We’ve got a bunch of casting updates for you from all over the place. In this article you see some confirmed and unconfirmed casting bits that involve Rachel Weisz, Aaron Eckhart and Sean Bean, Val Lauren, Katie Holmes and Chace Crawford, Keifer Sutherland, Matthew McConaughey and Hilary Swank, and Elizabeth Debicki. Keep reading to find out what projects they may be involved with.
• First up, double news for Rachel Weisz. The actress has two projects she’s looking at joining, and they should both be pretty big films. She’s looking at taking up a role in The Bourne Legacy which already has Jeremy Renner set to star. In this film, she’d play “an operative from a covert government program that is even more dangerous than the Treadstone brainwashing program that hatched Bourne.” [Deadline]
• Secondly, for Weisz, she’s also being considered for the remake of The Thin Man starring Johnny Depp and directed by Rob Marshall. She’s “somewhere at the top of their wishlist” for the role of Nora, who be Depp’s character’s wife. She has not entered into negotiations as the project is still in development. [CinemaBlend] Continue reading →