Taylor Kitsch ("Friday Night Lights") and Jim Parsons ("The Big Bang Theory") have joined the cast of Ryan Murphy's HBO original movie "The Normal Heart". A film adaptation of the Tony-winning Larry Kramer play, the story deals with the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s. Kitsch plays Bruce Niles, a closeted … [Read more...]
Taylor Kitsch Set To Take “Exit 147”
February 24, 2013 by
Taylor Kitsch ("John Carter," "Battleship") is reportedly attached to topline the serial killer thriller "Exit 147" at Mandalay Vision. The story follows a man driving across the desert at night who is arrested by a small town sheriff (Kitsch) and held captive as part of his own sadistic game. Julian Jarrold ("Red Riding") is attached to direct … [Read more...]
Casting: Kitsch, Epps, McDonough, Oswalt
July 23, 2012 by
Need for Speed Taylor Kitsch has reportedly been offered the lead role in Scott Waugh's adaptation of the video game series "Need for Speed" at DreamWorks Pictures. The studio has denied an offer has been made, although insiders claim he is the only contender for the part. [Source: Zap2It] The Hangover Part 3 Mike Epps is in negotiations to … [Read more...]
Casting: Cumberbatch, Findlay, Kitsch, Emerson
June 2, 2012 by
Twelve Years A Slave "Sherlock" and "Star Trek 2" star Benedict Cumberbatch is set to join the cast of "Shame" and "Hunger" director Steve McQueen's latest project "Twelve Years a Slave". Cumberbatch is in line to play a 19th century Louisiana cotton plantation owner who buys Chiwetel Ejiofor's forced into slavery character and is won over by his … [Read more...]
Kitsch, Hammer, Hedlund Are “Catching Fire”?
May 31, 2012 by
Taylor Kitsch ("John Carter"), Armie Hammer ("The Social Network"), and Garrett Hedlund ("Tron Legacy") are all reportedly vying to play the role of Finnick Odair in "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" at Lionsgate reports E! News. In the books, Odair is a handsome and tan 24-year-old from District 4 who won the annual Hunger Games ten years earlier … [Read more...]
Wahlberg, Kitsch, Foster Turn “Survivor”
February 29, 2012 by
Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch and Ben Foster are in talks to play three of the four lead Navy SEALs in Peter Berg's "Lone Survivor" for Emmett/Furla Films and Universal Pictures says Deadline. Based on the book by Marcus Luttrell, the harrowing story deals with how Luttrell's SEAL team fought to stay alive after being ambushed in Afghanistan in … [Read more...]
Heigl, Butler, Kitsch Up For “Stone” Remake?
August 26, 2011 by
The likes of Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler and Taylor Kitsch have all been linked as potential stars for Fox's unfortunately still alive remake of 80's romantic adventure comedy classic "Romancing the Stone" according to a scooper at Moviehole. Previously "Eagle Eye" scribe Daniel McDermott was set to pen the script while Robert Luketic was … [Read more...]
