Kate Winslet, who starred with Kenneth Branagh in 1996′s “Hamlet”, will reunite with Branagh in “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society,” which Kenneth Branagh is set to direct for Fox 2000. Variety reports that “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” is a love story set in the London and the Channel Islands after WWII. Winslet will play a magazine columnist who enters into a correspondence with a man from Guernsey, and learns how the islanders used a book group during the war as cover to outwit their German occupiers.
Steve Rogers, aka Captain America will be the superhero who leads us through “The Avengers” – but the film won’t be just about him. That’s from the mouth of director Joss Whedon talking to EW, who explains why he’s linking “The Avengers” to the end of “Captain America: The First Avenger”, where our hero just woke up in the modern world after spending almost 70 years “asleep” in the Arctic. “So much of [The Avengers] story takes place from Steve Rogers’ perspective, since he’s the guy who just woke up and sees this weird-ass world. Everyone else has been living in it. He’s the guy that feels that sense of loss.[Captain America] is kind of the ultimate loner in that way. There is an anachronism to him, and Chris and I have always tried to, without making it goofy or too obvious, make him that same grounded ’40s Steve Rogers he was in the other movie.”
A television series designed to act as prequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s classic “Psycho” has just been announced as joining the ranks of the A&E network, according to Hollywood Reporter. The series is currently in very early stages of development, with no word yet on who is being courted to play serial-killing motel owner Norman Bates, who was originally played by Anthony Perkins in the 1960 film. “Bates Motel” would delve into Bates’ back story, offering an understanding of how his psyche developed and how is mother, Norma and her lover damaged him to the point where he transformed into a murderous monster.
Shirley MacLaine’s given some of the most memorable movie mothers in history, from Aurora Greenway in “Terms of Endearment” (1982) to fallen dance mama Deedee in “The Turning Point” (1977), and now she’s about to add another matriarch to her charactergraphy. The 77-year-old will play Ben Stller’s mother in Fox’s long-gestating “Secret Life of Walter Mitty” remake (a film that’s gone through many incarnations since first announced; at one stage Jim Carrey was starring, then Owen Wilson, now Stiller..) says Deadline, which funnyman Stiller is also directing. The original Danny Kaye “Mitty” is a bonafide classic, and what worked it for was the casting, if Stiller and MacLaine are anything to go by, the remake seems just as blessed.
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