“Teddy Bear” and new “Gambit”
1). Mila Kunis and Adam Scott could join the cast of the film "Teddy Bear" - directorial debut creator of animated series "Family Guy" and "American Dad" by Seth MacFarlane. Kunis will play the leading female character, while Scott will get a minor role. The leading star of the project is Mark Wahlberg.
He will perform a Boston guy, who has being a child, has wished to his favorite teddy bear come to life, which is happened. Years go by, but the hero still attached to his favorite toy, remote from the moral ideal. McFarlane himself will voice bear, which will draw with the help of visual effects. It is assumed that Adam Scott can play a Wahlberg character.
The film is positioned as a comedy with a rating of R. The budget of the picture is $ 65 million. The authors of the script are Alec Salkin and Wellesley Wild, and producer of the project, Scott Stuber and John Jacobs. In the plans of MacFarlane is the emergence of full-length "Family Guy”.
It is noteworthy that Kunis has already cooperated with the multiplier on the voice acting "Family Guy" - her voice, says Meg.
2). As reported by Deadline, a British actor Colin Firth talks about participation in the remake of Ronald Nim "Gambit", going to be filmed by the author of "The Last Station" Michael Hoffman.
Firth attributed to participation in the project two years ago, which he then denied, but said that the script written by the authors of "Big Lebowski" is "simply amazing". Yet, apparently, the actor has decided to return to the picture.
In the center of the original plot of "Gambit" is thief by Michael Kane, planning with the heroine Shirley MacLaine to rob one of the most influential richman in the world.
For a long time in the project has been participating director Doug Liman. Producers of the new version of "Gambit" hoping that will begin shooting in London and Texas before the summer of the next year.
Among the latest high-profile works by Colin Firth is a film "A Single Man" and "The King’s speech", for the play in which Briton has received numerous awards including Oscar nomination. It is not excluded that Firth will also participate in the upcoming Academy Awards ceremony figuring as a competitor of the awards with the "King".