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Quentin Tarantino Street in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes
over at Warner Bros. Ritchie has been
polishing the project’s script by Anthony
Peckham (Don’t Say a Word). Ritchie’s
directorial credits include Lock, Stock
and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch,
Swept Away, Revolver (the less said about
that, the better) and the Halloween 2008
release RocknRolla. The Warner project
is not to be confused with Judd Apatow’s
Untitled Sherlock Holmes Project
with Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen
over at Sony, which is being written by the
guy who scripted Tropic Thunder (which
coincidentally also stars Downey).
“CAST” IN STONE FERGIE JOINS ALL-STAR CAST IN NINE
GET READY FOR TARANTINO’S Singer Fergie is in negotiations to join the
INGLORIOUS BASTARDS Rob Marshall musical Nine for the Weinstein
Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio are said Company and Relativity Media. She joins a
to be sought for Quentin Tarantino’s wow cast that already includes Daniel Day-
WWII epic about an American team of Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz,
angry, vengeful Jews set loose against Kate Hudson, Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren
Hitler’s minions. Word is Tarantino wants and Judi Dench. The part marks the
Pitt for Aldo Raine, the verbose Appalachia Grammy
®
-winning singer’s first major role
native who puts the deadly squad together. in a big screen project. She had a small role in
DiCaprio is said to be sought for Inglorious Planet Terror. Fergie will play Saraghina,
Bastards’ suave but cunning lead Nazi, a lusty woman who introduces Guido Contini
The Jew Hunter, Hans Landa. There are (Day-Lewis) to the world of sexuality.
loads of other great tough-guy roles in the
Tobey Maguire
screenplay, and only time will tell if the
Fergie
long-rumoured Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Thurgood Marshall to win a Supreme Court
Willis, Sandler, Travolta, Madsen, Roth, case that ruled segregation in American
and Keitel will find their way into the schools illegal. Recount was Strong’s first
movie alongside younger actors. scripting credit, but he has a long list of
them as an actor. Aside from a recurring
WILL FERRELL GETS TWO FACE WITH role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he also
X-FILES WRITER played small roles in Pleasantville and
Before Will Ferrell plays John Watson in Seabiscuit. The project, based on
Judd Apatow’s Untitled Sherlock Greenberg’s memoirs Crusaders in the Courts:
Holmes Project, he hopes to star in Two Legal Battles of the Civil Rights Movement,
Face, written by Vince Gilligan (The X- was originally developed at New Line. Ross
Files, Breaking Bad, Hancock). Ferrell is will next direct Universal drama The Free
attached to play the title character, a racist State of Jones, about rebellion in Mississippi
who, after a prank gone awry, develops a during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
split personality. I guessed one of the
personalities is still racist, while the other GUY RITCHIE ELECTS DOWNEY
is really, really racist—but the Hollywood JUNIOR AS HIS SHERLOCK HOLMES
Reporter reports the new personality is a Robert Downey Jr. is aboard to play the BOX OFFICE
bleeding-heart liberal. Say no more. titular coke-craving big brain of Baker THE DARK KNIGHT REIGNS SUPREME
The Dark Knight broke all sorts of
TOBEY MAGUIRE & GARY ROSS
Robert Downey Jr.
records on its opening North American
TEAM UP AGAIN weekend, upsetting former record-holder
Tobey Maguire is attached to Universal’s Spider-Man 3 with a best-ever opening
The Crusaders, a drama about the landmark that final tallies showed to be $158.4
1954 Brown versus Board of Education million. The industry-record bow naturally
case. Gary Ross is attached to direct, and yielded a studio high for Warner Bros. and
Recount scribe Danny Strong will write the personal bests for director Christopher Nolan
script. Maguire would play Jack Greenberg, and cast including top liner Christian Bale.
who, as an idealistic lawyer fresh out of law But no less impressively, it also anchored a
school, joined with NAACP Legal Defense three-day weekend box-office record of
Fund head and future Supreme Court Justice $258 million. n
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