Casting Notes: Virginia Madsen In Red Riding Hood; Javier Bardem Guests On Glee; Gina Gershon, Danny Glover And Robert Patrick In Five Minarets In New York
Virginia Madsenis the latest recruit forCatherine Hardwicke’s medieval thrillerRed Riding Hood, which is shooting in Vancouver. The script byDavid Leslie Johnsonsets a wildly altered version of the Little Red Riding Hood story in a medieval village beset by a werewolf.Amanda Seyfried,Lukas Haas,Shiloh Fernandez,Julie ChristieandGary Oldmanround out the impressive cast. Madsen will play the mother of the lead character, played by Seyfried. [Variety]
After the break, Javier Bardem makes an unlikely musical guest star, and the indie dramaFive Minarets in New Yorkcasts up.
Gleehas had a few big-name guest stars (Neil Patrick Harris, Kristin Chenoweth) but none with the power ofJavier Bardem, who is now reportedly set to appear in the show’s second season. Where’d that idea come from? Bardem, according toEW, which says the actor pitched the guest spot idea toGleecreatorRyan Murphy, who also happens to be Bardem’s director inEat Pray Love.
Bardem would be “a rock star who befriends Artie (Kevin McHale).” The kicker, from Bardem by way of EW, is that the actor says “We’re going to rock the house…We’re going to do some heavy metal — Spanish heavy metal, which is the worst.”
Turkish writer/directorMahsun Kirmizigul, who directed Turkey’s foreign Oscar submissionI Saw the Sun, is making the transition to English-language films withFive Minarets in New York, an indie starringGina Gershonas “Maria, the wife of a Turkish scholar who is arrested by federal authorities after being wrongfully accused of a crime.“Danny GloverandRobert Patrickwill also appear in the film, which sounds (as much as I hate to use the term, which has been positively abused) like it has a certain Hitchcockian angle. [THR]
