We’ve got some new casting news covering a few different film genres:

• Stanley Tucci, Anne Heche, and Cedric the Entertainer have joined Jason Statham’s upcoming action flick Heat, about a gambling addict and ex-mercenary named Nick (played by Statham) working for hire in Las Vegas. 
• Abbie Cornish (Sucker Punch) has reportedly landed the role of the leading lady in Afonso Poyart’s upcoming film Solace, which will also star Colin Farrell and Anthony Hopkins.
• Veep star Timothy Simons has joined Ivan Reitman’s NFL comedy Draft Day, where he will play Marx, a Cleveland Browns scout with a big personality.

Hit the jump for more information on each casting bit, folks.

Check out the latest casting additions below:

• Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans, Jr., both seen in New Girl pilot, will re-team once again for the buddy comedy Let’s Be Cops from director Luke Greenfield (The Girl Next Door).
• Jesse L. Martin (Law & Order) will replace Lenny Kravitz as Marvin Gaye in the Julien Temple-directed biopic Sexual Healing.
• Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Watchmen) joins Afonso Poyart’s supernatural thriller Solace, which already stars Colin Farrell and Anthony Hopkins.

Hit the jump for more on each casting announcement.

Anthony Hopkins is getting some company in the supernatural serial killer thriller Solace.  The story centers on a former doctor with psychic abilities who gets roped in by the FBI to aid in a serial killer case.  Hopkins signed on to star as the supernaturally-charged doctor quite a while ago, and now Deadline reports that Colin Farrell has been set to star as the FBI detective who brings Hopkins’ character into the fold.  Afonso Poyart (Two Rabbits) is set to direct, and production is looking to get underway this coming May.

Farrell has been keeping plenty busy lately, having recently wrapped the supernatural fantasy Winter’s Tale and the Walt Disney/Mary Poppins story Saving Mr. Banks.  He also just signed on to star opposite Jessica Chastain in the stage play adaptation Miss Julie.  The actor will next be seen alongside Noomi Rapace in the thriller Dead Man Down.

Hannibal Lecter returns! Kinda. Anthony Hopkins, who won the Oscar for his chilling role in The Silence of the Lambs, is set to return to the serial killer genre with Solace. Variety reports that Hopkins is in final negotiations to star in the film, though this time he’ll be the good guy. The thesp will play a former doctor with psychic abilities who works for the FBI. He gets drawn into a serial killer case where his gift is put to good use (because a psychic doctor/FBI agent is a terrible thing to waste). A director has yet to be set, but the script has a nice pedigree. Sean Bailey and Ted Griffin wrote the first draft, which was subsequently rewritten by James Vanderbilt (Zodiac, The Amazing Spider-Man). Peter Morgan (The Queen) made the most recent pass, and production is now set to begin sometime early next year.