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Another new project! Karl Urban and Ben Barnes have been cast as car-thief brothers in the France-set actioner, Overdrive. Filming begins October 29th.

Karl Urban and Ben Barnes have been cast as car-thief brothers in the France-set actioner Overdrive. Antonio Negret (Seconds Apart) is directing the project, which was written by Derek Haas and Michael Brandt.

Pierre Morel, whose kidnapping thriller Taken was a surprise success in 2008, is producing along with Haas and Brandt. Filming begins October 29 in Marseilles.

Urban, who plays Bones in the revamped Star Trek franchise, and Barnes, who plays Prince Caspian in the Chronicles of Narnia series, will play adventurous siblings who find more trouble than they are looking for in the South of France.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

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Back on October 3rd, Ben and director Nick Hamm attended a special BAFTA screening of Killing Bono in Los Angeles. BAFTA has now uploaded a photo from the event to their official website. You can also view the pic in our gallery!

001 x ‘Killing Bono’ BAFTA Screening In Los Angeles

Source: Bafta.org

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There’s a new photo of Ben (with designer Antonio Azzuolo) in the November issue of Vogue. Check out a full size scan in the gallery, thanks to Krystal!

Vogue has also posted a short article about Ben on their website. Read that here.

Be sure to pick up a copy of the magazine when it hits newsstands on October 25th!

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Ben recently spoke with Coming Soon about his upcoming film, ‘The Seventh Son’. The article also mentions that filming of ‘TSS’ will begin in March 2012.

“The plans for this are to shoot in Vancouver and China and some of the artwork just looks incredible,” he told us. “I think it’s certainly going to look pretty special, and I’ve read a couple of the books on which this series is based and they’re pretty engaging. The main draws were Sergei directing it, and Legendary Pictures making it. They make Batman and ‘Inception,’ amazing movies, and to top that off, most of my scenes are with Jeff Bridges, who is one of my favorite actors.”

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