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Monday, December 13, 2010

Chunky Chunks

-Michelle Yeoh stars for helmer Luc Bessons on a currently shooting biopic about Burmese pro-democracy politician and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi reports The Associated Press. Called "Into the Light", the story follows Suu Kyi who lead the National League for Democracy (NLD) party to a landslide election win in 1990. However the win was never recognised by Myanmar's military rulers who have locked her up for most of the past two decades.She was freed last month after seven straight years of house arrest at her lakeside mansion, less than a week after an election that critics said was a charade aimed at preserving military rule behind a civilian facade in Myanmar. Yeoh and Suu Kyi had a meet and greet last week. This is not your typical Besson pic

-Musician Pete Doherty will make his acting debut opposite Charlotte Gainsbourg in The Confession of a Child of the Century" reports Allocine via The Playlist. An adaptation of Alfred de Musset's autobiographical tale, that follows Musset's affair with Baroness Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin who used the alias George Sand Doherty plays the narrator Octavian, Gainsbourg stars a young widow named Brigitte.Sylvie Verheyde  directs and shooting kicks off in Paris, the Alps and Germany staring December 27th.

-Adam Sandler plans to star in "Narco", a remake of the 2004 French film The Secret Adventures of Gustave Klopp", says Pajiba.The story follows a narcoleptic who leads a very mundane waking life, and is an action hero in his dreams. He decides to try and find a way to make his real life more like his dream life.Clay Tarver ("Joyride") s penning the screenplay. Sandler is also in talks to play the lead role in the comedy The $40,000 Man

-Gwyneth Paltrow, told Collider that she will not be appearing as Pepper Potts in the upcoming The Avengers flick - "I think it's a for sure. I think they're starting shooting soon and they probably would have asked me by now"...

-James McAvoy (Atonement) and Anne Hathaway are being considered for the lead roles in Mike White's film adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" says Pabja Hathaway is also now “attached” to star in the forthcoming Barbarella redo via Twitter

Morris Is NOT Playing Buffy

-Glee co-star Heather Morris was rumored as the apparent front runner to play the new Buffy The Vampire Slayer in the film reboot via Movieweb--Screenwriter Whit Anderson says via Twitter not so fast the script's not even written yet.

-Along those same lines--On the news that the script for the  Untitled Star Trek Sequel had been 'broken', .JJ. Abrams says "We don't have a script yet. It is all still being worked out. It is too early to talk about what it might be. It hasn't happened yet"...via a video on Youtube

-Dakota Fanning has dropped out of doing If I Stay  so she can dedicate herself to finishing her final year of high school. She will appear in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 though says the Los Angeles Times,

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