Check out the latest casting announcements below:

• Nicholas Hoult (Jack the Giant Slayer) will join Charlize Theron in Dark Places from writer/director Gilles Paquet-Brenner who adapted the Gillian Flynn novel.
• Abigail Spencer (Oz the Great and Powerful) will join Jason Bateman in This Is Where I Leave You, directed by Shawn Levy.  Timothy Olyphant (Justified) and Ben Schwartz (House of Lies) have also joined the cast.
• Addison Timlin (Derailed) will lead the MGM remake of The Town That Dreaded Sundown directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon.

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Here are today’s latest casting announcements:

• Jennifer Garner (Alias) is in negotiations to join Kevin Costner in Draft Day, a sports dramedy directed by Ivan Reitman.
• Chloë Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass) is in talks to star opposite Charlize Theron in Dark Places, an adaptation of the Gillian Flynn novel from writer/director Gilles Paquet-Brenner. 

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When last we reported on the development of author Gillian Flynn’s Dark Places adaptation, Amy Adams was in negotiations to star.  Now it appears that Charlize Theron (Prometheus) is circling the role instead.  Gilles Paquet-Brenner (Sarah Keys) wrote the script and is set to direct the decidedly dark drama that centers on a woman who survived the brutal murder of her family when she was seven.  Twenty-five years after testifying against her brother as the murderer, a group obsessed with investigating notorious crimes  draws her out for more information.  Hit the jump for more on Dark Places.

Though she appears in the upcoming Jack Kerouac adaptation On the Road, Amy Adams is gearing up to tackle an adaptation of a different sort.  Variety reports that Adams is in negotiations to star in an adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s novel Dark Places.  The film centers on a woman who, at the age of 7, “survives the massacre of her family and testifies against her brother as the murderer. Twenty-five years later, a group obsessed with solving notorious crimes confronts her with questions about the crime.”  Gilles Paquet-Brenner (Sarah Keys) wrote the script and is set to direct the decidedly dark drama.

Adams recently wrapped the Superman reboot Man of Steel as well as the baseball drama Trouble with the Curve with Clint Eastwood.  She’s currently shooting Spike Jonze’s untitled next film, and she’ll be seen this fall in Paul Thomas Anderson’s long-awaited The Master.  Hit the jump for a synopsis of Dark Places.