Hollywood Ink: Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen are Road Warriors
Also today in Hollywood Ink: Decision time for Tony Scott... Morgan Freeman swims with dolphins... Guy Pearce is shot into space... and more!
· Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen are the latest cast members to join On the Road, the Walter Salles-directed Jack Kerouac adaptation also featuring Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst and Sam Riley. Adams will play the junkie wife of Mortensen's Old Bull Lee. Shooting commences this week. Don't jinx it! [Deadline]
· And now, the eight words that strike fear into every penny-pinching studio exec's heart (I know, I know: What heart?): "It is decision time for director Tony Scott." Among his choices: the John Grisham adaptation The Associate for Paramount; the crime drama Potzdamer Platz; and the undercover biker drama Hell's Angels. Pshhh. Brother Ridley Scott would just attach himself to all of them. [Deadline]
· Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd and Harry Connick Jr. are all in negotiations for Dolphin Tale, about a young boy's relationship with a handicapped dolphin. It'll be in 3D. Great. [THR]
· Sometimes there just are no words, so for more on the Luc Besson thriller Lockout, let's go right to Deadline's Mike Fleming: "Guy Pearce is attached to play a man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. He's offered his freedom if he can rescue the president's daughter [Maggie Grace] from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates." Of course he is. Thanks, Mike. [Deadline]
· Another feel-good ocean-mammal movie update: Tim Blake Nelson is aboard the Drew Barrymore/John Krasinki film Everybody Loves Whales. [THR]
· Robert Schwentke will take his directing talents and endlessly fun name to Shadow Divers, a true story about a couple of... well, divers who discover a sunken German U-boat from WWII. Schwentke, Schwentke, Schwentke. I love it! Anyway, he takes over from Ridley Scott, which, as alluded to above, is basically like asking an Olive Garden diner in a food coma if he's gonna eat that. [Deadline]
· For the record, Schwentke has nothing on the brilliantly named Elias Axume and Moctesuma Esparza. Apparently they're working together now at Maya Entertainment. [THR]

Comments
Re: The Morgan Freeman/Ashley Judd/Harry Connick Jr movie about a kid and a disabled dolphin. I can just see hear the pitch "It's Finding Nimo meets Flipper meets Free Willy!"
Wait, Viggo's making a sequel to The Road? How is that possible?