Movie News Weekly Round-Up: August 7, 2010
Movie News
- Jonathan Demme “circling” Honeymoon with Harry with Robert DeNiro, Bradley Cooper attached (Deadline)
Cooper read the role of a formerly self-centered womanizing booze-hound who changed his ways when he met a girl and fell in love. De Niro read the role of the girl’s father, who recognizes himself in the young man, and tries to break them up. They get engaged anyway. When she dies tragically just before their wedding, the groom heads off on their honeymoon to drown his sorrows and drink himself to death. There, he meets his almost father-in-law, who has come to spread his daughter’s ashes on her favorite beach.
- Matthew Vaughn cuts a dozen page from X-Men: First Class script after watching Inception (Hero Complex)
“I saw ‘Inception,’ which I loved,” Vaughn said Monday. “But my heart sank when I saw that a few of the ideas we had were up [on the screen]. So it’s either leave it in and look as if you’re copying or change things. We completely ripped out about 12 pages of the script and the storyboards.”
MGM “quietly” developing adaptation of 1960′s sci-fi series The Outer Limits (Variety)- Jason Reitman to direct Diablo Cody’s Young Adult, starring Charlize Theron (Deadline)
- First look at Joe Kosinski’s comic Oblivion (/Film)
- Stephen Sommers back to direct G.I. Joe sequel (The Wrap)
- Poster for Joaquin Phoenix mockumentary I’m Still Here (IMDb)
- F. Gary Gray attached to mystery thriller Hair of the Dog (Variety)
- Quentin Tarantino rumored to direct comic book adaptation The Shadow (Pajiba)
- First look at Philip Seymour Hoffman as Art Howe in Moneyball (Facebook)
- First look at Wes Craven’s My Soul to Take (BloodyDisgusting)
McG circling adaptation of R.I.P.D. (Pajiba)- RUMOR: Justice League movie greenlighted by Warner Bros, without Batman and Superman (ComicBookMovie)
- First look at Danny Boyle’s 127 hours (EW)
- Tony Scott to direct Mark Millar’s Nemesis (Deadline)
- James Cameron talks about Avatar 2, Titanic 3D (MarketSaw)
Casting News
- Brian Geraghty, Josh Peck and Margarita Levieva cast in thriller ATM (THR)
- Bruce Willis and Sigourney Weaver in talks to star in thriller The Cold Light of Day (Deadline)
Henry Cavill plays a young American whose family is kidnapped on vacation in Spain. He’s got hours to find them, and unravels a government conspiracy. Willis is near a deal to play his father, who has secrets of his own. Weaver is in talks to play the villainess
- Steve Carell, Sandra Bullock to star in The Abstinence Teacher (The Playlist)
- Will Ferrell to star in Spanish language comedy Casa De Mi Padre (First Showing)
- Sean Penn to play literary editor Max Perkins in Genius (THR)
- Kurt Russell to star in Touchback (Freedom Films)
- Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Peter Stormare, Tom Hollander cast in Luc Besson’s sci-fi action flick Lock Out (The Wrap)
- Viggo Mortensen, Amy Adams cast in On The Road (Deadline)
Francis Ford Coppola has been working for 30 years to turn Jack Kerouac’s seminal Beat Generation novel On the Road into a movie. It is starting to look like it was worth the wait. Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen are joining the Walter Salles-directed adaptation that will begin this month, I’m told. She will play Jane, the emotionally damaged junkie mother of two children and the wife of Old Bull Lee. Mortensen is going to play Lee.
- Stellan Skarsgard will play Martin Vanger in David Fincher’s remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Variety)
- Scarlett Johansson cast in Old St. Louis starring Vince Vaughn (Vulture)
- Tim Blake Nelson cast in Whales (THR)
- Jack Black, Shirley McClaine cast in true crime story Bernie (Bleeding Cool)
Trailers
- David Schwimmer’s Trust starring Clive Owen and Catherine Keener (The Playlist)
- Guillermo del Toro’s Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (MySpace)
- Action-drama The Bang Bang Club starring Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman (Vulture)
- French romantic comedy Heartbreaker (Yahoo)
- Early teaser for The Avengers (ComicBookMovie)
- Burlesque with Christina Aguilera and Cher (Vlicious)
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader (YouTube)
- Jackass 3D (CinemaBlend)
- “Interactive” trailer for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (First Showing)
- Tony Scott’s Unstoppable (/Film)
- The Winning Season with Sam Rockwell (First Showing)
- Sly Stallone goes crazy during an interview for The Expendables (YouTube)
- Unrated horror film I Spit on your Grave (Yahoo)
Links
- 27 Actors Who Can’t Act (Total Film): A bit unbalanced with 22 actors and 5 actresses but I agree for the most part. Hayden Christensen should be at the top of the list!
- Richard gives his Top 10 Female Movie Characters (Blah! Movie Edition)
- Ripley give 14 reasons why blogging sucks (Four of Them)
- What Rules Hollywood? Fear (Libertas Film Magazine)
- Heather list her top 10 Movie Battle Scenes (Movie Mobsters)
21 Comments
Viggo and Amy in the same movie? Great have both of my biggest crushes in the same movie (Hey I’m willing to admit Viggo is awesome). That and any mention of Francis Ford Coppola is an automatic watch for me.
And Jackass 3D…really? Really?
Agree TJ, love both Mortensen and Adams who are two excellent actors, looking forward to that long-awaited adaptation of Kerouac’s novel.
Seriously, Viggo, Amy in an adaptation by Coppola of a brilliant novel? My brain nearly imploded.
That is awesome casting indeed! I doubt people will confuse this with Viggo’s recent bleak drama The Road.
Has anyone else read On the Road and gotten the feeling that it all probably sounded really philisophical when it was happening, but now that it’s on paper, it’s a bit silly and contrived?
Nonetheless, I love Old Bull and Jane, my favorite part of the book is when Sal is describing their relationship. I’m weird, okay?
Totally agree that one is surely on the must see list!
that Sly interview is great.
I spit on your grave looks good. I feel more movie rape coming on… EWWW! Still, looks like a fun horror film.
The Avengers teaser was weak. They put it out a year too soon. It feels like they were trying to do what Nolan did with the Dark Knight teaser but they haven’t filmed anything yet so all they really had was a logo. That sucks.
And what is wrong with this sentence: Warner Bros greenlights Justice League Movie without Superman or Batman. WTF???
That’s like Toy Story without Woody and Buzz… LAME!
- Reitman and Cody teaming up again should definitely be one to keep an eye out for.
- I was hoping that G.I. Joe wouldn’t get a sequel, but we can’t get everything we hope for.
- ATM looks interesting. Geraghty was solid in Hurt Locker, and I have a weak spot for Margarita Levieva.
- And greenlighting Justice League without the big two would be a disaster.
After reading “Labor Day,” I was really looking forward to Reitman’s adaptation, but this new project sounds promising nevertheless.
Loved the Total Film article here – very true for the most part…funny list. and sad too.
This whole Joaquin thing is already wearisome to me. Though I detest the idea of Fincher doing an American version of Tattoo, Stellan is a wise choice to play the role. I still don’t wanna see it though!!!
Thanks for the linkage, my good sir(s).
I totally want to see First Class now. And always love Luc Besson.
But I don’t like the look of ISOYG remake. They’re making it so…grimy.
Hooray for Sigourney and Bruce to team up. Obviously I’ll watch anything with her in it, but Brucie has been making solid choices in his flicks as of late, save Cop Out, so I’m there.
And Thanks for the huge plug! Seriously awesome. You guys rock my socks off!
That’s an awesome post, Heather, nice pic of choice, too
Love the Sigourney/Bruce combo, and having Henry Cavill there is a major bonus. It’s about time that guy gets more mainstream movies!
Holy gods. Viggo Mortensen & Amy Adams in “On the Road.” That’s like….a miracle. A cinematic miracle. I have no idea if Coppola – or anyone else for that matter – could possibly make that book into a movie but I can’t wait to see him try.
That Girl With the Dragon Tattoo remake keeps sounding better and better! Damn you David Fincher! I guess now it all lies in who plays Lisbeth.
Since Noomi is such an international success in the original I think they should take a wild card and going with her for the american version aswell. Especially if they are gonna act with Swedish accents as the rumors say… Still waiting on a confirmation on that one tough!
Christensen should head everylist of actors who cannot act, regardless of category, sex or creed.
That Stallone ad would have been better had there not been so many long pauses.
The acting in the original “I Spit on your Grave” was terrible, but this seems like better acted and the girl seems a lot scarier, lets hope its better than the original.
…is Sigourney Weaver getting…younger!
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