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- Casting Tidbits: Rachel Weisz, Cate Blanchett, Amber Tamblyn (Feb 9, 2010)
- The Cove's Mark Monroe to Make Formula One Documentary (Feb 9, 2010)
- Peter Bogdanovich Will Be Around for the 'Turn of the Century' (Feb 9, 2010)
Tom Cruise Officially Chooses to Accept Mission: Impossible 4
Last summer we got official word that Paramount would be developing Mission: Impossible 4 and J.J. Abrams (who also directed the third installment) would return with Tom Cruise to produce. At the time there was no word on whether Cruise would reprise his role as Impossible Mission Force agent Ethan Hunt, but now Deadline Hollywood has word that the Hollywood superstar closed his deal at Paramount today to confirm his return to the franchise for a fourth go-round. But they're still looking for a director. Remember, we already know that "Alias" writers Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec are writing the new screenplay.
Christopher Nolan to Shepherd a Brand New Superman Film
It was last September when Diane Nelson, head of DC Entertanment, said, "we don't have current plans behind Superman." A lot can change in five months as Deadline Hollywood has discovered, Christopher Nolan, has been asked to 'godfather' a new Superman flick. Let's be clear that he's not directing the movie (not yet anyway), but rather guiding the film in the right direction for critics and fans alike. This brand new Superman iteration won't be a sequel, or even a pseudo reboot/sequel like Superman Returns, but rather an entirely new franchise. It's about damn time Warner Brothers got the right guy to help Superman fly.
Casting Tidbits: Rachel Weisz, Cate Blanchett, Amber Tamblyn
That's a Casting Tidbits bingo! First, Deadline Hollywood is reporting that Cate Blanchett will join the recently cast Eric Bana in Hanna, the Saoirse Ronan driven film from Joe Wright which tells the story of a 14-year-old Eastern European girl saved from a CIA breeding camp and raised to be a cold-blooded killing machine. After finding peace with a French family, the girl is dragged back to her father's world, and she must fight her way to a free life. No word on exactly what character Blanchett will be playing, but I imagine she will be the mother of the French family Hanna makes her life with after escaping. More casting ahead!
The Cove's Mark Monroe to Make Formula One Documentary
One of the most daring and revealing documentaries of last year is also one of the most talked about. The Cove is an eye-opening look into the dolphin slaughtering in a secret cove off the coast of Japan which has gone from its Audience Award winning premiere at Sundance last year to an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary. Now Variety says the film's writer, Mark Monroe is teaming up with Paul Crowder (who has edited docs like Riding Giants, and co-directed Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who) to make a documentary on the world's fast paced and most expensive sport Formula One auto racing. Read on!
Peter Bogdanovich Will Be Around for the 'Turn of the Century'
Sometimes the prospect of using our past, present and potential future just isn't good enough for a story's setting and an alternate timeline with familiar elements but vast differences really sets the stage. The most recent example is Watchmen, where Richard Nixon was elected to a third-term and Dr. Manhattan and The Comedian fought in Vietnam. THR reports another bizarro world will be seen as Peter Bogdanovich (above) will direct an adaptation of the Kurt Andersen novel Turn of the Century which takes place in the year 2000 where BarbieWorld opens in Vegas and Charles Manson's parole hearing is live on TV. Crazy.
Fox Finally Developing Feature Film Version of TV Series '24'
For years there have been rumblings of a big screen adaptation of Fox's popular real-time action-thriller series 24 starring the gruff-voiced Kiefer Sutherland as unstoppable counter-terrorist agent Jack Bauer. Now it seems to be official as Variety is reporting tonight that Fox's film and television divisions are finally coming together to make it happen with writer Billy Ray (State of Play, Breach) set to write the script that will take Jack Bauer to Europe. However official this deal is though, the fate of the television show (which is currently airing its eighth season now) will determine how soon the film will actually go into production.
Tim Robbins Joins Green Lantern as Dr. Hammond's Father
The good news just keeps on coming for Martin Campbell's adaptation of DC Comics' Green Lantern. Already infused with the talent of Ryan Reynolds, Peter Sarsgaard and Blake Lively, THR's Heat Vision reports that Tim Robbins is also joining the cast. Robbins will play Senator Hammond, the disapproving father to Sarsgaard's villainous, psychic powered Dr. Hector Hammond. Robbins has been fairly low key since his appearance in Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny, and this marks his first venture into comic books. Always choosing interesting and varying roles, Robbins should some good humanity to the superhero genre.
Soderbergh Catches 'Contagion' with Damon, Winslet & More
Despite the fact that Steven Soderbergh is currently hard at work on the action thriller Knockout, he's already lining up quite the cast for his next project. Last we heard his next was supposed to be the biopic about pianist Liberace with Michael Douglas and Matt Damon. Now Deadline Hollywood (& The Playlist) are reporting that he's keeping Damon around, adding Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard and Jude Law, and trading in the biopic for the action thriller Contagion, focused on the worst-case scenario involving a deadly virus. Shooting will start later this year for a 2011 debut, though they don't have a distributor yet.
Pseudo Mr. & Mrs. Smith Prequel On the Way Without Pitt/Jolie
And we're back again with our (at least) daily announcement of a reboot, sequel, prequel; this time word comes from NY Mag's Vulture that Fox's Regency Enterprises is moving forward with Mr. & Mrs. Jones, a pseudo-prequel to the 2005 action comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith which spawned the paparazzi's even more intense obsession with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. However, the flash to the past will not feature Pitt and Jolie, but rather is sort of an origin story of a similar but differently named couple, showing how a pair of twenty-something spies are set up as a fake married couple when they graduate agency training. How fun.
Joel Edgerton & Mary Elizabeth Winstead Cast in The Thing
Last month we got word that the new take on The Thing (previously remade in 1982 by John Carpenter and Howard Hawks) would begin shooting sometime in March. Now we've got word from Heat Vision that Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Death Proof, Live Free or Die Hard) and Joel Edgerton (Smokin' Aces, Animal Kingdom) have joined the cast of the sci-fi thriller. Last we heard, the story was supposed to show the story of the Norwegian camps in the Antarctic that were ravaged by "The Thing" before the Americans (in the original) discovered the decimated camps, but Heat Vision doesn't allude to this being a prequel.
Pseudo 'Valentine's Day' Sequel 'New Year's Eve' in Works
That's right, ladies and gentlemen, that cheesy Hallmark holiday movie that shoves no less than 15 huge Hollywood starts into one feature already has a pseudo sequel in the works. Despite the fact that every actor in the Valentine's Day will probably have less than 10 minutes of screen-time, this ensemble cast formula (which is surprisingly cheap for the number of in-demand talents involved) is proving to be pretty hot. So hot that producers Toby Emmerich and Richard Brener are already looking at a new script from Valentine's Day writer Katherine Fugate that takes the ensemble romantic comedy and sets it on New Years Eve.
Sam Worthington Confirmed for Murder Mystery 'The Fields'
Last November, we heard a rumor regarding the casting of Bradley Cooper and Sam Worthington in The Texas Killing Fields, a film being directed by Ami Canaan Mann (Michael Mann's daughter). Well, two out of three ain't bad as THR confirms that Ms. Mann will indeed be directing the thriller now simply titled The Fields, with Worthington playing a Texas homicide detective who joins with a New York detective to investigate unsolved murders in the Texas bayous. No word on who will play the other detective, so there's a chance that Cooper could still be in the cards, but at this point, Worthington is the only one officially cast.
Amber Heard and William Fichtner to Drive Angry with Cage
The super intense high-speed action flick Drive Angry 3-D already has Nicolas Cage behind the wheel of Patrick Lussier's next directing gig, but now Collider and Bloody Disgusting have confirmed that William Fichtner (The Dark Knight, Blades of Glory) and Amber Heard (Zombieland, Pineapple Express) have joined the cast as well. The story centers on a man driven by rage who is chasing the people who killed his daughter and kidnapped her baby. The vendetta spins out of control as the chase gets bloodier by the mile, leaving bodies strewn along the highway. Now that's what I call a revenge flick - this sounds so awesome!
Director Jeffrey Blitz Working on a 'History of DC Comics' Doc
If you're like me, then you're one of a dozen people who've seen the indie comedy Rocket Science. If not, then toss it in your Netflix Queue or whatever and watch it ASAP, if for no other reason then to at least check out yet another fantastic performance from Oscar nominee Anna Kendrick. In addition, you'll be familiarizing yourself with Jeffrey Blitz who has dabbled in narrative features such as this in addition to documentaries like Spellbound. Now Blitz has his eyes on superheroes as Collider discovered he has started work on a documentary about the history of DC Comics and plans to premiere it at Comic-Con this year.
Paranormal Activity Team Joins Saw Creators for 'Insidious'
When the people behind two of the most lucrative horror endeavors in the past decade join together, you know damn well people are going to pay attention. Such is the case as Variety reports that the guys behind Paranormal Activity (Oren Peli, Jason Blum and Steven Schneider) will join forces with Saw creators (James Wan and Leigh Whannell) in a five movie deal with Alliance Films (out of Canada) to finance & produce low budget genre films. Their first endeavor is Insidious, which Wan will direct from Whannell's screenplay that takes "a haunted house movie with all the usual conventions and twisted it on its head."