Adam Driver Gets a Major Role in the New Star Wars

Adam Driver is in final negotiations for a huge role in Star Wars: Episode VII, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is about to soar to major heights, Amanda Seyfried is taking over for Mila Kunis, and Bradley Cooper will be in another movie with "American" in the title. Take a look through the biggest casting deals of the week!

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Bradley Cooper will star in American Blood, a crime drama based on an upcoming novel. He'll play a mob informant who is pulled into a dangerous investigation while undercover in Mexico.

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Amanda Seyfried will appear in Ted 2 as the female lead, taking over for Mila Kunis, who will still have a "tiny role" in the film.

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It's official: Joseph Gordon-Levitt will play Philippe Petit, the French high-wire artist who was the subject of the documentary Man on Wire. The film version will be called To Walk the Clouds, and Robert Zemeckis is directing.

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Lily Collins will star in How to Be Single, a comedy to be produced by Drew Barrymore. Collins will play a young New Yorker searching for love.

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Debra Winger, Eddie Izzard, and Glee's Kevin McHale joined Boychoir, a movie about an East Coast school built around a prestigious boys choir.

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Radha Mitchell and Kevin Bacon joined 6 Miranda Drive, a microbudget supernatural thriller.

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Captain Phillips's Barkhad Abdi is in talks for The Place That Hits the Sun, a marathon drama in which he would play "South African marathoner Willie Mtolo, a Zulu warrior, who competed in the 1992 New York Marathon."

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American Horror Story veteran Lily Rabe joined The Veil, a thriller costarring Jessica Alba and Thomas Jane. Rabe will play a former cult member, the sole survivor of a mass suicide.

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Girls star Adam Driver joined Star Wars: Episode VIII as the villain. No plot details are available yet, but it's expected that Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, and Carrie Fisher will all return.

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Adam Sandler will star in Pixels, a comedy about popular 1980s video-game characters attacking New York City. Jennifer Aniston is "being courted" for a role, and Kevin James and Josh Gad are in early talks.

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Breaking Bad's Jonathan Banks joined Term Life, a crime thriller costarring Vince Vaughn and Hailee Steinfeld.

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Kate Beckinsale joined Absolutely Anything as a love interest opposite Simon Pegg. Robin Williams, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, and Eric Idle are all lending their voices to the film about a man who suddenly has the ability to do anything and everything he wants.

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Malin Akerman, pictured, and Taissa Farmiga (American Horror Story) and will star in The Final Girls, about a girl who gets trapped in a 1980s slasher film that her mother starred in.

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Patrick Wilson joined Ant-Man, costarring Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas. No word yet on who he'll play.

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Ashley Greene will play Priscilla Presley in Shangri-La Suite, a drama starring Ron Livingston as Elvis.