It seems on a daily basis I am adding a new name to McG’s We Are Marshall and today isn’t any different as “Deadwood‘s” Ian McShane comes aboard the film which centers on a small town’s efforts to rebuild after the 1970 plane crash that killed nearly the entire football team and coaching staff of Marshall U.
McShane will portray a steel mill exec who deals with losing a son in the crash while serving as an influential university board member constantly challenging attempts to resurrect the football program.
The production is currently underway in West Virginia with a December 8 release date planned.
Hmmmm… This one is a bit bewildering as a Variety article reports that Woody Allen has suddenly scrapped plans to film the untitled Paris pic in which David Krumholtz and Michelle Williams had only recently been cast in.
Apparently Allen is returning to a previous concept of lensing a third film in London, which will be a completely different one from the Paris plan, with a different cast, but the producing team of Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum and Gareth Wiley will remain the same. In traditional fashion, the storyline for the London pic is unknown.
Matthew Perry has found work after “Friends” as he is set to star in the dark comedy Nub for writer/director Harris Goldberg who will be making his feature directorial debut on the pic.
The film finds Perry playing a screenwriter who suffers from acute depersonalization disorder, a condition so alienating and sanguine that it makes the chronically depressed look perky. When he falls for a girl, he puts himself through every single therapy in the book in order to win her love.
