Casting Notes: De Niro In Dark Fields; McAdams Works With Woody Allen; Gosling Joining Carell Comedy?
Often with these aggregated casting pieces the idea is to group together a number of fairly small stories. In this case the names are big — Robert De Niro, Rachel McAdams, Woody Allen, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carrell — but the films are either ones we don’t know much about or have recently covered in detail. Essentially, we don’t have too much to add to the news about any of these projects at this point other than: “hey, now this person is on board.”
TakeDark Fields, the thriller directed byNeil Burgerthat will starBradley Cooper. There was recentlyunconfirmed wordthatElizabeth Banksis joining the cast, and while that remains to be confirmed,Varietynow says thatRobert De Nirois on board. He’ll play “a brilliant financial mogul who begins pursuing Cooper’s character,” who is a New York writer “who comes into possession of a designer drug that gives him newfound intelligence and success.” Time was I would have been thrilled to heard about De Niro being part of a film like this. Can Burger make this one work? Hope so.
After the break, McAdams augments Allen, and Ryan Gosling might do a comedy.
Woody Allen’s new filmwon’t have a title for some timeand and is generally an unknown quantity at this point.Owen WilsonandMarion Cotillardare cast andCarla Bruni-Sarkozymay be cast.Rachel McAdamshas now joined the ‘romantic drama’ which will be shot in Paris later this year. Expect to hear some other big names attached to this one soon. [THR]
Finally, there’s what seems so far like a super-tenuous report thatRyan Goslingis joining thecomedyfeaturingSteve Carell, written byDan Fogelman(Bolt,Cars) and directed byJohn RequaandGlenn Ficarra, aka the guys who wrote and directedI Love You, Phillip Morris. Original reports peg it as being about “a father whose life unravels while he deals with a marital crisis and tries to manage his relationship with his children.” I’d like this to be true, as Gosling and Carell could be a lot of fun, but I’m not putting too much faith in it yet. [Laineygossip, viaThe Playlist]
