I wonder what most of you think of John Malkovich as of late. Personally he was one of my favorite actors until he slowly withered into the realm of terrible with performances I absolutely loathed in such films as Johnny English, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Eragon. In each of those films he seemed to be phoning it in and didn’t care about how bad it made him look. His performance (if you can even call it that) in Eragon was one of the worst of the year last year and it has to be one of the reasons The Hollywood Reporter doesn’t even use his name to spark readers’ attention in their latest article “3 join Jolie for Changeling“. Yup, Malk is one of those three, but Angelina Jolie’s name is obviously the big draw.
The report tells us that Jeffrey Donovan, Colm Feore and John Malkovich have joined Angelina Jolie in the Clint Eastwood directed Changeling over at Universal.
The film is a true life drama following a woman (Jolie) whose son goes missing in 1920s Los Angeles. The police return the wrong child and the woman is thrown into an insane asylum for disagreeing with the LAPD. When it seems that her real son has been murdered by a child serial killer and the child returned admits to fraud, she takes her case to the city council and takes down the mayor, the police chief and several corrupt officers, concurrently sparking changes in the insanity legislation.
Donovan will play a police captain, Feore the chief of police and Malkovich a reverend.
Also joining the cast are Jason Butler Harner (“John Adams”), who portrays a mechanic accused of murdering the woman’s son, as well as Amy Ryan and Michael Kelly.
Hopefully Eastwood will help us remember the Malkovich from Rounders or even In the Line of Fire from 1993 when the Eastwood hunted Malk’s assassinating ass down.
