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‘Like Crazy’s Felicity Jones Is Warren Beatty’s Choice For Howard Hughes Film

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday November 14, 2011 @ 4:18pm PSTTags: Alec Baldwin, Annette Bening, Drake Doremus, Felicity Jones, Howard Hughes, Jack Nicholson, Owen Wilson, Warren Beatty
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: After a long search, Warren Beatty has chosen Like Crazy star Felicity Jones to play the female lead in the untitled film about reclusive industrialist Howard Hughes. The film is still mobilizing its financing, with New Regency in place as a co-financier after Paramount dropped out. Still, Beatty has begun casting, and he met with many young actresses before deciding on Jones. Her breakthrough came in the Drake Doremus-directed Like Crazy, which has been slowly rolling out in release through Paramount Vantage. The film was acquired by Paramount and Indian Paintbrush when it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to high acclaim last January.

Jones will play a young woman who develops a relationship with Hughes’s young driver and confidante, before she falls in love with Hughes. Beatty, who’ll direct and who wrote the script, will play Hughes. He’s narrowing choices for the young male lead, and I’ve heard names ranging from Justin Timberlake to Alden Ehrenreich. Also in the mix for roles are Annette Bening, and potentially Jack Nicholson, Alec Baldwin and Owen Wilson. The film, which Beatty has been working on for years, is expected to start production sometime next year. CAA-repped Jones recently completed another movie directed by Like Crazy‘s Doremus. It shot last summer, and is currently untitled.

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Universal Preps New ‘Scarface’ Movie

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 21, 2011 @ 4:46pm PDTTags: Al Pacino, Ben Hecht, Brian De Palma, Howard Hawks, Howard Hughes, Marc Shmuger, Martin Bregman, Paul Muni, Scarface
Mike Fleming

New Scarface MovieEXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures is developing a new version of Scarface, the title first released in 1932 and then turned into the iconic 1983 film that starred Al Pacino as Cuban gangster Tony Montana. I’d heard that the studio has been meeting writers to script a take for a film that will be produced by Marc Shmuger and his Global Produce banner along with Martin Bregman. Bregman produced the Pacino version.

Scarface UniversalThe film is not intended to be a remake or a sequel. It will take the common elements of the first two films: An outsider, an immigrant, barges his way into the criminal establishment in pursuit of a twisted version of the American dream, becoming a kingpin through a campaign of ruthlessness and violent ambition. The studio is keeping the specifics of where the new Tony character comes from under wraps at the moment, but ethnicity and geography were important in the first two versions. In the 1932 Scarface, an Italian (Paul Muni) took over Chicago, and in the Brian De Palma-directed remake, a Read More »

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Warren Beatty Playing Howard Hughes, Great Cast Circling

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 22, 2011 @ 4:19pm PDTTags: Alec Baldwin, Andrew Garfield, Annette Bening, David Fincher, Evan Rachel Wood, Howard Hughes, Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, Paramount Pictures, Rooney Mara, Shia la Beouf, Warren Beatty
Mike Fleming

Deadline told you Monday that Warren Beatty was getting behind the camera for the first time since Bulworth. Paramount and Beatty are keeping details under wraps, but here’s what I’ve heard: He will play Howard Hughes, but it’s not … Read More »

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