Casting roundup, Nov 6: Teyonah Parris joins Denzel Washington and 8 more

Nine casting moves in one place. The biggest belongs to Teyonah Parris: a lead opposite Denzel Washington in Christopher McQuarrie’s next thriller, a clear step up from the scene-stealing turns in WandaVision and They Cloned Tyrone that made her name.

Christopher McQuarrie’s untitled thriller

Teyonah Parris will star opposite two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington in the next film from Mission: Impossible director Christopher McQuarrie, Deadline reported. Washington plays a former detective serving a life sentence who is let out on compassionate grounds after a terminal diagnosis and goes home to the daughter he abandoned and a grandson he has never met. Amazon MGM Studios and United Artists plan a cinema release on October 1 next year.

Untitled Monsterverse series

Oscar winner Tim Robbins and Breaking Bad villain Giancarlo Esposito join Apple TV’s Lee Shaw spin-off of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters as guest stars, according to Deadline. Monarch star Wyatt Russell returns as Shaw, this time a Cold War agent sent behind Soviet lines in 1984 to stop a new Titan. Joby Harold, a writer on Obi-Wan Kenobi, runs the show.

In Her Shadow

Black Panther star Letitia Wright leads and executive produces this supernatural horror from Gangs of London writer-director Rowan Athale, made by Bankside. She plays a novelist who takes in the niece her late sister kept locked in a basement for five years, and slowly starts to see why, Deadline reports.

Hyena

Mad Men and Sabrina star Kiernan Shipka and Reservation Dogs lead D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai take over the leads from Archie Madekwe (Saltburn) and Havana Rose Liu (Bottoms) in this psychological thriller, one of the last films David Lynch signed on to as an executive producer. Edgar Ramírez and Rosemarie DeWitt join the cast, Lynch regular Scott Coffey directs, and shooting starts in Spokane early in 2027, per Deadline.

The Long Island Bank Robber

Friday Night Lights star Taylor Kitsch plays Stephen Trantel, a sacked Wall Street trader who turned to robbing banks to keep his family afloat. Alexandra Daddario (The White Lotus) is his increasingly suspicious wife and Oscar winner Christopher Walken his father, a retired policeman. Matthew Gentile directs for Vaneast Pictures, and filming starts this month in New Jersey, as Deadline reported.

Honeymooners

British comedian Jack Whitehall and The Vampire Diaries star Nina Dobrev play a London couple who divorced in secret, only for their parents, Greg Kinnear (As Good as It Gets) and Andie MacDowell (Four Weddings and a Funeral) among them, to gift them a honeymoon in Italy and come along. Daryl Wein directs the rom-com for Explosive Pictures, with the shoot planned near Rome in the opening months of 2027, Deadline reports.

Reacher

Ari Stidham, a regular on showrunner Nick Santora’s Scorpion, joins Alan Ritchson’s Prime Video hit for season 5 in a recurring part as Dean Lassider, a shady businessman who does his deals from a strip club in the desert. The new season adapts Lee Child’s novel Make Me, Deadline reported.

Tulsa King

Manny Montana (Good Girls, Ironheart) joins Sylvester Stallone’s Paramount+ mob drama for season 5 as Gilberto Torres, a New York gangster who hears about everything on the street before anyone else, according to Deadline.

Bluefly

Strike Back star Daniel MacPherson joins Russell Crowe and Priyanka Chopra Jonas in this Congo-set sci-fi action thriller from Predators director Nimród Antal, playing a battle-hardened special forces soldier. It reunites him with Crowe after Beast; Polite Society is producing, and filming is about to begin on Australia’s Gold Coast, Variety reported.

Reported by Deadline, Variety. Compiled with AI tools.