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Hawke bites into vampire role, Garner is resurrected in Be With You and Ferrell travels to Land of the Lost
By Ingrid Randoja
Will Ferrell gets Lost
Will Ferrell is set to go toe-to-toe with cavemen, dinosaurs and the dreaded Sleestaks when he steps in front of the camera for the long-awaited adaptation of the ’70s Saturday morning kids show Land of the Lost. The series followed a dad and his two kids who were sent swirling back in time and left to live among T-Rexes and the confrontational creatures called Sleestaks. The movie adaptation dumps the family and replaces them with a paleontologist (Ferrell), his assistant and a tour guide as the stranded humans. The film starts shooting in March and should hit theatres in the summer of 2009.
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Ethan Hawke in Daybreakers
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Ethan Hawke sucks in Daybreakers
Ethan Hawke’s pointy cuspids,
pale skin and rail-thin body give him a slightly vampiric look, and now
the 37-year-old is actually getting the chance to play a bloodsucker
(and perhaps pump life into his anemic career) in the upcoming Daybreakers, which is currently filming in Australia. The horror pic, co-starring Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill,
is set in the year 2017 when a plague has turned most people into
vampires. The vampires feed on the remaining human population, which is
dwindling, so these neck-nuzzlers have to find a new source of food or
face starvation. Hawke plays a vampire researcher looking for a way to
turn vampires back into humans.
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Jennifer Garner returns from the dead
The latest Japanese film set to get a Hollywood makeover is the romantic drama Be With You, starring Mrs. Affleck, Jennifer Garner. The film focuses on a dying woman (Garner) who tells her husband and little son that she will one day return to them. A year after her death, father and son meet a woman with no memory who looks exactly like her. Garner’s production company, Vandalia Films, is co-producing the movie, which starts production after Garner finishes shooting the romantic comedy The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past with Matthew
“do-you-want-me-to-take-my-shirt-off-for-this-scene?” McConaughey.
Briefly
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• Director Sarah Polley steps back in front of the camera to co-star with Adrien Brody in Splice, a sci-fi thriller about two hotshot genetic engineers who push the boundaries of science.
• A Thousand Words finds Eddie Murphy playing a man who has only 1,000 words to speak before he dies.
• Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart fall for one another in the romantic comedy Traveling.