The latest addition to the cast of Gulliver’s Travels is Amanda Peet, who will play the role of Gulliver’s editor and potential romantic interest.
The film is a modern retelling of Jonathan Swift’s classic story. It follows the writer Lemuel Gulliver (played by Jack Black) who ends up on the secret island of Lilliput, home to tiny people.
Other cast members include Jason Segel and Emily Blunt.
Rob Letterman (Monsters vs. Aliens) is set to direct the film.
Amanda Peet won the female lead role in much anticipated and talked about Roland Emmerich’s epic disaster project “2012.”
Peet is joining a very impressive ensemble cast led by John Cusack that includes Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover and Oliver Platt.
“2012″ pivots on a global cataclysm and the more than heroic effort of the survivors. Peet is playing Cusack’s ex-wife, recently married to a affluent man. Cusack plays a divorced father attempting to become a writer while working as a limo driver.
If the actor’s strike doesn’t materialize, the epic movie starts shooting in July. The release date for “2012″ is July 10, 2009.
Amanda Peet is in the next “X-Files” movie along with the usual David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. The “I Want to Believe” film is opening July 25th this summer. Peet seems to be playing an FBI agent similar to Mulder. This trailer doesn’t depict her role as much as the recent theatrical trailer viewed at the official site. The official trailer offers Peet’s line “I am not the most popular girl at the FBI, right now,” perhaps says it all. Your guess is as good as mine.
I am very excited for Nicole Holofcener because she’s going to be filming her next movie very soon with her muse, Catherine Keener, who starred in all of Holofcener films. Other actors casted in her latest movie venture include Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt and Rebecca Hall.
I have to brag and say I have interviewed Holofcener twice. I find her to be a very insightful and endearing director, someone you can trust.
The movie is untitled but focuses on a woman (Keener) and her husband (Platt) who live next door to an elderly woman whose New York apartment the couple owns. Keener and her husband essentially are waiting for the elderly woman to die so they can reclaim the apartment but run into interference from — and then form a relationship with — the woman’s granddaughters (Peet and Hall.)