You know how sometimes there are those doomed projects which keep getting postponed or keep losing cast members. Today we've heard that
Colin Farrell has left
ARTHUR & LANCELOT epic due to scheduling conflict, just when the film was supposed to get back on track, and now
MOTOR CITY has been left without
Jake Gyllenhaal, who before that replaced
Dominic Cooper. But unlike the above mentioned epic this one at least has a solution for the lead role and a worthy one: according to "Variety" Scotland's favourite
Gerard Butler will take the lead in
MOTOR CITY, an ex-con who goes on a quest for vengeance against the men who framed him and sent him to prison. The cast will be also supported with
Gary Oldman in the villain role and
Amber Heard in the female lead. Although the plot doesn't sound overly interesting currently, the script was on the famous Black List back in 2009, the list of most promising and intriguing movie scripts.
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And here's something funny and positively cheerful :) You do remember that in the sea of upcoming remakes of the 80's classics (I'm not sure there's a single film from that decade that isn't getting a reboot), there was also
TWINS, one of the biggest comedies from the past in which
Arnold Schwarzenegger and
Danny Devito played twins who looked like total opposites - one being a muscular hulk and another a little penguin. Now listen to this: "The Hollywood Report" writes today that the movie will reunite the two of them as brothers Julius and Vincent, conceived experimentally, who discover they have third sibling, who will be played by no other by
Eddie Murphy! I'm not kidding. This is why
TRIPLETS will be the title of the sequel.
And have you seen character posters for
Tim Burton's movie adaptation of the famous classic TV show
DARK SHADOWS in
which
Johnny Depp plays Barnabas, rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy, who makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard. A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to his Collinwood Manor to find that the once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (
Michelle Pfeiffer) has called
upon live-in psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman (
Helena Bonham Carter), to help with her family troubles. Also residing in the manor is Elizabeth's ne'er-do-well brother, Roger Collins, (
Jonny Lee Miller), her rebellious teenage daughter Carolyn Stoddard (
Chloe Moretz),
and Roger's precocious 10-year-old son, David Collins (
Gulliver McGrath). The mystery extends beyond the family, to caretaker Willie Loomis, played by
Jackie Earle Haley, and David's new nanny, Victoria Winters, played by
Bella Heathcote.Click on the posters to see them bigger.
played twins who looked like total opposites - one being a muscular hulk and another a little penguin. Now listen to this: "The Hollywood Report" writes today that the movie will reunite the two of them as brothers Julius and Vincent, conceived experimentally, who discover they have third sibling, who will be played by no other by Eddie Murphy! I'm not kidding. This is why TRIPLETS will be the title of the sequel. 
