Call Sheet: Matt Damon, Meryl Streep, Jeff Bridges, Bruce Willis, Gweneth Paltrow, Neil Patrick Harris

Call Sheet: Matt Damon, Meryl Streep, Jeff Bridges, Bruce Willis, Gweneth Paltrow, Neil Patrick Harris

Jun 28

Call Sheet: A weekly run-down of movie casting news and rumours from around the web.

• Variety reckons Matt Damon is in talks to join Cameron Crowe’s Zoo, based on Benjamin Mee’s bestselling memoir We Bought a Zoo. Damon would play Benjamin Mee, a widowed father who buys a dilapidated zoo in the English countryside. Intense action ensues.

• Moviehole recently talked with Major League writer/director David S Ward who revealed that he hopes Charlie Sheen would return to play Wild Thing in Major League 4.

“Wild Thing comes out of retirement to work with this 19-year-old player. We’ve actually got three new characters in the new film. And if the new film is popular, they could carry the franchise on.”

• Variety reports that Daniel Radcliffe (erm, Harry Potter) is set to star in a new version of the classic novel All Quiet on the Western Front which is on track to shoot in the spring of 2012. Meanwhile, I wonder who’ll play the new Harry Potter in the bound-to-happen spin-off movies?

• Deadline reveals that City of God director Fernando Meirelles will direct a film called 360, written by Peter Morgan. Will he ever be able to match City of God?

• The Wrap seem to think Mike Nichols is in negotiations to direct Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges as a married couple in Great Hope Springs.

• THR (via Slashfilm) report that Wayne Kramer is looking to direct Pretty Boy Floyd, a film about bank robber Charles Arthur ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd.

• Robin Hare wrote about Michael Fassbender choosing X-Men: First Class over the Spider-Man reboot. Nice to be some.

• THR reports Michael Shannon and Jamie Chung are in talks to join the action-thriller film Premium Rush, being directed by David Koepp. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is already attached.

• According to Slashfilm, M. Night Shyamalan is shopping his next script around Hollywood with Bruce Willis, Gweneth Paltrow and Bradley Cooper rumoured to be attached. There’s hardly anything else about the project available at the moment– not even a logline or a title.

• Slashfilm reports that Imogen Poots has joined Toni Collette and Colin Farrell for the remake of the 1985 vampire film Fright Night. I wonder if this would still be happening without Twilight being so popular?

• Slashfilm reports that Neil Patrick Harris has confirmed he will appear in A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas. I guess fans of the franchise and Neil are excited by this, but it’s hardly surprising.

• 20th Century Fox revealed that John Lithgow has signed on to join Planet of the Apes prequel Rise of the Apes. James Franco is already attached and Don Cheadle is rumoured to be negotiating. Hands-up if you only know Lithgow as the Dad in 3rd Rock From The Sun? Shame on you… go rent Harry And The Hendersons.

• Slashfilm reports that Pierce Brosnan and his son Sean Brosnan are teaming up to co-star in a film called Bonded, which will see them in an “Oliver Twist-esque” thriller based on a story that took place in California in the early ’90s… I guess the Men-Expert ads didn’t pay enough?

• Due to scheduling conflicts Lake Bell had to leave Scream 4 just days before production got under way. I’m not sure that’ll make much of a difference to the film, it’s just a pain in the ass for the production. Here’s a saucy picture of her, anyway: