Lacey Bridges
Richard Gere and Julia Roberts are as valid and as hot a pair, together or individually, as they were back in 1990.
Both are still doing some fine, fine work – Gere, in particular, starring in some great heavyweight dramas in recent years like ‘’Time Out of Mind“” and “Arbitrage”.
Roberts, meanwhile, spends her time divided between big studio comedies like “Mother’s Day” and award-caliber fare like “Money Monster”.
While there’s no word on these two getting together on the screen again anytime soon (it’d be their third film together), good to see they’ve both got good projects coming up next year.
Roberts has attached herself to a new limited series called “Today Will Be Different” for Annapurna Pictures. Roberts is also producing the TV series, which is based on Maria Semple’s bestselling novel.
The series follows Eleanor Flood, admittedly a bit of a mess, as she decides that today is the day to tackle the little things that she has been neglecting. Of course, life gets in the way of success as a fake-sick son, errant husband, and a former colleague with bomb-dropping memoir derail her modest plan. Taking place over the course of one day, Today Will Be Different is about reinvention, sisterhood, and how sometimes it takes facing up to our former selves to truly begin living.
Meanwhile, Gere has a new movie on the way in March called “Norman : The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall Of A New York Fixer”.
Bunch of good people in the film with him, like Steve Buscemi and Hank Azaria.
Norman Oppenheimer (Gere) only wants to matter. Living a lonely life in the shadow of power and money, he uses any angle or connection to put himself in a position of significance. He is an opportunist, just not a very good one. Until he finally bets on the right horse by buying a pair of expensive shoes for Micha Eshel (Lior Ashkenazi), a lowly Israeli politician. When Micha becomes Prime Minister, Norman finds himself in the center of a geopolitical drama beyond anything he could have imagined. Using his small-time skills, Norman tries to solve a growingly complex puzzle with big-time implications. This everyman’s journey is filled with the comedy, drama, and tragedy of a man propelled out of anonymity yet ultimately too small to ever be valued.
Here’s the new trailer :
Via ‘Deadline‘
