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Give director Andy Tennant credit for thinking outside the box. Faced with having to cast an actress to play the daughter of Katherine Heigl, he chose Angela Lansbury. No, really.
The film is Adaline, the Sidney Kimmel Entertainment?Lakeshore co-production that stars Heigl as the title character. Long ago, she was killed in a car accident, until a simultaneous lightning strike resuscitated her and physiologically locked her in her late 20s. Adaline lives a solitary existence until she meets a man worth losing her immortality to grow old with. Lansbury plays her daughter, who, in her mid-80s, needs her mother’s care as her health declines. J Mills Goodloe and Sal Paskowitz wrote a script that is getting revisions from Allison Burnett. The pic shoots in April and Summit will distribute. Fortitude-repped Lansbury is currently shooting Mr. Popper’s Penguins.
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Whenever I see Ms. Lansbury’s name, I smile internally with gratitude for such a talent. On stage, film and television she has been a tremendous performer who brings a high standard to any job and raises the bar for fellow actors.
In addition, she has been a class act to her peers when she was in a position to do so. As producer of “Murder, She Wrote” she brought many older actors out of the woodwork for starring roles. The production did two other things for actors rarely done during the decades I’ve been in the arena: it offered jobs outright to a wide range of actors without an audition, and it paid them more than the top of the show salary for doing so.
A class act of the first order.
I agree she is way to talented for this stuff. Why can’t some smart casting staff put her in the lead role of one of the Hallmark movies. Maybe something on how the older people can teach us a lot of lesson’s today. She is a rare jewel people show the world once again…
Maybe the casting director needs to be credited? Usually directors think out of the box after the casting director presented an out of the box list, yet, they never get credit.
What a cleverly chosen headline: thousands of Heigl-haters will open this article expecting Heigl (perceived as an egomaniac) made her little daughter Naleigh a filmstar. And be slightly disapointed to find a rather booring casting news. And think to themselves: Well, it is still ‘Deadline Hollywood’.
This remains one of my all time favorite scripts and I am far from the demographic. It’s beautiful. Too bad they didn’t go with my dream casting, Rachel McAdams as the original draft felt written for her.
Angela Lansbury is one the greatest actress of the XX century. Stage, screen, television – she can do it all. Why isn’t she getting roles worth her talent?
She deserves roles that Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, and Vanessa Redgrave are getting, not that crap that will be forgotten by the end of the year. Mr. Popper’s Penguins sounds like a lot of fun, though.
They should cast her in Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet there is a great role for Ms. Lansbury in that movie.
This is not a good idea…Heigl may wither and die from being being in the presence of someone who can actually ACT.
Very much LOL>>>>>>
so it’s Dead Like Me meets Benjamin Button….intwesting
That is the plot, seriously? She gets hit by a car while struck by lightening and somehow that freezes her physiologically. Yet she can also apparently choose to give up her immortality when Mr. Right comes along. And,of course, even though she’s old enough to have a 90 year old daughter, her perfect man will be like 32. Because she hasnt grown mentally in the last 70 years.That sound you hear is another nail in the coffin of the rom com.
Come on, it’s a regular vampire story set-up. Do you have a problem with those, too, or only because this immortal happens to be female?
I totally agree that “only her true love” sounds fairy tale-ish und way too sugary.
It’s a fix for the usual #1 vampire/human relationship problem. As she is no vampire, she can’t turn him, so they needed an alternative way out. Rather than have him become immortal as well (and shoot for a sequel) they went for this. It’s the better solution, but I would prefer it if they came by it by accident rather than that superlame “one true love” schtick.
Sounds like “Gattaca”, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and the upcoming “I’m.Mortal”. No originality.
Betty White was booked?
I kid, I kid. We love you both, ladies.
Died laughing. Perfect summarization of the insanity.
Wow. That plot sounds just horrible.