as well as alongside Michelle Williams in Meek's Cutoff. Her performance in The Exploding Girl remains one that continues to haunt me to this day, three years after I first saw it.

She'll be joined in the film by Michael Stahl-David(Cloverfield), who today came aboard the low budget indie. He'll play Dylan, an ex-con living in a trailer in New Mexcio. Kazan will be Rebecca, an awkward married woman living in Connecticut. Despite their distance and never having met, the two are connected by an unseen force, able to see and hear one another.

Brian Hill is set to direct, with filming to kick off next week in Los Angeles and New Hampshire. If it goes like Whedon's other small budget flick, Much Ado About Nothing, then it'll be shot in a matter of days and hopefully in theaters not long after.  [Deadline]

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Abigail Spencer joins Joss Whedon scripted and produced 'In Your Eyes'

After starring on All My Children for a couple of years and making a number of TV guest appearances, Abigail Spencer is making some pretty big moves on the silver screen. After a minor role in last summer's unfortunate Cowboys & Aliens, she'll be seen next in This Means War, starring Tom Hardy, Chris Pine, and Reese Witherspoon. Good company to be in, but it pales in comparison to who she'll be eating lunch with on the set of Oz: The Great And Powerful, such as James Franco, Rachel Weisz, and Michelle Williams.

Over the weekend, Spencer excitedly revealed her next film, and it should be another benchmark of her budding career. She's landed a role in the Joss Whedon scripted and produced In Your Eyes, which we first learned about back in November. Directed by Brin Hill, the film is described as a "metaphysical love story about two seemingly polar opposites who are deeply connected in ways neither could have ever imagined."

Filming is set to begin next month, and is expected to shoot over a couple of weeks, similar to Whedon's upcoming  Much Ado About Nothing, which he shot while still doing work on The Avengers.  If it's kicking off that fast, we should be hearing more casting news shortly. [THR]

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