Meanwhile, back at the ranch… Bradley Cooper is the new bad guy in Jane Got a Gun. Cooper is stepping in to fill the role of outlaw gang leader vacated by Jude Law. You’ll recall Law had stepped in to fill the spot left open when original villain Joel Edgerton was promoted to play Natalie Portman’s ex-lover — after Michael Fassbender dropped out...
Over the past couple of days, the cast roster for Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu’s comedy Birdman has been quickly inked in. Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts and Zach Galifianakis are all set to appear in a film that sounds almost as if it might have been written by Charlie Kaufman. Another important role has filled today. (via CinemaBlend) Edward Norton is...
Martin Scorsese’s adds another alpha male to the wolf pack. Matthew McConaughey will play Mark Hanna, mentor of Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio). The greasy tale of Wall Street corruption also features Jonah Hill, Jean Dujardin, Margot Robbie, Jon Favreau, Rob Reiner, Kyle Chandler and Jon Bernthal. The Wolf of Wall Street is adapted from Belfort’s memoir...
Recently it was announced that Jena Malone had signed on to play Johnna Mason in The Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire, Philip Seymour Hoffman is set to play Plutarch Heavensbee. This week more roles have been filled. Variety says Amanda Plummer will likely play Wiress, Tony Shalhoub is eying the role of Beetee, Sam Claflin may be one of the young tributes, and Melissa...
Things we never learned in Vacation Bible School. Noah had a nemesis? There’s a villain in Darren Aronofsky’s retelling and Ray Winstone has signed to play him. The US film-maker wants Ray Winstone to play the main villain opposite Russell Crowe in his forthcoming Noah epic, according to Deadline. Aronofsky’s proposed $130m (£79m) retelling of the biblical...
David Fincher, Steven Soderbergh, and now Spike Jonze? Things are working out awfully well for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo star Rooney Mara, who recently edged out Blake Lively for the lead in Steven Soderbergh’s currently shooting The Bitter Pill. And now she’s circling a role in Spike Jonze’s next movie, about a man who falls for a computerized...