– Paul Walker has signed on to star in a Fred Durst film. The promising EDUCATION OF CHARLIE BANKS director and Limp Bizkit frontman will be at the helm of a new thriller called PAWN SHOP CHRONICLES. The film will feature interconnected stories that “center on a missing wedding ring which leads to a wild-goose chase involving meth addicts, skinheads and an Elvis impersonator.” Producer Jordan Schur calls the film “a hillbilly Pulp Fiction.” [Via THR]
– Wentworth Miller, star of Fox’s “Prison Break” and writer of Park Chan-wook’s upcoming English-language debut STOKER, has signed on to star as the lead of the indie dramedy ANALOG. Mike Million (TENURE) will direct from his own 2005 Blacklist screenplay about “an introverted genius who tries to find a love connection in an increasingly digital world.” [Via Variety]
– Ice Cube and his famous grimace are in negotiations to join the hodgepodge cast of Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill in the upcoming 21 JUMP STREET. He’ll be playing the role of the precinct captain. Cube is also getting ready to shop CHROME AND PAINT – a gritty urban drama about the custom car culture of South Central Los Angeles – as a writing and directorial project (which would be his first feature since 1998’s THE PLAYERS CLUB). [Via Deadline]