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| Emmerich Gets Prehistoric Having destroyed the world several times over in The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day, director Roland Emmerich is going back in time to start again, in a land before destructible monuments. Emmerich has signed up to direct 10,000 BC for Columbia, Variety reports. Set in the distant past, 10,000 BC is the story of a young mammoth hunter struggling to survive the harsh realities of prehistoric tribe life. By the sound of it, we can expect lots of computer animated giant beasties and grunting. So, a lot like Godzilla, then. |
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| Jackman's Imaginary Friend Hugh Jackman will star in a musical adaptation of If You Could See Me Now. That's the third (as yet unpublished) novel by Cecelia Ahern, the 23-year-old daughter of Ireland's Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. The Aussie song-and-dance man will play the imaginary friend of a lonely six-year-old abandoned by his mother to be raised by his aunt. Unusually though, auntie can see the little boy's imaginary friend and a romance blossoms between them. We assume the finale will include a chorus line of men in white coats... |
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| Levinson & Williams Run For Office They scored a hit with Good Morning Vietnam back in 1987, now Barry Levinson and Robin Williams are reuniting for political satire Man Of The Year. Levinson also wrote the script about the sardonic host of a late night political talk show who runs for president to make noise on the campaign trail. The stunt backfires when his crazy antics lead him to victory. Cameras will roll in Toronto, Maryland and Washington DC later this autumn with a view to release late next year. No doubt Arnold Schwarzenegger will be in the back row taking notes. |
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| Favreau Goes To Mars Jon Favreau (Zathura) will direct the upcoming film adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' story John Carter of Mars for Paramount, Variety reported. The serialized story centers around a Civil War veteran who retreats to a cave to escape a group of Indians and discovers a time portal to another planet, where he's taken prisoner by 12-foot-tall green men. The studio is hoping to build a franchise out of the 11 volumes written by Burroughs, the trade paper reported. Ehren Kruger (The Skeleton Key) rewrote a script by Mark Protosevich. Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News is co-producing. Robert Rodriguez (Sin City) and Kerry Conran (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow) were formerly attached to direct. |
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| British writer/director Neil Marshall earned rave reviews for his recent low-budget horror The Descent and will get US backing for his next project Doomsday. It's described as a futuristic action thriller with political overtones that takes place in Scotland. American indie producer Andrew Rona says, "It's in the vein of Mad Max, set in the near future, when the world has become a very intense place to live. A disaster threatens the future of mankind and a team of people have to stop it." This will require a lot of deep-fried Mars bars... |
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| Levy's Museum Piece Churning out pap comedies like Just Married and Cheaper By The Dozen has done nothing to slow down director Shawn Levy. He's just wrapped on Steve Martin vehicle The Pink Panther and set up a production company at 20th Century Fox where he'll call the shots on A Night At The Museum. Minority Report scribe Scott Frank has just finished a rewrite on the script. The plot follows a guard at a natural history exhibit who triggers an ancient curse that animates the long-dead creatures inhabiting the museum. Sounds a bit like Jumanji meets Jurassic Park. But is that a good thing? |
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| Paltrow, Pegg & Freeman Sometime Hitchhiker Martin Freeman, Shaun Of The Dead star Simon Pegg and Gwyneth Paltrow have signed up for The Good Night. Paltrow's brother Jake wrote and will direct this romantic comedy, which is set in New York but will shoot mostly at London's Ealing Studios beginning 7th November. Freeman will play a former pop star thrown into an early midlife crisis when he's reduced to writing advertising jingles. He seems set for more disappointment when the woman he falls in love with fails to live up to the ideal image in his mind. Paltrow and Pegg are in supporting roles with the female lead yet to be cast. |
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| Paltrow to star in brother's film Actress Gwyneth Paltrow will take the lead role in a low-budget romantic comedy directed by her brother, Jake. The Oscar-winner has been cast alongside The Office actor Martin Freeman in The Good Night, reports in Hollywood newspaper Variety said. Paltrow, 33, who starred in The Talented Mr Ripley and The Royal Tenenbaums, won best actress for her role in Shakespeare in Love. Production on the £8.6m film starts in London and New York in November. Freeman, who played hapless Tim in Ricky Gervais' comedy The Office, starred as Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. British actor Simon Pegg - Shaun, in Shaun of the Dead - has also been signed up for the film. It will be shot in part at London's Ealing studios. Jake Paltrow, 30, has directed US TV series The Jury and The Others. Story from BBC NEWS: |
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| Carnahan Shoots Prodigy Pic Talking of Joe Carnahan, the Narc director has revealed plans for a movie based on the life of Will Wright, the American high school prodigy who secretly masterminded an international drug ring and money-laundering operation. Wright, who served eight years in jail for his crimes, is co-operating with the production. According to Variety, Carnahan is aiming for a Catch Me If You Can-style crooked coming-of-age caper. "There is something quintessentially American about Will Wright's story," he said. |
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| Rifkin Looking For Homo Erectus Writer/director Adam Rifkin (Small Soldiers) has started casting for his next feature, Homo Erectus, a comedy about a caveman who is ahead of his time, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Described as being in the vein of Woody Allen's Bananas and Sleeper, Homo Erectus centers on Ishbo, a philosophical caveman who yearns for more out of life than sticks, stones and raw meat. The rest of his tribe write off his forward-thinking ideas as the ravings of an idiot, including the cavegirl he loves from afar. Rifkin will also play a role in the film. Principal photography is scheduled to begin Nov. 7 in Austin, Texas. Burnt Orange Productions, an Austin-based production company affiliated with the University of Texas at Austin, will provide financing, the trade paper reported. |
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| Dark Rises On Celluloid Following on from The Lord Of The Rings, His Dark Materials and The Chronicles Of Narnia, Hollywood has dug up another child-friendly fantasy franchise to shower with cash. Walden Media has bought the rights to Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising series, first published in 1973. Trainspotting scribe John Hodge has landed the job of turning Cooper's tale of a boy who discovers that he is an immortal warrior into a script. Is it too much to hope that Danny Boyle might be interested in directing? We're keeping our fingers crossed. |
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| Flynn To Play Own Grandfather Luke Flynn, the grandson of swashbuckling legend Errol Flynn, has signed up to play his own grandfather for the biopic In Like Flynn. Based on the Robin Hood star's autobiography, In Like Flynn is the story of Errol's life before Hollywood, a scandal packed maritime adventure full to the brim with opium smuggling, womanizing and bar fights. Flynn Jr is writing the script along with Corey Large and Kyle Kramer. "He won a boat in a card game and set sail with three friends," Large told Variety. "And everything that could go wrong went wrong." |
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| Eastwood plans two battle films Clint Eastwood has said he will make two films about the World War II battle of Iwo Jima. The Oscar-winning director is making two films about the battle - one from the side of the US marines and the other from the Japanese side. The films - Flags, and the tentatively named Lambs Before the Wind - will be released simultaneously next year. The battle for the island of Iwo Jima, in 1945, left 21,000 Japanese and 6,800 US soldiers dead in a single month. Eastwood, who won his second best director Oscar this year for Million Dollar Baby, told Time magazine he had difficulty explaining why he took on the project. Oscar success "I don't know - sometimes you just get a feeling about something," he said. "You have a premonition that you can get something decent out of it." Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima's southern tip was the peak where six US serviceman raised a US flag in February 1945, a moment captured in one of the most iconic images of the war. Many of the Japanese soldiers who died on the island, 1,200 kilometres south of Tokyo, remain unaccounted for more than half a century later. Million Dollar Baby also won this year's best picture Oscar. Eastwood was nominated for the best actor prize for his performance in the film. He was nominated for best picture and best director for Mystic River in 2004, having previously won the best director and best picture Oscars for Unforgiven in 1993, when he also picked up a best actor nomination. Story from BBC NEWS: |
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| Vaugier Digs Up Unearthed Emmanuelle Vaugier told "sci fi wire"that she's currently shooting her next project, Unearthed, a horror film in the vein of The Thing and Alien. Unearthed co-stars Luke Goss (Blade II) and is being written and directed by Matthew Leutwyler of Dead & Breakfast fame. "I play the sheriff of a small town in Pueblo, N.M., and there's a crash on the main highway in and out of the town, which is the only access to this small town," Vaugier (SCI FI Channel's upcoming original movie Cerberus) said in an interview. "I arrive at the crash site to investigate what's happened, and I find something that looks like a small crab leg. I bring it to Nodin [Tonantzin Carmel of Into the West], our DNA specialist, and she doesn't know what it is, other than that it's an unknown organic lifeform like nothing she's ever seen before." Vaugier added: "So slowly things start to develop. Animals and things are dying, and people are disappearing, and all of a sudden we see the creature attack. We start running away from the creature and try to figure out how to kill it and how to get everyone out of there safe. Unfortunately, not many make it out, as is usually the case with these films." Unearthed will be released in 2006. |
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| Viggo Espagna! (bbc story) Stubblechopped Lord Of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen is in talks to join the cast of Spanish language movie Teresa, according to Production Weekly. Described as "the near psychedelic vision of the raptures and writings of a towering figure", the film tells the story of 16th-century Spanish proto-feminist saint Teresa of Avila, played by Paz Vega. Novelist Andrew Loriga is behind the camera. Loriga has worked with Viggo before, on his 1997 directorial debut My Brother's Gun. |
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| Cox Goes Hip-Hop Courteney Cox has signed up for an untitled comedy to be produced by her husband David Arquette. The former Friend will play a Southern socialite whose daughter transforms from little princess to hip-hop street dancer. At first the makeover drives a wedge between them, but eventually the two find common ground. We're assured that something funny happens at some point although Friends co-star Lisa Kudrow has already done the white girl rapping thing in the truly bad Marci X. (And we don't mean 'bad' as in 'good'.) |
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| Gellar Takes A Breath Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai) and Diego Luna have signed up for The Air I Breathe. It's a crime drama based on an ancient Chinese proverb that divides life into four emotional cornerstones - happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love. Up-and-coming filmmaker Jieho Lee co-wrote the script and will also be on megaphone duty when shooting begins in Mexico City in January. |
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| Lau Locked In Battle Andy Lau of Infernal Affairs fame is starring in the $16m historical epic Battle Of Wits. Hong Kong helmer Jacob Cheung is calling the shots on what is intended to cement Huayi Brothers place as the most powerful production company in China. The story is based on a Japanese manga and is set in the "warring states period". Local media have already reported a huge city invasion scene in Mongolia involving 1000 extras. Production is expected to continue through early next year with a release scheduled for the end of 2006. |
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| Jeunet's Slice Of Pi Amelie helmer Jean-Pierre Jeunet will direct Life Of Pi, an adaptation of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel by Yann Martel. It follows a 16-year-old boy and his voyage from India to Canada, which begins on a freighter that sinks. He is the only survivor except for a hyena, an injured zebra and a hungry tiger. Although it sounds like a job for Pixar, the story leans towards the "spiritual" and "existential". M Night Shyamalan was originally hired to adapt the book, but dropped out to prioritise mystery thriller Lady In The Water. Cameras roll on Pi next summer. |
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| Vaughn Catches Stardust Is Neil Gaiman behind with his mortgage? The cult writer has a second movie adpatation in the pipeline, just a week after we reported that Hollywood moppet Dakota Fanning would play the title voice in his dark children's fantasy Coraline. This time, it's British filmmaker Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake) who's in final talks to direct Stardust, Gaiman's adult fairy tale. First published in 1997, Stardust is the story of a young man who embarks on a magical quest to retrieve a fallen star, encountering all manner of ravenous supernatural beasties along the way. Why does he do it? To impress his girlfriend, of course. |
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| Noxon Helps with Raimi's Curse Writer Marti Noxon told SCI FI Wire that she's now w**king on rewriting a script idea sparked by director Sam Raimi and his brother Ivan, who co-wrote Spider-Man 3. Tentatively titled The Curse, the story includes doctors, monsters, mental patients and a witch, Noxon said in an interview. The film mixes Evil Dead and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, added Noxon, who served as executive producer of Buffy during its final run on UPN. (Noxon is currently a consulting producer on the Fox drama series Prison Break.) "I'm so excited about w**king with Sam, it's a dream come true," Noxon said. "I was nine months pregnant and standing in line for hours when Spider-Man was coming out, and now I'm thrilled about writing for them." Noxon is reworking Raimi's idea for the comedy/fantasy/horror project with Peter Cornwell, known for writing and directing the animated short Ward 13, about a hospital from hell. "I think they wanted me because they wanted something that had a bit of comedy, and it has a feel that is in the Buffy vein, so I'm honored to be a part of it," Noxon said. "It's a crazy paranoid fantasy and has a strong female character, and there's a vengeful entity." Noxon added with a laugh: "I get brought in when there are ghosts and monsters." Noxon said the lead character in The Curse reminds her a bit of one of her characters in her ill-fated Fox TV series Point Pleasant, which was just released in its entirety on DVD. The crazy mom in the series wasn't sure if she was crazy or not when seeing things and hearing the voice of her dead daughter. Likewise, in The Curse, a woman in a mental institution sees things that could be delusional. The project will be produced as under Raimi's genre production company Ghost House Pictures. No production date has yet been set. |
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| De Niro & Levinson Say What? Robert De Niro will star in What Just Happened? for director Barry Levinson. It's based on the memoirs of Hollywood producer Art Linson (whose credits include Fight Club and The Untouchables). Linson also wrote the script at De Niro's behest, focusing on two weeks of production hell for a character loosely based on himself. Sean Penn will be among a host of stars playing themselves in a comedy that's said to do for moviemaking what Wag The Dog did for politics. "Art knows this game as well as anybody and has distilled the essence of the business into his script," says Levinson. "A flat-out, full-bore comedy isn't what we are going for here, but rather an insider's look at the extraction of humanity that goes on." Jerry Bruckheimer would laugh if only his polymer-enhanced cheeks weren't pulled so tight. |
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| Costner In Killer Form According to Production Weekly, Kevin Costner is looking to shed his clean-cut image in psychological thriller Mr Brooks. He'll play a serial killer in the film by writer/director Bruce A Evans (Kuffs), which is set to shoot next April in Portland, Oregon. No other details about the plot have been released so we can only guess that Costner's character tortures his victims by tying them to a chair and forcing them to watch all 177 minutes of The Postman. Sick... |
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| Gibbo, King Of The Jungle Mel Gibson has emerged from the jungles of Veracruz to break the secrecy surrounding his in-the-works epic Apocalypto. We already know it's being filmed in an ancient Mayan dialect and uses a cast of locals to tell a story set 600 years ago but, he says, "That is merely the backdrop of what I am doing." "Although [the Mayan culture] is an integral part of the story, what I'm doing is creating an action-adventure of mythic proportions - and I am a megalomaniac, so I like the position." He went on to explain that the title comes from the ancient Greek word for an unveiling and new beginning, referring to the fall of the Mayan civilisation in readiness for something else, ie Spanish rule and, we assume, the Catholicism that came with it. Meanwhile Mexican locals are already reporting images of Gibbo appearing in their tortillas... |
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| Cole Gets Strange British helmer Nigel Cole (Calendar Girls) is set to direct the true story Strange Son for Julia Roberts' production company Red Om. There is no official word on whether JR will star in the film, but it sounds like good Oscar-bait for the recent mum of twins. The story follows a mother's quest to communicate with her autistic son using a language of 'touches' that drowns out static in the brain. Ghost scribe Bruce Joel Rubin has adapted the story from a book by Portia Iverson - wife of producer Jon Shestack and mother to an autistic son. Cole is said to have pursued the project aggressively after reading Rubin's script. |
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| Hewitt As Housewife Hooker Jennifer Love Hewitt will produce and star in the snappily titled She Had Brains, A Body, And The Ability To Make Men Love Her, a movie based on a magazine article. The piece, which appeared in Texas Monthly, told the story of a 22-year-old Texan housewife who had a successful sideline as a prostitute. Scandal hit when she and several colleagues were arrested with a group of well-respected, pillars of the local community types. Love Hewitt and her production company Lovespell are searching for a writer to do the material justice. According to The Hollywood Reporter they're planning to turn it into a comedy. |
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| Branagh to make Mozart opera film Actor Kenneth Branagh is to direct a film version of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute with a libretto written by his friend, actor Stephen Fry. The $27m (£15.3m) movie, which will have a cast of young opera stars, will begin filming in the UK in January. The pair, whose w**k together includes the 1992 Branagh-directed film Peter's Friends, are giving the opera a World War I setting. "This is a very exciting departure for me as a filmmaker," said Branagh. Musical director James Conlon, who was awarded France's Legion d'Honneur in 2001, will conduct the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Acclaimed careers The storyline sees young soldier Tamino set off on a journey in pursuit of love on the eve of battle, which takes him to a twilight dream world. The cast includes Joseph Kaiser as Tamino, Amy Carson as Pamina and Ben Davis as Papageno. In 1990, Branagh was nominated for best actor and best director Oscars for his film of Shakespeare's Henry V, for which he won a best director Bafta. He also had Oscar nominations for best short film for Swan Song in 1993 and best adapted screenplay for Hamlet in 1997. He recently directed a film of As You Like It, while his other director credits include Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in 1994 and thriller Dead Again in 1991. Fry directed Evelyn Waugh adaptation Bright Young Things in 2003. He has also written books including The Liar and penned an episode for the new series of Doctor Who. Next year is the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth. Story from BBC NEWS: |
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| Reese Snaps Up Reckoning Reese Witherspoon is adding yet another movie to her already overstuffed production slate. The Legally Blonde star is developing thriller The Reckoning with her Type A Films production company. A far cry from her fluffier comic roles, the film will see Reese as a photojournalist in Cambodia, covering the search for the body of an American pilot shot down in the Vietnam war. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the production has an impressive screenwriter in the form of Ted Tally, who wrote The Silence Of The Lambs, but no director as yet. Witherspoon is about to start shooting the modern-day fairy tale Penelope with Christina Ricci, before moving on to the Antarctic-set crime thriller Whiteout, and comedy Sports Widow. All that and two kids to look after. Sheesh. |
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| Dick's Next Is Next Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group has bought the international rights to Revolution Studios' upcoming SF movie Next, based on Philip K. Dick's short story "The Golden Man," Variety reported. King will have a producer credit on the picture, along with Nicolas Cage, Norm Golightly, Todd Garner and Arne Schmidt. Lee Tamahori (Die Another Day) is directing, with Cage and Julianne Moore starring. Gary Goldman adapted the screenplay. Next tells the story of a man (Cage) with the ability to see future events and affect their outcome. Moore plays a federal agent who pursues him as she tries to prevent a terrorist attack. The film is slated for 2007 release. |
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| Johansson & Farrell Go Roman Scarlett Johansson and Colin Farrell will headline Borgia for writer/director Neil Jordan. Robert Zemeckis is an executive producer on this long-gestating drama, which was originally set to star Ewan McGregor and Christina Ricci. Screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis (Alexander...eek) developed the concept, but Jordan has written the script. It centres on the most powerful family in 15th-century Rome and is filled with betrayal, backstabbing and murder. Johansson will play Lucrezia Borgia, the daughter of controversial Pope Alexander VI (aka Rodrigo Borgia). She's torn between her duties and desire to find true love while Farrell plays her duplicitous brother Cesare. (Let's hope he leaves Alexander's blond wig at home.) Cameras roll in April. |
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| Lennon's murder explored in film Lindsay Lohan and Jared Leto are to star in an independent film set around the murder of John Lennon 25 year ago. Chapter 27, which will be shot in New York next year, is being described as a "psychological study" of the former Beatle's killer Mark Chapman. Lohan, last seen in Herbie: Fully Loaded, will take on a fictional role of a Lennon fan who befriends Chapman, played by Lord of War actor Leto. The parts of Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono have not yet been cast. Lennon was shot dead outside his Manhattan home in December 1980. Chapman, who is still serving a prison sentence for the killing, had got the musician to autograph a copy of his newly released album Double Fantasy just hours earlier. First film Producers said Lennon himself would have a relatively small screen presence in Chapter 27. Lohan's character was created to help film-makers explore the motivation behind the killing, they added. The film is the first project from director Jarrett Schaeffer, who also wrote the script. It is being co-produced by Toronto-based Peace Arch Entertainment and 21 Grams film-maker Robert Salerno's company Artina Films. "It's a psychological study," said Peace Arch's John Flock. "I wouldn't call it a sympathetic portrayal of him, but you do kind of get into Chapman's head." The film's title is said to be a reference to the 26 chapters in the JD Salinger novel The Catcher in the Rye, which Chapman said was an inspiration for the murder. Story from BBC NEWS: |
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| Brosnan Spreads His Wings Pierce Brosnan will star in indie thriller Butterfly On A Wheel. It looks as if he's out to shake and stir expectations following his tenure as 007 by playing a kidnapper who pulls a family apart - just for kicks. "This was a very conscious shift, in terms of the company, and a new direction for Pierce," says Brosnan's producing partner Beau St Clair. "Darker, edgier roles are really attractive to him right now. In the post-Bond phase, it's time to take that chance. A role can box you in a bit, and Bond is so iconic, it can hang on you." A Good Woman helmer Mike Barker will be on megaphone duty. |
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| Hopkins Makes Fracture Anthony Hopkins and The Notebook's Ryan Gosling are teaming up for New Line thriller Fracture. Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear) will call the shots on this battle of wits between a young district attorney who attempts to convict Hopkins' character of murder. Exhibit A: Some fava beans and a nice Chianti? The script was originally penned by Daniel Pyne whose recent credits include last year's remake of The Manchurian Candidate. Meanwhile some bloke called Glenn Gers has been called in for rewrites. |
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| Reese Witherspoon Reckons on a dramatic thriller from the pen of Ted Tally!!! Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with some news on a project that little Miss Reese Witherspoon has attached herself to called RECKONING. The "dramatic thriller" is penned by Ted Tally, who is the mastermind behind the adaptations of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and RED DRAGON (a movie I liked, but I must say that the screenplay was much better than the final movie). The flick is based on a book by Jeff Long about a photojournalist who is covering the US military search for the body of an American Pilot shot down during the Vietnam war in Cambodia. Sounds like it could be pretty damn cool to me. What do you folks think? |
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| Uh oh... Paul WS Anderson has come out of hiding! Sorry game fans... he's making a trip to CASTLEVANIA!!! Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with some sad news to a lot of you Nintendo fans. I remember playing CASTLEVANIA when I was a kid, but I haven't really kept up with the franchise. I played one of the sequels a little bit, but didn't get into it. So, I'm not attached emotionally to this title, but a know a good lot of you are. Paul WS Anderson (RESIDENT EVIL, SOLDIER, AVP) is set to write and direct the video game adaptation for Steve Paul's Crystal Sky pictures. Hey, cheer up Castlevania fans... I'm sure compared to another fantasy video game movie with castles in |
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| Boll To Go Postal Filmmaker Uwe Boll told SCI FI Wire that he intends to adapt the controversial video game Postal for the movies and is w**king closely with the game's creators to keep all of the game's wacky, shocking and political elements. |
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| Douglas Crowned King Michael Douglas will headline comedy The King Of California produced by Sideways team Alexander Payne and Michael London. Cameras roll in February for this story of a young girl (not cast) whose teenage years are complicated by a manic-depressive father who becomes obsessed with the notion that there's buried treasure in California's San Fernando Valley. The project marks the directorial debut of Michael Cahill who's best known for writing the novel A Nixon Man. "Alexander and I have been trying to put this film together for about four years," says London. "Michael shadowed Alexander on the Sideways set and Alexander will be very involved in supporting him during the production." That's cheating surely?. |
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| Costner Reads The Guardian Kevin Costner has signed up to star in The Guardian for Touchstone Pictures. According to The Hollywood Reporter , Costner is playing a legendary lifeguard rescue swimmer in the movie, which co-stars Ashton Kutcher as his rebellious young subordinate. Sela Ward is playing Mrs Costner, and Andrew Davis (The Fugitive) is directing. Of course, the last time Kevin took to the high seas, he sailed home with the legendary turkey Waterworld, and the prospect of the ageing Mr C saving lives in a tight Speedo is, frankly, a tad worrying. |
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| Ricci Plays Pigface In one of the weirder casting decisions of recent years, Christina Ricci is starring in a film about a woman cursed with the face of a pig. Penelope, a low-budget tale co-starring Reese Witherspoon, is set to start shooting in the UK next year, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Ricci must find a way to break her porky curse and find true love in the process, presumably with Hayden Christensen, who's also in talks to join the cast. Ah, the gentle affection that blossoms between a pig woman and a Sith Lord. You can't beat it. |