Casting Roundup: Reese Witherspoon and Jessica Brown Findlay Land Roles
In today's casting roundup we have some news about Reese Witherspoon and Downton Abbey's Jessica Brown Findlay.
reports that Witherspoon's Pacific Standard banner has bought the rights to a children’s book series titled
Pennyroyal’s Princess Boot Camp
written by
M.A. Larson
. This is the first book in the series from Larson, who got his start as
Mike Nichols
' assistant. Witherspoon will produce and is set to play a supporting role in the story, described as "a modern fairy tale about a school that shapes girls into warrior princesses to battle against an ever-growing terror of wicked witches."
Princess Boot Camp
was just picked up by Putnam Children's as a two-book series. Pacific Standard is planning to develop the film as a possible franchise.
Here is what Witherspoon had to say:
Finally, there is a princess story that reflects the values young women truly want to embody. These princesses are strong, independent and fierce, and the knights are their match. In telling their story, Larson has created a magical universe that everyone will love to get lost in.
reports that Findlay has won the lead role in Warner Bros.'
Winter's Tale
.
Akiva Goldsman
picked her out of a bunch of other leading ladies for the adaptation of the 1983
Mark Helprin
novel. Goldsman will make his directorial debut on the film. Findlay will play "a dying woman who falls in love with a thief who breaks into her home, a palatial West Side mansion, in a drama that takes place in 19th century and contemporary Manhattan."
Aaron Johnson
and
Garrett Hedlund
are the frontrunners for the role of the thief.
Russell Crowe
is in final negotiations to play half a demon named Pearly Soames, and
Will Smith
is rumored to be attached in smaller roles as a favor to Goldsman.
I would much rather watch
Winter's Tale
personally, but I am sure that
Boot Camp
will be a good family film. Which movie are you more interested in watching?
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