After coming of age in this year’s Stoker, Mia Wasikowska is set for an adventure across the desert and we’ve got the first look from her trek today. The actress is leading the Australian picture Tracks, coming from The Painted Veil director John Curran. With the film confirmed for a debut at the Adelaide Film Festival on October 10th, above one can see her as Robyn Davidson, who traveled more than 1, 678 miles through the desert from Alice Springs, in the center of Oz, to the west coast in 1977. Based on her original memoirs, Girl‘s Adam Driver is also part of the cast.
We’ve also got the first image from Cut Bank, which contrary to the title involves no bank robbery (that we’re aware of). Directed by Matt Shakman (who has had his hand in just about every TV show, from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia to Mad Men), the film stars Liam Hemsworth, a young auto mechanic and former high school football star who wants to get out of his town. John Malkovich, Teresa Palmer, Billy Bob Thornton, Bruce Dern, Michael Stuhlbarg and Oliver Platt also star in the Ed Zwick-produced project and one can see the first image below thanks to Collider.
DWAYNE MCLAREN (Liam Hemsworth, Hunger Games), a high school star athlete recently turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, MT – the coldest town in America – and whisking his pageant-hopeful girlfriend, CASSANDRA (Teresa Palmer), away to the big city. But his plan to do so sets in motion a deadly series of events and thrusts him into a police investigation headed by SHERIFF VOGEL (John Malkovich), the protector of Cut Bank and the closest thing Dwayne has to a father figure. Panic sweeps across the community in mere hours, but things are not what they seem. Cassandra’s father BIG STAN STEELEY (Billy Bob Thornton) is the only one who seems to realize this. However, the damage is already done and the events that unfold change Dwayne’s life – and the life of the town – forever.
Expect both films to get U.S. releases in 2014.
Which of the above projects are you post looking forward to?