Matt Damon and Josh Brolin are in discussions to join the cast of True Grit, the Coen brothers’ remake of a John Wayne film readaptation of the Charles Portis novel. Damon would play a fellow U.S. Marshall to star Jeff Bridges and Brolin would play the villain who killed the little girl’s father. Production will start in March for a release late next year. (Source: Variety)
Thanks to a recurring role in the HBO TV series “Hung,” Anne Heche has gotten her name out in the Hollywood world again; it has rewarded her by landing her two movie roles. She’s teaming up with Ed Helms to star in a comedy called Cedar Rapids as a woman he befriends at an insurance convention and then will go on to play a businesswoman that hires Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlburg to look into the financial losses at her company in The Other Guys. (Source: Variety)
Tony Scott is going to be directing a film about the rise and fall of the Chippendales dance clubs and its founder Steve Banerjee, from a script by Lisa Schrager (Pay the Girl) which itself will be adapted from a manuscript written by Rodney Sheldon. The only two reasons I mention this project is that a) I remember wanting to go to a Chippendales club when I was a pubescent girl in the 1980s and b) I just realized that both Patrick Swayze and Chris Farley from the “Saturday Night Live” sketch about the audition process are dead. (Source: Variety)
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