Posts Tagged ‘Casting’

- Michelle Williams and Joel Edgerton are reportedly attached to star in a remake of the 2009 Italian film The Double Hour. Maria Full of Grace‘s Joshua Marston is writing and directing the psychological thriller, which will see the stars playing a couple who fall victim to a dangerous robbery. In a missed opportunity, the result is not Batman.

- Philip Seymour Hoffman is set to star in God’s Pocket, the feature directing debut of Mad Men‘s John Slattery. He’ll reportedly star alongside Richard Jenkins, Christina Hendricks, and John Turturro as a blue-collar guy “stuck in a life and death struggle between a body he can’t bury, a wife he can’t please and a debt he can’t pay.” Which is good, because depressive, unshaven Hoffman is maybe the best Hoffman.

- Adam Sandler’s Blended has found a way to feel even more painfully familiar. The project already has the usual elements of a too-attractive romantic interest (Drew Barrymore for the third time), Sandler go-to director Frank Coraci, and a warm setting to allow Sandler to never put on an actual pair of pants. Now, it reportedly also has Chelsea Handler in the role of, you guessed it, Barrymore’s best friend. The character has not been described as a lascivious loudmouth perpetually swilling wine, but yes.

- Coming in after news of Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s casting is that Josh Brolin and Christopher Meloni too will be adding some desaturated grimaces to Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. Meloni will be picking up where he left off with SVU to play a cop, while Brolin is taking over Clive Owen’s Dwight, which makes sense: A Dame To Kill For takes place before Dwight’s facial reconstruction and after Clive Owen was in things you wanted to see.

- Michael Bay has found another human part to fit among the whirling shards and Mark Wahlberg of Transformers 4: Jack Reynor, a young Irishman with little acting experience but, if history tells us anything, a knock-out Victoria’s Secret body to make up for it.

- Will Forte and Tim Robbins are replacing Ty Burrell and Dennis Quaid in Switch, the Elmore Leonard adaptation that functions as both a makeshift prequel to Jackie Brown and way to confuse Jennifer Aniston’s résumé.

- Saving themselves the trouble of paying for Anthony Mackie‘s ticket to Comic Con, Marvel waited until today to reveal Mackie is in talks to run around with Chris Evans in Captain America: Winter Soldier. The actor is reportedly up for the part of Falcon, a longtime Captain America ally with the ability to telepathically talk to birds and fly on his little wings. In the larger Marvel Universe, I guess he’ll be the “grounded” character among the guy who talks to ants and the space raccoon.

- Speaking to Grantland (via), Michael Keaton confirmed, yeah, he’s still in things–things like the improvised comedy Larry David and director Greg Mottola are doing. Jon Hamm is thus far the only other cast member, so until I’m told otherwise, I’m going to assume the film is Superman/Batman, but really misanthropic.

- Richard Jenkins is in talks to join the Channing Tatum-saves-the-President film White House Down. Jenkins would play the “key role” of Speaker of the House, set to take command if something were to happen to President Jamie Foxx and his vice president, so you just know this guy’s in cahoots with the terrorists. For shame, Richard Jenkins.

Amanda Peet, Cobie Smulders, Rob Corddry, The Marriage Ref‘s Marriage Ref, and others have signed on to some movies. If you care at all about them or yourself, you’ll skim the details below.

- According to Variety, Marcia Gay Harden has signed on to star in The Librarian. She’ll play “a woman who finds a new life path while touring Costa Rica,” which is good, because for a second Noah Wyle was fucking pissed.

- Steven Soderbergh’s long-developing Liberace biopic, Behind the Candelabra, now includes The Marriage Ref‘s Tom Papa among its cast. BUT WHERE IS OUR MARRIAGE REF MOVIE???

- The Avengers‘ Cobie Smulders has locked down two roles: she’ll play Paul Rudd’s girlfriend in David Wain’s They Came Together and star with Josh Duhamel and Julianne Hough in the Nicholas Sparks adaptation Safe Haven. I bet I know which part involves more maudlin romance!

- Amanda Peet, Rob Corddry, and Maya Rudolph have taken supporting roles in The Way, Way Back, the latest film from the writing team behind The Descendants. And that’s that.

- Ryan Reynolds is reportedly now the frontrunner to take over the Christopher Lambert role in the long-developing remake of Highlander. Great news for everyone who saw Wolverine and thought, “That was great and all, but could I please see Ryan Reynolds in just one more terrible film involving swords and beheading?”

- Writer/director Scott Frank’s A Walk Among the Tombstones will star Liam Neeson as a former drunk cop turned recovering unlicensed P.I. on the hunt for the kidnapped wife of a drug dealer. Hey, I bet I know what particular set of skills he will use for this job!

- Morgan Freeman has joined Robert De Niro and Michael Douglas on Last Vegas, a comedy about a wild Las Vegas bachelor party that will be amusing because the cast is familiar and very old. There’s still a fourth old, familiar lead to be cast; try to act surprised when Al Pacino inevitably gets that.

- Nicolas Cage and Mickey Rourke are in talks to join Marble City, a film about a just-released convict on the hunt for revenge. So that should have a fun press junket.

Question by darkscarf: Casting director for avatar the sequel?
ok so i know it sounds totaly stupid to be putting this question up but i am actualy a pretty good actor ive been a couple plays around my area and ive taken a real liking to Avatar by james cameron im 15 im pretty well built ive been able to pronounce the na’vi language great i think i have a pretty good shot at getting the part what im asking is if anyone here could help me find out a way to get in touch with the casting director or how i could be a part of this movie
i live in nyc -_-

Best answer:

Answer by bobbymfj
they are probably going to do casting in los angeles…you won’t be able to get ahold of the casting director for that big of a movie. you would probably need and agent to find out where you could try out. Its a long shot buddy, but go for it.

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Question by StageStarr: How can I audition or find casting calls for the Avatar sequels?
Avatar 1 and Avatar 2 have been confirmed.

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Answer by {O SNAP}
The principal actor casting will in all likelihood be a very long process that will begin well ahead of the start of principal photography. The cast is expected to be very large with A-list stars down to completely unknown newcomers. The details about Avatar sequels auditions is in this article by Alan Baltes, the Los Angeles Acting Auditions Examiner:

http://www.examiner.com/acting-auditions-in-los-angeles/principal-actor-casting-on-james-cameron-s-avatar-2-begin-2011

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A couple months ago, when it was rumored that Garrett Hedlund, Michael Fassbender, Chris Pine, Justin Timberlake, and Joaquin Phoenix were the group of actors in contention to play Kaneda in Warner Bros.’ Akira adaptation, the reaction was strong. More specifically, it was, “Have you guys even seen Akira? Seriously, the leads are supposed to be teenagers, and Japanese; not Joaquin Phoenix. What is wrong with you assholes?”

Well, the good news is the part probably isn’t going to any of those people. Keanews is it might be going to Keanu Reeves. THR reports the 46-year-old actor has been taking meetings with the studio about the part, and while his casting still doesn’t make a lot of sense for the anime’s original, faithful take on the manga, I guess it at least tells us what form this deformed adaptation is taking. Like, I guess we’re supposed to think it’s kind of sad that Kaneda probably just bought a cool, futuristic motorcycle to feel young again in the face of greying hair?

James Duval, Jenny Jue, Johanna Ray, Gregg Araki, Roxane Mesquida and Thomas Dekker at Film Independent’s 2011 Directors… 

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