Casting news for Breck Eisner's THE LAST WITCH HUNTER continues to pour in as The Wrap has learned that "True Detective" actor Olafur Darri Olafsson has signed on as one of the witches (a warlock?) battling Vin Diesel in Lionsgate's supernatural action movie.
This latest bit of casting news for THE LAST WITCH HUNTER comes on the heels of the word that Elijah Wood had signed on to co-star alongside the previously announced Rose Leslie and Michael Caine.
Conceived by Cory Goodman, scripted by Burk Sharpless and Matta Sazama (as well as D.W. Harper and Melissa Wallace):
In The Last Witch Hunter, an immortal witch hunter (Diesel) partners with his natural enemy, a female witch, to stop the covens of NYC from unleashing a plague on humanity.
Mark Canton, Bernie Goldmann and Diesel are producing the movie, while Diesel's One Race partner Samantha Vincent will executive produce with Adam Goldworm.
THE LAST WITCH HUNTER's Rose Leslie