Hollywood Ink: Keanu Reeves Could Really Use a Love Interest Right About Now
· Keanu Reeves will star in Passengers, a sci-fi romance (or something) about a space traveler on a 120-year-mission that goes awry when his hibernation pod fails. He makes some robot pals, then apparently winds up horny and awakening a beautiful female passenger hibernating on the same voyage. Complications ensue. The female lead has yet to be cast, suggestions welcome below. [THR]
Zoe Saldana will get up her assassin game, Dustin Hoffman has a two-fer on the way, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.
· Zoe Saldana is in talks to star in Columbiana, which would feature her as a cold-blooded contract killer working on the little side project of avenging her parents' murder when she was a girl. Transporter 3 helmer Olivier Megaton would direct. Megaton! I love that name. Let's all adopt it. S.T. Megaton. Enh, maybe not. [THR]
· Hope you like Dustin Hoffman, because he has two projects planned: The first, the British caper Nightwork, will feature him as a man on the run across Europe with a bundle of stolen money. The second, the drama The Song of Names, will co-star Anthony Hopkins in the story of a Jewish violin prodigy who disappears before his debut and the other Jew who solves the mystery 40 years later. Vadim Perelman will direct the latter. [Deadline, THR]
· Speaking of Perelman, his House of Sand and Fog screenwriter Shawn Lawrence Otto will make his directorial debut with the Hilary Swank-starring, post-Iraq-trauma drama Dreams of a Dying Heart. This guy and his haunted ladies, sheesh. [Variety]
· Adrien Brody will appear in a "flashy" role in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, joining a fairly stuffed cast that already includes Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Michael Sheen and French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. [Variety]
· Bruce Willis has joined writer-director Rian Johnson's time-travel hit man thriller Looper, to which Joseph Gordon-Levitt was previously attached. But get this: Willis will play an older version of the young star, both of whom live in a world where assassins' victims are sent back through time to avoid evidence of a crime. Buyers are reportedly "all over it" at Cannes despite it not being officially shopped there. [Deadline]
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What they should do with the Keanu pic is this: he picks a stasis chamber at random to open, and it's Lyndsy Lohan! And then he's doomed to hang out with Lohan for, like, sixty years. And then everybody is happy because it turns out it's not fiction, but a reality show, and Keanu Reeves and Lynds really have been shot into deep space. The end!
I love it! Oh, wait, they just cast Betty White.
Man, Betty White gets all the good parts. Next thing you know, kids are gonna be singing her hits on that Glee show.
What?
If you like Olivier Megaton's name, you must love his sister's: Hiroshima Megaton-Blast.
I'd love to play Aurora. She's a wonderful character. I've been hot on the trail of this film ever since reading Gabriele wanted to cast an unknown actress.
I've been a working SAG actress since 1991, but no one's seen me because the films I've been in never got distributed (or were corp. videos, local commercials, etc.).
I have lots of on camera experience and have filmed in 5 states so far. Supposed to be working in a Michigan film this summer (in a fat suit and blond wig) - if the funding comes through.
I've read PASSENGERS. Couldn't find anything wrong with it. Love Aurora, who is a great deal like me in personality. We both also share many of the same skills.
Hey S.T. Vanairsdale, if your influences land me the shot that gets me the audition that puts me in the film, I'll give you First Interview. (Or, if I have no power over that, which is likely, given my unknown status, I'll give you Best Behind The Scenes Info. Interview.)
I like returning favors with as much interest as possible, and it's the best way I can think of to say "Thank You."
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