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CASTING CALL<br />
HAnks steps<br />
Into the Garden<br />
Tom Hanks’ Playtone production company will adapt the nonfiction<br />
bestseller In the Garden of Beasts, and Hanks is eyeing<br />
the leading role. The book recounts the life of William Dodd,<br />
the American ambassador to Germany in the 1930s who, along<br />
with his family, is initially enthralled by Nazism only to have<br />
his eyes opened to its brutality. No word on who’ll direct the<br />
picture, which is due in 2013.<br />
Arterton &<br />
ronAn MAke<br />
A Bloody<br />
Good teAM<br />
Byzantium keeps the vampire craze fresh by giving us a<br />
rare mother-daughter vampire team. Gemma Arterton<br />
plays a woman who’s transformed into a vampire, and<br />
then turns her daughter (Saoirse Ronan) into one as well.<br />
Neil Jordan directs, and he knows a thing or two about<br />
bloodsuckers, having helmed 1994’s Interview With the<br />
Vampire. The film is currently shooting in Dublin and<br />
comes out later this year.<br />
46 | <strong>Cineplex</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | january <strong>2012</strong><br />
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What’s<br />
GoInG<br />
on WIth...<br />
Tomb Raider<br />
Like Spider-Man, Lara Croft is being<br />
resurrected for the big screen before<br />
we’ve really had time to forget her.<br />
Unlike the original Tomb Raider pic<br />
starring Angelina Jolie, the new<br />
Tomb Raider (2013) will be more of an<br />
origins story in which we meet Croft<br />
before she’s become an accomplished<br />
adventurer. Olivia Wilde was<br />
rumoured to be taking over the role<br />
— but she shot down the idea on her<br />
Twitter account, so no word on who<br />
will play Croft.<br />
HeArd<br />
RevS MoToR<br />
So The Playboy Club didn’t work<br />
out for Amber Heard, but that’s<br />
okay, she’s moving to Motor City.<br />
The thriller, to be helmed by<br />
Albert Hughes later this year, stars<br />
Dominic Cooper (Captain America:<br />
The First Avenger) as an ex-con<br />
seeking revenge against those who<br />
framed him. Heard will play his<br />
love interest, and the cool thing<br />
about the original script — who<br />
knows if it will remain so on screen<br />
— is that it contains just a single<br />
line of dialogue.
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