Caffeinated Clint
Feels wrong talking jovially about something as superflous as new movies as Japan battles yet another Earthquake (just reading here a 7.1 rocked the country a few hours ago) but lets charge on. And our thoughts are with everyone in Japan. Stay Safe.
JACKIE ROBINSON BIOPIC
Robert Redford will return to the big screen… and in another baseball flick (something that’ll no doubt excite fans of “The Natural”)! Brian Helgeland (“Payback”) will write and direct the film, the story of Brooklyn Dodgers executive Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson, the black player he famously signed. “No one really knows the Rickey part, the political maneuvers and the partnership they had to share,” Redford said. “It’s the story underneath the story you thought you knew.” (More…)
MISSING
“Hitcher” and “Patriot Games” scoundrel Sean Bean is headed to TV; he’ll join Ashley Judd on ABC’s “Missing”. ”It centers on Becca Winstone (Judd), a devoted single mom who, after her 18-year-old son disappears in Italy, takes it upon herself to travel to Europe and track him down. It soon becomes clear that Winstone is a former CIA agent who will stop at nothing to bring her son home alive. Bean will play the regular character of Becca’s husband Paul who was blown up in front of his son but will appear throughout the series in flashbacks” (More…)
ARBITRAGE
“Incredible Hulk” villain Tim Roth will star in the Nicholas Jarecki-directed thriller. Roth will play Michael Gower, a detective investigating a murder in the Richard Gere/Susan Sarandon starrer. (More…)
MAN OF TAI CHI
Keanu Reeves has expressed interest in playing the villain in his directorial debut, a Kung-Fu love letter called “Man of Tai Chi”. Reeves previously played a villain in the early noughties’ thriller “The Watcher” opposite James Spader. (More…)
DARK TOWER
Javier Bardem is close to signing on to play ‘The Gunslinger’ in Ron Howard’s ambitious film and TV adaptation of Stephen King’s “Dark Tower” book series. Bardem would play ”Deschain, who becomes humanity’s last hope to save civilization as he hits the road to find the Dark Tower. Along the way, he encounters characters, good and bad, in a world that has an old West feel” in the film, set to lens in September. (More…)
ROMEO & JULIET
Hailee Steinfeld (“True Grit”) is in talks to play the female lead in director Carlo Carlie’s “Romeo & Juliet”. The $15 million dollar movie will shoot in Italy in the Spring. (More…)
STORAGE
“Californication” star Madeline Zima is set to star in the British thriller about a young woman (Zima) who discovers a terrifying secret when she becomes trapped in an underground storage facility with a group of strangers. “This script is a real page turner with great characters,” says producer Gareth Jones of Matt Winn’s script. “Matt’s vision will create an intelligent and tense thriller that will keep audiences guessing till the end.” (More…)
