{"id":13199,"date":"2009-04-03T00:30:16","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T07:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=13199"},"modified":"2009-04-02T20:39:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T03:39:13","slug":"more-casting-news-for-the-losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2009\/04\/03\/more-casting-news-for-the-losers\/","title":{"rendered":"More Casting News For The Losers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Idris Elba and Zoe Saldana are in negotiations to join the cast of &#8220;The Losers,&#8221; Warner Bros. and Silver Pictures&#8217; adaptation of the Vertigo\/DC Comics book being directed by Sylvain White and written by Peter Berg and James Vanderbilt.<\/p>\n<p>The two will join Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Columbus Short for the action film based on the 2003-2006 action comic by Andy Diggle and Jock.  &#8220;The Losers&#8221; follows a Special Forces team betrayed by its handler, the mysterious Max, and left for dead during a mission. 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Saldana will be starring in the new &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; movie as Uhura, and is also going to be starring in James Cameron&#8217;s upcoming &#8220;Avatar.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Check back at Shockya.com for more on &#8220;The Losers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>By Costa Koutsoutis (Source:The Hollywood Reporter)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13222\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13222\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/the_losers_vertigo_pants.jpg\" alt=\"The Losers Comic Book\" title=\"The Losers Comic Book\" width=\"250\" height=\"392\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/the_losers_vertigo_pants.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/the_losers_vertigo_pants-191x300.jpg 191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Losers Comic Book<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idris Elba and Zoe Saldana are in negotiations to join the cast of &#8220;The Losers,&#8221; Warner Bros. and Silver Pictures&#8217; adaptation of the Vertigo\/DC Comics book being directed by Sylvain White and written by Peter Berg and James Vanderbilt. 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