Kristin Davis Joins ‘Journey 2: The Mysterious Island’
I wonder if Kristin Davis is realizing that it’s a good time to do something that is very explicitly not likeSex and the City. She’s got a couple of projects brewing. One is a single-camera TV series based on the Gretchen Rubin memoirThe Happiness Project, which she’ll star in and co-exec produce with Kristin Newman. And, more appropriate for us, she’s joined the cast of the sequel toJourney to the Center of the Earth 3D.
Journey 2: The Mysterious Islandis filming in Hawaii right now, and Kristin Davis signs on as the mother toJosh Hutcherson’s character and the girlfriend of the guy played byDwayne Johnson. Will she be in the film much, or will she essentially be relegated to a bookending role as Jane Wheeler did when she played the same role in the first film? I’d guess the latter, but we don’t know for certain.
Also in the castareMichael CaineandVanessa Hudgens.Brad Peyton(Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore) is directing the film, from a script loosely based onJules Verne’s novelThe Mysterious Island. In this telling of the story, Hutcherson and Johnson head to a mythical, monstrous island in search of his missing grandfather (Caine). [Deadline]
Previously:
Verne’sThe Mysterious Islandfollows five prisoners of war who who escape the Confederate-controlled city of Richmond, Virginia via hot air balloon. They crash land on a volcanic island east of New Zealand. Eventually the group finds a castaway on a nearby island, and has to deal with his former pirate crew. There are more secrets on the island, including one that harkens back to Verne’s earlier novel featuring Captain Nemo and the Nautilus.
Difficult to say, then, exactly how the plot of the novel will be adapted to the film. The first guess is that the search for the grandfather puts Hutcherson and Johnson on the ‘mysterious island,’ and sees the grandfather standing in for the nearby pirate castaway.
