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Penelope Cruz Negotiating For Leading Lady Role in Star-Studded ‘The Counselor’

19 April 2012 7:00 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

The casting process for Ridley Scott’s next project, The Counselor, has been an absolute dream for people who like to write down famous people’s names. After going through a laundry list of the biggest actors working in Hollywood, Scott has seemed to settle on the titanic trio of Michael Fassbender, Javier Bardem, and Brad Pitt to play the three main male roles in this Cormac McCarthy-penned, lawyer-gone-bad drama. There has yet to be a consensus on who’s going to play the lead female role, that of the Fassbender character’s fianceé, however. The most recent buzz was that Pitt’s real-life fianceé Angelina Jolie was being looked at to come on board, but that never sounded like anything more than a long shot. And, sure enough, a recent report from THR claims that the actress’ role in the upcoming Disney film, Maleficent, would conflict with The Counselor’s shooting schedule. That »

- Nathan Adams

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Oren Moverman Says His Brian Wilson Biopic Script Is Done, Takes "Unconventional Storytelling" Approach

8 February 2012 8:05 AM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »

By the time Oren Moverman was releasing "The Messenger," he knew his next film out would be "Rampart" and was on message about that -- but now that "Rampart" is upon us, things are a little less clear for the writer/director, who is still figuring out what's on his slate. "'Rampart' just happened so quickly, and that's rare," Moverman told The Playlist. "Sometimes things are kind of in place, sometimes you having nothing at all [ready to go]. Life is weird like that." Moverman has completed scripts for two projects he'll helm: a David O. Selznick biopic for HBO that Ben Stiller will executive produce and a period piece taking place in Galveston, Texas in the early 1900s that Ridley Scott and Giannina Facio will produce called "The Big Blow" (which you can read more about right here). The director hasn't started thinking about casting for the Selznick project just yet, »

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Oren Moverman Attached to Direct The Big Blow; Ridley Scott to Produce

7 February 2012 9:05 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Oren Moverman's star has continued to rise since The Messenger and Rampart (along with his assorted screenwriter-only credits), and he's eyeing a variety of projects for his next movie.  According to The Playlist, one of the films in the mix is The Big Blow, a complex drama with intertwining plot threads that revolve around the devastating September 4, 1900 hurricane in Gavelston, Texas.  Ridley and Tony Scott's Scott Free production company has had the rights to Joe Lansdale's novella for almost a decade.  A few years ago, Moverman was brought on to do further work on the late Millard Kaufman's screenplay, and now Moverman has moved into the director's chair. Hit the jump for more details on the project. Moverman tells The Playlist, "I mean, I know where it is physically, it's with Ridley Scott's company, and Giannina Facio is producing it [but] it's a tough movie to make. »

- Matt Goldberg

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