Forest Whitaker In Talks For Star Wars: Rogue One And The Crow
Occasionally seen barking orders into a cell phone as the head of a government agency (whilst on a roof, with the camera spinning around him) in other genre fare, branching out into Sci-Fi and Fantasy, Forest Whitaker is in talks to join both the remake of The Crow and Star Wars: Rogue One, reports Empire.
Starting with Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One, the Gareth Edwards directed film, set before the events of A New Hope, sees Felicity Jones, Riz Ahmed and Diego Luna as rag-tag rebel squad looking to heist the plans for the original Death Star. Standing in their way is Ben Mendelsohn, who is aboard as a villain in some capacity.
Despite many boffin’s dying to bring us this information, we are still in the dark as to what Whitaker’s role will be.
Then there’s The Crow, director Colin Hardy will have to start from scratch after losing its leading man Jack Huston, who, according to Variety has left the project. An adaptation of James O’Barr’s graphic novel where a rocker who is killed by thugs and returned from the dead by a supernatural force to seek vengeance.
Andrea Riseborough is attached as villain, Top Dollar, but yet again, it’s not known which role Whitaker will take. However, he’ll work on The Crow before he heads off to a galaxy far, far away.