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Susan Sarandon Out, Jessica Lange in for ‘The Big Valley’

Posted on May 20th, 2010 | Posted in Rumoured Projects | No Comments »

Despite being in negotiations to star as matriarch Victoria Barkley in Daniel Adams’ and Kate Edelman Johnson’s big screen remake of the ’60s TV oater The Big Valley, Susan Sarandon is no longer involved. Instead, actress Jessica Lange will don the corset originally worn by the late, great Barbara Stanwyck.

Production will begin on July 19 on location in Baton Rouge. Set in the 1870’s, The Big Valley is the dramatic story of a wealthy ranching family and their conflicts.

Written and directed by Adams, the screenplay was inspired by the original pilot from the TV series, but also employs new material. The new film is being executive produced by Kate Edelman Johnson, whose late father Louis F. Edelman created the series, and produced by Straw Weisman and Steven Brandman.

20th Century Fox has a “first look” deal with the production company for all North American rights and

Arclight Films is handling the foreign rights sales. Fox currently distributes the original series, but so far only Season 1 and the first half of Season 2.

Lee Majors — who starred as Heath Barkley in the original series — recently announced that he will portray Thomas Barkley, the father of his original character, who, in the mythology of the story, died prior to the beginning of the 1965-69 series.



Susan Sarandon, Judy Greer join ‘Jeff’

Posted on April 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Rumoured Projects | No Comments »

Susan Sarandon and Judy Greer have signed to co-star in upcoming feature Jeff Who Lives at Home.

The film is directed by “mumblecore” filmmakers Mark and Jay Duplass, reports Variety.

Ed Helms and Jason Segel had previously boarded the project.

The story centeres on two brothers (Helms and Segel) who help each other deal with person crisis.

Greer will play the wife of Ed Helms’s character. Sarandon will play mother to Segel’s character Jeff, a man who, as the title suggests, lives at home with his mother.



Susan Sarandon eyeing ‘Big Valley’

Posted on March 21st, 2010 | Posted in Rumoured Projects | No Comments »

Susan Sarandon is in talks to become the matriarch of the Barkley clan.

Kate Edelman Johnson is producing a feature film version of “The Big Valley,” based on the TV show created by her late father, producer Louis F. Edelman, and writer A.I. Bezzerides. The Western series, which ran on ABC from 1965-69, starred Barbara Stanwyck as the matriarch of a ranching family in the 1870s San Joaquin Valley.

Sarandon would take on the part of Victoria Barkley, originated by Stanwyck.

Edelman Johnson’s producing partner, Daniel Adams (“The Lightkeepers”), has written the feature screenplay and will direct. Johnson and Adams’ Panther Entertainment will produce, with a May start date planned for principal photography in Michigan and New Mexico.

“I am so thrilled to be filming this project, not only to honor my father and Miss Stanwyck but to bring a great woman’s part to the screen as head of this historical family saga,” Edelman Johnson said.

Fox, which distributes the TV show on DVD, has first option on the North American distribution rights to the feature project. Sales agent Arclight Films will rep the film internationally, beginning with the European Film Market at the Berlin International Film Festival, which begins today.

The ICM-repped Sarandon last appeared in “The Lovely Bones” and will next be seen in the Oliver Stone-directed sequel “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” which Fox will release in April.

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‘Enchanted’ to see second chapter?

Posted on February 12th, 2010 | Posted in Rumoured Projects | No Comments »

The success of 2007′s ‘Enchanted,’ starring Amy Adams, proved so alluring that Disney wants a sequel.

Disney is hoping to charm auds again with a sequel to “Enchanted,” hiring Jessie Nelson to pen a script for the live-action fairy tale that “The Proposal” helmer Anne Fletcher is attached to direct.

Barry Josephson and Barry Sonnenfeld will return as producers.

Mouse House is keen on getting another installment of “Enchanted” on the bigscreen — perhaps as early as next year — after the 2007 pic, which starred Amy Adams, James Marsden, Patrick Dempsey and Susan Sarandon, earned more than $340 million worldwide. It earned $123 million domestically and helped Adams break out. Bill Kelly (“Blast From the Past”) penned the original.

First film had languished in development for years as filmmakers like Sonnenfeld struggled with a way to tackle its comedic tone, musical numbers and blend of animation and live-action sequences.

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