Anton Yelchin to Star in ODD THOMAS
by Matt Goldberg Posted: February 8th, 2011
Anton Yelchin is set to star in the adaptation of Dean Koontz’ Odd Thomas. Directed by Stephen Sommers (The Mummy), the book centers “Odd Thomas”, a young man who is able to see and partially communicate with the dead. Thomas can speak to the ghosts but they can’t speak to him. There have been four Odd Thomas books since 2003 plus a graphic novel prequel. Bloody Disgusting doesn’t specify if Sommers’ adaptation will pull from all the novels or only from the first book.
Hit the jump for a synopsis of Odd Thomas. Yelchin will next be seen in Jodie Foster’s The Beaver and in Craig Gillespie’s 3D remake of Fright Night.
First Look at Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher
by Matt Goldberg Posted: February 8th, 2011
Back in June, we reported that Meryl Streep had signed on to play influential and controversial British Primer Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. We now have the first image of Streep as Thatcher and if you want to feel a cold chill run up your spine, I highly recommend checking it out. The film, directed by Phyllida Law (Mamma Mia!), is set just before Thatcher took her country to war in the Falklands. The Iron Lady also stars Jim Broadbent as Thatcher’s husband Denis, Anthony Head as her longest-serving cabinet member Geoffrey Howe, Richard E. Grant as conservative politician Michael Heseltine, and Roger Allam has political strategist Gordon Reece.
Hit the jump to check out the image. The Iron Lady is due out later this year.
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Dakota Fanning Signs on for GIRLS NIGHT OUT
by Matt Goldberg Posted: February 8th, 2011
Dakota Fanning has signed on to Girls Night Out. The charming premise has Fanning playing the teenaged British Princess Margaret and going out on the town with her sister (and current Queen) Elizabeth on V.E. Day in 1945. THR reports that Michael Hoffman (The Last Station) will direct after he finishes up work on the remake of Gambit starring Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz. Trevor De Silva penned the script.
I’ve become a fan of Fanning now that she’s grown out of her precocious-child phase and into a mature actor. Last October, Fanning was in talks to star in the drama If I Stay. It’s also assumed that she’ll reprise her role as the evil vampire Jane in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn.
SEX AND THE CITY Prequel in the Works? Blake Lively to Play Young Carrie Bradshaw?
by Matt Goldberg Posted: February 8th, 2011
If you thought that the dismal response to Sex and the City 2 would kill the beast, you may have to think again. MSN Australia’s blog Grazia [via /Film] reports that “studio bosses” are interested in adapting Candace Bushnell’s The Carrie Diaries, which centers on the teenage years of SATC protagonist Carrie Bradshaw. Bushnell recently finished a second novel, Summer and the City, which follows 19-year-old Carrie from Connecticut to New York. An insider says that there are no plans to bring back the original cast and that “the prequel is about breathing new life into the story and exploring Carrie’s first few months in NYC and the beginning of her relationship with an older man.” Grazia also reports that Sex and the City producer Michael Patrick King has expressed interest in having Gossip Girl star Blake Lively play young Carrie. Of course, none of this addresses the problems of Sex and the City 2, which made the characters come off like a bunch of shallow, entitled narcissists.
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