Looks like we’ll have to keep the project “Hesher” on our radar now.
Last week, Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Rainn Wilson were all in talks to star in the indie-comedy project and now all three are good to go and have signed on.
Given the title, “Hesher,” we presumed (hoped?) the film might be about the anachronistic mullet-sporting, hi-tops boasting heavy metal subculture typically known as “heshers,” but according to the Hollywood Reporter, the tale focuses on a “loser twentysomething who invades the life of an awkward 13-year-old who is living with a pill-popping father and grandmother.”
No, Gordon-Levitt is not trying to pass for 13-years of age. He’ll be playing the loser twentysomething and Wilson will play the pill-popping dad. Natalie Portman is producing the film and who saves the kid from a bully and then he falls for her. It appears whoever this 13-year-old is, he hasn’t been cast yet. Then again, shooting starts next week in Los Angeles, so he’s probably just an unknown. [THR]
Remember “Tell No One,” (“Ne le dis à personne”) the excellent, but mostly-underappreciated French thriller from last summer that really wowed us? [though admittedly, it did do very, very well in the arthouse indie markets financially, still too overlooked for our taste though]. Well Miramax and Focus have bought the rights. “Caché”-like in some respects, the film is about a pediatrician who starts receiving vague clues about his wife, who he thought was brutally murdered eight years ago. [Variety]
There’s been talk that Robert Zemeckis might do a sequel to “Roger Rabbit.” That was fine and all, but meh. Then again, Zemeckis hasn’t done something of interest to us [ed. me] since that 1988 animated film (though “Cast Away” is a lot better than most people gave it credit for/ [MTV]
Tommy Wirkol, the director of the Sundance zombies WWII hit, “Dead Snow,” is apparently planning a film about the Hansel & Gretel story called, “Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters,” which follows the pair into adult life where they, well, hunt witches. Sounds vaguely interesting in a Brothers Grimm fairy tale way. Oh and the producers of the film? Two unknown kids named Adam McKay and Will Ferrell. Weird, right? [THR]
