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DreamWorks Adds ‘Breaking Bad’s’ Aaron Paul To ‘Need For Speed’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday October 15, 2012 @ 10:34am PDTTags: Aaron Paul, DreamWorks Studios, Need For Speed

Emmy winner Aaron Paul will play the lead in DreamWorks Studios‘ adaptation of the bestselling Electronic Arts video game Need For Speed, the studio announced today. Act Of Valor director Scott Waugh is set to helm the film, which is scheduled to come out February 7, 2014. “We are huge fans of Aaron’s and his stellar work on Breaking Bad. We couldn’t be more excited to have him headline our cast for Need For Speed”, said Holly Bario, DreamWorks’ President of Production. EA’s Patrick O’Brien will produce with John Gatins and Mark Sourain. Paul is repped by UTA and Leverage Management.

Related: DreamWorks Testing Newcomers For ‘Need For Speed’

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‘Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul In ‘Long Way Down;’ Adaptation Of Nick Hornby Novel

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 13, 2012 @ 9:45am PDTTags: Aaron Paul, Big Deals Film, Breaking Bad
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul has been set to star in Long Way Down, the Paschal Chaumeil-directed adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel. Jack Thorne wrote the script and Finola Dwyer is producing.

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HBO Orders Charles Randolph Cold War Spy Drama Pilot; Aaron Paul In Talks To Star

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday June 13, 2012 @ 9:04am PDTTags: Aaron Paul, Big Deals TV, HBO
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: HBO has given a pilot order to Cold War spy drama The Missionary. Emmy-winning Breaking Bad co-star Aaron Paul is in talks for the lead in the project, from film/TV writer Charles Randolph (The Interpreter) and producer Stephen Levinson as well as best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell and frequent Levinson collaborator Mark Wahlberg.

Set in Berlin in the late 1960s, The Missionary, written by Randolph, centers on a young American missionary (Paul) who becomes involved with the CIA. Randolph and New Yorker writer Gladwell, who are friends, had been working on an idea for a spy project when they met with Levinson and Wahlberg, who also had been looking to do a spy drama. The four joined forces and last fall took the project to HBO, where Levinson and Wahlberg have produced four series: Boardwalk Empire, Entourage, In Treatment and How To Make It In America. Randolph, Levinson, Gladwell and Wahlberg executive produce The Missionary, which HBO is producing in association with Levinson’s Leverage and Wahlberg’s Closest to the Hole Prods. The Missionary is the second Cold War-era cable spy drama pilot ordered this year, along with FX’s The Americans, about undercover KGB spies in the U.S. played by Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys. At HBO, it joins another period drama, Prohibition mob series Boardwalk Empire, also executive produced by Levinson and Wahlberg. Read More »

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‘Die Hard’ Search For Bruce Willis’ Son Down To Four Actors

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday November 4, 2011 @ 1:43pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox, A Good Day To Die Hard, Aaron Paul, Bruce Willis, James Badge Dale, John Moore, Liam Hemsworth
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In the young actor category, a role to die for is John McClane Jr, the son of Bruce Willis’ indestructible cop character in A Good Day To Die Hard, … Read More »

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DONE: AMC & Sony TV Reach Deal For 16-Episode Final Order Of ‘Breaking Bad’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday August 14, 2011 @ 5:30pm PDTTags: Aaron Paul, AMC, Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston, Sony Pictures TV, Vince Gilligan
Nellie Andreeva

‘Breaking Bad’ Eyes Two-Season Finale
AMC President On ‘Breaking Bad’ Order, ‘Walking Dead’ Budget & ‘Mad Men’ Deal
 After tense and public negotiations, AMC just closed a deal with producer Sony Pictures TV to renew dark drama Breaking Bad for a final batch of 16 episodes. The episodes are expected to be filmed together but may be split into two seasons, with a final scheduling decision to be made at a later date. The deal comes just as the series was facing two deadlines: its license deal with AMC was set to expire tomorrow and the options on the actors are up Aug. 31. The two sides have reached a compromise over the stickiest issue — who will cover the series’ budget of $3 million-plus. I hear both Sony TV and AMC will contribute. While negotiations were contentious and Sony did flirt with the idea of moving Breaking Bad to another network, the two sides started making progress over the past two weeks, leading to today’s deal. With the series renewal secured, Sony TV now has to make a new deal with Breaking Bad creator/executive producer Vince Gilligan, who doesn’t have a contract beyond Season 4 but is fully expected to return for the series’ final hurrah. The cast, led by Emmy winners Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, may also renegotiate their deals.

UPDATE 6 PM: AMC just issued a release announcing the final pickup for Breaking Bad. Here it is:

New York – NY, August, 14, 2011 – AMC announced today that “Breaking Bad,” the Emmy Award-winning and critically lauded drama series from acclaimed writer/producer/director Vince Gilligan has been renewed for a 16 episode order that will conclude the series. Production on all episodes of the final order will commence in early 2012. The roll-out of the episodes and premiere date schedule has yet to be determined by the network. The announcement was made by Charlie Collier, president of AMC.

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UTA Signs ‘Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday August 5, 2011 @ 10:01am PDTTags: Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad, Jeff Daniels, Tom Berenger, UTA, Wes Craven
Mike Fleming

UTA has just signed Aaron Paul, the Emmy-winning Breaking Bad co-star. It was a competitive signing among the major agencies after Paul shook loose from ICM. Paul is best known for TV; before his turn as a drug dealer on … Read More »

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