Movie Casting News: Rupert Friend joins Mark Wahlberg in 'Infinite' and Mel Gibson in 'Waldo'!

Rupert Friend just recently joined two news films: Antoine Fuqua's Infinite (scheduled for theatrical release August 7, 2020) with Mark Wahlberg and Chiwetel Ejiofor and Waldo with Mel Gibson and Charlie Hunnam. He also has two upcoming films Separation and Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch with Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan and more. All are slated to be  released in 2020!

Read more info. via THR below...


Rupert Friend to Join Mark Wahlberg in 'Infinite'

Rupert Friend will join Mark Wahlberg in Antoine Fuqua action-thriller Infinite, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

The Paramount movie is an adaptation of the 2009 novel The Reincarnationist Papers, which centers on a group of near-immortal men and women who are reincarnated over the centuries and are known as “the Infinite.” To defeat an evil mastermind, the group must rely on a man who suffers from schizophrenia and who will have to learn that all his vivid dreams are actually memories from past lives in order to defeat the villain.

Dylan O'Brien, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Sophie Cookson are also set for Infinite, which is due to film later this month in London.

Ian Shorr and John Lee Hancock wrote the screenplay. Lorenzo di Bonaventura is producing with Mark Vahradian as well as Bellevue Productions’ John Zaozirny.

Friend, whose recent feature credits include A Simple Favor and At Eternity's Gate, is set for Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch and genre feature Separation.


Also, via Deadline...

‘Homeland’s Rupert Friend Set For Action Thriller ‘Waldo’

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy nominee Rupert Friend, best known for portraying Peter Quinn on Showtime’s Homeland, has joined Waldo, the Tim Kirkby-directed film based on the novel Last Looks by Howard Michael Gould.

Mel Gibson and Charlie Hunnam star in the pic, about a disgraced LAPD detective (Hunnam) who’s spent the past three years living off the grid. He’s reluctantly pulled back into his old life by a former lover in order to solve the murder of an eccentric celebrity’s wife.

Morena Baccarin, Lucy Fry, Dominic Monaghan, Eiza Gonzalez, Clancy Brown and Jacob Scipio co-star. Andrew Lazar, Brad Feinstein, Christina Weiss Lurie and Steven Shainberg are producing.