Exclusive: After recently co-starring together in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Steve Carell and James Gandolfini are reuniting for another comedic movie, this time on TV. Carell and Gandolfini are set to star and executive produce HBO Films‘ Bone Wars. The project, now in development, is based on the real-life Bone Wars (aka the Great Dinosaur Rush) between Edward Drinker Cope of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and Othniel Charles Marsh of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale. Set during the post-Civil War birth of American science, the film is a sophisticated comedy about one of history’s most notorious feuds — the great dinosaur fossil race between paleontologists Marsh (Gandolfini) and Cope (Carell) — a decades-long competition that led to the discovery of more than 160 dinosaurs and their mutual downward spiral. Search is underway for a writer to pen Bone Wars, which is executive produced by former Sopranos...
- 4/5/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Robert Duvall has been cast in Hemingway & Gellhorn, joining Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman in the HBO Films release. Duvall will apparently have a small role in the film as a Russian general. Also in the cast of the pic which has begun filming in San Francisco, are David Strathairn, Molly Parker, Rodrigo Santoro, Parker Posey, Lars Ulrich, Santiago Cabrera, Saverio Guerra, Peter Coyote, Diane Baker and Tony Shalhoub. James Gandolfini is serving as an executive producer for Hemingway & Gelhorn which follows Ernest Hemingway's volatile relationship with Martha Gellhorn, a rising war correspondent., during as well as after the Spanish Civil War. Peter Kaufman directs from the writing by Jerry Stahl and Barbara Turner. Also executive producing are Alexandra Ryan, Trish Hofmann, Turner and Kaufman.
- 3/14/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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