CONTINUING his English-language hot streak, Mexican star Luis Gerardo Mendez has nabbed a key role in Sony’s new “Charlie’s Angels” movie. Mendez joins Kristen Stewart, Elizabeth Banks, Naomi Scott, Ella Balinska and Patrick Stewart on the call sheet for the project, which Banks is directing. The new story takes the female-fronted detective-agency premise of the original 1976-81 TV series and 2000 and 2003 movies global, with the Townsend Agency now a security and intelligence service that has teams around the world. The film will focus on one of those teams and the next generation of Angels. Although character details remain shrouded in mystery, Mendez will play a character named The Saint. Sony will release “Charlie’s Angels” on Sept. 27, 2019. Producing are Banks and her husband, Max Handelman; Doug Belgrad, who is also co-financing through his 2.0 Entertainment; and Elizabeth Cantillon.(SD-Agencies) |