Casting Notes: Eric Bana Joins Joe Wright’s Hanna, Ed Helms Joins Will Ferrell’s Daddy’s Home

Posted on Friday, February 5th, 2010 by Russ Fischer

Atonement director Joe Wright is assembling the key cast for his teen assassin film Hanna, which already has Saoirse Ronan as the female lead. Now the movie that Brendon called “a kind of Nikita-meets-Leon, Kick-Ass-meets-Bourne mash-up” has a male lead: Eric Bana will play (I’m assuming) Hanna’s father, who has spent most of the girl’s fourteen years training her to be a killer.

The film shoots in March with Wright directing from a script by Seth Lochhead. [Variety]

After the break, Ed Helms finds yet another comedy; this time, it’s the directorial debut of writer Etan Cohen. Read More »

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What Will Zombieland Director Ruben Fleischer Do Next?

Posted on Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 by Russ Fischer

Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer is a rare version of the young director with a hit movie on his hands: he didn’t walk into Zombieland‘s release weekend with another movie set up, ready to go. That could have been a problem if the zombie flick had failed, but it definitely did not. So what will Fleischer do next? Read More »

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