Luke Evans Cast As Gaston For Disney’s Beauty & The Beast

Source: ComicBook.com

Actor Luke Evans is reportedly set to play Gaston in Disney’s live-action retelling of Beauty and the Beast.

In the original animated tale, Gaston was the main antagonist who, after failing to win Belle’s affections, wages a war against the Beast and his enchanted castle.

The high-profile role continues Evans’ trajectory as an up and coming actor. He previously starred in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Dracula Untold, and Fast and the Furious 6.

Beauty and the Beast, directed by Bill Condon, will also star Harry Potter’s Emma Watson as Princess Belle. It is expected to hit theaters in 2016.

Source: Variety

Luke Evans Officially Departs The Crow Remake

Last month, word first broke that actor Luke Evans may exit the upcoming remake of The Crow and now TheWrap is reporting that Evans has officially departed the project. Relativity Studios is currently on the hunt for another star for the film, which has already had one director drop out in the midst of production.

Music video helmer Corin Hardy (The Hallow) is still attached to direct The Crow, which features a script by Cliff Dorfman. Series creator James O’Barr will also work as a creative consultant on the film. No release date is currently set though production has previously been reported to begin later this year.

“The Crow” was originally published as a four issue series in 1989 and was adapted into a film in 1994 by Alex Proyas with Brandon Lee in the title role. Countless other sequels to both the comic and film have been produced in the years following.

Source: TheWrap

Luke Evans to Star in Action-Thriller "Free Fire"

He is attached to be in “Free Fire” which is going to be directed by Ben Wheatley.

In addition to Evans, the shootout film about an arms deal that goes spectacularly wrong will also star Armie Hammer (The Lone Ranger), Cillian Murphy (“Peaky Blinders”), Olivia Wilde (Rush) and Wheatley regular Michael Smiley (Kill List, The World’s End).

Here’s the synopsis: The story is set in Boston in 1978. Wilde plays Justine, a woman who has brokered a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two Irishmen (Murphy, Smiley) and a gang led by Hammer and Evans who are selling them a stash of guns. But when shots are fired in the handover, a heart stopping game of survival ensues.

“The idea for ‘Free Fire’ came from my love of hard boiled crime movies,” said Wheatley of his many influences, “from ‘The Asphalt Jungle,’ ‘The Big Sleep,’ ‘The Killing’ and ‘The Big Combo’ through ‘The Driver,’ ‘Le Samourai’ and ‘The French Connection,’ to the modern cycle of ‘Goodfellas,’ ‘Casino,’ ‘Hard Boiled’ and ‘Reservoir Dogs.’ ‘Free Fire’ will take you and stick you in the middle of the action. I want the film to have the stylish, no nonsense feel that you get in Peckinpah’s ‘The Getaway.’ It’s a modern ’70s movie. Muscular, tough and spare.”

Wheatley, the prolific up-and-coming English director behind Sightseers, Kill List and two episodes in the current season of BBC’s “Doctor Who,” also has the creature-filled movie Freakshift as well an HBO sci-fi series titled “Silk Road” in development. High-Rise, starring Evans, Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller and Elisabeth Moss, was shot this past summer and will be released sometime in 2015.