In today's Callbacks -- your daily roundup of casting news from Deal Central -- Toni Collette and Michael Sheen have a son in common, Adam Scott reunites with "Party Down" producer Paul Rudd, Summer Glau adds some estrogen to "Knights of Badassdom," "Law Abiding Citizen" director F. Gary Gray is in talks to work with Jamie Foxx again, Nico Tortorella is more excited about "Scream 4" than Neve Campbell's accountant and Steven Soderbergh's "Knockout" gets retitled.
Previously on Deal Central: Tom Hiddleston lands one of the lead roles in Steven Spielberg's "War Horse" and "Harry Potter" director David Yates weighs a trip to Middle-earth with "The Hobbit."
• Toni Collette and Michael Sheen will star in the family comedy "Jesus Henry Christ," reports Variety.
Julia Roberts, Philip Rose and Lisa Gillan are producing through their company Red Om Films. Hopscotch Pictures' Sukee Chew will also produce.
Dennis Lee directs from his own script which is based on his student Academy Award-winning 2003 short film.
The story follows a boy genius who was conceived in a Petri dish and raised by a loving, left-wing feminist. His world is turned upside down when he learns he has a half-sister, a discovery that leads him toward his biological father.
Collette will play a feminist who dedicates her life and political beliefs to her son, the one man she truly loves.
Sheen will play an unhappy professor and author whose world is rocked when he's told he has a son.
Lee previously directed Roberts in Senator Entertainment's still-unreleased family drama "Fireflies in the Garden." Senator is also actively developing Lee's "Birds in Fall," a drama based on Brad Kessler's novel. Production on "Christ" began in Toronto this week.
• "Party Down" star Adam Scott will play Elizabeth Banks' neighbor in the indie comedy "My Idiot Brother," reports Variety.
Paul Rudd stars as an idealist who wreaks havoc on the lives of his three sisters (Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer and Banks) when he crashes at their respective homes. Rashida Jones co-stars
Jesse Peretz directs from a script by Evgenia Peretz and David Schisgall. Anthony Bregman produces with Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub.
Scott is a gifted comic actor who previously starred in another movie about idiot brothers -- "Step Brothers." He's currently pulling double duty on Starz's Rudd-produced sitcom "Party Down" and NBC's "Parks and Recreation," and next appears in both "Operation: Endgame" and "Piranha 3-D."
• "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" star Summer Glau has joined the cast of Joe Lynch's LARP-themed film "The Knights of Badassdom," reports Bleeding Cool.
The actress joins Danny Pudi, Ryan Kwanten, Peter Dinklage and Steve Zahn in the film, which follows a group of gamers who inadvertently summon a demon from the depths of hell.
Spectral Motion ("Hellboy," "X-Men: The Last Stand") will handle the demon designs.
• F. Gary Gray is in early talks to direct Bruce Willis and Jamie Foxx in "Kane and Lynch: Dead Men," reports Variety.
