Casting Update for RED 2

Catherine Zeta-Jones and Byun-Hun Lee have joined the original cast of the 2010 action thriller RED — Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, and Helen Mirren — in its sequel, somewhat unimaginatively titled RED 2.

Based on the graphic novel RED by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, the premise involves a group of retired — the "R" in RED — and extremely dangerous — the "ED" in RED — CIA operatives, who do fun and amazing things with high tech weaponry. OK, that's not the original storyline but that's what the film was, and presumably its sequel will be, about. (Read our review of RED.)

Dean Parisot will direct RED 2 from a screenplay by brother Erich Hoeber and Jon Hoeber (Whiteout, Battleship, and the original RED). It is currently scheduled to open in theaters August 2nd, 2013.

(Related article: The Hollywood Reporter.)