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Dustin Hoffman and Helen Hunt have been cast in Peter Greenaway's new film. The pair are set to star in the British filmmaker's latest project which has started principal photography in Lucca, Italy. The story is based on Greenaway's original script and centres on an intelligent man called Jacob whose last big adventure is planned to be his own death. He wants to pass away in elegant, sensible and tidy fashion and leave behind as few loose ends as possible. Sofia Boutella, Giacomo Gianniotti, Jonno Davies and Laura Morante also have roles in the untitled picture – which marks Greenaway's first...
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'Twister' director Jan de Bont is adamant the disaster movie "cannot be remade". De Bont helmed the 1996 original starring Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt about a storm chasers caught up in a tornado which wreaks havoc across Oklahoma and the film is being revived for a sequel called 'Twisters' which is reportedly set after the events of the original but the moviemaker is adamant the use of CGI will make it a very different film. He told Inverse.com: "When things fell from the sky, there were real things falling from a helicopter. If you film a car escaping a tornado in a hail storm, it was real ic...
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A remake of 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun' is in the works. Village Roadshow are to produce a modern-day take on the cult 1985 romantic comedy dance film that starred Sarah Jessica Parker, Lee Montgomery and Helen Hunt. Marja Lewis-Ryan is co-writing the script for the movie together with Allie Romano while Elizabeth Banks is producing with Max Handelman for the duo's Brownstone Productions company. The original flick centred on army brat Janey Glenn (Parker) who attends a strict Catholic high school in Chicago and has to contend with an even stricter father at home. Janey decides to follow her...
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'Top Gun: Maverick' actor Glen Powell is in talks to join the 'Twister' sequel. The 34-year-old actor is to star alongside 'Normal People' star Daisy Edgar-Jones in the follow-up to the 1996 disaster epic, which is titled 'Twisters', Deadline reports. While their roles are not known at this time, however, it was previously revealed by The Hollywood Reporter that: "Edgar-Jones will star in the project as a former storm chaser who, after surviving a disastrous tornado encounter, now works a desk job. However, she will soon be forced to, you guessed it, go out into the breach once more." Not thou...
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Daisy Edgar-Jones is set to star in 'Twisters'. The 'Normal People' actress has been cast in the reboot of the hit 1996 film 'Twister' which is being directed by Lee Isaac Chung. The movie is being co-financed by Warner Bros and the script is being written by Mark L. Smith. It is slated for release in 2024. 'Twister' was a big success when it was released and the film starred Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton in the lead roles. The original flick was helmed by 'Speed' director Jan De Bont and executive produced by Steven Spielberg. Daisy, 24, previously starred as Kya Clark from North Carolina in the...
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Alan Ruck is to star in 'Crust'. The 66-year-old actor is set to feature opposite Sean Whalen in the horror comedy film that is being directed by the latter in his feature debut. The duo previously collaborated on the hit 1996 disaster epic 'Twister' alongside Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton. 'Crust' tells the story of lonely laundromat owner Vegas Winters (Whalen), who keeps the leftover socks from customers and uses them to clean himself. After being abused he weeps into the pile of socks, which turns into a creature who seeks revenge on Vegas' enemies. Ruck will play the role of Randy Roberts, a...
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Eva Green blamed her “Frenchness” for “some horrible things” she said in a swear-laden rant. The ‘Casino Royale’ star is currently pursuing legal action against the producers and backers of the ‘A Patriot’ - a film that was set to star her, Charles Dance and Helen Hunt, before it fell through in 2019 - and attributed her nationality and culture to why she called the movie’s prospective director a “f****** inexperienced, pretentious moron” while testifying at the High Court in London on Monday (30.01.23). The 42-year-old actress - who is suing White Lantern Films and SMC Speciality Finance for ...
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Helen Hunt became "very boring" after finding fame. The 59-year-old actress became known around the world when she starred opposite Jack Nicholson in the 1997 romcom 'As Good As It Gets' and became "spooked" by the media intrusion that followed. She said: "There were a couple of years when I was a little spooked. I was afraid that I could never unring that bell. I just became very boring." The 'Mad About You' star - who has daughter Makena Lei, 18, from a previous relationship with Matthew Carnahan and was also once married to 'Simpsons' voice actor Hank Azaria - went on to explain that other ...
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Helen Hunt says her kiss with Tom Hanks in 'Cast Away' was far from romantic due to artificial rain. The 58-year-old actress played Kelly Frears the one-time girlfriend of 64-year-old Hanks' alter ego Chuck Noland, who is stranded on an uninhabited island for several years before making his escape and getting back to America. In the 2000 drama, the two characters are briefly reunited and share an intense kiss, but Helen admits it was not romantic to film as they were both drenched in falling water. Appearing on 'The Kelly Clarkson Show', she revealed: "In order for rain to show up on film, it ...
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Helen Hunt didn't want to be a "lifer" in the acting industry. The 57-year-old actress won an Oscar for her role in the 1997 romcom 'As Good as It Gets' but admits that she took a step back as she didn't want to have her life consumed by movie parts. Helen – who also starred in the hit TV sitcom 'Mad About You' - said: "It was weird after winning the Emmy and Oscar all at once but I wanted to have a life. I got scared that I would be a lifer in the industry so I decided to step back from some projects. "People ask, 'What happened?', and I go, 'I don't know I haven't stopped for one second.'" H...
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