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Nolan Boards 'Justice League' with Christian Bale as Batman?
Everyone put your
rumor hats on, this one is going to be bumpy. After hearing many threads of
rumors surrounding Warner Bros. seemingly unfocused attempts to get a Justice League film off the
ground, no real solid information about the film or its direction have
surfaced. From talks of Joseph Gordon-Levitt taking on the role of Batman
following the conclusion of The Dark Knight Rises to script
troubles, it sounds like the studio has no idea what to do. Well, they might finally
have a solid idea if the latest scoop from Latino Review is
true. Their source is saying that Warner Bros. is hiring Christopher Nolan to oversee any
project from the DC Comics universe, and all things related to those
superheroes, goes through him. Read more.
Emma
Watson in Talks for Disney's Live-Action 'Cinderella' Adaptation
Well, it's just
raining news for the stars of the Harry Potter franchise. Gary Oldman
landed a role inDawn of the Planet of the Apes, Daniel
Radcliffe is playing Igor in a new take on Frankenstein,
and nowEmma Watson is
entering a fairytale world. Variety has
word that the star of The Perks of Being a Wallflower is in
talks to put on the glass slippers as the Disney princess Cinderella in the studio's
new live-action version of the story with Thor and Hamlet director Kenneth
Branagh at the helm. The search has been on for the title role ever since the
project was announced with Cate Blanchett as the wicked step-mother. Read more.
Daniel
Radcliffe in Final Negotiations to Play Igor in 'Frankenstein'
Last fall we learned
that Daniel Radcliffe was interested
in taking on another horror tale after moving from Harry Potter to The
Woman in Black, and now months later that news has finally become more of a
reality. Variety has
word that Radcliffe is in final negotiations to star in Frankenstein, a revisionist take
on the classic tale from Mary Shelley that will see the young British actor
playing Igor. At this time, we're not certain if this adaptation written by Chronicle scribe
Max Landis completely revamps the story, but it will definitely be the familiar
tale told from the perspective of the hunchback who assists Dr. Frankenstein.
Read more.
'Dawn
of the Planet of the Apes' Gains a Leader - Gary Oldman Joining
As I wrote in the
last casting update on Matt Reeves' Dawn of the Planet of the Apes sequel, "this is
already a great cast so far that I'm sure will get even better." Indeed it
just has. ComingSoon is
reporting that another excellent actor has been cast - Gary Oldman, seen in Chris Nolan's
Batman/The Dark Knight series as well as The Book of Eli,
Harry Potter, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Lawless. While we only know few
details about the sequel, set 15 years after the last movie involving two split
groups of humans and apes, and apparently Oldman will be playing the
"leader of a human colony", or as Deadline clarifies, the "leader of the human resistance".
Awesome. Matt Reeves is rounding up quite an outstanding set of actors for
this. Read more.
Paul
Bettany Cast Alongside Depp in Pfister's Sci-Fi 'Transcendence'
We just got
confirmation yesterday that Johnny Depp will definitely be starring in Transcendence, the upcoming
directorial debut of longtime Christopher Nolan cinematographer Wally Pfister. It sounds like a pretty
out-there science fiction drama, already being compared to 2001 and Inception,
and a recent script summary revealed Depp's character's brain gets uploaded
into a computer (along with some other spoilery details). Christian Bale was being
courted to play one of the leads, but Deadline reports that Paul Bettany is in negotiations
to star, so it looks Bale might have, well, bailed on the project but he's
still unconfirmed. Read more.
DreamWorks
Lands Band of 'Merry Men' with New Robin Hood Project
There's plenty of new
takes on fairytales hitting the big screen. Snow White and the Huntsman andMirror
Mirror arrived last year, Jack the Giant Slayer is in
theaters today, Oz: The Great and Powerfularrives next week, and Emma Watson
was just cast as Cinderella in a new live-action
film from Disney. Now Deadline has word that DreamWorks has picked up Merry Men, a pitch for a film
written by Brad Inglesby (who
wrote Out of the Furnace for Scott Cooper and the remake of The
Raid) with Act of Valorco-director Scott Waugh attached to helm the film which was purchased for
quite an impressive amount. Read more.
Michael
Keaton is a Washed Up Comic Book Movie Star in 'Birdman'
Towards the end of
2012, we heard that 21 Grams, Babel and Amores Perros director
Alejando González Iñárritu would try his hand
at comedy with a new film called Birdman set up at Fox
Searchlight and New Regency. The project, described as a dark comedy, follows a
former actor, who once played an iconic superhero, as he decides to take on a
Broadway play based on a short story by Raymond Chandlerin order
to reclaim past glory. Now the perfect man has been found for the role as THR reports Michael Keaton, who once played Batman
for director Tim Burton, has taken the lead role of the comic book movie star.
Read More.
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