Casting Couch: November 5, 2006

As I am reaching the final stages of the site overhaul I neglected to post The Casting Couch on Friday and I am here to catch you up on a few bits of news that broke since Thursday, and it includes some decent names as we begin with Lindsay Lohan, Chris Evans, Ellen Burstyn, David Strathairn and Ann-Margret. All five are attached to star in The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, a long-forgotten Tennessee Williams screenplay. The screenplay tells the story of Fisher Willow (Lohan), the disliked 1920s Memphis debutante daughter of a plantation owner with a distaste for narrow-minded people and a penchant for shocking and insulting those around her.

After returning from studies overseas, Fisher falls in love with Jimmy (Evans), the down-and-out son of an alcoholic father (Strathairn) and an insane mother who works at a store on her family’s plantation. She tries to pass him off as an upper-class suitor to appease the spinster aunt (Ann-Margret) who controls her family’s fortune, but when she loses a diamond, it places their tenuous relationship in further jeopardy. Burstyn is attached to play Fisher’s mother.

Word is production is expected to begin next year, but this is not entirely confirmed. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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