Charlie Sheen and Michael Biehn enlist in...

Charlie Sheen and Michael Biehn enlist in Orion’s “Navy SEAL,” a tale of counter-terrorism to film in Spain next September. The screenplay by Kevin Jarre and Angelo Pizzo centers on a strike against a Mid-East group with a cache of nuclear missiles. Lewis Teague directs and Bernard Williams is producing. . . .

Jimmy Smits has the unenviable job of supervising interns Jason Gedrick, Diane Lane and Lisa Jane Persky in Fox’s “Vital Signs.” Marisa Silver directs the Larry Ketron screenplay which finds Gedrick in conflict with his famous surgeon father played by William Devane. Laurie Perlman produces. . . . Meanwhile, “L.A. Law”-yer Harry Hamlin teams with Robert Davi as undercover cops on the trail of a murder-drug ring in “Deceptions.” Nicollete Sheridon co-stars for director Rueben Pruss and producer Guy Lothan. . . .

Film maker David Lynch will next direct and adapt Barry Gifford’s novel “Wild at Heart” for Propaganda Films to film in Louisiana and Texas next July. The story centers on a young couple pursued by a gunman sent by her mother. Negotiations with Laura Dern are being completed and Isabella Rossellini will appear in a cameo. Monty Montgomery, Steve Golin and Joni Sighvatsson. . . .

Bill Pullman plays a ruthless dockyard mobster who’s the quarry of undercover cop Sean Penn in Orion’s “State of Grace,” filming next month in New York City. However, writer Dennis McIntire’s plot thickens when Penn becomes romantically involved with Robin Wright, sister of another gang man played by Gary Oldman. Phil Joanou directs for producer Michael Hausman. . . . Brigitte Nielsen plays an American secret agent who stumbles unto a plot to assassinate the president and brainwash the veep in “A Heartbeat Away.” Vanity is the evil nemesis behind the plot in the Kevin Brodie-Michael Edwards script. Brodie directs in July with Edwards serving as producer. . . .

Actress Jane Alexander portrays artist Georgia O’Keeffe in Oka Films’ “An American Place.” Alexander, producing with Robert Arnold, stars opposite Maximillian Schell as photographer Alfred Steiglitz in the Alan Hines-Wolfgang Limmer screenplay. Schell also directs on location in New Mexico, Germany and New York City. . . .

Producer Stephen Jaffe has signed author Mark Lane and Donald Freed to write “Richardson.” Based on the true story of James Richardson, who wrongfully served a 19-year jail term for the poisoning death of his seven children before being cleared recently on the basis of prosecutional misconduct. Richardson will serve as a creative consultant on the project. . . . Writers Ken and Jim Wheat (“Fly II”) step behind the cameras to direct MGM’s “After Midnight,” a modern horror anthology using the framework of a college class examing the psychology of fear. Ramy Zada leads the class into three tales of terror featuring Billy Ray Sharkey, Monique Salcido, Marc McClure and Nadine Van der Velde. Peter Greene and Richard Arlook co-produce. . . .

Casting Around: Dick Van Dyke and Estelle Parson’s are the latest additions to Disney’s “Dick Tracy” playing, respectively, a crooked lawyer and Tess Trueheart’s mother. Production wraps next month despite a recent 10-day work stoppage when director-actor Warren Beatty was felled by flu. . . . Nancy Allen reprises her tough cop role in Orion’s “RoboCop II,” filming in July with Tim Hunter directing. Frank Miller wrote the sequel. . . . Newcomer Julia Campbell nabs the part of Dana Carvey’s love interest in Imagine/Universal’s “Opportunity Knocks,” filming in Chicago in June. Donald Petrie directs the identity switch comedy by Mitch Katlin and Nat Bernstein. . . .