Jason Isaacs and Ben Foster join the Guy Ritchie universe for Layer Cake follow-up Viva La Madness. Previously cast are Jason Statham and Vinnie Jones, reuniting decades after Lock, Stock and Snatch.
Emmy-nominated Game of Thrones actor Alfie Allen is joining the second season of Amazon MGM+’s horror series The Institute (s1 trailer). Allen will play an eccentric European billionaire with ambitious plans. Production on the Stephen King series adaptation has just begun.
Another Game of Thrones star, Stephen Dillane, has joined Netflix’s next Luther film, a follow-up to Luther: The Fallen Sun (2023). Plot and character descriptions are under wraps, but the film will see Idris Elba’s Luther again thrust into the brutal London murder scene.
Zulay Henao joins Billy Bob Thornton and Ariana Greenblatt (Barbie) in Somedays, a feature written and directed by Brian Klugman (The Words). Henao has a lot of fun-loving energy (training Jay Pharoah clip), and it will be interesting to see her play something a bit darker.