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Cheadle said he had long wanted to make a movie about Davis, but that it all came together when the musician's nephew, Vince Wilburn, announced that the actor was set to portray him during Davis's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.
Bale's exit comes less than two weeks after screenwriter Aaron Sorkin said the 40-year-old British actor was set to play Jobs.
Variety was first to report that the Golden Globe-winning actor was set to star as Blackbeard in the flick based on the original tale of "Peter Pan".
The actor is set to play Ray Kroc, according to Variety, an American businessman who helped the McDonald brothers turn their restaurant into a global fast food empire.
The US actor is set to reprise his central role as Cooper in Showtime's forthcoming sequel to the cult 1990 TV series.
The Kentucky-born actor is set to play Joy Mangano, the mother of three who became one of the most successful American entrepreneurs, in the new film.
Reports that the British actor is set to be the next 007 are rife in Hollywood, and on the internet, even though there has, as yet, been no official confirmation.
The Oscar-winning actor is set for a busy 2015, starring opposite Robert Pattinson in Werner Herzog's Queen of the Desert and opposite Hugo Weaving and Joseph Fiennes in the Sundance-bound Strangerland, by Australian director Kim Farrant in her feature debut.
The Australian actor is set to play the American TV sweetheart in a new biopic written by Aaron Sorkin of The West Wing and The Social Network, reports the Wrap.
The 72-year-old actor is set to make a triumphant return with the launch of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in December; before that he is starring alongside a really old but physically young Blake Lively in sudsy fantasy romance The Age of Adaline.
The Canadian actor is set to return to television screens in a new US drama, Touch - as Martin Bohm, a single father who is unable to communicate with his mute 11-year-old son, Jake.
