Here are a few quick casting bits to satisfy your Thursday morning needs:
Queen Latifah is in negotiations to join Diane Keaton in Mad Money, a remake of a Brit comedy described as a low-tech female Ocean’s Eleven with Callie Khouri directing. Gotta say, Latifah and Keaton in an Ocean’s-style movie doesn’t sound appealing for a second. Latifah and Keaton are janitors at a Federal Reserve bank when Keaton comes up with a plot to get her hands on some money. Intriguing eh? Production is scheduled to begin late March in Shreveport, Louisiana. [Production Weekly]
David Wenham will next be seen in 300 for Warner Bros. in March, but he will be following that up with a starring turn in Baz Luhrmann’s epic Australia alongside Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. The flick is set in pre-World War II northern Australia and follows an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits a sprawling ranch and reluctantly pacts with a cattle driver (Jackman) to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces. Shooting begins in April in northern Australia. [The Hollywood Reporter]
Now Oscar-nominated actor Eddie Murphy is in talks to star in NowhereLand for Paramount Pictures. In the film Murphy would play a successful financial exec who suddenly loses his confidence and finds his career going down the drain. He discovers the answers to his problems within the imaginary world created by his daughter. [Variety]
