Quantum of Solace

It seems that Michel Gondry’s perpetually stalled Green Hornet film has finally started production. Several new names have been added and confirmed in the cast by the film’s press release. The first is Tom Wilkinson, from Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Michael Clayton. The second is David Harbour, of Quantum of Solace and Brokeback Mountain.
Also confirmed to be in the cast are Edward James Olmos and Nicolas Cage. The details of the press release, as revealed by Slashfilm, are as follows:
Culver City, Calif., September 2, 2009 – A classic character of film, television, radio and comic books returns to the big screen in Columbia Pictures’ feature film The Green Hornet, starring Seth Rogen (Superbad, Knocked Up) as the vigilante crime-fighter. Production is underway on the Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) helmed film, which is produced by Neal H. Moritz (I Am Legend, »
- John Cooper

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With all the talk of Cameron Diaz, Jay Chou, and Edward James Olmos joining the cast of The Green Hornet, a few additions managed to float in under the radar. Luckily, Columbia Pictures sent out a press release announcing the start of production, which brought some new facts to light.
Now it looks like Tom Wilkinson and David Harbour are on-board as well, while Nicolas Cage is mentioned as being "in negotiations to appear." Cage had been in talks to play the Green Hornet's gangster nemesis since July, so this could be a sign he's gun shy about the project (which is kind of understandable, since in theory, it would require that he lose out to Seth Rogen).
In addition, Olmos' participation in the film, to be directed by Michel Gondry from a script by Rogen and Evan Goldberg, had been previously rumored but unconfirmed. The film, which will star Rogen as the titular hero, »

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Serialized American comic strips might not be generating many major motion pictures of late, but the funny pages across the pond have fared better, meriting a feature adaptation of a reimagined literary classic.
According to Variety, British director Stephen Frears has signed to helm the live-action adaptation of "Tamara Drewe," cartoonist Posy Simmonds' modern retelling of Thomas Hardy's "Far From the Madding Crowd."
Frears appears to be a fan of Simmonds' sequential storytelling, which could translate into a vision for the film that's consistent with the comic.
"I've loved Posy Simmonds' work for a long time," Frears told Variety.
Simmonds' modernized story follows doomed heroine Drewe, a journalist with a nose job who takes out being dumped by her rock-star boyfriend on an unsuspecting writer's retreat and the hardly-functioning married couple who run it. It's a little different from the original tale, which featured a good deal more sheep, »
- Caleb Goellner

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