Thursday, 4 September 2008

Casting Couch: Diesel's Riddick Return; Swank on Borrowed Time

Apparently over that whole Pacifier interlude, Vin Diesel wants to blow things up over again. The 41-year-old thesp is ready to resurrect his ass-kicking sci-fi antihero Riddick, reteaming with writer-director David Twohy for a mate of sequels to 2000's Pitch Black and 2004's The Chronicles of Riddick.
"The only question is whether we take a page from the Lord of the Rings guys and try to shoot the two chapters at the same time," Diesel tells MTV, adding that the new flicks "would answer Pitch Black in the same way that Lord of the Rings answered The Hobbit."

Hilary Swank has snapped up the film rights to the chick-lit novel Something Borrowed and its sequel for a electric potential starring fomite, per Variety. The oily saga centers on a self-professed full girl world Health Organization ends up sleeping with her best friend's fianc�.
Real-life spouses David Mann and Tamela J. Mann of Tyler Perry's moving picture Meet the Browns ar set to reprise their roles in a TBS sitcom translation developed by Perry. The cable television channel has ordered 10 episodes of the show, which it plans to consortium as a spinoff to Perry's House of Payne, TBS' all-time highest-rated original sitcom. Perry will drink down up in one ep as his beloved, no-nonsese Medea.

Jesse James, best known for Monster Garage and being Mr. Sandra Bullock, has been signed by Spike TV for 10 episodes of Jesse James Is a Dead Man. The series will feature of speech James partaking in potentially deadly stunts. His living is in jeopardy root in February.

Blythe Danner (aka Mother of Gwyneth) volition guest in NBC's Medium as a mother whose adult girl is missing. The Patricia Arquette-starring evince returns in the midseason.










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