According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bruce Willis is set to star in a trio of upcoming action movies. Red, in which “Willis would portray a former black-ops agent who has gone into retirement but is forced back into action when a high-tech assassin comes a-callin’ to threaten him and his girlfriend”; Scarpa, “a mob biopic directed by Tears of the Sun helmer Antoine Fuqua; and Inventory, in which Willis “would play a detective on the trail of a murderer.”

Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Rainn Wilson will headline the “indie dramedy” Hesher. “The story centers on a loser twentysomething who invades the life of an awkward 13-year-old who is living with a pill-popping father and grandmother. Gordon-Levitt is playing the title character, a good and bad influence on the boy's life. Wilson is the dad trying to keep his family together after the death of his wife. Portman, who is producing the film with Lucy Cooper, plays a supermarket worker for whom the kid falls for after she saves him from a bully.”

The French thriller Tell No One will get the American remake treatment. “Miramax and Focus will co-develop the project, still in early stages of development. No director or cast have been attached although a start date of spring 2010 has been tentatively set for principal photography,” Variety reports.

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