Duncan Jones' 'Warcraft' Adds Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, and Rob Kazinsky

 After toying with blockbuster gigs directing The Wolverine and The Hunger Games, Duncan Jones decided his first foray into the big money world (Source Code cost about $30M) would be video game adaptation, Warcraft. The best-selling game offers a world of swords, sandals, and sorcery, which will give the director a chance to show what he can do on a larger canvas, and now he'll have an impressive cast to help justify Legendary Pictures' investment.

With Travis Fimmel and Paula Patton already on board, the cast has been filled out with Ben Foster, Toby Kebbell, and Rob Kazinsky, while Dominic Cooper is in final negotiations. Of them all, Foster has the least blockbuster experience but he's the most acclaimed actor of the bunch. He's coming off a searing supporting turn in Ain't Them Bodies Saints, and will star in Peter Berg's Lone Survivor later this month. Kebbell has been a part of Wrath of the Titans and Prince of Persia, while Kuzinksky battled giant monsters in Pacific Rim last summer. Cooper has a home in the Marvel-verse as part of Captain America: The First Avenger, he's staked some vamps in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and then he gets behind the wheel for Need for Speed. Nothing on the previously-rumored Colin Farrell so he must have dropped out at some point.

Warcraft is set to open March 11th 2016.

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Willem Dafoe circles role in Pacific Rim; Rob Kazinsky confirmed

The presence of Willem Dafoe in any film pretty much guarantees you're in for a helter skelter experience. When was the last time he was in anything remotely....normal? Safe? Spider-Man 3? And he was wacko in that. To me, that bodes extremely well for Guillermo Del Toro's upcoming monster invasion film, Pacific Rim, as Variety reports Dafoe has entered early talks to join it. He'd play a "rogue scientist" with expertise on aliens. How exactly did he come about this knowledge? Hmmmmm...

In addition, British actor Rob Kazinsky(EastEnders), last seen dropping out of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit due to personal reasons, has been confirmed as one of the humans fighting to defend the planet. Our friends over at ThePlaylist seem to think he could play the brother of Charlie Hunnam's character. Idris Elba, Rinku Kikuchi, Charlie Day, and Max Martini are also set to star.

Pacific Rim is based on a highly regarded script by Travis Beacham, which at first was rumored to be the basis for a Godzilla relaunch(it wasn't). It tells the story of how humans come together using futuristic weaponry and piloting mechs in order to hold back a monster invasion. The film is due to be released on July 12th 2013.

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