· 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]