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John Goodman Boards Rupert Wyatt’s Sci-Fi Film ‘Captive State’

John Goodman is a national treasure, especially his smile. The actor has recently been on a roll, lining up some notable projects. Before the year ends, we’ll see Goodman in Patriot’s Day, and next year we’ll see him in Kong: Skull Island, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, and David Leitch’s (John Wick) The Coldest City. Another fine job Goodman has landed is a role in Rupert Wyatt‘s sci-fi film, Captive State.

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Variety got the scoop on Goodman’s casting, but they don’t have any details on the role he’s playing. Right now, the film’s plot is under wraps. When Captive State was first announced there was a competitive auction for it going on at the time. A deal was expected to be made a few days after we heard about the project, which is exactly what happened. Participant Media came out on top after the bidding war for the spec, which Wyatt co-wrote with his wife, Erica Beeney, who wrote 2003’s The Battle of Shaker Heights, the Project Greenlight picture starring Shia LaBeouf and Amy Smart.

Participant Media’s Jeff Koll and Jonathan King are executive-producing Captive State. Focus Features will handle the domestic release, while eOne will release the film in the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Spain, and the Benelux countries. The plan is to go into production next year on Captive State, which, if this was the film Wyatt was describing in a 2015 interview with Den of Geek, is “a very grounded and relatable to our world” sci-fi story. Don’t expect a space opera or anything like that, he said, unless he was talking about an entirely different project.

Wyatt’s last film was the remake of The Gambler, which co-starred Goodman as an eloquent and dangerous loan shark. It was a small role, but Goodman and the character had a huge presence in the movie, partly thanks to excellent “The Position of Fuck You” speech, written by Academy Award winner William Monahan (The Departed). Goodman plays a strangely likable antagonist in that drama, and while it wasn’t a big hit with audiences or critics, it’s one of his standout performances from the past few years.

Wyatt last directed the pilot of The Exorcist, a show that generated more positive buzz during its first season than expected. Since helping to relaunch the Planet of the Apes franchise, Wyatt has been flirting with directing some high-profile projects. He was going to make Gambit at one time, but he left that comic book movie due to creative differences. Another science-fiction story he’s working on is a 10-episode series called Echo Chamber, which he plans on directing.

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‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Coming to Broadway in 2018

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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child debuted this summer to a glowing reception from Potterheads. But chances are you haven’t had a chance to enjoy it in its proper form yet. The play only opened in London’s West End, so unless you live in the area or were able to travel there, you had to make do with the published script and the power of your imagination.

But it looks like things are going to get a bit easier for Stateside Potterheads in the not-too-distant future. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is looking to hop on its broomstick and fly across the pond to New York, with plans to open in 2018. Get all the details on the Cursed Child Broadway debut below.

Pottermore announced today that Harry Potter and the Cursed Child producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callendar are in “detailed talks” to bring the show to Broadway. The show’s New York run will begin in spring 2018 at the Lyric Theater. The deal is not sealed and signed just yet, but you can rest assured conversations are pretty far along if the producers feel confident enough to roll out a big press release.

Once everything is worked out, the venue will undergo a multimillion-dollar redesign and remodel in preparation for the show. When it’s done, it’ll seat 1,500 patrons, which Friedman says will be “will be intimate enough for a drama, yet big enough for us to follow in the footsteps of the London production and continue to provide low priced tickets throughout the auditorium.” According to the New York Times, Paramour, the Cirque du Soleil show that is currently set up in that space, is now looking for a different location so that it can leave the Lyric in April. The theater will then close down in May for renovation.

Billed as the eighth Harry Potter story and set 19 years after the events of Deathly Hallows, Cursed Child finds the Boy Who Lived in middle age. He’s juggling a busy job at the Ministry of Magic, and a family that includes a son, Albus Severus, whom he just can’t seem to connect with. Young Albus resents growing up in the shadow of his father’s legacy, and finds an opportunity to take his destiny into his own hands, with potentially devastating consequences.

The play is staged in two parts airing on subsequent nights, and it’ll probably keep that format when it comes to New York. Jack Thorne wrote the script based on a story he created with J.K. Rowling and John Tiffany. Exact dates and ticketing details have not yet been revealed, but we’ll keep you updated as more information comes out over the next year or so. When the show finally does go on sale, you’ll definitely want to act fast — the show’s been a massive hit in London and there’s every reason to believe it’ll do just as well in the U.S.

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