Daily Casting Report – 9/21/2004
Singer / Reality TV Start Jessica Simpson will play Daisy Duke with Jonhy knoxville (Walking Tall, The Jackass Movie Series) as Luke Duke and Seann William Scott (The Rundown, American Pie Series) as Bo Duke in The Dukes Of Hazzard, to be directed by Jay Chandrasekhar (Club Dread, Super Troopers).
Christopher Nolan is working with Hollywood composing giants, James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer to create the score for “Batman Begins.”
Director J.J. Abrams (TV’s Alias) has approached Alex Kurtzman (TV’s Alias) and Roberto Orci (TV’s Alias) to draft another new version of the script for Mission Impossible 3.
DreamWorks has optioned writer Adam Sztykiel’s “Power Trip,” for producer Michael Gruber (Highway, Next Friday).
Karl Yune (Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid) has signed up with Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai), Zhang Ziyi (Rush Hour2), Michelle Yeoh (Silver Hawk, The Touch), and Gong Li to star in “Memoirs of a Geisha.” Geisha is being directed by Rob Marshall (Chicago, and TV’s Annie) in a screenplay by Ron Bass, Akiva Goldsman and Robin Swicord
Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil Series, The Fifth Element) is in negotiations to join Heather Graham (From Hell, Boogie Nights) in writer / director Gary Lennon’s “.45”
Oded Fehrfor (Resident Evil: Apocalypse, The Mummy Returns) will join Dakota Fanning (Man on Fire, Cat in the Hat, Uptown Girls), Kurt Russell (Miracle, 3000 miles to Graceland) and Elisabeth Shue (The Saint, Leaving Las Vegas) in writer director John Gatins’ “Dreamer.”
Kristen Stewart (Cold Creek Manor, Panic Room) will join Meg Ryan (Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally) and Adam Brody in “In the Land of Women” for Jonathan Kasdan’s directorial debut.
Robert Rodriguez (Once Upon a Time in Mexico , Spy Kids Series) has signed up to direct “The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl”.
