Lizzie♥Z&V

It would be amazing if Anne is in the movie too, she's a really good actress.

And Zac's character fall in love with three girls...

LivvyxBaby

What a great role for Zaccy!

jeezbee

As was discussed the other day in the news thread it's unlikely that Anne will be able to do the project. She signed up officially to a different project after she got initially attached to "Me and Orson Welles" and I just found another source that this project ("Bride Wars") starts filming in February in Boston. I can't see how her schedule can work out with both projects unless "Bride Wars" gets pushed another month or two. That's the reason imo why she's not mentioned in the HR announcement.
I guess we're going to have a lot of new shipper threads after this movie on the board then.

ETA: Thanks to the mod who fixed my thread title and capitalized the 'b' – I wanted to ask yesterday when I saw it but forgot after all.

LivvyxBaby

Awww...damn! too bad Anne cant do it!

Fearlessღ

Anne is a great period actor too. I wonder who else is up for one of the roles that could pull off a period film.

jeezbee

I've been twisting my mind for an alternative casting in the last few days. I'm not a big fan of Anne but I would have been happy with the casting because she meets "my" criteria/requirements.

McKay seems great but has zero name, Zac has a huge popularity but little dramatic acting cred, so it would be really important that they cast somebody in the female lead role who has a very good acting reputation as a feature film actress and at the same time a decent name awareness. Unfortunately I couldn't come up with any actress in her 20ies who fits these criteria and is not already filming something else at the moment.

My dream casting would have been Natalie Portman. She certainly would have brought the credibility and as well as the name recognition. Plus, I could have seen Zac's character as well as Welles being attracted to her on a physical level. Oh well, not that she was an option but she's filming Brothers at the moment anyway.

All the other actresses I can think of (and I even did an advanced search on IMDb) are either too old or not accomplished enough for this project (well in my opinion) or are already doing other projects in that timeframe.

*°*Peryne*°*

Thanks jeezbee for all the news !

It's good to see that things are slowly setting up, and I'm still curious and excited about this movie. Zac's role seems really interesting, and I guess he'll have a great time to work on this character.

About the actress who could be casted instead of Anne, I haven't think about it yet, but Natalie Portman would have been a really good choice. She's such a good actress, with credibility, as you said. So bad that she's not available (ok it sounds weird to use this word for a human being, huh ?!? My english vocabulary sucks sometimes, I'm sorry lol)
Anyway, I'm gonna try to search for some names too, it could be interesting =)

HSMloveOTH

you girls dont waste anytime, do ya

of course im gonna ask to be addeddd

V-Nessa

No problem. It was the neat freak in me

jeezbee

I know I have the same problem with vocabulary (and grammar) all the time. It's frustrating if you can't express yourself the way you want to. However, the use of availability in that context is perfectly fine.

I'm looking forward to what you come up with as alternative to Anne.

Me too, in case you couldn't tell yet. I even correct typos in my posts weeks later if I see them.

Another random tidbit...

Kat Chandler, who is a filmmaker and teacher at the Austin Film Society (which Richard Linklater co-founded), commented on the project in her blog:
It seems that the project has been secret and has buzz. That sounds very intriguing if the other filmmakers are curious. She makes it seem like a fairly big deal.

bettybaby

found another synopsis of the book, man i am totally psyched for zac in this role. it really sounds incredible, sounds like he might have a lot of kissing scenes

i seriously need to read this book!

Fearlessღ

Okay, so just throwing an actress out there for the period - maybe someone like Alexis Bledel or even Arielle Kebbel. I'm not sure about both of their ranges because I haven't seen either of them outside of their big breaks - Alexis for Gilmore and Sisterhood and Arielle for JMTD and Gilmore as well. but they both could pull off a period look.

jeezbee

I don't want to sound bitchy and arrogant but both are nowhere near (as in really, really far away) the acting reputation I want in a co-star for him. Plus, they (esp Alexis) are too much of TV actresses¹ and not movie stars.

I actually like Alexis but I can't see her playing the woman both man fall in love with (esp considering that Welles was a big womanizer) and fight over. I don't know the exactly the role for that character aside from what's in the summary but I can't see Alexis pulling that off. Her acting skill are nowhere near what I would want.

I don't know Arielle well but Aquamarine and The Grudge 2 is not the pedigree I'm looking for either.

Plus, both have projects lined up for this spring as well.

I've also kept thinking about the casting and there are two actresses which I would be happy with (although I'm not really a big fan of either): Keira Knightley and Scarlett Johansson. Both have actually finished their recent projects, are award-winning and well known. Does anybody know how Keira's American accent is? I know they are big names but sometimes big names do small projects...

¹ From an etablished book about film making:

Quote:

TV Actor vs. Movie Actor Let's play the name game. There is a big difference between a TV actor and a movie actor, and it has nothing to do with their abilities. It is about their name marketability. Ninety-nine percent of all actors who achieve fame and fortune do it via primetime episodic TV. The double-edged sword, however, is that after the actor is on TV every Tuesday night for five years, the viewers think of that actor as free and they balk at paying $10 to see this "free" actor in a movie. It is very hard for a TV actor to become a famous movie actor. All TV actors try it, but four out of five fail and come back to TV three years later. But one out of five succeed and launch successful movie careers. I know you're thinking of names of this actor and that actor–but the bottom line is, once an actor becomes famous by starring in a weekly primetime TV series, it is extremely hard to get a movie audience to pay to see him/her. Why pay when you can see them every night for free?

That book was published a few years ago and the separation between TV and movie actor might have become less strict but it's still a true fact imo.

Fearlessღ

I'm not a big fan of Scarlett or Keira either. If Emily Blunt has a convincing American accent, I'd be all for her

Lizzie♥Z&V

Emily Blunt is great. She was excellent in the Devils wears Prada, I like Rachel McAdams too, no offense if someone differ with me