Thursday, June 02, 2005

Developments

Deadwood star/future Emmy winner Ian McShane is joining Woody Allen's next project. Like all Allen films the details are vague but this one will again be shot in London and again star Scarlett Johansson, just like his most recent film, Match Point, which received universal rave reviews (something very rare for Allen these days) at Cannes and was just acquired by DreamWorks for a U.S. release later this year. Unlike Match Point though Allen is supposedly taking an on camera role in this one.

X-Men 3 has no director even though it's due to begin production this summer. Matthew Vaughn (whose directorial debut Layer Cake is in theaters now) dropped out, supposedly for "family reasons" but I'm sure there's more to it than that. The rumored options for his replacement do not look promising.

1 comment:

Larry McGillicuddy said...

So they want to make X-Men3 a generic action movie? Lovely