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Edward Norton will reunite with his Fight Club co-star Brad Pitt in the film adaptation of the BAFTA winning British mini-series, State of Play. Written by Paul Abbott (Shameless) and directed by David Yates (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), the original kicks off with two seemingly unrelated events: the apparent suicide of an assistant to a rising politician, and the murder of a black teenager in broad daylight. A journalist investigating the deaths uncovers a conspiracy linking the government and big business.
In the film State of Play, Pitt will play the journalist, while Norton plays the ambitious young congressman whose career is placed on the brink. The adapted screenplay is by Tony Gilroy (The Bourne Ultimatum), who is rewriting the Matthew Michael Carnahan script, and the Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) is the director. My single greatest fear is that, in reducing the story down from a 6-hour drama to a film, what will be most noticeably lost is the attention afforded to the intelligent supporting roles, the hard-nosed truth-seekers within both the newspaper and the police, played in the mini-series by the likes of Bill Nighy, James McAvoy, Kelly Macdonald, and Philip Glenister. (Variety) [imdb]
The new U.S. trailer for Joe Wright's Atonement. Also, from Toronto, three new character posters of Keira Knightley, James McAvoy and Saoirse Ronan.
Teaser trailer for Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth, based on the novella by the famous historian of religion Mircea Eliade, and starring Tim Roth. [imdb]
Adam Brody (The OC) playing a scam artist? That's some pretty neat casting. Brody, Josh Lucas (Glory Road), Lukas Haas (Brick), and Jacqueline Bisset have been cast in the drama Death in Love from writer-director Boaz Yakin. (Coming Soon) [imdb]
An edited version of Ang Lee's Lust, Caution, winner of the Golden Lion, will be released on the Chinese mainland. Lee himself edited the censored version, which cuts 30 minutes from the film that was shown at Venice. China does not have a rating system, so any films released must be made appropriate for all potential audiences. Lust, Caution received an NC-17 rating in the U.S. for its explicit sex scenes. (Hollywood Reporter) [imdb]
Michael Guillén interviews David Cronenberg and actor Viggo Mortensen about their new film Eastern Promises. [imdb]
Heroes season 2 spoilers here and here. New episodes begin airing September 24.