All Posts Tagged With: "Robert Redford"
ESPN co-producing Redford’s Robinson biopic
With Robert Redford, Tracy Falco, Howard and Karen Baldwin, and Andrew Cohen, ESPN’s film unit will co-produce a theatrical biopic on Brooklyn Dodgers star Jackie Robinson. Thomas Carter will helm the film. “Redford will play Branch Rickey, the team’s general manager whose vision it was to make the statement and whose teamwork with Robinson off the field made it successful.” The Hollywood Reporter delivers the news.
Big Screen Roundup: 1/28/08 Edition
Guillermo del Toro is in talks to direct back-to-back installments of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, informs The Hollywood Reporter. Both del Toro and Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson will oversee writing for the films. Co-financed by New Line and MGM, the Hobbit series will have a production budget estimated at $150 million for each feature. At this time, it appears the release date for the first film will be in 2010, with the second one following in 2011.
Director Christopher Nolan has written a touching tribute titled “Charisma as Natural as Gravity” to the late actor Heath Ledger. Available to read at Newsweek, the essay focuses on Ledger’s enthusiasm and work ethic during the filming of Nolan’s The Dark Knight. Meanwhile, Superhero Hype! has collected three new images from the upcoming Batman feature.
Variety records that Universal Pictures and Working Title Films have agreed to a two-picture deal with Atonement director Joe Wright.
Julia Roberts will produce and star in the film adaptation of Margot Berwin’s upcoming novel Hothouse Flowers for Sony’s Columbia Pictures, writes The Hollywood Reporter. The actress will portray “a recently divorced woman who is dissatisfied with her job at a Manhattan ad agency and goes off on an adventure that takes her to places she never expected to go.”
IGN has learned John Cleese is in negotiations to join the cast of the remake for the 1951 sci-fi classic The Day The Earth Stood Still. Cleese’s role would be that of “physicist Dr. Barnhardt, a Nobel Prize laureate who plays a key part in figuring out the mission and meaning of the arrival of the alien Klaatu.”
Coming Soon rounds up sources showing Channing Tatum to have the lead role of Duke in director Stephen Sommers’ G.I. Joe live-action adaptation.The Canadian Press reports that the next project for Robert Redford to produce and star in will be A Walk in the Woods, an adaptation of the bestselling 1998 Bill Bryson book about hiking the Appalachian Trail. Barry Levinson is expected to direct the film.
According to Deadline Hollywood Daily, Harvey Weinstein of The Weinstein Co. is already considering another installment in the Rambo franchise. An early idea from Weinstein involves “bringing the character back to the United States.”
ShockTillYouDrop.com speaks with Funny Games stars Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet about Michael Haneke’s remake of his own psychological thriller.
Variety indicates that Marlene Forte will be seen s “Chief Transporter” in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek. The magazine also reveals Marion Cotillard, Channing Tatum, Giovanni Ribisi, Stephen Dorff and Jason Clarkeas as joining Johnny Depp and Christian Bale in the Michael Mann feature Public Enemies.
Dark Horizons updates readers on release date changes for the following movies: Choke (8/1), Hellraiser (2009), Trailer Trash (no longer scheduled), Youth in Revolt (12/12), The Patriots (11/14) and Towelhead (8/15).
Coming Soon brings readers such exclusives as a clip from the King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters DVD, as well as an interview with Strange Wilderness star Kevin Heffernan.
28Jan2008 | Josh E Armstrong | Continued
