Summit Entertainment has launched production on its tentpole “Divergent” with Mekhi Phifer and Maggie Q rounding out the cast.
The duo joins Shailene Woodley and Theo James, who are in the lead roles, along with Kate Winslet, Jai Courtney, Zoe Kravitz, Ansel Elgort and Maggie Q. Neil Burger is directing from Vanessa Taylor’s adaptation of the first novel of Veronica Roth’s trilogy.
Production began Monday in Chicago on “Divergent,” which has been dated for release on March 21, 2014. It’s being developed as Lionsgate’s next potential young-adult franchise along the lines of “Twilight” and “The Hunger Games.”
Movie is set in a post-apocalyptic Chicago divided into five factions. Maggie Q is portraying the Tori character in the Dauntless faction.
Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher are producing through their Red Wagon Entertainment banner along with Pouya Shahbazian. Red Wagon’s Rachel Shane is exec producing.
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Jessica Lucas has booked a role alongside Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje has joined the cast of Paul W.S. Anderson’s actioner Pompeii.
Lucas joins a cast that also already includes Kit Harington, Kiefer Sutherland and Emily Browning, in a tale written by Michael Robert Johnson, which is set in the days leading up to the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79, and tells the tale of an enslaved gladiator (played by Harington) who faces the tyrant (Sutherland) who, years before, murdered his family, and now threatens to steal his lover, Flavia (Browning).
While Akinnuoye-Agbaje will play another enslaved gladiator who becomes friends with Harington’s character, Jessica Lucas will play the slave/confidante to Emily Browning’s Flavia in Pompeii.
Constantin Film is backing the movie with Lionsgate handling distribution in the USA.
Lucas currently can be seen on the big screen in this weekend's #1 opener, Evil Dead. Up next, catch her starring opposite Michael B. Jordan, Zac Efron and Miles Teller in the comedy Are We Officially Dating?
Up next for Akinnuoye-Agbaje, catch him in Thor 2: The Dark World as well as The Inevitable Defeat Of Mister And Pete.
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smh @ Jessica and Adewale playing BBF and slaves.