Casting Notes: Steve Carell In ‘A Boyfriend For My Wife’; Andie MacDowell In ‘Footloose’; Three More For ‘Vamps’
Warner Bros. is setting up a remake of the 2008 Argentine romantic comedyUn novio para mi mujeras a star vehicle forSteve Carrell. The comedian is producing, and WB hiredMark GibsonandPhil Halprinto write a script based on the Argentine film.A Boyfriend for My Wifewould see Carell as “a timid husband [who] believes the only way out of his stifling marriage is to get his wife to fall in love with another man, so he enlists the help of a legendary yet unlikely Lothario.” [Variety]
After the break,FootlooseandVampsboth make new hires.
Andie MacDowellhas joined the cast of Paramount’sFootlooseremake as as Vi, wife of the dance-hating minister now played byDennis Quaid. (Dianne Wiest and John Lithgow played the roles in the 1984 original.)Julianne Houghplays their daughter, who gets danced and romanced by the new kid in town, played byKenny Wormald. [EW]
Finally, here’s a bit of press release from Red Hour Films, to announced thatAmy Heckerling’s new film,Vamps, has picked upMarilu Henner,Zak OrthandMalcolm McDowell.
Vamps tells the modern day tale of two young beautiful female vampires (Alicia Silverstone, Krysten Ritter) living the good nightlife in New York until love enters the picture and each has to make a choice that will jeopardize her immortality. The film is currently shooting in Detroit, Michigan.
…Henner will portray Angela, a deathly ill woman who gets “awakened” to her former hot self. Orth will portray Renfield, a young nerdy friend of Stacy (Ritter) and Goody (Silverstone) who tries to be much more hardcore than he actually is, and McDowell will portray vampire Vlad Tepish, otherwise known as the infamous Vlad the Impaler, who enjoys wearing velvet jogging suits and knitting.
