While OUR Sam Worthington is the new IT boy in Hollywood with a bunch of new projects in the pipeline, there's also casting news about OUR Eric Bana, OUR Guy Pearce and OUR Joel Edgerton. Eric is up for another action movie and is in talks to star opposite Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones & Atonement) in HANNA, a tale about a teenage assassin. Eric will play her father, who teaches her to become a cold blooded killing machine. Nice! Sounds a bit Dexter-ey to me! Meanwhile, Guy Pearce and Mary-Louise Parker (our favourite pot-dealing mom from Weeds!) are set to join forces in a psychological thriller called The Well. This movie is being developed by Philip Seymour Hoffman’s production company and while the storyline is still under wraps, it apparently is about “a well-to-do Manhattan couple whose obsessive pursuit of salvation ultimately leads to destruction.” And last but not least, Joel Edgerton will star in a prequel to John Carpenter’s classic horror movie THE THING… Joel will play a blue-collar mercenary helicopter pilot who helps stop the rampage when a trapped organism in Antarctica is freed and begins a series of attacks. This movie starts shooting in Toronto mid March. Once again, it's pretty cool to see so many Aussies working in the big budget flicks.