Casting Notes: Danny Trejo In ‘Tarantula’; Another New Picture For Jennifer Garner; Many Possible Roles For Gemma Arterton
The performance of Machete has had a good effect on Danny Trejo. He’s getting cast more often than ever right now. His latest resume addition should be Tarantula, an ‘indie biker thriller’ in which he’ll co-star with Erin Cummings. (And in this case, it’s the movie that is indie, not the bikers. Maybe an important point.)
Oley Sassone will direct (and also directed the Corman throwaway Fantastic Four, uh-oh) from a script by John Kersey. The story follows “a woman (Cummings) who breaks away from a tight-knit biker gang to start a new life but finds that escape is not so easy. Trejo plays the self-styled leader of the gang looking for the woman as well as revenge for his brother’s death.” [THR]
After the break, Jennifer Garner books a second role in two days, and many possible roles for Gemma Arterton.
Earlier today ImentionedBetter Living Through Chemistry, which just bookedJennifer Garnerto work opposite Jeremy Renner. Now Garner has also been attached toThe Odd Life of Timothy Green, to be directed byPeter Hedges. The film “centers around a child-prodigy musician and his parents: Garner would play the mother.” Mark Wahlberg has been offered the father’s role, but will likely pass, reportedVulture. The source of the music-prodigy story? ProducerAhmet Zappa, son of guitar virtuoso and composer Frank Zappa.
Finally,Gemma Artertontalked toGQabout a boatload of potential roles. She’s in talks to play Nicola Six inMichael Winterbottom’s adaptation of theMartin AmisnovelLondon Fields. (Once, years ago, a project to be directed by David Cronenberg.) But that one is likely a ways off. She’s also talking up a central role in a potential Marianne Faithfull biopic, and says that she’s in line for a key role in the Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love biopicAll Apologies— guess is that she’d be Courtney. Interesting. Is this a renamed version of theOren MovermanCobain picture? We’re not sure yet.
And she’s attached toCorsica ‘72, a crime picture penned by Bond screenwritersNeil PurvisandRobert Wade, which she calls “the best script I’ve read.”
