World Movie News: The Last 24 Hours
Sebastian Stan lets slip he’s playing Harvey Dent, Edinburgh closes out its 79th edition, Miami Vice ’85 and Fast Forever both add to their line-ups, and a sad farewell to Brazilian screen legend Laura Cardoso.
After yesterday’s LFF and D23 double-header, today’s a rather more casting-and-calendar sort of day, capped off with some genuinely sad news out of Brazil. Here’s what happened in the world of movies during the last 24 hours.
Sebastian Stan accidentally confirms his Batman villain: Months of “is he or isn’t he” speculation are over, after Stan let slip in an interview with French outlet Le Journal du Dimanche that he’s playing Harvey Dent in Matt Reeves’s The Batman: Part II. Asked about the secrecy around big franchise productions, Stan riffed on his experience shooting Avengers: Doomsday without a full script before adding, almost as an aside, “I also can’t say anything about The Batman: Part II, by Matt Reeves, where I play Harvey Dent.” Given Dent’s eventual transformation into Two-Face, and with Scarlett Johansson and Charles Dance also circling the cast in as-yet-unconfirmed roles, Gotham’s looking rather crowded for the sequel. But we have to wait until February 2028 to see this one.
Edinburgh brings down the curtain: As mentioned last week, the 79th Edinburgh International Film Festival wraps up today after a week that opened with Louis Paxton’s The Incomer and marked Trainspotting’s 30th anniversary alongside its 39 new features. No word yet from organisers on audience favourites or award winners, but expect a wrap-up report from the festival in the coming days.
Cast additions round-up: A couple of smaller casting stories worth flagging: Whitney Peak (Thrash, Hocus Pocus 2) has joined Joseph Kosinski’s Miami Vice ’85 at Universal as its fourth confirmed addition, while filming has been confirmed to finally get underway this December on Fast Forever: rather an ironic title given that this is the eleventh and reportedly final mainline entry in the Fast & Furious saga — a franchise that’s been threatening to wrap up for what feels like several lifetimes now.
And in one final, sad piece of news: Brazilian screen legend Laura Cardoso has died aged 98, closing out a career that spanned cinema, theatre and television across the better part of a century. Born Laurinda de Jesus Cardoso in São Paulo, she was one of Brazilian entertainment’s most enduring faces, and tributes have been flooding in from across the country’s film and TV industry since news of her passing broke yesterday.
That’s your lot for today
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