Ian McShane joins "Jack The Giant Killer", Sienna Guillory returns as Jill Valentine in "Resident Evil 5"

Star of the upcoming "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides", Ian McShane, is reportedly joining Bryan Singer's fairy tale-based movie adaptation "Jack The Giant Killer". Re-telling the story of "Jack and the Beanstalk" fairy tale, about a boy named Jack who finds himself in an expedition to save a princess taken hostage by a giant, which threatens the peace truce between human and giants. McShane will play King Brahmwell, the father of the kidnapped princess.

Nicholas Hoult, star of British television series hit "Skins" and upcoming "X-Men: First Class" will play as Jack, the leading role; while Eleanor Tomlinson cast as the princess. Veterans Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, Bill Nighy, and John Kassir also set to star in the film.

Meanwhile, the popular video game-to-movie adaptation "Resident Evil" franchise finally gets its main hero back. British actress Sienna Guillory confirmed her return to star again as Jill Valentine in the upcoming "Resident Evil 5". The actress, who's currently pregnant, wrote via her Twitter account, "RE:5 alert! Training begins! I aim to mostly put less in the big hole on the front of my face than comes out of the little one on my arse."

Guillory first appeared in "Resident Evil: Apocalypse", the first sequel of the "Resident Evil" saga, in which she perfectly embodied the physical appearance of Jill Valentine. However, the proportion of Valentine's involvement wasn't as significant as hers in the original game, "Resident Evil: Nemesis", and she didn't even appear in the next installment "Resident Evil: Extinction". Guillory's latest appearance was in "Resident Evil: Afterlife" at the end of the movie. I didn't even realize that it was her, since the hairstyle had changed much -- it was adapted from the 'new' Jill Valentine in "Resident Evil 5" video game in which she dyed her hair blonde. The plot for "Resident Evil 5" is still unknown, but I do really hope that they will bring my favorite character to live, Leon Scott Kennedy!

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Nicholas Hoult is "Jack the Giant Killer"

Bryan Singer gets his leading man. The star of UK's television series hit "Skins", Nicholas Hoult, finally announced to play Jack in Singer's upcoming project "Jack the Giant Killer". He won the role by beating other strong candidates like Logan Lerman ("Percy Jackson") and Andrew Garfield ("The Social Network").

This is such another great leap of Nicholas' career. Apart from the "Skins" fame, he had a role in "A Single Man" and supporting one in "Clash of the Titans". We also might catch him in "About A Boy" when he was little. This year, he will appear in "X-Men: First Class" (watch the trailer here!) as Hank McCoy aka Beast. He's been signed to play a role in "Mad Max: Fury Road" which starts filming next year. And he's dating "Winter's Bone" actress (and his co-star in "X-Men: First Class") Jennifer Lawrence.

Nicholas will play alongside Stanley Tucci, Bill Nighy, and John Kassir. The filming will begin in March, and due to be released next year.

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