Bill Murray joins Mickey Rourke and Megan Fox in Passion Play

Production Weekly reports via Collider that Bill Murray has joined the cast of Mitch Glazer’s directorial debut Passion Play, taking over for British actor Toby Kebbell (RockNRolla) in the role of gangster Happy Shannon. Passion Play, which is currently filming, is an independent drama starring Mickey Rourke, Megan Fox, and Rhys Ifans. It’s set in 1950’s LA and revolves around a washed-up trumpet player (Rourke) who saves a carnival-attraction angel (Fox) from Murray’s menacing mobster.

Rourke’s character sounds like a more relatable version of his Angel Heart one. Murray should also give the gangster character quite a different feel from Kebbell.

Writer/director Glazer wrote the scripts for Scrooged, The Recruit, and the 1998 adaptation of Great Expectations.

Sounds like an unusual kind of film and definitely one to watch out for. Rourke and Murray are both quality actors, the only weak link so far is Fox.

The Conspirator – First photos from Robert Redford’s new film

Here is our first look at James McAvoy and Evan Rachel Wood on the set of the new Robert Redford film The Conspirator.

MovieWeb have the news that Wood will portray Anna Surrat, daughter of Robin Wright Penn’s Mary Surratt in the film which deals with the aftermath of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. It was also said that Toby Kebbell (RocknRolla) would portray Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth. It was recently reported that Justin Long has joined the cast, portraying a Civil War soldier and best friend of McAvoy’s Colonel Frederick Aiken

Prince of Persia – A photo of Sir Ben Kingsley as the bad guy of the piece

Yesterday I posted some new posters for the video game adaption of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time.

Now ComingSoon have a photo of Sir Ben Kingsley as the villainous Nizam in the same almost black and white colour scheme.

It says that it is the first photo of Kingsley as the character but I assume they mean first official one as I posted a photo of him as Nizam doing the pointy dance back in October last year.

Mike Newell is directing. Jake Gyllenhaal will play Dastan, a young prince in sixth century Persia who must join forces with Tamina (Gemma Arterton), a feisty and exotic princess, to prevent an evil nobleman (Kingsley) from possessing the Sands of Time, a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world. Alfred Molina and Toby Kebbell also star.

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Footage of Cage filming The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

I recently posted some footage of Afred Molina and Monica Belluci filming in New York. Now the excellent chaps over at Hey U Guys sent me this footage of Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel filming the live action version of Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice coming in 2010. It was just off of Times Square on 7th Avenue.

There also seems to be a thing developing for the Sorcerer’s in the film (Cage and Molina) to be sat in cars with their apprentice (Baruchel and Toby Kebbell) as these photos show.

Not sure why but I’m getting a good feeling about this film. It could be the one that breaks Cage’s current run of not very good films.

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First look at Alfred Molina and Toby Kebbell in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Stitch Kingdom had a visit to the set of Nicolas Cage’s new film The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.

The film is based on the poem/Fantasia segment of the same name — Cage is the Sorcerer and Alfred Molina portrays Horvath, Cage’s nemesis and fellow sorcerer. In the film, Horvath picks up a sidekick in the form of professional illusionist Drake Stone (Toby Kebbell).


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