Tag: Scott Rudin
Ben Kingsley Set to Star in Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator
Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen, acquaintances from the mystery film Hugo Cabret (that will be released just in time for Thanksgiving), this time co-star in a new Paramount comedy titled The Dictator.
Cohen’s longtime collaborator Larry Charles, director of both, Borat and Bruno, will direct from a script Cohen co-wrote with fabulous Seinfeld penners Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer and Dave Mandel.
Robert De Niro On Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, Scott Rudin to Produce Scorsese’s Sinatra
Martin Scorsese is very busy director, and we already know that he has a lot of interesting projects on his mind – after Hugo Cabret he’ll make Silence, and there’s also a possibility for him to make an indie version of The Wolf of Wall Street.
But we also reported that one of the possible projects is The Irishman, movie that will have some great cast – Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci. But is this really going to happen?
If you ask De Niro, the answer is: “Yeah, I’m planning on it, absolutely. Well, this time I’ll say it, I’ve said it before, its a movie based on a book called, ‘I Heard You Paint Houses,’ its about a guy who says, and I believe [the author of] the book – he’s passed away now – but he confessed that he killed [Jimmy] Hoffa and also Joe Gallo.
And so I’m gonna play that character. Joe Pesci is gonna be in it, Al Pacino is gonna be in it and Marty’s going to direct it.”
James Franco, Cate Blanchett Exit ‘While We’re Young’
Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig, James Franco and Cate Blanchett were previously lined up for Noah Baumbach next project While We’re Young. Unpredicted scheduling issues prevented Gerwig from committing, and Just Jared reports that Franco and Blanchett have quit too.
Filming on “While We’re Young” was set to begin in New York in June, but Franco will be busy due to the scheduling clash with Sam Raimi’s Oz, the Great and Powerful in which he stars. Blanchett’s motivation is not specified, she pulled out after Franco’s departure but it possible has something to do with the production of The Hobbit, which starts filming later this month.
The Producers Guild of America Help Predict Oscars
The King’s Speech won best-produced film from the Producers Guild of America on Saturday, a great courage to its Oscar ambitions in an awards season so far much swollen by The Social Network. On the same night the organization praised Scott Rudin, the primary producer on ” The Social Network,” with a lifetime achievement award. Other films in line for the best-produced movie of the year were Black Swan, The Fighter and Toy Story 3, which won best-produced animated film.
The Producers Guild of America represents more than 4,500 producers nationwide, prepared for its 22nd annual Producers Guild Awards — set for Saturday at the Beverly Hilton.
Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator For May 11, 2012
Paramount Pictures announced today that Sacha Baron Cohen‘s new comedy The Dictator will be released worldwide on May 11, 2012. The studio also announced that Larry Charles (Borat, Bruno) has come aboard to direct.
This is the project that was first disclosed last April, when the former Seinfeld writers Berg Schaffer and Mandel went around town with Baron Cohen to pitch it. We knew Baron Cohen was going to play dual roles of a dictator and a goat herder, but now there’s a brief summary:
The film tells the heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed. It is inspired by the best selling novel “Zabibah and The King” by Saddam Hussein.”
Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Big screen adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer‘s 2005 novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is coming!
We already know that The Reader director Stephen Daldry is in charge for the project but today we’re here to report that Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks are in talks to star in it!
Now, how does it sound? Like another Oscar nomination is coming or…?
The script has been penned by Eric Roth (yes, from Forrest Gump), and the story follows: “Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York.
His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. Along the way he is always dreaming up inventions to keep those he loves safe from harm.
The Social Network Poster Unveiled!
Columbia Pictures has unveiled the official poster for director David Fincher‘s The Social Network.
The film, based on the book “Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale o Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal,” focuses on the drama behind the Harvard dorm room creation of popular social networking site Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg and his roommates.
Angelina Jolie as Cleopatra in New Movie About Egyptian Queen
We have very interesting information today: Angelina Jolie might portray Queen of the Nile, Cleopatra in a future film.
Producer Scott Rudin has bought the rights to Stacy Schiff‘s book Cleopatra: A Life, and is working on the adaptation of historical biography.
Oscar winning producer Rudin wants Jolie to star in it and also confirmed that the adaptation is “being developed for and with Jolie.”
Schiff, the author of the biography gave the idea her blessing.
Carey Mulligan IS NOT The Girl With Dragon Tattoo
Ok, we had a little chat about Carey Mulligan playing (almost for sure) Lisbeth Salander, punk heroine of Stieg Larsson‘s bestselling trilogy.
Today, we had a chance to hear that Scott Rudin, producer of David Fincher‘s forthcoming The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie says it’s absolutely not true. Well, that’s just not nice! Decide it already!
Let us remind you, everything started when we heard that Mulligan “has won the approval of David Fincher, the director, and also the family of the late Stieg Larsson, the Swedish author who created Salander.”
We also had a chance to hear something like this: “the choice follows weeks of casting rumors, with producers sifting through nearly 5,000 potential candidates”.
On the other hand, Mulligan has already talked several times about being interested, and there’s no doubt that she could knock it out of the park.
