There are rumors that the Rob Marshall remake of The Thin Man might not be happening. Apparently Warner Bros, which has recently cancelled several big projects during pre-production, isn’t happy that a lead actress hadn’t been found to star opposite Johnny Depp, who most recently starred in the WB’s recent disappointing Dark Shadows. Warner denies anything, claiming that the film had yet to be greenlit, or maybe, just maybe, they are realizing that Depp outside of a pirate film doesn’t guarantee box office.
Legacies aren’t anything new in politics. John Adams and John Quincy Adams. George Bush and George W. Bush. The West Wing‘s Martin Sheen and now, Charlie Sheen. Robert Rodriguez has cast Charlie Sheen as The President of the United States in his upcoming Machete sequel, Machete Kills. The film, which is currently in production stars Danny Trejo, Jessica Alba, Mel Gibson, Amber Heard, Sofia Vergara and Zoe Saldana. #winning.
Casey Affleck will write and direct a bio pic based on the life of Josh Hamilton, the baseball player who went from being a crack addict to become
the American League’s most feared slugger.
Academy Award screenwriters Nat Faxon and Jim Rash have finalized the cast for their directorial debut, The Way, Way Back with Maya Rudolph, Rob Corddry and Amanda Peet joining the ensemble. The film is, “about a teenager (Liam James) who comes into his own during the summer
through an unlikely friendship with a local water-park manager (Sam
Rockwell). Toni Collette and Steve Carell co-star as the boy’s mother
and her carousing boyfriend, and Faxon and Rash are playing a pair of
waterpark employees.”
Caleb Landry Jones has been cast in the futuristic world love story Broken Dreams. Co-written (with Neil Jordan) and directed by John Boorman, the film is twenty years in the making and Jones will play a role originally intended for River Phoenix before he passed away. John Hurt will portray Jones’ character’s father.
Cobie Smulders has signed on to two new pics which she will presumably film when her show, How I Met Your Mother, is on hiatus. In Lasse Hallstrom‘s Safe Haven, Smulders will co-star with Josh Duhamel and Julianne Hough and play a neighbor in the story which, “follows a young woman whose arrival in a small North Carolina town
prompts its tight-knit community to question her mysterious past.” She will play Paul Rudd‘s girlfriend in David Wain‘s They Came Together, which also stars Amy Poehler.
Max Minghella, who didn’t invent Facebook in The Social Network, will co-star opposite Vince Vaughan and Owen Wilson in The Internship. “Vaughn and Wilson play old school salesmen who, finding themselves
suddenly unemployed and passed-by in the digital world, try to reinvent
themselves by becoming interns at a major tech company. Minghella
is in talks to play a ruthlessly competitive intern who plans to
sabotage the protags in order to land a coveted full-time job.”
