Saturday, December 13, 2008

Chip-And Z

A director 3 fer...

*Betty Thomas will helm Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The CGI-animated singing rodents will team up with their female counterparts, The Chipettes

The casting of which is under way.

Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler and Jesse McCartney are back to voice the parts of troublemaker Alvin, intellectual Simon and chubby Theodore.

It is unclear whether Jason Lee is returning as human Dave Seville.



The 2007 was a seni-hit. Thomas is a great pick here--having successfully called the shots on The Brady Bunch Movie.

*James Gray is set to direct "The Lost City of Z" reports Variety.

Gray will adapt David Grann's upcoming non-fiction book about British soldier and spy Percy Fawcett (Brad Pitt) who left Victorian society to explore in the Amazon.

He became obsessed by the idea of an advanced civilization he called Z, which he believed existed in the depths of the jungle. Along with his son, Fawcett headed into the jungle in 1925 in search of Z and was never seen again.

Gray says: "It is a story that will be told with an epic scale, with a main character who is larger than life"

The book by Grann, who works for The New Yorker, will hit stores in April.

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