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William H. Macy (Fargo) will play the alcoholic patriarch of the working-class Gallagher family in Showtime's remake of Shameless, which was created by Paul Abbott based on his own childhood. The British version starred David Threlfall in the Macy role, and was an irreverent black comedy about a group of siblings, practically abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits on a rough Manchester council estate. If you want to watch James McAvoy in one of his earliest roles (he plays a thief who falls in love with the eldest daughter, 18-year-old Fiona), I suggest you check out the original series. (THR)
Trailer for the thriller Edge of Darkness, starring Mel Gibson, Danny Huston and Ray Winstone, and based on the 1985 mini-series about a homicide detective investigating the murder of his activist daughter. [imdb]
A clip from Where the Wild Things Are.
Ben Foster, Donald Sutherland and Jason Statham will star in a remake of the 1972 Charles Bronson action classic The Mechanic. Foster will play Steve McKenna, the young man who becomes an apprentice to a hitman (Statham). Sutherland will play the role of Foster's father and Statham's handler. Simon West (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider) will direct. (Coming Soon) [imdb]
Evan Rachel Wood and Toby Kebbell (Control) have joined the cast of Robert Redford's The Conspirator, a period drama based on true events following the assassination of President Lincoln. Robin Wright Penn plays Mary Surratt, the lone female charged as a co-conspirator of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth (Kebbell). Wood play Surratt's daughter. Also starring in the film are James McAvoy, as Frederick Aiken, a war hero and Surratt's lawyer, and Justin Long, playing Aiken's best friend, a one-armed Civil War veteran. (The Playlist) [imdb]
Gilmore Girls creator, Amy Sherman-Palladino, will write and executive produce a new (as yet untitled) drama for HBO, which chronicles the complicated relationship between three adult sisters, all writers sharing the same upper east side apartment building, and their mother, a domineering literary lioness who reserves most of her affections for their ne'er-do-well brother. (THR)