Eva Green joins Ewan McGregor in 'Last Word'

Eva Green ("Casino Royale") has signed on to star alongside Ewan McGregor, Connie Nielsen, Ewan Bremner and Stephen Dillane in David Mackenzie's upcoming film "The Last Word."

Screen Daily reports the film follows two people falling in love while the world starts falling apart. Kim Fupz Aakeson penned the script, and shooting is already under way.

"Word" marks the second collaboration also between Mackenzie and McGregor. They previously worked together on "Young Adam," a film I absolutely loved.

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Daily news dose: Eva Green to star in 'Womb,' Blanchett in 'Nottingham'

Here's your daily news dose for Feb. 9, 2009:

• Eva Green is set to star in Benedek Fliegauf’s English language debut "Womb," about a widow whose desperation causes her to clone her late husband. Matt Smith is also on board. Green's credits include "Casino Royale" and "The Golden Compass." (Variety)

• Now that Sienna Miller won't be staring in Ridley Scott's "Nottingham," Cate Blanchett may take over the role of Maid Marian. "She is a wonderful actress and it would make it a much classier film if she was in it," Mark Strong told The Telegraph. Strong is on board as Sir Guy of Gisbourne.

• Dirk Blackman and Howard McCain will write "ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction," the big-screen adaptation of Kevin Grevioux's comic. The Hollywood Reporter says the film focuses on "an elite team of soldiers sent on a covert operation into hostile territory in the Middle East to stop what they soon discover to be a government-created army of the undead."

• James Mangold is in talks to direct an untitled thriller written by Sasha Jenson and Casey La Scala. The plot, according to Variety, is based on the true story of two "lawyer brothers who took on a multinational oil company and its heavyweight legal teams to rep the rights of the families of an oil rig that sank in a typhoon."