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Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Voicing 'Wind Rises' + 'Sandman' Confirmed
by Ethan Anderton
December 16, 2013
Here's a double dose of news involving Joseph Gordon-Levitt for you. First of all, after hearing that the star and director of Don Jon was somehow involved in Man of Steel and The Dark Knight trilogy writer David Goyer's pitch to bring Neil Gaiman's Sandman to the big screen, we now have confirmation as to what he'll be doing on the adaptation. Deadline reports Gordon-Levitt is finalizing a deal to produce the film and also attached him to the project as the lead. In addition, the actor also hopes to turn the project into his sophomore directing effort, but that sounds like a less certain part of the deal. But that's not all for JGL.
We know that Hayao Miyazaki's final film, The Wind Rises, is hitting United States theaters (after an initial awards qualifying run last month for just one week) on February 21st, but we hadn't yet heard who would provide the dubbed voices for the foreign animated film. Now USA Today has revealed that Gordon-Levitt will lead the cast as Jiro Horikoshi, a talented engineer who spends his life building planes, only to realize he can’t fix everything. He will be joined by his Looper co-star Emily Blunt along with her husband John Krasinski ("The Office") and John Krasinski and Martin Short, Stanley Tucci, Mandy Patinkin, William H. Macy, Mae Whitman, Jennifer Grey, Darren Criss, Elijah Wood, Ronan Farrow and, wait for it, Werner Herzog. Not a bad cast for the dubbed version at all. Cool?
7 Comments
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dayyyyum that's dope! I'm looking forward to him playing morpheus!
croniccris on Dec 16, 2013
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Hell yeah!
Fidel Reyes on Dec 17, 2013
3
Wow! Can't wait for Sandman.
nate on Dec 17, 2013
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It's amazing how some actors just have the fan trust that they can pull it off. I'm totally down for a Sandman adaptation with JGL involved; now I wonder who they'll get to be Death?
jsmith0552 on Dec 17, 2013
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Nice, good for Joseph Gordon-Levitt. While the SANDMAN adaptation is in the future, it's also nice to see that he'll be (or rather, his voice!) in THE WIND RISES, which has an excellent cast. I mean, Werner Herzog? Now that's amazing!
Scopedog on Dec 17, 2013
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If Sandman is to be adapted into anything it should at least be a mini-series. A full film will take away too much. There goes another great comic series.
Marsius on Dec 18, 2013
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They could make it a multi-film series, as Harry Potter was.
thewho on Dec 20, 2013
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