With loads of casting decisions announced each day, here’s our rundown of the latest on which stars are doing what films. However as casts change all the time, take the following as an indication rather than a promise.
Brokeback Mountain co-stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway are reportedly reteaming for For Love And Other Drugs. It’s an adaptation of the book Hard Sell: The Evolution Of A Viagra Salesman and is being ptiched as being somewhere between Jerry Maguire and Ferris Bueller in tone.
Summit Entertainment is said to have tapped Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave, Gael Garcia Bernal and Franco Nero for Letters To Juliet. The title is quite literal as the film is about star-scrossed loverse writing letters to Shakespeare’s Julier Capulet.
While Aiden Quinn, John Mahoney, Anthony Edwards and Rebecca DeMornay were recently announced for Rob Reiner’s flipped, Aussie actor Callum McAuliffe has now joined the cast as one of the main love interests.
Javier Bardem is in talks to star opposite Julia Roberts in Eat, Pray, Love, Ryan Murphy’s movie adaptation of the memoir by Elizabeth Edwards, who charted her journey of self-discovery that began with the end of her marriage. Robert would play Edwards, while Bardem would be her love interest.
Neil Patrick Harris looks to be booked for two movies. He’s joining the modern take on Beauty And The Beast, Beastly, opposite Vanessa Hudgens and Mary-Kate Olsen, as well as appearing in The Best And The Brightest, about a rural couple who get involved in New York’s elite kindergartens.
You’d think after Twilight that Cam Gigandet would be steering clear of vampires, but he’s signed up to star in Priest. He’ll a part-vampire sheriff who teams up with Paul Bettany’s priest in order to take on a group of murderous bloodsuckers.
And while it’s a mini-series rather than movie, Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell and Donald Sutherland have signed onto the cast of Pillars Of The Earth, the adapatation of Ken Follett’s multi-million selling book about the building of a cathedral in the 12th Century. They’ll join Matthew Macfayden, Sarah Parish, Hayley Atwell, Eddie Redmayne and Gordon Pinsent, among others.