This is a drag. Micheal K. Williams, known to many as Omar from The Wire and an accomplished and well-rounded actor in general, was a favorite for the title role in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained. That part went to the more easily marketable Jamie Foxx, but over the last few months Williams has said that…
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Today in The Continuing Adventures of Disney's Lone Ranger, that film production cliffhanger that I'm not certain actually has people on pins and needles to discover what happens next, we've got budget cuts and stalwart friendship. One of those things is, at least, a core value of the Lone Ranger. What we've known so far…
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The Lone Ranger has been slowly picking a path back to movie screens. In September word filtered out that Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski was in talks to direct a new version of the story for producer Jerry Bruckheimer, with Johnny Depp in the cast. Now it is official: Disney is moving forward…
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In 2007, it was announced that Jerry Bruckheimer would be producing a new adaptation of The Lone Ranger, with Pirates of the Caribbean/Shrek screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio penning the script. A year later, in 2008, it was revealed that Johnny Depp had been cast as Tonto, and George Clooney was rumored to be…
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Keanu Reeves will star in Jekyll, a modern day retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 classic novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for Universal Pictures. The film will be directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, the filmmaker behind the Sundance hit Bronson and the 1996 Danish action crime thriller Pusher (you may…
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Titanic stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet have signed on to star in Revolutionary Road for Dreamworks. Winslet's husband and American Beauty director Sam Mendes will direct the film. This will be the first time he has directed either star. Based on the acclaimed 1961 novel by Richard Yates which was voted one of the…
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