Sean Penn is slipping back into the director's chair for "Crazy for the Storm" at Warner Bros. Pictures says Variety. Based on Norman Ollestad's memoir, the story details his relationship with his father and how the skills his father instilled in him helped him survive after a plane crash stranded him on a mountaintop. Penn will only direct, not … [Read more...]
DiCaprio, Penn Up for Inarritu’s “Revenant”
November 5, 2011 by
Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn are being sought and have already had meetings about playing the two leads in the film adaptation of Michael Punke's novel "The Revenant" for New Regency and 20th Century Fox says Deadline. "Biutiful" helmer Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu will direct the story of 1820s frontiersman Hugh Glass (DiCaprio) on a fur … [Read more...]
Penn Unhappy With “Tree of Life” Cut
August 22, 2011 by
Sean Penn has spoken out against the final edit of Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life" according to The Hollywood Reporter. His character, the adult version of Jack, bookends the story and was a more significant role in earlier drafts. In the final film however he's been somewhat pushed to the sidelines Penn tells French newspaper Le Figaro … [Read more...]
