Casting Notes: Liam Neeson, Lucy Punch And Deborah Ann Woll Take New Roles
We’ve got a bunch of quick casting notes today for some projects about which there aren’t a lot of details yet. First up isLiam Neeson, who is continuing his genre-ish run withUnknown White Male. After Neeson finishesClash of the TitansandThe A-Teamhe’ll join this Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan,House of Wax) picture about a doctor who is in a car accident only to wake up and discover his wife doesn’t recognize him. Worse, she’s living with another man who has taken his identity.Varietynotes that the Oliver Butcher and Stephen Cornwell script is based Didier Van Cauwelaert’s novelOut of My Head. Meanwhile, check out a new photo of Neeson as a funeral director inAfter.Lifeover atBloody Disgusting.
After the jump, new projects for Lucy Punch, Woody Allen’s replacement for Nicole Kidman, andTrue Blood’s Deborah Ann Woll.
Lucy Punchbecame the new Nicole Kidman (sort of) when Kidman dropped out of Woody Allen’s next movie, leaving the role open for Punch. Now she’s taken to the long-gestatingDinner For Schmucks, about “the most pathetic guy ever to be invited to another man’s weekly dinner party”, to be directed by Jay Roach. She’ll work alongside stars Steve Carell and Paul Rudd. The film is a remake of a 1998 French filmLe diner de cons/The Dinner Game. [THR]
Finally,Deborah Ann Woll, who plays Jessica Hamby onTrue Blood, is joining Darren Lynn Bousman’s remake of the Troma filmMother’s Day. The original film was an early entry in the ‘crazy family’ slasher genre, with three girls running afoul of murderous brothers out to impress their crazed mum. For the remake a few new family members have been added to the clan of loonies; Woll plays the daughter. The picture shoots this fall for a spring 2010 release. [THR]
