Hollywood Ink: Carla Gugino is a MILF
Also in this morning's Hollywood Ink: Maggie Gyllenhaal helps invent the vibrator... Tim Burton reconnects with some Ed Wood buddies... Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles makes a comeback... and more ahead.
· Carla Gugino has found her next exploitation film. She's in talks to star as the lead in MILF, which stands for "Mothers I'd Like to Fight" and not what you were hoping it would. The film is described as "a revenge story about a woman who, recently released from prison, returns to the street to take care of some unfinished business." There's always unfinished business in these movies, huh? Anyway, this sounds like Kill Bill mixed with Black Dynamite, so it should be awesome. Franck Khalfoun, who helmed the horror film P2, is set to direct. [LAT/24 Frames]
· Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy have been cast as the male and female leads in Hysteria, a Victorian-era romantic comedy about the invention of the vibrator. Of course. [Variety]
· Because he has to be a part of every third film in development, Tim Burton -- America's answer to Ridley Scott -- has reunited with Ed Wood writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski for a couple of new projects. The pair will write The Addams Family, the stop-motion animated film that Burton is producing for Universal. He's also come aboard as producer on Big Eyes, a "fact based drama" about artist Margaret Keane that Alexander and Karaszewski wrote and hope to direct. Not with Tim around, guys! [Deadline]
· Fans of leaked Paramount e-mails will remember that the studio wasn't happy with John Fusco's initial draft of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and that they were "looking for another writer to come on this quickly as its [sic] a huge Viacom property." Voila! Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, of Iron Man fame, have been signed on to write the screenplay for TMNT. Don't worry though: this project is still trending on the wrong side of "desperate." [THR/Heat Vision]
· This sounds ambitious: Joe Syracuse and Lisa Addario are writing Imaginary Enemies for Dreamworks Animation as a potential live action/animation hybrid. The script follows what happens when imaginary friends -- tired of being blamed by children for every wrongdoing -- try to get revenge on them as adults. Drop Dead Fred is not going to be happy about this one. [THR/Risky Business]
· Actress/hottie Emily Montague has been cast as Colin Farrell's first victim in Fright Night. "The role had no lines in the original movie but has been fleshed out slightly in the redo." Sure it has. [THR/Heat Vision]
