Check out the latest casting news in brief below:

  • Kevin Zegers (Dawn of the Dead) has been cast The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, the first in a series of adaptations of the best-selling Cassandra Clare books.  Directed by Harald Zwart, the film also stars Lily Collins, Lena Headey and Jamie Campbell Bower.
  • Terrence Howard (Iron Man) and Dawn Olivieri (The Vampire Diaries) are in talks to join Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sam Worthington in Breacher, formerly known as Ten.  The picture, directed by David Ayer, follows ten DEA agents who begin to die off one by one after pulling a heist.

Hit the jump for more casting details.

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First up from Just Jared comes the word that Zegers is set to play Alec Lightwood, the gay brother of Jemima West's Isabelle.  The story centers on Clary Fray (Collins), an unassuming teenage girl who discovers her true nature when a demon kidnaps her mother from their New York City home.  Alec, a member of Clary's new circle of cohorts, dislikes Clary because she comes between him and Jace (Bower), the object of his affection.  The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is set to debut on August 23rd, 2013.

Howard and Olivieri are in talks to join Breachers, reports Heat Vision. The duo would likely play two of the DEA agents in the Skip Woods-scripted feature that took its original title as a nod to its source story, Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians."  Schwarzenegger is already attached to star and Worthington was also recently reported as being in talks to join.