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No, Sharlto Copley has not discovered a fun new hobby of leaping into graves so see what happens. But the District 9 star will be forced into one for his latest film, Open Grave, which will be directed by Apollo 18 megaphone man Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego.
The director is gearing up to shoot the film this month in Hungary, with Copley playing a man who wakes up in a pit full of rotting bodies with little memory of how he got there. Before he can conclude it’s all an elaborate stag night prank, he starts having horrific flashbacks of himself murdering people and starts to believe he’s the killer. He’ll have to sort out what really happened.
While that one sounds like there will be room for doubt, Copley will definitely be getting dangerous for another future project, as he’s also now signed a deal to play the villain in Spike Lee and Mark Protosevich’s remake of Oldboy.
Copley will be Adrian Pryce, a shady, nasty billionaire who tries to destroy the life of Joe Douchett (Josh Brolin). Not content with imprisoning Douchett for 15 years without explaining why, Pryce then threatens the life of Elizabeth Olsen if Douchett can’t figure out the reason.
After a long casting hunt that went through the likes of Will Smith, Christian Bale and Colin Firth, Lee can finally start planning to shoot, aiming to kick off in September. Copley will next be seen in District 9 cohort Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi follow-up Elysium, which is set to arrive on March 1, 2013.
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For a long time, the only thing we’ve really, truly known about Disney’s revisionist angle on Sleeping Beauty, Maleficent, is that it’ll take the titular fairy’s side and that Angelina Jolie will star. The film locked in a director with Robert Stromberg and there were rumours of Elle Fanning as Princess Aurora recently, but now there is another name for the mix, as Sharlto Copley is in negotiations to sign on.
Copley, who has been lining up all sorts of roles this week, will be King Stefan, the father of Aurora, and one of the people affected when Maleficent curses her. Given the casting of the District 9 star, you’ve got to figure this means Stefan will be given an expanded role in the story, because we can’t believe anyone casts Copley to just show up and wear a crown for a few days before falling asleep.
Stromberg, a veteran production designer from the likes of Avatar and Alice In Wonderland, is even now setting up the film’s shoot in Blighty, working from Alice writer Linda Woolverton’s script. He’s set to start cranking the cameras next month, aiming for a March 2014 release date.
