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  • Legendary moves ahead with Warcraft; Paula Patton, Colin Farrell in the mix

    Legendary moves ahead with Warcraft; Paula Patton, Colin Farrell in the mix

    MUMBAI: Legendary Pictures and Atlas Entertainment are casting up Warcraft, the movie adaptation of the hit Blizzard video game World Of Warcraft that Duncan Jones will helm. Word has it that Paula Patton is negotiating for a lead role and that another lead has been offered to Colin Farrell. Jones is testing other actors for the major roles. Production will begin in January and Charles Leavitt has written the script.

     

    The role-playing game takes place in a medieval-like setting where players control avatars that take on gryphons, dragons, zombies, werewolves and elves. Time travel and alien worlds also are part of the mix. The project is one of Legendary’s biggest and was supposed to be made at Warner Bros. Since Thomas Tull’s financing/production company moved over to Universal Pictures, it’s expected that the film will be relocated there as well.

     

    Patton is the lead in the upcoming Fox Searchlight film Baggage Claim and is coming off the hits 2 Guns and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Farrell stars with Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson in Disney’s upcoming Oscar-season film Saving Mr. Banks and then the Akiva Goldsman-directed adaptation of the Marc Helprin novel Winter’s Tale.

  • Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson in Saving Mr Banks

    Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson in Saving Mr Banks

    MUMBAI: Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson have been signed to play pivotal roles in a film based on Disney‘s Mary Poppins titled Saving Mr Banks.

    The film, scripted by Kelly Marcel, details how Walt Disney spent 14 years coaxing PL Travers, the Australian author of Mary Poppins, to adapt her books about the magical nanny.
    Travers resisted for a long time because she feared Disney would make an animated adaptation. The studio finally made a live-action movie in 1964 that starred Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. But the film was not without the animated sequences that turned Travers off from working with Disney again.

    The studio picked up the Black List script earlier this year and later signed John Lee Hancock to direct.

    Hanks is currently shooting for Sony‘s true-life tale Captain Phillips about a captain who dealt with Somali pirates during the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama. Thompson, who will be seen in Men in Black III has done a voice over in Pixar‘s Brave.