Call Sheet: Kevin Bacon, Amanda Seyfield, Nicolas Cage, Elizabeth Banks, Emma Stone, Mark Wahlberg and Philip Seymour Hoffman

Call Sheet: Kevin Bacon, Amanda Seyfield, Nicolas Cage, Elizabeth Banks, Emma Stone, Mark Wahlberg and Philip Seymour Hoffman

Jul 18

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

X-Men: First Class continues to throw names all over the place with regards to casting, but only now do I recognize one of the stars: Kevin Bacon. Variety reports Bacon will play a lead villain while 20th Century Fox have also signed Jennifer Lawrence to play Mystique. The director of Kick-Ass, Matthew Vaughn, is behind this new X-Men flick.

Deadline reckons Mark Ruffalo is in ‘late-stage talks’ to play The Hulk in the new Avengers movie after Marvel publicly announced Edward Norton can go get fucked, basically.

The Wrap reveals Zombieland co-stars Woody Harrelson and Emma Stone are joining an already well-established cast on the film Friends With Benefits. Being directed by Will Gluck, Friends With Benefits stars Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis as two friends who have recently emerged from disastrous relationships. Patricia Clarkson, Richard Jenkins, Jenna Elfman and Andy Samberg have also signed on. That’s a very intriguing cast, to say the least. Justin Timberlake again? Doesn’t he spend his time writing songs?

Riskybusiness reports that Chris Pratt and Kathryn Morris will join Brad Pitt, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jonah Hill, and Robin Wright on Bennett Miller’s highly anticipated Moneyball, which starts shooting next month.

THR reveals that that kid from The Sixth Sense, Haley Joel Osment, is all grown up and about to play a virgin who teaches sex education at a school in the film Sex Ed. A synopsis so awesome it has every spec screenwriter kicking themselves for not writing this first.

Planet Of The Apes prequel Rise Of The Apes had Brian Cox and Tom Felton join the cast over the week. They’ll accompany James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, and Andy Serkis, who all signed on recently.

Director Steven Soderbergh has added John Hawkes to his film Contagion which has an impressive ensemble cast that includes Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Laurence Fishburne, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law. Give this casting director a gold star!

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has joined the cast of this fifth Fast And The Furious. It’s called Fast Five. That is all.

There are few directors that perk my interest when it comes to fantasy and science fiction films (just not my bag, baby), but when I hear that Andrew Niccol is making a new flick, I pay attention. After Gattaca, The Truman Show, S1m0ne & Lord Of War, Niccol will next helm the film I’M.MORTAL and has signed one of the hottest actresses in Hollywood right now (literally and figuratively) Miss Amanda Seyfried. (Variety)

Remember that short film The Raven which created a stir online back in April? Latino Review reports the feature film adaptation has been picked up by Universal and Mark Wahlberg is set to star and produce. It was sounding good up until that ‘Mark Wahlberg’ part, huh.

Deadline revealed that Amy Adams will play Janis Joplin in the bio film about her rock n’ roll life. The film is being produced by Wyck Godfrey who is also behind The Twilight Saga. I’ll leave you with that thought.

Cigarettes and Red Vines got the scoop that Paul Thomas Anderson‘s next film The Master, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jeremy Renner, will start production in August 2010. This is awesome because it’s PTA and PSH joining forces again. This makes me happy.

What does not make me happy is Nicolas Cage confirming on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson that he’ll reprise his role Johnny Blaze in Ghost Rider 2. Did you go see the first one? Did you rent it? Someone saw it enough times to afford them a sequel.

Last but not least, Elizabeth Banks will play Tinkerbell in a live action adaptation for Disney called Tink. I’m in favour of this. Here’s why: