Stamp Is Critical Of Big Eyes

Terence Stamp has joined the cast of Tim Burton's comedic drama biopic "Big Eyes" says THR.

The film will tell the story of Margaret and Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz and Amy Adams), the artists whose work, especially paintings of doe-eyed children, became a pop-culture phenomenon in the 1950s and 1960s. However their home life was anything but perfect. Margaret was the artist but her husband took all the credit. During the their divorce they fought over the rights to their work with Margaret eventually winning the dispute- painting a picture in federal court to prove she was the one responsible for the work.

Stamp will play John Canaday, The New York Times senior art critic who is appalled and exasperated by Walter's rise to prominence.

Krysten Ritter will play DeeAnn, the free-spirited confidante of Adams' who tries to coax her friend to come out of her shell. Danny Huston will play a burnt-out, heavy-drinking gossip reporter. Jason Schwartzman has been cast as San Francisco art gallery owner Ruben.

Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski wrote the script and will produce with Burton and Lynette Howell.

At one point, Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Reynolds were going to star with Alexander and Karaszewski at the helm

The film will shoot this summer.