Washington Wants To Fire 2 Guns
Alongside Mark Wahlberg
Mark Wahlberg has been attached to graphic novel adaptation 2 Guns for a couple of months now. And it looks like he’ll be going toe-to-toe with Denzel Washington, as the Safe House star has now entered talks to snatch the other lead role.
Steven Grant created the Boom! Studios title that is fuelling the film, which finds a DEA agent and an undercover naval intelligence officer unwittingly investigating each other as they both steal mob money. Sounds like there will be more than two guns involved in this one…
While the movie was previously targeted as a directing job for David O Russell, the apparent current feud between director and actor now means that Wahlberg has turned to his new helming buddy, Icelandic megaphone-wielder Baltasar Korm
Amy Adams Will Be An Object Of Beauty
In the film of Steve Martin’s novel
She was last seen singing and dancing with Kermit and the gang in The Muppets, and now Amy Adams wants to make us all think about art. She’s signed on to star in and produce an adaptation of Steve Martin’s 2010 novel An Object Of Beauty.
Adams will play Lacey Yeager, a young, beautiful and captivating young woman who has real ambitions in the New York art world. After getting her start at Sotheby’s, the driven entrepreneur enjoys a 15-year meteoric rise through her chosen career, buying a gallery in the process, travelling the world and getting into a string of relationships, including one with an artist who goes on to become famous. Lacey’s journey charts the enjoyable highs and dark lows of the artistic community and the world at large. And since Martin himself knows a thing or two about art, it’s naturally loaded with authentic detail.
There are no real details about who will handle the writing/directing sides of the movie yet, but producers Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray of Maven Pictures are now on the hunt to find the right team. Given that Martin adapted Shopgirl for the screen, we wonder if he’ll get the first crack at this one…
Adams will next be seen in Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, Jack Kerouac adaptation On The Road, Clint Eastwood drama Trouble With The Curve and Superman saga Man Of Steel.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt Turns Director
He’s making a comedy
Given how much Joseph Gordon-Levitt has enjoyed stretching himself in various creative ways both cinematically and musically, it was only a matter of time before his career wheel spun towards directing. Now he’s making that move, setting up an untitled comedy that he’s written and will also star in alongside Scarlett Johansson.
Talking to Deadline, the Inception star didn’t want to divulge many plot details, but he did reveal that he’s playing a “selfish dick” modern-day Don Juan-type who decides to try to better himself. “I wrote myself a helluva role, one that people wouldn’t necessarily thought of me for,” the actor says, admitting that he’s been preparing to watch himself on screen through his short film work. “It takes practice to get used to seeing yourself and not being freaked out and self conscious by the sound of your own voice.”
He’s locked in funding from Hurt Locker producer Nicolas Chartier’s Voltage Pictures, and plans to co-produce via his hitRecord Films company. “I was a child actor for years and quit at 19, went to school awhile, and a big part of why I came back was that I ultimately wanted to make movies,” Gordon-Levitt explains. “I spent a year working with Chris Nolan, Rian Johnson, Steven Spielberg, and I did my best to pay attention. I’ve also been making short films for a long time now, I’ve directed a ton of them, and that is a huge part of why I feel comfortable and confident in this.”
We’ll see the fruits of those directors’ labours this year, as Gordon-Levitt will be seen in Premium Rush, The Dark Knight Rises, Looper and Lincoln. But his filmmaking ambitions might keep him from sticking to his small part in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained. “It will be tricky schedule-wise, but I was honest with Quentin upfront,” Gordon-Levitt says. “He was so cool and encouraging. He said, ‘You strike me as the kind of guy who would want to direct,’ and I took that as high praise.”
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt Turns Director