CASTING AROUND

Mel Gibson portrays a futuristic government employee whose memory bank includes other people’s life experiences in “Total Recall.” Bruce Beresford directs the sci-fi thriller in Australia in December. . . . Emilio Estevez is a baseball player who declines to throw a series of baseball games in “Odd Man Out,” a feature about the 1919 Black Sox scandal. Screenwriter-director John Sayles shoots in Chicago this September. . . . Jason Robards is detective Harry Hamlin’s father and helps him solve a series of brutal murders in the HBO film “Laguna Heat,” which shoots this week in Oxnard. . . . Lionel Stander plays a rich American who falls in love with a woman who’s actually a man in “The Brash Newcomers,” a comedy feature that films in Rome next week. . . . Geena Davis is a manicurist who has a spaceship bearing three aliens crash into her pool and then introduces them to Valley night life. “Earth Girls Are Easy” shoots next month . . . in the Valley!