News Analysis India

Tag: Kathy Bates

  • Alan Arkin, Kathy Bates and Teyana Taylor join Rosenthal’s ‘The Smack’ 

    By Express News Service

    The cast for David M Rosenthal’s new feature film, The Smack has got new members joining. Academy Award winners, Alan Arkin and Kathy Bates, as well as, multi-talented have joined the cast of the upcoming heist thriller. 

    A still from Teyana Taylor’s music video ‘Wake Up Love’. (Photo | YouTube screengrab)

    The trio will be joining already announced Casey Affleck (Every Breath You Take) Isabel May (1883) Marisa Tomei, (Spider-Man: No Way Home), and Yul Vázquez (Russian Doll).

    Adapted from a novel of the same name by Richard Lange, The Smack will follow Affleck’s character Rowan Petty, a con-man with a critically ill daughter (May) who has exhausted his good days, but he gets the opportunity to get back in the helm after meeting Jade (Taylor) – a hustler who introduces him to a target that if successfully executed could change both their lives. 

    Kathy Bates (Photo | AP)

    Arkin will play Rowan’s old colleague who offers tips to them. Upon arrival in LA to pull off the biggest heist of his career, Rowan encounters tough e competition from a host of other colleagues one of whom is his ex-wife (Tomei). As the game intensifies allies turn into enemies.

    The Smack will begin shooting in Los Angeles this fall and is expected to be released next year. 

    The cast for David M Rosenthal’s new feature film, The Smack has got new members joining. Academy Award winners, Alan Arkin and Kathy Bates, as well as, multi-talented have joined the cast of the upcoming heist thriller. 

    A still from Teyana Taylor’s music video ‘Wake Up Love’. (Photo | YouTube screengrab)

    The trio will be joining already announced Casey Affleck (Every Breath You Take) Isabel May (1883) Marisa Tomei, (Spider-Man: No Way Home), and Yul Vázquez (Russian Doll).

    Adapted from a novel of the same name by Richard Lange, The Smack will follow Affleck’s character Rowan Petty, a con-man with a critically ill daughter (May) who has exhausted his good days, but he gets the opportunity to get back in the helm after meeting Jade (Taylor) – a hustler who introduces him to a target that if successfully executed could change both their lives. 

    Kathy Bates (Photo | AP)

    Arkin will play Rowan’s old colleague who offers tips to them. Upon arrival in LA to pull off the biggest heist of his career, Rowan encounters tough e competition from a host of other colleagues one of whom is his ex-wife (Tomei). As the game intensifies allies turn into enemies.

    The Smack will begin shooting in Los Angeles this fall and is expected to be released next year.
     

  • John Cena, Kathy Bates join star cast of ‘The Independent’

    By ANI

    WASHINGTON: Oscar-winning actor Kathy Bates and former WWE star John Cena have joined the star cast of the upcoming political thriller ‘The Independent’.

    As per The Hollywood Reporter, Bates and Cena have joined the previously announced cast members including actor Brian Cox and Jodie Turner-Smith.

    The movie will be helmed by Emmy-nominated director Amy Rice, working from a top-ranked Black List script penned by Evan Parter.

    Set in the final weeks of the most consequential presidential election in history, ‘The Independent’ follows an idealistic young journalist (Turner-Smith) who teams up with her idol (Cox) to uncover a conspiracy that places the fate of the election, and the country, in their hands.

    The Hollywood Reporter reported that Bates will essay the first female presidential candidate, while Cena, joint lead with Turner-Smith, plays an independent presidential candidate.

    Ryan Cunningham of Anonymous Content and Emmy-winning producers Sam Bisbee of Park Pictures and Thea Dunlap are set to produce alongside Caddy Vanasirikul of The Exchange and Parter. Lance Acord and Jackie Kelman Bisbee of Park Pictures and Brian O’Shea and Nat McCormick of The Exchange are serving as executive producers.

    Cena has had a busy summer with the releases of ‘F9: The Fast Saga’, ‘The Suicide Squad’ and Hulu’s ‘Vacation Friends’. He will next be seen reprising his ‘Suicide Squad’ role in the upcoming HBO Max series ‘Peacemaker’, followed by Matthew Vaughn’s all-star spy thriller ‘Argylle’.

    Meanwhile, Bates, recently seen in Warner Brother’s Richard ‘Jewell’, will next appear in Lionsgate’s feature adaption of Judy Blume’s classic novel, ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’. She will also star in Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s film, ‘The Miracle Club’.