Casting Notes: Maggie Gyllenhaal In Bill Monroe Biopic; Scott Speedman In The Vow; Josh Hartnett In Tomorrow; Karl Yune In Real Steel
Looks likeMaggie Gyllenhaalwill play alongside her husbandPeter Sarsgaardin a biopic of bluegrass pioneerBill Munroe. She toldScreenCraveshe’d been in the film about “Bill Monroe, who invented Blue Grass music had a kind of Sid and Nancy style affair with this woman Bessie Lee Mauldin throughout his life…T-Bone Burnett’s going to do the music andCallie Khouriwho wroteThelma & Louisewrote the script so we’re going to do that together.”
After the break, Scott Speedman takes a vow, Josh Hartnett may reunite with Paul McGuigan, andReal Steeladds one more.
Scott Speedmanis negotiating to join romantic dramaThe Vow, in which he’d play the former fiance ofRachel McAdams' character, who is in an amnesiac state after she and her new husband (Channing Tatum) are in a car crash. The film shoots next month in Toronto, withMichael Sucsy(Grey Gardens) rewriting and directing. [THR]Josh Hartnettmay work again withLucky Number SlevinandWicker ParkdirectorPaul McGuigan, who is putting together a time travel thriller calledTomorrow. The deal isn’t set yet, but if it comes together Hartnett would star, playing “a man who is desperate to save his family on the day of their murder, but can’t control the short-term time travel phenomenon he’s trapped in.” (Sounds like a crime spin on some of the ideas behindAll You Need is Kill.)
Hatnett will next be in the very odd-soundingBunraku, which will show as part of the Midnight Madness program at the Toronto International Film Festival. [The Wrap]
Finally,Karl Yunehas joined the cast ofReal Steel, which has been shooting for a while now. He’ll play Tak Mashido, “a robot boxer designer” in the world in which robot boxing is a huge spot.Hugh Jackmanis a robot trainer, andDakota Goyo,Evangeline Lilly,Kevin DurandandHope Davisall appear. [Variety]
