Luke Evans to Star Alongside Mandy Moore & Woody Harrelson in World War II Drama MIDWAY

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Luke Evans will star alongside Mandy Moore and Woody Harrelson in Midway, the big-budget World War II action movie being directed by disaster impresario Roland Emmerich.

The movie will tell the story of the famed Battle of Midway, considered a turning point in America's battle against Japan. Harrelson is playing Admiral Chester Nimitz, one of the officers who led the American naval fleet to victory in a foray that involved aircraft carriers, destroyers and cruisers.

Evans will play Commander Wade McClusky, who would go on to win a Naval Cross for his role in Midway.

Starlight Entertainment Group and Providence Entertainment Limited are financing the film. The movie will shoot in Montreal with Lionsgate on board to distribute domestically via its Summit Entertainment banner. Bona Film Group will distribute the movie in China. AGC International, the international sales and distribution arm of AGC Studios, sold most of the worldwide rights to Midway at the Cannes Film Festival.

Evans began his career on the stage, performing in many of London's West End productions such as Rent, Miss Saigon, and Piaf before getting his Hollywood breakthrough role starring in the Clash of the Titans 2010 remake. Following his debut, Evans was cast in such action and thriller films as Immortals (2011), The Raven (2012), and the re-imagined The Three Musketeers (2011).

In 2013, Evans starred as the main antagonist Owen Shaw in the blockbuster Fast & Furious 6, and also played Bard the Bowman in Peter Jackson's three-part adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. Evans also portrayed the vampire Dracula in the character's film origin story, Dracula Untold. In 2017, Evans starred as Gaston in Disney's live action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, and portrayed American psychologist William Moulton Marston, creator of fictional character Wonder Woman, in the biographical drama Professor Marston and the Wonder Women.

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