Source: Variety
As mentioned in a previous THRALL WORLD Rumor Of The Week posting, ROBERT DE NIRO was rumored to have joined the cast of ‘MACHETE’ – the now in production movie based on the fake GRINDHOUSE trailer. Here’s the confirmation along with a few other casting reveals:
Production [began] this week on `Machete,’ the film that Robert Rodriguez is co-directing with protege Ethan Maniquis. Danny Trejo is playing the title character and Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Steven Seagal, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin, Don Johnson and Jeff Fahey play supporting roles.
Plot synopsis: Centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family – and her killer – from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.
Directed by Peter Jackson and set for release on December 11th, 2009, ‘The Lovely Bones’ stars; Saoirse Ronan (ATONEMENT), Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Jake Abel, Charlie Saxton, and Michael Imperioli.
Actor-producer-director Larry Fessenden has signed on to helm “The Orphanage,” New Line’s remake of the Guillermo del Toro-produced Spanish-language horror movie.
Fessenden also has written the script with del Toro, who is producing the new film with Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson of Contrafilm.
The 2007 pic was directed by del Toro protege Juan Antonio Bayona and centered on a woman who, upon returning to the orphanage where she grew up, discovers that her son’s imaginary friend is the same person who terrorized her when she was a child.
‘EL ORFANATO’ is one of the best movies we have seen in the past couple of years and THRALL WORLD could not possibly recommend it more. A remake is completely unnecessary but I suppose the producers feel the story can reach a larger audience if in English (the original is in Spanish with subtitles). If you enjoyed Del Toro’s PAN’s LABRYINTHE you will most certainly be enlightened with the original Spanish version of ‘EL ORFANATO’.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way banner is developing a Gothic reimagining of “Little Red Riding Hood” with screenwriter David Leslie Johnson.
[‘Little Red Riding Hood’] isn’t being positioned as a possible acting vehicle for DiCaprio.
The best-known version of the story — in which a wolf disguises himself to fool a girl delivering food to her sick grandmother in the forest — was published in the 19th century by the Brothers Grimm. Earlier oral versions of the tale, which date back to the Middle Ages, are far darker and sometimes involve a werewolf rather than a wolf; the first published version, by Charles Perrault, concludes with Red Riding Hood eaten by the wolf, with no happy ending.
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