If you've clicked on this story hoping for news of Zack Snyder's adaptation of comic book classic Watchmen, I'm afraid you'll have to wait a little longer for casting news on that. Because today's story is that the long-gestating Keanu Reeves thriller The Night Watchman has landed Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker to star alongside our dudely hero.
The film, written by LA-noir supremo James Ellroy and to be directed by David Ayer, writer of Training Day and The Fast and the Furious and writer-director of last year's Harsh Times, is (unsurprisingly given the background of both writer and director) a tale of LA cops. Reeves plays a member of an elite group of LAPD cops who starts to question the rather dodgy tactics used in their pursuit of a high conviction rate, with Whitaker lined up to play the head of his unit, which is called Ad/Vice.
It's Whitaker's first big announcement since taking home the little gold guy a month ago (Oscar that is; we're not suggesting any weird sexual thing), which shows that he really does need to speed up. Forest, Scorsese and DiCaprio have annouced about a billion projects in the same time - and Leo didn't even win! You really must move faster now you've got your award.
Shooting on Night Watchman starts on May 21st, so expect to see it late this year or early next.