Here’s the latest casting news coming out of Hollywood…
Any film immediately starts to sound better if Sigourney Weaver agrees to star in it, and that’s certainly true of the next movie from Buried director Rodrigo Cortes. Cortes’ is moving on from one man buried underground to Red Light, a film about a para-psychologist who attempts to debunk a very reputable psychic who has just returned to the limelight after 30 years. Weaver will play Margaret Matheson, although it’s not 100% clear whether this is the para-psychologist or the psychic. Cortes says the movie is “about how the brain does not give a true picture of reality.” (Source: Bloody Disgusting)
The cast of Horrible Bosses is shaping up nicely, with SNL’s Jason Sudeikis just announced as the final part of a trio of friends (the others being Jason Bateman and Charlie Day), who are so fed up with their various jobs that they agree to murder one another’s bosses. The managers include Jennifer Aniston and Colin Farell, while Jamie Foxx will play a guy who gives advise on how to kill. Seth Gordon will direct, with the movie set for release July, 2011. (Source: THR)
While most actors who are under contract with a studio find their own movies and then bring them to the executives, with Steve Carell and Warner it’s the other way around – the studio develops films with the hope that The Office star will agree to appear in them. That’s what’s happening with We Built This City, a biopic of songwriter Dennis Lambert (the subject of the documentary Of All The Things), who wrote classic tunes like Rhinestone Cowboy and We Built This City, but only made one album of his own. It bombed in the US, but was inexplicably popular in the Philippines, where Lambert eventually made a rather belated but successful tour. Warner is currently working on getting the remake rights for the documentary and wooing Carell for the main role. (Source: Vulture)
Carey Elwes has signed on to star alongside Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher in Ivan Reitman’s new comedy, which is currently untitled but was previously known as Friend With Benefits. As the old name suggests, the film is about two friend (Portman and Kutcher) who realise adding sex without emotional attachment to their relationship is tougher than they thought. Elwes will play a doctor who works with Portman, and who also likes to flirt with her. (Source: Variety)
It seems John Cusack has landed the lead role in the movie Jack, from director Brad Anderson (The Machinist, Transsiberian). He’ll play a man who suffers memory loss after an accident and who falls in love with the doctor who treated him. As his memory comes back to him, he realises he was actually a serial killer and has to decide if he can start over or return to his former life. (Source: Bloody Disgusting)