Clive Owen and Andrea Riseborough to Star in IRA Thriller from MAN ON WIRE Director James Marsh
by Matt Goldberg Posted: April 6th, 2011
Director James Marsh may have earned an Oscar for his documentary Man on Wire, but he’s no stranger to narrative features. He previously directed The King starring Gael Garcia Bernal and the crime drama Red Riding 1980. Vulture now reports that he’s got another fiction film up his sleeve and that Clive Owen is attached to star. Marsh tells Vulture that his new film “is much more like Red Riding, it’s a genre film, it’s a thriller.”
The untitled project (formerly titled Shadow Dancer) is set in Northern Ireland during the early 1990s and will co-star Andrea Riseborough (Never Let Me Go) as a former IRA terrorist turned informer. The film also stars Aidan Gillen (The Wire) Gillian Anderson (The X-Files). Shooting on the low-budget film is set to begin this May in Dublin.
Casting Call: Penelope Cruz in Woody Allen Film, Maggie Grace in TAKEN 2, Thandie Newton in GOOD DEEDS, Jay Baruchel in COSMOPOLIS, Ryan O’Nan in FREELANCERS
by Adam Chitwood Posted: April 6th, 2011
We’ve got quite a few casting stories for you this afternoon. First up, it looks like Penelope Cruz is set to re-team with director Woody Allen. The actress won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her work in Allen’s Vicky Christina Barcelona and now EW reports that she’s set to work with the director again, presumably on his next film that is set in Rome. There are currently no plot details on the flick, which is set to start filming this summer.
Maggie Grace has closed her deal to return in producer Luc Besson’s Taken 2. There was previously some hubbub over whether star Liam Neeson would reprise his role from the first film, but everything was squared away and now Deadline reports that the film is ready to go with director Olivier Megaton (Transporter 3). Hit the jump for the casting news of Thandie Newton starring in Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds, Jay Baruchel joining David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis and Ryan O’Nan nabbing a starring role in Freelancers.
Sofia Vergara in Talks to Join THE THREE STOOGES
by Adam Chitwood Posted: April 6th, 2011
Hot off the heels of the news that the Farrelly brothers have set Will Sasso and Sean Hayes as Curly and Larry, respectively, in their long-in-the-works The Three Stooges movie comes word that actress Sofia Vergara is eying a role in the film. The Wrap reports that the actress is in talks for the role of “Lydia.”
After numerous casting changes/rumors/auditions, it looks like the Brothers Farrelly are at last nearing production on the film. With Larry and Curly cast, producers now look to Moe. Apparently Hank Azaria is the frontrunner to grab that role. The film will not be a biopic, but rather a feature-length Three Stooges movie divided into “three 27 minutes segments, driven by physical comedy.” 20th Century Fox hopes to get production started sometime this spring.
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