Casting Notes: Jamie Foxx In Kane & Lynch; Reese Witherspoon As The Pioneer Woman; Gregory Smith In Dream House
An adaptation of the video gameKane & Lynch: Dead Menhas been in development at Lionsgate, with a script byKyle WardandBruce Willisseemingly set to star as Kane. NowJamie Foxxis apparently the co-star, news which first cropped up on Ward’sTwitter feed. That update has been deleted, butDeadlineand a handful of others are running with it, and Foxx’s publicist has yet to deny.
That’s actually a pretty great pairing for Willis.Simon Craneis directing. Willis would be Adam “Kane” Marcus, “a mercenary who makes an unlikely alliance with the schizophrenic killer named James Lynch (Foxx). The duo is forced on a mission to retrieve a stolen microchip.”
After the break, new stuff for Reese Witherspoon, and another actor for Jim Sheridan’sDream House.
Another film based on a blog? Said that way, it looks crazy, but when you consider blogs as the most common new form of storytelling available to new writers, it isn’t so nuts. There is a site calledthepioneerwoman.com, created by Ree Drummond, that basically describes a pretty classic ‘city girl falls in love with the country (by way of a cowboy)" tale. Now the site and the story it tells is being developed for the screen by Columbia, which has set it as a star vehicle forReese Witherspoon.
Sounds pretty much likeSweet Home Alabama, but this time it is really a true story? Shrug, OK. Not for me, but it will probably kill on cable and DVD. [Deadline]
Finally,Everwood’sGregory Smithis joining the cast ofJim Sheridan’sDream House, which already starsDaniel Craig,Naomi WattsandRachel Wiesz. The film is about a man who moves his family from the city to a rural home that was previously the site of a horrific murder. Smith will play “a punk rocker who is obsessed with the case.” [THR]
