Looks like Stephen Chow is no longer aboard Michel Gondry’s “The Green Hornet,” starring Seth Rogen. A casting call has been found looking for an actor to play the role famously portrayed by Bruce Lee in the television series. Shame really, he seemed like a perfect fit. [/Film]
Kodi Smit-McPhee (“The Road”) is reportedly in talks join the English remake of Tomas Alfredsson’s “Let The Right One In.” Retitled “Let Me In,” the Matt Reeves (“Cloverfield”) helmed project will swap the coldness of 1980’s Sweden for an American setting, rumored to be Littleton, Colardo. He seems like the perfect fit, but Moviehole aren’t always totally reliable. But this doesn’t sound like a stretch. [Moviehole]
Danny Huston has joined the cast of Ridley Scott’s “Robin Hood.” The actor will play King Richard whose heroics in the Third Crusade led to the name Richard The Lionheart. [THR]
Susan Sarandon and John Goodman have joined Barry Levinson’s Al Pacino led “You Don’t Know Jack.” The HBO film will be a biopic of Jack Kevorkian, the Dr. Death who assisted in more than 130 suicides and was jailed in 1999 after videotaping a euthanization. [THR]
Jason Statham is in talks to star in “Blitz,” a thriller about a serial killer targeting police officers in London. Statham will play a tough, uncompromising cop – so just playing himself? – while Paddy Considine will play his partner. [Variety]
Holt McCallany has signed on to Sylvain White’s DC/Vertigo comic adaptation of “The Losers,” the story of a group of Black Ops who seek revenge after being betrayed by their agency. The likes of Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Idris Elba, Zoe Saldana and Chris Evans are also on board. [THR]
Jackie Chan has signed on the play the Mr. Miyagi character in the butchering of “The Karate Kid.” Will Smith’s son Jaden Smith will lead the film, retitled “The Kung-Fu Kid,” which began shooting on Saturday in China. Oh brother, this project just gets worse and worse. [Variety]
Another contender for most horrible sounding project of the year: Paramount has picked up Mattel’s “Max Steel,” a 19 year old extreme sports junkie recruited by a secret agency. [THR]
Soo Hugh will scribe “Vegas Avengers,” an action pic that follows the story of a hot shot pilot who joins a “top-secret program that flies experimental, unmanned planes” – which begs the question: why do unmanned planes need a pilot? [THR]
I met Jack Kevorkian. He lives in my city. He was getting some work done on his teeth the same day I got my wisdom teeth out. As I was being guided out of the room, he was about to go in. My mom shook me awake and for a split second I saw a small white haired man.
Well at least it's McPhee. That gives a little more hope, I guess, to a project that shouldn't be.
Fuck the Kung-Fu Kid. Someone needs to sweep the leg on that project asap!