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 | Surveying works underway in Armenia’s Kirants Surveying works are underway in the Armenian village of Kirants in the northern Tavush province. Armenia calls for prohibiting threats of attacks on nuclear facilities Armenia has raised the need for a treaty prohibiting attacks on nuclear facilities devoted to peaceful purposes. Armenia says ready to extend nuclear plant’s lifetime by 10 years Armenia has taken necessary measures to extend the lifetime of its nuclear power plant until 2036. Ameriabank's Trade Finance portfolio enriched with four prestigious awards from EBRD and IFC Ameriabank received the awards from international financial institutions in recognition of its trade finance operations. |