Casting Bits: Nick Nolte in ‘Parker;’ Jesse Eisenberg in ‘The Double;’ Mark Ruffalo and Amanda Seyfried in ‘Now You See Me’

Posted on Friday, August 5th, 2011 by Russ Fischer

Here’s one of several casting breaks to come your way in the next few hours, and this one is pretty damned good. Why? Because after the break you’ll find info on the following:

Nick Nolte takes a role in hard-boiled crime thriller Parker.
Jesse Eisenberg plays dopplegangers in The Double.
And Mark Ruffalo and Amanda Seyfried join the increasingly promising FBI vs magicians thriller Now You See Me. Read More »

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Jason Statham in Talks For Taylor Hackford’s ‘Parker’

Posted on Monday, April 18th, 2011 by Russ Fischer

What does Jason Statham have in common with Lee Marvin, Chow Yun Fat and Mel Gibson? Soon he could be the fourth actor to play a screen version of Parker, the principled thief created by Donald Westlake (under the alias Richard Stark) in a series of pulp novels. The previous three films (Point Blank, Full Contact and Payback) have all been pretty loose translations of the novel The Hunter, which introduced Parker in 1962 and kicked off a series that now includes twenty-four books. For this new version, simply called Parker, John J. McLaughlin (Black Swan) scripted based on The Hunter, and Taylor Hackford is slated to direct. Read More »