Three very talented actors have joined What’s Wrong with Virginia? Ed Harris, Emma Roberts and Amy Madigan are set to work with director and writer Dustin Lance Black, Oscar-winning screenwriter of Milk.
Harris is taking on the role that was attached to Liam Neeson. The role is a sheriff whose state senate bid lies on the line when his daughter begins to date the son of a psychologically disturbed woman with whomthe sheriff has been involved with a two-decade affair. Jennifer Connelly also stars in the title role.
Shooting of the film is schedule to start September 28, 2009 in Holland, Michigan.
Joining in on the festivities that will be Valentine’s Day are Topher Grace, Emma Roberts and Hector Elizondo who have been added to the cast of the upcoming ensemble romantic comedy.
The film will tell five slightly interconnecting stories playing out on the fateful day in Los Angeles. Grace will play a mailroom worker in the town’s biggest agency who is dating Anne Hathaway’s character. Roberts will play a teen who wants to lose her virginity and Elizondo will play the husband of Shirley MacLaine’s character.
Other cast members include Julia Roberts, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner, Bradley Cooper and Ashton Kutcher.
Gary Marshall is set to helm the pic.
Mixing comedy with the manner of growing up, Lymelife is a a funny, biting and loving tribute to the American family directed by Derick Martini, making his directorial debut. Award-winning filmmakers Derick and his brother Steven collaborated on the script based on their experiences growing up on suburban Long Island.
“Lymelife,” a story about the dark side of suburban paradise and the loss of innocence centers on two deeply troubled, dysfunctional families during the late 1970s. The film revolves around an awkward, sensitive 15-year old boy, Scott Bartlett (Rory Culkin), whose family life is turned upside-down after an outbreak of Lyme disease hits the community spreading illness and paranoia.
Scott’s parents — a workaholic father, Mickey (Alec Baldwin) and an overprotective mother, Brenda (Jill Hennessy) — are on the verge of a divorce as his older brother Jim (Kieran Culkin) is about to ship off for war. Complicating matters, Scott has fallen in love with his next door neighbor, Adrianna Bragg (Emma Roberts). Adrianna seems to be the only person in the world who understands Scott demonstrated by her equally troubled, less affluent family including an uptight mother, Melissa (Cynthia Nixon), carrying on a not-so-clandestine love affair, and a father, Charlie (Timothy Hutton), slowly slipping away from the effects of Lyme disease. Both profoundly funny and deeply moving, “Lymelife” looks at first love and family dynamics during a time of drastic economic and cultural change.
Release Date: April 8, 2009
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According to Vanity Fair, I am inclined to agree, these girls are the next wave of Hollywood starlets:
Amanda Seyfried in upcoming Mama Mia!
Emma Roberts starred in Nancy Drew and next is Wild Child.
Blake Lively was Bridget in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and reprises her role in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.
Kristen Steward played Tracy in Into the Wild will be seen in Twilight, Adventureland and What Just Happened?
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