The Casting Couch: May 3, 2006

What do you do after one tragedy of a film? Well, for Bewitched director Nora Ephron you set up a feature film adaptation of a book with a very long title.

Ephron is set to write and direct the feature film adaptation of Julie Powell’s book “Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen” for Columbia Pictures.

Apparently is something of a chef herself and sparked to the cuisine aspect and the way it unlocked a journey that pulls the protag out of a rut. The book itself chronicles a personal quest by Powell in which she set out to cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.” She chronicled her trials and tribulations in a blog that caught on with the food crowd and led to a book deal.

Gotta admit, not too interested at this moment.

SOURCE: Variety

Warner Bros. and producer Jerry Weintraub have tapped Julia Roberts‘ niece, Emma Roberts, to star in the horse driven flick Rodeo Gal.

In the film Roberts will play the title character, a debutante equestrian who falls for a cowboy. Circumstances lead her to enter the rodeo.

SOURCE: Variety

Tichina Arnold and Jill Hennessy have joined the cast of Wild Hogs, a comedy for Touchstone Pictures being produced by Tollin/Robbins Prods. Walt Becker is directing. The movie, written by Brad Copeland, will see John Travolta, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence and William H. Macy as a group of frustrated, middle-age suburban biker wannabes who hit the open road in search of adventure, only to encounter a rough and tumble New Mexico biker gang called the Del Fuegos.

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter