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Movie News: J.J. Abrams' World War II Thriller 'Overlord' Nabs Rising Stars


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Overlord: Wyatt Russell (Everybody Wants Some!!, above left) and Jovan Adepo (Fences, above right) will star in Overlord, J.J. Abrams' World War II supernatural thriller. Julius Avery (Son of a Gun) will direct. Russell and Adepo will play paratroopers who are dropped behind enemy lines, only to discover that the Nazis are the least of their problems. [THR]   Iran-Contra: Colin Farrell and director Yorgos Lanthimos, who previously teamed on The Lobster (above), will reunite for an Amazon series about the Iran-Contra affair in the 1980s. Farrell will star as Oliver North, a former U.S. marine who was involved in "the sale of weapons through intermediaries to Iran, with the profits being channeled to the Contras in Nicaragua." The project, which is not...
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