Movie News Weekly Round-Up October 3, 2010
Movie News
- Guillermo Del Toro will write and direct Trollhunters for Dreamworks Animation (Heat Vision)
- Joss Whedon talks more about The Avengers (SFX)
“They don’t hire Mark Ruffalo [the new Hulk] to say one iconic line and strike a pose. They hire him because he has so much humanity in him. He’s the antithesis of the iconic actor. He’s so human. He was my first choice to play the part, and the fact he is playing the part is nuts! They went to great lengths to make that happen and they understood exactly why he was right for the part.”
- Greg Berlanti talks about The Green Lantern (Hero Complex)
Darren Aronofsky joins the list of potential directors for The Man of Steel (24 Frames)- Joe Kosinski explains the recent Tron Legacy reshoot (Collider)
- Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp reuniting for The Lone Ranger adaptation (Deadline)
- Writer Chap Taylor to adapt Preston & Child’s Gideon’s Sword for Michael Bay (Heat Vision)
- Paul Haggis, Russell Crowe will work together again on The Equalizer (Heat Vision)
IMDb is celebrating 20 years! (IMDb)- Jonathan Levine will direct the adaptation of the crime novel Little Girl Lost (Heat Vision)
- The Star Wars Saga will re-released in theater in 3D in 2012 (Heat Vision)
- First look at One Day with Jim Sturgess, Anne Hathaway (USA Today)
- Brett Ratner looking to direct The Reluctant Communist (Variety)
- Robert Zemeckis interested in directing time-travel movie Timeless (Deadline)
BBC Films developing teen thriller Teen on a Train, inspired from Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (Deadline)- Christopher Nolan confirms he will direct his third Batman movie (Empire)
- James Franco to write, direct and star in The Adderall Diaries (Deadline)
“The memoir starts off a bit like In Cold Blood, in that a blocked writer turns to a murder trial to get himself going. Elliott, blocked for two years, reports on the trial of Hans Reiser, a computer programmer charged with killing the wife he met through a Russian dating service. Fueled by Adderall, a methamphetamine prescribed to help ADHD sufferers, Elliott’s stream of consciousness prose veers into subjects that include his cruel father, Paris Hilton, and S&M.”
- Sam Raimi working with Warner Bros to set up sci-fi movie Earth Defense Force (Vulture)
- Movie for video game Myst finally in development (Deadline)
- Ben Affleck offered the director’s chair for Tales From the Gangster Squad (Vulture)
- Disney developing a family movie around The Magic Kingdom (Variety)
- Ron Howard wants Jodie Foster his new movie My Stroke of Insight (Deadline)
- The Hobbit may get the green light imminently! (LA Times)
- RIP Gloria Stewart, Arthur Penn, Sally Menke, Tony Curtis
Casting News
Jared Harris cast as Moriarty in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes 2 (Latino Review)- Rachel Bilson joins the cast of romantic comedy BFF and Baby (Variety)
- Josh Holloway cast in Mission: Impossible 4 (Risky Biz)
- Maggie Grace cast as villain in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Variety)
- Vincent Kartheiser cast in untitled thriller formerly known as I’m.mortal (Variety)
- Steve Carell to star in film adaptation of music documentary Of All The Things (Variety)
- Chris Pine in early discussion to star in Alex Kurtzmann’s drama Welcome to People (Risky Biz)
- Katherine Heigl may star in Outlander (The NY Times)
- Emma Thompson in talks to join the cast of Men in Black 3D (Heat Vision)
- Ryan Gosling to star in George Clooney’s Farragut North (Deadline)
“George Clooney is close to finding his star for Farragut North. I’m told he’s negotiating with Ryan Gosling to play the lead role of a young communications director who works for a fast rising presidential candidate. During the course of the campaign, the idealistic young man falls prey to the backstabbing and other dirty trickery of more seasoned rivals.”
- James Franco, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Shannon join gangster biopic The Iceman (Production Weekly)
- Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep finally team up for John Well’s August: Osage County (Deadline)
“John Wells will direct the film from a script written by the playwright. Production will start by next summer. Streep will play Violet, the drug-addicted matriarch of the working class Weston clan. Roberts will play Barbara Fordham, the oldest daughter in the family. While mom’s problems and her penchant for revealing family secrets is a big issue, Barbara is melting because her husband is cheating with a college student. They are brought together when Violet’s husband goes missing and all three of their daughters come home to rally around mom. In the process, a lot of family secrets get revealed.”
- Matthew McConaughey cast in Richard Linklater’s Bernie (THR)
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Amanda Seyfried rumored for Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby adaptation (Production Weekly)
Christopher Plummer joins David Fincher’s The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo (Heat Vision)- Ciaran Hinds cast as the Devil in Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (Heat Vision)
- Emily Blunt joins the cast of sci-fi Looper (Production Weekly)
- Olivia Wilde cast in untitled thriller formerly known as I’m.mortal (The Wrap)
- MyAnna Buring, Mia Maestro, Casey LaBow and Christian Camargo cast in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Heat Vision)
- Emma Stone to be offered Mary Jane Watson role in Spider-Man reboot (Deadline)
Trailers
- Wild Target with Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint (Yahoo)
- True Grit teaser with Hailee Steinfeld, Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin (Apple)
- Norwegian mockumentary Trollhunter (VGTV)
- Teaser for D.J. Caruso’s I Am Number Four (Yahoo)
- Sci-fi Skyline (Apple)
- Burlesque with Christina Aguilera (YouTube)
- The Warrior’s Way (Apple)
Links
- Luke lists his top 25 septuagenarian performances (Journalistic Skepticism)
- Kai lists his top 10 Tom Cruise movies (The List)
- Dan made a top 10 Michael J. Fox movies (Top10 Films)
- The spotlight on Naomi Watts (Cynicritics)
- Craig takes a look at three performances by Paul Schneider (Film Experience Blog)
14 Comments
Thanks for the link love again, fellas! I’m trying hard to get more lists up on THE LIST.
As far as news, if Zemeckis wants to direct a time travelling film, don’t you have to let him? Just tell him not to animate it!
You welcome Kai! Yes, it is time for your blog to do what it is supposed to do
Nice list of links, even though it’s OCTOBER, not SEPTEMBER.
Thanks for catching that Anna
I Am Number Four looks ridiculous. To think I defended Alex Pffeifer (or however you spell it) in his Alex Rider days.
Great update..Looking for Clooney’s next project. Interesting on ‘Teen on the Train’ film.
‘Tales From the Gangster Squad’ looks like another great script for Affleck to direct, especially since Damon’s name has been thrown around with it as well.
And fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinally, The Hobbit is being greenlighted. They’ve already spent $20 million on it, and I’ve seen numbers around $500 million for the production cost. Even if The Hobbit doesn’t come close to what LoTR made, which I don’t think it will, DVD sales and merchandising will still be through the roof. The actors guild for New Zealand tried to show their muscle, but the fact that it’s New Zealand law for production companies to negotiate with union actors, them backing down was the only logical place to go. Now get this sucker into production before the likes of Sir Ian McKellan and Andy Serkis find themselves to come back for the movies, let alone finding your guy for Bilbo.
Seriously. It shouldn’t have taken this long to get this series back in gear.
I think Franco will make a good director…a man of many hats.
Farragut North may have a small audience, but I am definitely included. Political junkies should love this.
You know, there has to be some rhyme and reason to directors wanting to repetitively work with Johnny Depp. He must have some kind of magic dust to make them fall in love with him, but you can’t deny his genius whether it’s your brand of peanut butter or not.
Anything I hear from Whedon and The Avengers is literally making my hands shake I get so excited. I have to calm down or otherwise I could be preparing myself for impossible expectations.
I don’t know how great of an actress Olivia Wilde actually is, but I love her on HOUSE and she is damn beautiful so I’ll watch anything she’s cast in.
I’ve already read Kai’s Tom Cruise flicks, it’s a great List, so everyone should check that out. Dan’s Michael J. Fox flicks sparked up a huge feeling of nostalgia for The Secret Of My Success and Back To The Future. And I’ve never argued with any attention being paid to Miss Naomi Watts. Purrr.
Can’t believe the talented Mr. Hinds want to have anything to do with Ghost Rider [sigh]… the first one was definitely the WORST movie ever conceived.
Excited for The Hobbit, glad Peter Jackson is directing. I wouldn’t want this one fall into the wrong hands.
Who knows what Hinds is thinking?
Oh god – the Teens on a Train news is sheer horror. Leave it alone! And is it just me, or does Tron Legacy look completely awful from the trailers? (Oh, and thanks for the link, my friend!)
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