Early Edition: Kevin Sausage Will get Evil for 'R.I.P.D.,' 'Gangster Squad' Picks Robert Patrick

By Harley W. Lond (Sign up for Harley W. Lond's posts) Published Jul 29th 2011 8:00AM Filed under: Movie News Email This A villain has finally materialized for Universal's 'R.I.P.D.': Kevin Sausage is within final foretells join the supernatural thriller concerning the Relaxation in Peace Department, a police composed of ghosts who fight spirits unready to go away our planet. Ryan Reynolds stars like a lately slain cop who joins the pressure and proceeds to search lower his killer. Shaun Bridges co-stars like a gunslinger in the Old West who's been hunting spirits because the 1800s. The Robert Schwentke-directed film is dependant on the Dark Equine comic compiled by Peter M. Lenkov. [Variety] Kathryn Bigelow's high-profile Navy Seal Team 6 project -- concerning the search for Osama bin Laden -- continues to be given a release date: March. 12, 2012, before a large year-finish Oscar run. Bigelow and 'The Hurt Locker' author Mark Boal have been focusing on they 6's pursuit to get bin Laden once the Al-Qaeda leader was wiped out, necessitating a general change in story direction (the film was to pay attention to the not successful murder attempts). Throughout the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, purchasers started to set up for that untitled project it eventually arrived at The new sony. [The Hollywood Reporter] On Wednesday we reported that Emma Stone was is within discussions to consider a starring role in 'The Gangster Squad,' Warner Bros.' adaptation from the La Times' seven-part series 'Tales In the Gangster Squad,' concerning the LAPD's rough and tumble efforts to maintain New England mobsters from La within the nineteen forties. Now comes news that Robert Patrick has closed an offer to co-star like a Texas-born, fervent LAPD cop, a job that Bryan Cranston had initially experienced foretells take. Ruben Fleischer ('Zombieland') is pointing the ensemble cast which includes Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi and Michael Pena. [Variety]