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CLEO SEARCHES FOR HER ANTONY
Steven Soderbergh’s rock musical Cleo has hit a few snags. Hugh Jackman, who was to play Marc Antony to Catherine Zeta-Jones’ Cleopatra, has had to pull out due to scheduling conflicts, says Variety. Ray Winstone, however, is still in discussions to play Julius Caesar. Of course, none of this has anything to do with the fact Jackman would be starring in a rock musical based on the Egyptian queen. Seriously? That alone should send anyone running. Now maybe Jackman, a consummate Broadway performer, will have a chance to do a remake of Carousel for the big screen. According to Cinematical.com, he has had the rights to it for a while, and seeing him sing and dance in that would make a lot more sense.
KEEP READING: Scorsese Can’t Keep Away from the Gangsters
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SCORSESE CAN’T KEEP AWAY FROM THE GANGSTERS
Martin Scorsese simply knows what he does best. The gangster auteur secretly met with Winter Hill Gang hitman John Martorano while in town shooting Shutter Island, then had Departed producer Graham King acquire the hitman’s life rights, according to the Boston Heral. The story includes Martorano killing 20 people before flipping for the Feds — after learning other members of his gang were government informants, like James Bulger, who some say Jack Nicholson‘s character in The Departed was based on. Scorsese was supposedly working on a prequel to his Oscar-winning The Departed, but this may take precedence. I can see Scorsese favorites Leonardo DiCaprio playing Martorano, as a young man, and Robert DeNiro, as the elder hitman.
KEEP READING: Speaking of Scorsese …
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SPEAKING OF SCORSESE AND GANGSTERS …
Yes, there’s more Scorsese mob-fun in store for us. He is organizing a drama pilot for HBO called Boardwalk Empire about the 1920s origin of Atlantic City. The Hollywood Reporter says Steve Buscemi will star as Nucky Johnson, a cunning businessman who runs a liquor distribution ring at the onset of Prohibition, while Funny Games’ Michael Pitt is in final negotiations to star as Jimmy Darmody, a young, intelligent and ruthless WWI veteran, a low-level flunky for Nucky who wants to quickly climb the ladder. Maybe another Sopranos to look forward to!
KEEP READING: More to Scream About …
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MORE TO SCREAM ABOUT
Oh, those horror franchises – just like their blood-curdling baddies, they just never seem to die. Now, apparently, a fourth installment of Scream is in the works. Jamie Kennedy told iFMagazine that he might reprise his role and that “the rest of the cast would be a mixture of new characters with ‘old faces that you wouldn’t believe,’ and that the film will only go ahead with the involvement of director Wes Craven.” How much more can Sidney (Neve Campbell) take? Or maybe it’ll be HER daughter who gets stalked.
KEEP READING: Vampires Are Bad Again …
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VAMPIRES ARE BAD AGAIN
Just because Twilight was such a success, you didn’t think ALL vampire movies from now would be about sexy, nice blood suckers, did you? Case in point: Myriad Pictures is reteaming with comic-book publisher Studio 407 to bring the horror series The Night Projectionist to the big screen, according to Cinematical.com. “Projectionist is a story that takes place on Halloween in a small-town movie theater, where an all-night Draculathon draws throngs of moviegoers who suddenly find themselves locked inside the theater, slowly filling with vampires. And they are not there to talk …
LAST WEEK’S DOTTED LINE: Iron Man II Update
