Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Crime dramas are officially "in"

Interesting development: Jodie Foster has joined the cast of the promising Spike Lee project I mentioned a few days ago.

Hmm, with Denzel, Clive and Jodie, Spike has himself a high profile cast with two Oscar winners and an Oscar nominee. Could this be a genuine Oscar contender for the perennially overlooked director? From She Hate Me to Oscar Love Me? Stranger things have happened.

Presumably less Oscar friendly but also of interest: David Fincher has finally recovered from Fight Club and set his next project. It's a serial killer movie and while there's no desperate need for another one of those, there's always room for one as good as Fincher is capable of delivering. Plus he's already got Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo and Robert Downey Jr. in the cast.

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