Chris Hemsworth’s “Horse Soldiers” adds castNovember 16, 2016 - 12:02 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - After landing a lead role in Kathryn Bigelow’s untitled Detroit Riots pic, Ben O’Toole is in negotiations to join another A-list ensemble in Black Label Media and Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ Afghan war movie “Horse Soldiers”, Variety reports. He joins Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, and “Moonlight” breakout Trevante Rhodes in the film with Nicolai Fuglsig directing. Producers are Jerry Bruckheimer, Molly Smith, Trent Luckinbill, and Thad Luckinbill and Peter Craig and Ted Tally penned the script. Chad Oman is exec producing. “Horse Soldiers” is based on Doug Stanton’s book about a U.S. Special Forces team and their captain after they are dispatched to a mountainous region of Afghanistan in the weeks immediately following 9/11. The soldiers must join forces with a Northern Alliance warlord to fight against overwhelming odds to drive out the Taliban. Lionsgate is handling foreign sales on the project, recently selling it at the American Film Market. After breaking out in Russell Crowe’s “The Water Diviner,” O’Toole appeared in the recently released “Hacksaw Ridge” as the second in command to Vince Vaughn’s drill sergeant. He beat out a number of actors vying for the role in Bigelow’s movie revolving around the 1967 Detroit Riots. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Russia provides info about arrested Armenian ex-MP Russian law enforcement agencies have provided information about the arrest of Tigran Urikhanyan. Lemkin Institue slams Pashinyan's “cryptic engagement with Genocide denial” The Lemkin Institute is alarmed over Pashinyan’s statements “questioning Armenia's legal basis to pursue justice against Turkey”. 41 detained as antigovernment protests continue in Yerevan 41 people were detained in Yerevan as people demanding Pashinian’s resignation stage campaigns of civil disobedience. Armenia votes for UN resolution granting Palestine new rights The U.N. General Assembly voted by a wide margin on May 10 to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine. |