Friday Night Lights' Kyle Chandler And Somewhere's Elle Fanning Cast In J.J. Abrams' Super 8

Someone's head will undoubtedly be on the chopping board by the end of today at the Super 8 headquarters, because casting news on J.J. Abrams' upcoming film has been leaked... but we couldn't be happier! What's one little head when we get to feel smug that writer/director/producer Abrams hasn't been able to control the universe as competently as he would like!

Our friends over at Vulture had the news first that Kyle Chandler and Elle Fanning are to star in Super 8, which we don't know much about except for the brief trailer released in May and the rumours that Bad Robot and Paramount's production is about three siblings who discover footage of an alien in some Super 8 footage they shot.

Chandler will be familiar to some from playing Coach Taylor in the soon-to-end DirecTV/NBC football drama Friday Night Lights, while Fanning, the younger sister of Dakota, is racking up some nice credentials with Babel, Reservation Road, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button and Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, for which she garnered some positive reviews after its recent premiere at Venice.

That's all we have on Abrams' Super 8 for now, but with a summer 2011 release date, hopefully some more news will be spilling over soon.

Source: Screenrush