Tom Hooper's next film "The King's Speech" features quite an impressive cast, as Helena Bonham Carter, Jennifer Ehle, Guy Pearce, Derek Jacobi, Timothy Spall and Michael Gambon boarded the project.

Also starring in the period drama are Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Hopper is directing a script by David Seidler, and filming has already kicked off in England.

What is "The King's Speech" about? Essentially, the story focuses on the relationship between King George VI and his speech therapist Lionel Logue, who supported the king in many ways.

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Here's your dose of casting updates for May 20, 2009:

• Colin Firth and Kevin Spacey are in talks to star in Hugh Hudson's big-screen adaptation of "Catalonia" by George Orwell. The story follows Orwell's journey to Barcelona, where he joined the Anarchist brigade to fight in the Spanish Civil War. Bob Ellis wrote the script. (Variety)

• Camilla Belle ("Push") and Tom Wilkinson have joined the English remake of Susanne Bier's "Efter brylluppet" (After the Wedding). Michael Caton-Jones ("Shooting Dogs") will direct the flick, which centers on a social worker who works in a Mumbai orphanage and receives a mysterious but huge donation from a businessman. (Variety)

• Chris Pontius, whose credits include "Wildboyz" and "Jackass," is set to star in Sofia Coppola's upcoming "Somewhere," about an actor who lives an extravagant lifestyle at the Chateau Marmont until he gets an unexpected visit from his 11-year-old daughter. Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning co-star. (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Vincent D'Onofrio, Vinnie Jones, Paul Sorvino, Fionnula Flanagan, Laura Ramsey, Steve Schirripa, Linda Cardellini and Bob Guntonhave boarded Jonathan Hensleigh's "The Irishman," a crime drama about Danny Greene, a notorious mobster. Ray Stevenson, Christopher Walken and Val Kilmer co-star. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Orlando Bloom is in talks to join Andrew McCarthy, Ellen Burstyn, Patricia Clarkson and Colin Firth in John Doyle's upcoming drama "Main Street."

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the film follows a group of a small North Carolina town residents whose lives are turned upside down with the arrival of a stranger. Bloom is set to play a police officer.

Doyle is directing a script by the late Horton Foote, whose credits also include "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Of Mice and Men."

Bloom, who last starred in "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," will soon be seen in "New York, I Love You" and "Sympathy for Delicious."

McCarthy recently appeared on "Lipstick Jungle," while Burstyn last starred in "W." Clarkson's recent credits include "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" and "Elegy." As for Firth, was was recently seen in "Mamma Mia!"

Colin Firth, Julianne Moore and Matthew Goode are set to star in Tom Ford’s directorial debut “A Single Man.”

According to Variety, the film follows a British college professor who loses his partner of 16 years. I know it’s not much, but that’s all we know at this stage.

Ford and David Scearce adapted Christopher Isherwood’s novel, which details one day in a professor’s life in Los Angeles.

I assume Firth is on board as the lead character. Firth most recently starred in Universal’s hit musical “Mamma Mia!” He recently wrapped filming for “Dorian Gray.”

As for Moore, she was last seen in “Blindness.” She has several projects coming up, including “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee” and “Shelter.”

Goode last starred in “Brideshead Revisited.” He’ll appear in Zack Snyder’s upcoming actioner “Watchmen.”

The cast for Oliver Parker's upcoming drama "Dorian Gray" is growing, and one of the latest to jump on board the project is Rebecca Hall, according to Variety.

Based on the classic Oscar Wilde novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray," the story centers on a young man (played by Ben Barnes) who becomes the subject of a painting. As the man embarks a quest for pleasure in life, the painting begins to morph and age.

Also starring in the adaptation is Colin Firth, who plays a ruthless aristocrat corrupting the titular character with his worldview. Ben Chaplin, Max Irons, Fiona Shaw and Emilia Fox co-star, among others.

Hall recently starred in Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige." She will next be seen alongside Scarlett Johansson in Woddy Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona." Other upcoming projects include Ron Howard's "Frost/Nixon" and Charles Sturridge's "Brontë."

British actor Colin Firth has signed on to star opposite Ben Barnes in Oliver Parker’s “Dorian Gray,” an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Barnes will play Dorian Gray, a young man who becomes the subject of a painting. As the man embarks on his quest for pleasure, the painting begins to change and age.

Firth is set to play Lord Henry Wotton, a ruthless aristocrat who corrupts Gray with his worldview.

Firth is currently onscreen in Universal’s “Mamma Mia!” He will next be seen alongside Uma Thurman in Griffin Dunne’s comedy “The Accidental Husband.”

Barnes is known best for his role as Prince Caspian in “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.” He also recently wrapped Stephan Elliott’s British comedy “Easy Virtue,” in which he stars opposite Jessica Biel and, coincidentally, Colin Firth.