Hollywood Ink: Will Ferrell Habla Español

WillFerrell_225.jpgAlso in this morning's Hollywood Ink: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo finds two more cast members... Tom Cruise gets a pay cut... the world will have to watch another Nicholas Sparks adaptation... and more ahead.

· When the press release for Casa de mi Padre came into Movieline HQ yesterday, it felt like an elaborate joke. And it still does! But apparently this is really happening: Will Ferrell will star in the Spanish-language comedy for NALA films and Gary Sanchez Productions. The entire film will be in Spanish with subtitles, so it's like that part in Anchorman when Ferrell is talking to Baxter, except for longer. [Press Release]

· You have to love David Fincher: He keeps casting up his adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but still hasn't found anyone to play Lisbeth Salander. Deals are currently being worked out for Robin Wright and Stellan Skarsgard to come aboard. One would play the Millennium magazine publisher and sometimes-lover to Daniel Craig's Mikael; the other would play a suspected child murderer. Guess who's who? [Deadline, Variety]

· If Mission: Impossible IV ever does happen, it will happen with Tom Cruise getting significantly less money than he did on Mission: Impossible III. Vulture reports that Paramount has "substantially reduced his upfront payment." No surf and turf on the set this time around, Tom. [Vulture]

· Rumor alert: When McG finally finishes shooting This Means War with Chris Pine and Tom Hardy, he'll possibly move on to R.I.P.D., which stands for "Rest in Peace Department." It's about dead cops! Naturally, this is an adaptation of a graphic novel. Ryan Reynolds is currently attached, but don't hold your breath. [Pajiba]

· Tony Kaye has lined up a major cast for his next feature, Detachment. Joining the already announced Adrien Brody, Bryan Cranston, James Caan and Marcia Gay Harden are television stalwarts William Petersen, Lucy Liu and Mad Men's Christina Hendricks, who will play a potential love interest for Brody. The film centers on a substitute teacher who begins to take an interest in the lives of his students. [THR]

· Congratulations to Relativity! They won the movie rights to Nicholas Sparks' Safe Haven. The book, about a closed-off North Carolina girl -- with secrets! -- who begins to fall in love, is on the fast track to production. [THR]