It’s MLK weekend, I don’t wanna hold your long weekend with too much information so I figured we’d kill o I dunno 2, 3 or even 4 birds with one stone, not possible in real life but very possible here. So here’s a quickie..
Variety says Paul Dano has signed on to star in FOR ELLEN alongside Jon Heder, the story “centers on a struggling indie rocker who, after nearly wrecking his car during an overnight long-distance drive, arrives in a small Midwestern town to deal with his impending divorce” directed by So Young Kim (In Between Days)
The next 2 info are just confirming previous info.
Remember that rumor about Gerard Butler being cast as Sam Childers, an ex violent biker who gave his life to God in 1992 and went to Sudan, Africa to save children from the violence of LRA. Childers and his wife Lynn founded and operate Angels of East Africa, the Children’s Village Orphanage in Nimule, Sudan, where they currently have more than 300 children in their care, he wrote the book ANOTHER MAN’S WAR?!
Well, it’s all TRUE. Deadline Hollywood brought the confirmation that Butler will star in this based on a true story drama titled MACHINE GUN PREACHER, with Marc Forster (Quantum Of Solace) attached to direct.
Remember that info about Johnny Depp playing Pancho Villa in SEVEN FRIENDS OF PANCHO VILLA AND THE WOMAN WITH SIX FINGERS co-starring hottie Salma Hayek, directed by Emir Kusturica?!
This one is also TRUE, Screendaily has confirmed it but there’s a few changes regarding the title and location, it’s now titled WILD ROSES, TENDER ROSES. Production starts in Spain on February 15th, 2011. It will shoot in Spanish and it’s been described as an epic in the style of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns and Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch
The movie is based on the biographical novel THE FRIENDS OF PANCHO VILLA by author James Carlos Blake, it chronicles Villa and his compadres having a great time fighting and robbing the rich, but also dancing, partying and making love.
