Check out the first trailer for director-star Ben Stiller’s forthcoming adaptation of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty:
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty opens stateside Christmas Day.
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Robert Downey Jr. to Play Gepetto…and Pinocchio?
In an unusual but utterly intriguing casting rumour, Robert Downey Jr.may play both Gepetto and Pinocchio in a movie adaptation of the classic story helmed by Ben Stiller.
Warner Bros. was originally trying to unite Downey Jr. with director Tim Burton for the project, but it was subsequently revealed that those negotiations may have run afoul when the Iron Man star recently said he would like to collaborate with Stiller. “I want to make Pinocchio as a live action film,” said Downey Jr. at an Iron Man 3 junket, “and not resorting to ‘animation. I would like to do it with Ben Stiller…”
It appears that his wish may now become a reality. According to investigations by website Bleeding Cool, a Stiller/Downey Jr. Pinocchio movie is currently going ahead, with Downey Jr. set to play both Gepetto and the little wooden boy himself. While the practicalities of that casting decision are unconfirmed, one would imagine there would be an element of performance capture, or perhaps Downey Jr. will just be lending his voice to compliment practical effects.
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Ben Stiller, At Tribeca, Talks ‘Secret Life Of Walter Mitty’: ‘I Don’t Sing & Dance’
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Ben Stiller and Jay Roach have known each other since first working together on “Meet the Parents” in 2000, and those 13 years of friendship made the pair’s conversation at the Tribeca Film Festival on Sunday afternoon just that: a conversation. As part of the Tribeca Talks: Directors’ Series, Stiller and Roach, both directors, discussed all matter of moviemaking and seemed to come to one unavoidable conclusion.
“It’s really hard to get most movies made,” Stiller said about the current state of the industry. “Especially independent films, and even just regular, mid-range budgeted dramas. The genre movies and sequels are obviously what becomes the thing.”
Which is what makes Stiller’s newest film such an anomaly. The 47-year-old directs and stars in the upcoming 20th Century Fox film “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” an adaptation of the James Thurber short story of the same name. That work, which was originally published in The New Yorker in 1939, was previously turned into a musical with Danny Kaye in 1947; as Stiller noted on Sunday, however, his version will eschew singing and dancing. “I don’t sing and dance,” Stiller deadpanned.
Ben Stiller Is Returning To ‘Arrested Development’
By The Huffington Post News Editors
It’s neither trick nor illusion: Ben Stiller will appear on the revived “Arrested Development,” EW has learned. The film star will reprise his role as Tony Wonder, rival magician to GOB (Will Arnett), in one episode during the new season of the cult comedy, which Netflix will stream in May.Exactly how he fits into the plot is being kept under wraps. But it may not be a bad idea to check the dumbwaiter.
Night at the Museum 3 Coming Next Year
Fox is spending yet another night at the museum.
The studio has announced that Night at the Museum 3 is happening, with star Ben Stiller and director Shawn Levy returning for the latest installment in the family-friendly fantasy-comedy franchise.
Night at the Museum 3 is slated for release Christmas Day 2014.
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