First Images of Matt Damon on the Set of WE BOUGHT A ZOO
by Adam Chitwood Posted: January 17th, 2011
Fresh off of introducing Robert De Niro at last night’s Golden Globe awards, Matt Damon was back on set this morning for Cameron Crowe’s We Bought a Zoo and we’ve got the pictures to prove it. Damon was spotted this morning filming scenes for the flick in LA. Directed by Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous), the film stars Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Patrick Fugit (Almost Famous), Elle Fanning (Somewhere), J.B. Smoove (Date Night) and the recently announced John Michael Higgins (Yes Man).
Based on the memoir by Benjamin Mee, the film tells the story of a man who moves his family to England where he decides to buy and run a zoo following the death of his wife. Hit the jump to check out the images of Damon on set. We Bought a Zoo hits theaters on December 23rd.
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Casting News: Robert Duvall to Star in Billy Bob Thorton’s JAYNE MANSFIELD’S CAR; Mark Duplass Joins WELCOME TO PEOPLE
by Adam Chitwood Posted: January 17th, 2011
We have a couple of casting stories for you this evening. We previously broke the news that Billy Bob Thorton was heading back to the director’s chair with a script he co-wrote with Tom Epperson called Jayne Mansfield’s Car, and now it looks like the project has found its star. Robert Duvall has signed on to headline the indie project, which Duvall describes as “another Southern tale.” He elaborated on the plot in a conversation with EW
“It’s about a guy in between WWI and WWII who raises a family after his wife left him for an Englishman and moved to England. When the wife dies, she asks to be brought back to Alabama to be buried, and at that point the character hasn’t seen her in 20 or 30 years. The two families — her original family she abandoned and her English family — meet and then things get really interesting.”
Thorton will reportedly star in the film as well, in addition to writing and directing it. Production is scheduled to begin this summer. We recently told you that Michelle Pfieffer would be joining Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks and Olivia Wilde in Alex Kurtzman’s directorial debut Welcome to People, and now it looks like Mark Duplass (Greenberg, co-writer/co-director of Cyrus) has signed on as well. Variety reports that Duplass is set to play a neighbor who shows an interest in Banks’ character. The film tells the story of an estranged son (Pine) who returns home for his father’s funeral and begins to uncover his secret life. Welcome to People is set to be released sometime in 2012.
