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Toby Kebbell to Play John Wilkes Booth in The Conspirator
4 November 2009 3:57 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Our friends over at First Showing got an interesting little scoop this afternoon, picking up some casting news from Robert Redford's upcoming Lincoln assassination film The Conspirator. A friend of Fs' Alex Billington ran into RocknRolla star Toby Kebbell, who said that he was in town to work on The Conspirator and that he's playing John Wilkes Booth. For those who missed 6th grade history, Booth was the man that pulled the trigger on President Abraham Lincoln in Box 7 at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865. If this turns out to be true (all signs point to yes, as it's first hand), Kebbell completes a cast that includes James McAvoy, Robin Wright Penn, Frederick Aiken, Justin Long, Evan Rachel Wood, Alexis Bledel, Kevin Kline, and Tom Wilkinson. The film will follow the story of Mary Surratt (Wright Penn), the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination. "As the whole nation turns against her, she »
- Neil Miller
Sin City 2 To Start Production In 2010?
30 October 2009 12:36 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
For months now all we’ve really had on the Sin City 2 front is “it’s happening… it’s on its way… it’s coming… at some point!…” Well, maybe not that exactly but you get my point. Back in May this year, we reported that Sin City 2 was finally moving forward, with Rodriguez saying he’d talked to “key players” about the sequel. A couple of months later Alexis Bledel (the blue-eyed girl from the first Sin City) talked about how her character would fit into the sequel considering her character was [Spoiler] presumably murdered by Josh Hartnett’s “The Man” at the end of the first film. [End Spoiler] From what she revealed it leads us to believe it’s going to be – as fellow Screen Rant writer Kofi Outlaw called it – a prequel, midquel and sequel.
However, despite those forward-thinking terms, it all seems like just talk, with no real confirmation of anything… »
- Ross Miller
'Sin City 2' To Shoot Next Year, 'Hard Boiled' To Follow?
29 October 2009 8:44 AM, PDT | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »
The long-awaited "Sin City 2" will finally begin production in the second half of 2010, to be followed by a possible adaptation of Frank Miller’s "Hard Boiled."
According to a report on Mania, “Sin City 2” producer Stephen L'Heureux confirmed that the story will be based upon an original script by Miller, who will once again co-direct the sequel with Robert Rodriguez .
Additionally, L'Heureux revealed that Miller is writing the screenplay adaptation for “Hard Boiled”, which Miller is also attached to direct.
Originally published by Dark Horse in 1990, “Hard Boiled” paired Miller and artist Geof Darrow on an oversized three issue miniseries. The ultra violent story follows an insurance investigator named Carl Seltz who discovers that he is a cyborg who may be the only hope of an enslaved robot population.
However, with “Sin City 2” on deck and “Hard Boiled” still at an early stage of development, it may not happen immediately. »
- Blair Marnell
Gilmore Girls Creator Inks Deal with HBO
21 October 2009 11:44 PM, PDT | TVStar | See recent TVStar news »
Before Gilmore Girls, rapid fire banter did not exist. The mother-daughter team of Rory and Lorelai created a new trend and while on air did something remarkable to households worldwide. Gilmore Girls made mothers cool, and it allowed mother-daughter teams to bond every week over the antics of the silly and adorable Rory and Lorelai. Oh, how we miss the days of the Gilmore Girls, but wait, have you heard the buzz about a new show by Amy Sherman-Palladino? Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) and Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) gave us seven great years of fast talking mother-daughter hijinks. Never had a show highlighted the beautiful and complex relationship between mother and daughter in the way Gilmore Girls did. At times the relationship was messy, leading the duo to fight, at times the unbreakable bond was extremely moving, but more often than anything else, we witnessed four generations of the Gilmores »
- cjoyce@corp.popstar.com (Colleen Joyce)
Robert Redford has his ‘Conspirator’
18 October 2009 9:21 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Good news for history buffs as Robert Redford's next directing gig will start shooting this week and he has rounded out an impressive cast. According to Variety [1], the Conspirator, which is about the aftermath of the Abraham Lincoln assassination, will star James McAvoy, Robin Wright Penn, Tom Wilkenson, Evan Rachel Wood, Alexis Bledel, and Kevin Kline. Wright Penn plays Mary Surratt, the only female charged in the conspiracy to kill the president, and McAvoy plays Frederick Aiken, the war hero assigned to defend her. Wilkinson will play Reverdy Johnson, the former attorney general who as a U.S. senator is the mentor to the young lawyer and sympathetic to Surratt. Wood plays Surratt's daughter, Anna, and Kline plays Lincoln's War Secretary Edwin Stanton. Bledel plays Aiken's wife, Sarah Weston. No word if there will be any flashback scenes with Lincoln and his killer John Wilkes Booth or if they »
- Greg
Tom Wilkinson, Evan Rachel Wood Join Robert Redford.s .The Conspirator.
16 October 2009 3:55 PM, PDT | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
Robert Redford has a fantastic cast for .The Conspirator,. the drama he is directing about the assassination of President Lincoln. James Solomon wrote the script.
James McAvoy will star as Frederick Aiken, the war hero who is assigned to defend Robin Wright Penn.s Mary Surratt, the only female charged in the conspiracy to kill the president. Justin Long, in his first dramatic role, will play McAvoy.s soldier friend who lost a limb in the Civil War.
Now, Tom Wilkinson, Evan Rachel Wood, Kevin Kline and Alexis Bledel are joining the production. Wilkinson will star as Reverdy Johnson, the former attorney general and mentor of McAvoy.s character.
Wood will play Surratt.s daughter, Anna, and Kline will star as Lincoln.s War Secretary Edwin Stanton. Bledel will lay Aiken.s wife, Sarah Weston.
Shooting is going on right now in Savannah, Ga.
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- Manny
Robert Redford’s The Conspirator Has a Great Cast; First Images and Video Surface
16 October 2009 10:58 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
It didn't take long at all for Robert Redford's The Conspirator to get off the ground. The film, which hinges on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, was announced only months ago and is already shooting in Savannah, Ga. We knew some of the cast prior to the shoot's start, but now we've got a host of good names to throw your way, in addition to some pics and video. We knew that James McAvoy and Robin Wright Penn were the primaries, with Penn playing Mary Surratt, the woman charged and eventually executed for her part in the conspiracy to kill Lincoln. McAvoy is Frederick Aiken, her defender. Now we've got a bunch of new names: Tom Wilkinson, Evan Rachel Wood, Kevin Kline and Alexis Bledel are on board, as is Justin Long. (Chud confirmed Long and Bledel before the trades did, and the Playlist first heard that Wood was in, »
- Russ Fischer
Redford has his cast
16 October 2009 10:29 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Robert Redford has completed his cast for "The Conspirator," the period drama he is directing about the aftermath of President Lincoln's assassination.Tom Wilkinson, Evan Rachel Wood, Kevin Kline, Justin Long and Alexis Bledel will join James McAvoy and Robin Wright Penn in the drama, which is being financed by the American Film Company.According to Variety, shooting began Monday in Savannah, Georgia.Wright Penn plays Mary Surratt, the only female charged in the conspiracy to kill the president, and McAvoy plays Frederick Aiken, the war hero assigned to defend her. Wilkinson will play Reverdy Johnson, the former attorney general who as a U.S. senator is the mentor to the young lawyer and sympathetic to Surratt. Wood plays Surratt's daughter, Anna, and Kline »
- Adnan Tezer
Robert Redford’s ‘The Conspirator’ Adds Six to Cast
16 October 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Wow, where did all the sudden interest in joining Robert Redford’s Abraham Lincoln assassination flick, The Conspirator, come from? Over the last few days a total of six names have been added to the cast list and they are (in alphabetical order): Alexis Bledel (Sin City), Toby Kebbell (RocknRolla), Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda), Justin Long (Drag Me To Hell), Evan Rachel Wood (The Wrestler) and Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton). The six new additions join the previously announced James McAvoy and Robin Wright Penn.
Being directed by Redford from a script by James Solomon, The Conspirator focuses on the real-life Mary Surratt (being played by Penn), one of the alleged co-conspirators of The Lincoln Assassination, as well as focusing on the man, Frederick Aiken (being played by McAvoy), who reluctantly agreed to defend her in court. The film is different from the other Lincoln-related movie in the »
- Ross Miller
Pics and Justin Long for Redford’s Conspirator
16 October 2009 9:45 AM, PDT | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
Robert Redford has assembled quite the cast for his Lincoln drama The Conspirator, a historical look at the year following the President’s assassination and the trial of Mary Surratt in connection with the conspiracy.
Robin Wright Penn will play Surratt and James McAvoy is Col. Frederick Aiken, a war hero attorney who defends her to the public. Tom Wilkinson has also been added as Reverdy Johnson, a U.S. Senator is “the mentor to the young lawyer,” according to Variety. Plus Evan Rachel Wood is set as Anna (Surratt’s daughter), Kevin Kline is Lincoln’s War Secretary Edwin Stanton, and Alexis Bledel is Aiken’s wife Catherine. Toby Kebbell is John Wilkes Booth.
Justin Long has also joined the team, which is a big step up for the guy known for the Mac ads, voicing one of the Chipmunks, and bit comedy roles. That isn’t to say »
- Jeff Leins
Could Robert Redford Have Picked a Better Cast?
16 October 2009 7:48 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Steven Spielberg's Abraham Lincoln pic will definitely have a run for its money if it ever gets made. Robert Redford is cooking up one hell of a roster for his drama The Conspirator, which focuses on Mary Surratt's involvement with the assassination. Now Variety reports that the filmmaker has lined up the rest of his cast. First, as we already learned: Robin Wright Penn will play Mary Surratt, "the only female charged in the conspiracy to kill" Lincoln. She was said to have given John Wilkes Booth and David Herold weapons. James McAvoy, meanwhile, will play Frederick Aiken, the war hero and man tapped to defend her in court. And now:
Tom Wilkinson -- Reverdy Johnson, a Surratt sympathizer and mentor to Allen, who was the former attorney general and U.S. senator.
Evan Rachel Wood -- Anna Surratt, daughter of Mary. She later had to fight for her mother's remains. »
- Monika Bartyzel
Roadside Has the Hots for Julio DePietro's 'The Good Guy'
16 October 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- If they can make it here, they can make it anywhere. The modest in size Roadside Attractions can certainly relate to the big ambitions and dreams of the narrative in their second title pick-up for their eventual 2010 slate, setting the Tribeca played Julio DePietro romantic dramedy for a March release, right after the January release of the Berlin Film Festival pick-up Happy Tears. Perhaps a good companion piece to the eventual release of Stone's Wall Street 2, The Good Guy sees actor Scott Porter play Tommy, a rising Wall Street star in a budding romance with a new girlfriend, Beth (Alexis Bledel). He begins mentoring a seemingly hapless new salesman (Bryan Greenberg) who befriends Beth, starting a chain of events that might ultimately lead to his downfall. ... »
Bledel, Kline And Wood Join The Conspirator
16 October 2009 5:33 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
Bledel, Kline And Wood…apart from sounding like a back alley law firm, this is largely good news! Robert Redford’s period drama, The Conspirator, has picked up a handful of fresh acting talent today as Evan Rachel Wood, Kevin Kline and Alexis Bledel have been cast alongside James McAvoy and Robin Wright Penn in the film, which takes place during the aftermath of President Kennedy’s assassination.
Also joining the already-strong cast in the film (which began shooting this past Monday) is Tom Wilkinson. According to Variety:
Wright Penn plays Mary Surratt, the only female charged in the conspiracy to kill the president, and McAvoy plays Frederick Aiken, the war hero assigned to defend her. Wilkinson will play Reverdy Johnson, the former attorney general who as a U.S. senator is the mentor to the young lawyer and sympathetic to Surratt. Wood plays Surratt’s daughter, Anna, and Kline »
- Craig Sharp
Wood, Wilkinson round out 'Conspirator' cast
16 October 2009 3:50 AM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Robert Redford has added Tom Wilkinson, Evan Rachel Wood, Kevin Kline, Alexis Bledel and Toby Kebbell to the cast of his President Lincoln assassination drama The Conspirator. The quintet join James McAvoy, Robin Wright Penn and Justin Long in the historical film, which details the aftermath of Lincoln's killing at Ford's Theatre in 1865. Wilkinson will play Us senator Reverdy Johnson, Wood the daughter of co-conspirator (more) »
- By Simon Reynolds
More Cast For The Conspirator
16 October 2009 12:26 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Filming is already underway on Robert Redford's The Conspirator, and the impressive cast keeps getting bigger. We knew James McAvoy was playing Frederick Aiken, the lawyer assigned to defend Robin Wright Penn's Mary Surratt in the trial following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, while Justin Long recently joined as McAvoy's best friend. But it's now been revealed that the cast also includes Evan Rachel Wood, Tom Wilkinson, Kevin Kline, and Alexis Bledel.Wood will play Surratt's daughter Anna. Wilkinson is Aiken's mentor, senator Reverdy Johnson, who sympathises with Surratt, the only woman among the conspirators and the first woman - spoiler! - ever to be executed by the United States Federal Government, after a somewhat irregular trial.Bledel plays Aiken's wife, and Kline is Edwin Stanton, Lincoln's war secretary. »
The Conspirator Keeps Building An Impressive Cast
15 October 2009 5:33 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Having played the super brainy Rory Gilmore on TV for so many years, Alexis Bledel is still adored by many women my age. But today I have no choice but to hate her. She's in the enviable position of playing James McAvoy's wife in The Conspirator, the Robert Redford-directed drama about Mary Surratt (Robin Wright Penn), the only woman to be tried for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Bledel is among a whole host of people who have joined the cast today, according to Variety, alongside Tom Wilkinson, Evan Rachel Wood and Kevin Kline. Wilkinson will play a mentor to McAvoy's character, a war hero lawyer defending Surratt, with Wood playing Surratt's daughter and Kline as the War Secretary Edwin Stanton. Given that Surratt was a Confederate sympathizer, both Penn and Wood will probably be expected to turn in Southern accents. Penn wasn't too bad as Jenny in »
Roadside Has “The Good Guy”
15 October 2009 10:09 AM, PDT | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »
Roadside Attractions has acquired worldwide rights to Julio DePietro’s “The Good Guy,” which premiered earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film stars Alexis Bledel, Scott Porter, Anna Chlumsky and Bryan Greenberg, and will be released the theatrically in March 2010, with Mandate International handling foreign sales. The film was produced by Linda Moran and Rene Bastian of Belladonna Productions as well as DePietro. The film follows Beth (Bledel), … »
Melrose Place's Michael Rady On Heather Locklear and His Melrose Murder Fantasy
13 October 2009 2:00 PM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
While everyone else on Melrose Place plots and preens, Michael Rady's role is simply to be the nice guy. As fumbling filmmaker Jonah Miller, Rady lends Melrose a qualified and compelling optimism, a necessary counterpoint to Katie Cassidy's deep brood and Ashlee Simpson-Wentz's perpetual po-face. In fact, Rady's screen presence is so calming that when he breaks Alexis Bledel's Greek-American heart in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, we blithely approve.
Shortly after the CW ordered additional Melrose scripts, Movieline talked with the 28-year-old Rady about being broke in New York, his first table-reads with Heather Locklear, and Jonah's foreseeable (and perhaps homicidal) future. »
Win It! Sleek and Sexy with Piloxing DVD!
13 October 2009 9:04 AM, PDT | Extra | See recent Extra news »
What do you get when you combine the powerful cardio exercise of boxing with the toning and strength-training of Pilates? Piloxing! Hilary Duff, Alexis Bledel, Ashley Tisdale and Vanessa Hudgens are all fans -- and you can win a Piloxing DVD and gloves here!
Piloxing's creator, Swedish-born Viveca Jensen, says the workout is a creative mix of Pilates and boxing that's geared toward women. It focuses on the mental and physical goal of attaining a sleek, »
Lauren Graham pinch hits in "Parenthood"
12 October 2009 8:00 AM, PDT | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »
Welcome back to my TV, finally, Lorelai! Ok, fine, so she won’t be playing Lorelai Gilmore. But Lauren Graham is coming back to TV as the replacement for Maura Tierney in the upcoming NBC series Parenthood.
Lauren finalized a deal on Friday to take over for Maura, who left the production to undergo treatment for breast cancer. Helen Hunt has been in talks to take over the part earlier, but they fell through. So Lauren stepped into the role of Sarah, a single mom raising two teens who moves back with her parents in Berkeley.
This is Lauren’s first return to TV since Gilmore Girls ended in 2007 after seven seasons. Her previous comeback attempt in a sitcom playing a self-help guru, was never picked up. She joins a large ensemble cast in the hour-long family dramedy that includes Six Feet Under alum Peter Krause, Coach star Craig T. Nelson, »
- dorothy snarker
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