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Kids Casting Call Announced For Featured Roles On “Popular 80’s Netflix Series”
Written by Patti Pauley
On the heels of yesterday’s jaw-dropping Super Bowl teaser trailer for the second season of the Netflix treasure Stranger Things, we now have more news which may or may not be in regards to one of the best things to come out of the movie streaming service in recent memory.
The casting call bulletin site Project Casting, has just put out an announcement per Casting TaylorMade, that casting directors are looking for particular kid actors for “very featured roles for a popular Netflix series set it in the 1980s.” They aren’t specifically stating that is indeed for Stranger Things. However, it’s a bit to hard to convince me otherwise that it isn’t for the nostalgia-induced, series smash.
The casting directors are looking for kid actors that fit their criteria in the state of Georgia in particular. Which in the case you may not know, Jackson, Georgia serves as the stand-in backdrop for the faux city of Hawkins, Indiana in Stranger Things. And again with season two, the cast and crew are returning to the city that sits about 50 miles southeast of Atlanta for filming. Also note, many times these casting call companies refrain from mentioning the name of the project when putting out bulletins for roles in an attempt to garner a more authentic audition in the selection process.
Per the announcement, casting directors are searching for Indian girls ages 8 to 10 years old with acting experience, along with identical toddler girls. The site notes that filming will take place in early February.
Here’s the rundown in specifics:
1) INDIAN GIRL AGE 8-10 YEARS OF AGE
MORE DETAILS WILL BE GIVEN IF WE ARE INTERESTED IN AUDITIONING YOUR CHILD.
ACTING EXPERIENCE IS A PLUS (BUT NO NECESSARY), PLEASE INCLUDE ANY EXPERIENCE OR TRAINING IN YOUR EMAIL.
SHOOT DATE: THURSDAY, 2/9 AND/OR FRIDAY, 2/10
LOCATION: TBD, ATLANTA, GA OR SURROUNDING CITIES
FITTING DATE: MONDAY OR TUESDAY (next week)
SUBJECT LINE: INDIAN GIRL
2) BRUNETTE TODDLER IDENTICAL TWIN GIRLS
IDENTICAL TWIN TODDLER GIRLS / BRUNETTE HAIR / AGES 1.5 – 3 YEARS OF AGE / MUST BE ABLE TO WALK!
MORE DETAILS WILL BE GIVEN IF WE ARE INTERESTED IN USING THEM FOR THIS.
LOCATION: TBD, ATLANTA, GA OR SURROUNDING CITIES
SHOOT DATE: THURSDAY, 2/9 AND/OR FRIDAY, 2/10
FITTING DATE: MONDAY OR TUESDAY (next week)
SUBJECT LINE: BRUNETTE TWINS
If your children fit this criteria and again, are Georgia based, then your little spawn(s), could be possibly saving humanity from the Thessalhydra alongside Eleven and friends if this announcement is indeed connected to Stranger Things; and it pretty much looks like it is. Submissions should be via email to [email protected] with the proper documentation. You can view the entire announcement and what you will need to apply by clicking here.
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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