Derek Cianfrance continues casting his follow-up to Blue Valentine...

...by casting some female leads to go along with his previously announced male ones. Here's the story from Deadline:

va Mendes is set and Greta Gerwig is in talks to star alongside Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper in The Place Beyond The Pines, a multi-generational crime drama that Blue Valentine's Derek Cianfrance will direct for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment. The drama tracks the tragic consequences of a showdown between a motorcycle rider-turned-bank robber (Gosling) and a cop-turned-politician (Cooper). Mendes will play the robber's love interest and mother of his child, and Gerwig is in talks to play the politician's wife.The film begins production next month. Mendes most recently starred in Last Night and The Other Guys while Gerwig starred in Arthur and Greenberg and has just begun shooting Lola Versus, the Daryl Wein-directed Fox Searchlight comedy that also stars The Killing's Joel Kinnaman.

Who might co-star with Ryan Gosling in Derek Cianfrance's follow-up to Blue Valentine?

Via Variety:

Sidney Kimmel Entertainment has come on to finance and produce multi-generational crime drama "The Place Beyond the Pines."

Project's been in development since last year, with "Blue Valentine" writer-director Derek Cianfrance directing from a script he co-wrote with Ben Coccio. Ryan Gosling is attached to star, and producers have offered Bradley Cooper a starring role.

Gosling will portray a pro motorcycle rider who turns to bank robberies to support his newborn son, when he crosses paths with a rookie police officer -- the role Cooper is being lined up to play -- their confrontation spirals into a generational feud.

Bradley Cooper is the Devil

No, really! Here's the story from Variety:

After helping launch The Hangover franchise, Legendary Pictures wants back in business with Bradley Cooper, who's in early talks to play Lucifer in an adaptation of John Milton's epic 17th-century poem Paradise Lost.

An official offer has yet to be made, but Cooper is eager to take the part and negotiations are expected to begin shortly. Reps for Legendary declined to comment.

Thesp's involvement breathes new life into Alex Proyas' adaptation of Paradise Lost, long in the works at Legendary. It's also the latest fanboy-targeted tentpole to move forward at the blossoming production company, which is lensing Wrath of the Titans and Jack the Giant Killer, backing The Dark Knight Rises and The Man of Steel and developing Pacific Rim with Guillermo del Toro as well as a Godzilla reboot.

Paradise Lost tells the story of the epic war in heaven between archangels Michael and Lucifer, including the latter's role in Adam and Eve's fall from grace. Pic will be crafted as an action vehicle that will include aerial warfare, possibly shot in 3D.