Posted on Thursday, May 24th, 2012 by Angie Han
Earlier this month, a press release announcing the return of Red stars Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, and Mary Louise Parker for Red 2 promised that the retired black ops team would be facing on “a new set of enemies all across Europe.” Now we have a better idea of what exactly those baddies will look like.
Variety reports that Anthony Hopkins is in talks to play the villain, a mad genius incorrectly presumed to be dead. As Willis and his ex-CIA team desperately search for a weapon of mass destruction that Hopkins has created, he offers to give up its location if Willis agrees to help him escape an insane asylum. Hopkins would join fellow newcomers Catherine Zeta-Jones and Lee Byung-Hun, who signed on earlier this month in unknown roles.
However, Hopkins’ casting is contingent on his ability to reconcile Red 2‘s production schedule with his commitment to Thor 2. Hopkins had a supporting role in the previous Thor movie as the god Odin, Thor and Loki’s father. Red 2 is due out August 2, 2013, while Thor 2 is slated to hit November 15, 2013.
After the jump, Danny Trejo reveals that Zoe Saldana will be among the lovely ladies of Machete Kills.
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Posted on Thursday, May 24th, 2012 by Angie Han
Now that G.I. Joe: Retaliation is no longer opening next month, thanks to a late-in-the-game decision to post-convert it to 3D, we’ve got another ten months to keep talking about it. After the jump, read director Jon Chu‘s earlier comments on the decision to shoot in 2D. Also:
- Get a look at Shaquille O’Neal on the Grown Ups 2 set
- Passion of the Christ sorta-prequel Mary Mother of Christ gets a director
- Star Trek 2 is heading to Iceland for second unit shooting
- Jonathan Frakes talks about his visit to the Star Trek set
- Uncharted actor Nolan North will be in Trek 2, but chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen won’t
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I expect some of you might be more inclined to see Jose Padilha‘s remake of RoboCop, now that Gary Oldman will be in it. Today news came out that Oldman will play a major role opposite Joel Kinnaman, who was cast a few weeks back as the new version of Alex Murphy, a cop who is killed (nearly killed?) but revived as a cyborg police officer.
I bet many will do the same thing I did and assume that Oldman will be playing either the role held by Ronny Cox in the original, or even one of the roles played to such memorable effect by Kurtwood Smith or Miguel Ferrer. In fact, Oldman’s casting reveals some new information about the remake, as he’s playing a new character named Norton, aka the guy who creates RoboCop. Read More »
Posted on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 by Angie Han
Even as Lee Daniels‘ follow-up to Precious, The Paperboy, makes its debut at Cannes this week, the filmmaker’s wasting no time assembling a stellar cast for his next project, The Butler. The talented Forest Whitaker leads the picture as Eugene Allen, the late White House butler who served under eight different presidents from 1952 through 1986, with Oprah Winfrey and rising star David Oyelowo signed to play his wife and son.
And the cast only gets more buzzworthy from there. The roster also includes Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Nicole Kidman, Alan Rickman, Jane Fonda, Lenny Kravitz, and John Cusack. Now we can add Minka Kelly to the list as well, as Daniels says he’s cast her to play Jackie Kennedy to Matthew McConaughey‘s John F. More after the jump.
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Posted on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 by Angie Han
There are long-simmering projects, and then there’s A Confederacy of Dunces. A cinematic adaptation of John Kennedy Toole‘s canonical novel has been in development since the early ’80s, and has gone through many hands in the decades since with no success. But Hollywood keeps trying, and now the latest big names to try and crack it could be Zach Galifianakis and The Muppets helmer James Bobin. More details after the jump.
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Kelly Reichardt (Meek’s Cutoff) isn’t going to have the market cornered when it comes to new female-led Westerns. Scottish director Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin, Ratcatcher) is now attached to direct a film called Jane Got a Gun. And now the project has Natalie Portman attached to star and produce. Read More »
Briefly: Don’t worry — there are no spoilers here. As you may know, yesterday saw the first public display of footage from Quentin Tarantino‘s new film Django Unchained. Harvey Weinstein brought a few minutes of the movie to Cannes yesterday, and you can read a rundown of reactions over here. (Hint: they are almost uniformly positive.) But Harvey said something to Deadline that is worth mentioning: that there could be a couple of “surprise” guest-stars in the movie when it hits theaters on December 25.
What’s that about? Well, you may also recall that Sacha Baron Cohen and Kurt Russell recently bowed out of the movie, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt had to walk away as well, thanks to the schedule for his directorial debut. And while those roles may just be recast (in the case of JGL’s), cut (Cohen’s) or altered (Russell’s, whose role is rumored to be combined with one being played by Walton Goggins) there’s a chance that room remains for a couple of last-minute additions. Tarantino is shooting for several weeks still, and the film is certainly big enough to have room for a couple of famous faces. With luck, any new additions will remain as surprises until December.
Wes Anderson is in Cannes with the debut of his new film Moonrise Kingdom, but he is already looking towards his next feature. The director has explained in recent interviews that “it’s a film I want to make in Europe, a Euro movie,” saying that he has recently finished the script. He also says that the new film draws to some extent on the time he spends living in Paris each year.
And now we know that Moonrise Kingdom might be a one-time only break between Anderson and his perpetual collaborator Owen Wilson, who co-wrote Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, and The Royal Tenenbaums, in addition to playing roles in two of those films and The Life Aquatic, The Darjeeling Limited, and Fantastic Mr. Fox. Wilson will be playing a role in the as-yet untitled new film. Read More »
