Sunday, April 5, 2009

Super Friends! DiCaprio Teams With Dark Knight Director Nolan (E! Online)

Los Angeles (E! Online) – Any Batfans ticked off that they have to wait a while for the next installment in the Caped Crusader saga can blame Leonardo DiCaprio.

The Hollywood hottie is in final talks to come aboard Christopher Nolan's Inception, per Variety. The Dark Knight auteur has lined up the sci-fi action flick as his next directing gig instead of doing another Batsequel right away.

No specifics have emerged on the plot or DiCaprio's role, except that he'll play the lead. Shooting starts later this year for a summer 2010 release.

Meanwhile, in other Hollywood movie action, Megan Fox is looking to double her pleasure,  Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan are buddying up and Mickey Rourke continues to cash in on his comeback...

•  Fresh off work on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (and a possible breakup with Brian Austin Green), Fox has scored two new comic book-based films: Fathom, a comic about an orphan who owes her superhuman swimming skills to a secret underwater race, and the western Jonah Hex, opposite Josh Brolin and John Malkovich.

•  Willis and Morgan are joining forces in Warner Bros.' mismatched detective comedy A Couple of Cops, which will mark Clerks helmer Kevin Smith's first big-studio directing gig.

•  Rourke has signed on to star opposite Alice Braga and Vincent Cassel in 11 Minutes, the story of a scorned woman who becomes a high-priced hooker. Rourke will play her boss at a gentleman's club.

•  Alexander Payne is eyeing Paul Giamatti, Reese Witherspoon and Sacha Baron Cohen for the offbeat comedy Downsizing, Payne's first helming job since his Oscar-winning Sideways. Giamatti plays a guy low on cash who decides to shrink himself.  Along the way, he meets fellow little people Witherspoon and Baron Cohen.

•  Alfred Molina, better known as Doc Ock in Spider-Man 2, is conjuring up evil spirits as baddie magician Horvath in Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice opposite Nicolas Cage. National Treasure's Jon Turteltaub is directing, and Jerry Bruckheimer is producing the flick.

•  John Corbett, Bridget Moynahan and Ginnifer Goodwin are set to star in Beezus and Ramona, a feature film version of Beverly Cleary's classic children's book series. Corbett and Moynahan will play 10-year-old Ramona's parents, Dorothy and Bob Quimby, while Goodwin will play beloved Aunt Bea. Cameras roll in Vancouver in April.

 

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