Jennifer Lawrence is in very early talks to star in Passengers, a sci-fi adventure/love story, according to Variety, while The Wrap reports that Chris Pratt is in early talks for the lead male role.

Oscar-nominated director Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game), helms this Sony drama with Jon Spaihts (Prometheus, Marvel’s Doctor Strange) penning the script.

Set in the future, Passengers sees thousands of people traveling to settle on a distant planet, when a man (Pratt’s role) wakens too early after 90 years, and wakes up a woman (Lawrence’s role), literally and figuratively, to avoid becoming lonely.

Back when Marvel Studios President made their big Phase 3 announcement at the El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles, California, there was a rumor flying around that Benedict Cumberbatch was cast as the lead in Doctor Strange.

Feige went on to say that if that kind of news was confirmed, they would have announced it that day. While it appeared that things were going nowhere for the past few weeks, it has been confirmed that Cumberbatch is officially playing Doctor Strange after all. More after the jump.

It’s tough to imagine Joaquin Phoenix in any sort of superhero franchise. His resume just doesn’t lend itself to those kinds of roles, which made it all the more surprising to hear that he was attached to two superhero films this year. The first was for the role of Lex Luthor in Zack Snyder’s Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, which eventually went to Jesse Eisenberg. The next was the titular role in Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange.

Considering the field was already rumored to be narrowed down to Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Jared Leto, we kind of got the idea what Marvel and Disney were going for. But it seems that Phoenix doesn’t want to be a part of a big superhero franchise, as he is now out of the running. Hit the jump for more.

Doctor Strange has been gestating for quite some time now. The film didn’t even get to have a Comic-Con panel shortly after it was announced that Scott Derrickson would be directing the film from a script most recently written by Jon Spaihts.

Since then, we’ve been getting a few casting rumors as to who would be playing the titular character. Joaquin Phoenix‘s name has been recently attached to the role. Edgar Ramirez and Benedict Cumberbatch have also been on the rumored shortlist. Now, a new report states that filming is scheduled to begin mid-2015 for a Summer 2016 release.

Screendaily says that Doctor Strange is scheduled for a July 8, 2016 release. It just so happens that this is one of the Marvel Mystery Movie dates that Marvel had already locked down in the past.

Recently it was announced that Universal was going to reboot their Classic Monsters, and also bring them together similarly to what Marvel did with their superheros in The Avengers.

The ambitious plan is being developed by writers Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan, but now it appears at least one of the two wants to get a little more hands-on. It’s being reported that Kurtzman is in final negotiations to direct the first of the rebooted monster flicks, The Mummy, himself.