Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Future Film Round-up

- The Farrelly brothers are making a Three Stooges movie, and are negotiating with Jim Carrey to play Curly, Sean Penn to play Larry, and Benicio Del Toro to play Moe. Ok? Ok.
- Vanessa Redgrave has joined the cast of Robin Hood, as has William Hurt.
- Ladies, calm down, but … Zak Efron has dropped out of Footloose. Please find a way to go on with your lives.
- Woody Allen 2010 has added Nicole Kidman to its cast.
- Richard Linklater is shooting a “thematic and spiritual” sequel to Dazed and Confused. So, same ideas, none of the same characters.
- Rhys Ifans has joined the cast of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows (both parts, presumably).
- Tony Scott will next direct Unstoppable, about an … unstoppable … runaway freight train filled with toxic chemicals. Something tells me they’ll stop it … or maybe they won’t.
- Steve Carrell and Tina Fey are making a film called Date Night (shockingly not for Universal Pictures), with Mark Wahlberg and James Franco co-starring.
- Peter Morgan will complete his Tony Blair trilogy (The Deal, The Queen) with The Special Relationship. Michael Sheen will reprise his Tony Blair, with Dennis Quaid starring as Bill Clinton (Russell Crowe had been rumoured), and Julianne Moore as Hillary Clinton. Like the first part, The Deal, this will be made for cable television. Peter Morgan will direct it himself this time.
- Michael Sheen, however, also has to do his fill of crap (The Underworld films) and thus has joined the cast of the Twilight sequel, New Moon.
- Footloose-less Zak Efrom will star as Johnny Quest.

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