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2.) I thought the idea of a Salt sequel had been put to rest, but it turns out the producers were just taking their time finding the right screenwriter. Kurt Wimmer, who wrote the original, actually turned in a script for the sequel last year, but Angelina Jolie didn’t think it was up to snuff. The producers then launched a year-long search for a new writer, who they now seem to think they have found in Becky Johnston, writer of the very un-Salt-y Seven Years in Tibet and The Prince of Tides. [THR]
3.) Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, taking a reprieve from making heavy films like 21 Grams and Amores Perros, is planning a comedy called Birdman as his next picture. The film is actually not a biopic of the famous rapper, but rather a fictional tale of a former actor, who once played an iconic superhero, as he mounts a Broadway play in an attempt to regain the spotlight. The movie will take place in one location over the course of three days as the actor juggles the play, his family and his sanity. Inarritu plans to shoot the film in March, which puts The Revenant, his gritty revenge wilderness drama with Leonardo DiCaprio attached, on hold for now. [THR]
4.) Matt Damon says he still wants to play Jason Bourne again. The problem is he and director Paul Greengrass can’t figure out how to bring him back, even with a little help from some hired guns. Here’s the quote from Damon’s interview with Deadline:
Paul Greengrass has to want to do it, and secondly and equally important, it comes down to Paul and I knowing what the hell we want to do. We just don’t have a story, and we haven’t had one. I quietly went to Jonah Nolan, because he and his brother Chris did such a brilliant job on Batman and that whole mythology. I just said, can you put your brain on this? I can’t figure it out. And he took a run at it and he couldn’t crack it either. Paul and I have been talking about it for years. And we can’t quite see what the movie would be. If we could get line of sight on that…
5.) Glenn Close and Nick Nolte will star in the rock ‘n’ roll drama Always On My Mind. The film comes from Rock of Ages creator Chris D’Arienzo, who will direct the movie from his own script. Nolte’s character is an aging rocker who is beginning to suffer from Alzheimer’s, while Close will play his supportive wife. I imagine Nolte’s singing voice sounding something like Bob Dylan‘s these days, which should be, well, interesting if nothing else. [Deadline]
