Orlando Bloom Will Work Again
Where did this guy go?
BY: Brad Brevet | January 22nd 2009 at 1:13 AM
In my desperate search to figure out something to write about I was going to write an article asking “Where did Julie Stiles go?” Then I found out she is acting on Broadway and that pretty much killed that article. However, I guess I could have also asked “Where did Orlando Bloom go?” Bloom didn’t have a single movie in 2008 and only Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End in 2007. In fact 2006 didn’t do much better following the eight films he starred in from 2003-2005.
Well, he has a role in the chaptered New York, I Love You later this year and has now replaced James Franco in Sympathy for Delicious opposite Mark Ruffalo and Laura Linney according to The Hollywood Reporter, a film that will also serve as Ruffalo’s directorial debut.
Ruffalo’s brother, Scott, died in December 2008 and sent the film into limbo, but the project is back on and begins next week in Los Angeles.
The story, written by Christopher Thornton, follows a paralyzed DJ, struggling to survive on the streets of L.A., who turns to faith healing and mysteriously develops the ability to cure the sick — although not himself. The DJ then decides to cash in on his gift in exchange for his rock ‘n’ roll dreams.
Bloom, taking over for Franco, will play the frontman of a tough-as-nails rock band. Linney plays as the band’s manager working hard to stay relevant in a 21st century musical world.
Thornton, a theater actor who is paralyzed from the waist down, is playing the DJ, and Ruffalo plays a priest.
http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/orlando-bloom-will-work-again
Mark Ruffalo Returns to Work
Mark Ruffalo's life is resuming some semblance of normalcy just over a month after his brother was declared dead of a gunshot wound.
E! News has learned that the still-mourning actor, who dropped out of a film in the immediate aftermath of his brother's death, is gearing up to return to work, directing and starring in the tentatively titled Sympathy for Delicious.
"We're starting shooting in a week," says a production insider.
The film, originally expected to begin shooting last month, was indefinitely postponed after word of Scott Ruffalo's death broke.
Mark Ruffalo will star as a priest in the film, which follows a paralyzed DJ who seeks out the world of faith healing. Orlando Bloom, Juliette Lewis and Ruffalo's You Can Count on Me partner, Laura Linney, also star.
The cast convened for a get-together last Friday, with Bloom, Lewis, Ruffalo and his wife, Sunrise Coigney, joining forces for a low-key night out at Teddy's at the Roosevelt Hotel.
A source told E! News the foursome "sat in the back, corner table behind the DJ booth, just drinking soda water and having a good night."
Mark Ruffalo's 'Sympathy' on track
Indie film will star Orlando Bloom, Laura Linney
Mark Ruffalo's "Sympathy for Delicious" is coming back together.
The indie feature, which is serving as Ruffalo's directorial debut and was to have had James Franco in the cast, fell into limbo after the December death of Ruffalo's brother, Scott.
The project is now back on track, with Orlando Bloom and Laura Linney among the leads. Production begins next week in Los Angeles.
The story, written by Christopher Thornton, follows a paralyzed DJ, struggling to survive on the streets of L.A., who turns to faith healing and mysteriously develops the ability to cure the sick -- although not himself. The DJ then decides to cash in on his gift in exchange for his rock 'n' roll dreams.
Bloom, taking over for Franco, will play the frontman of a tough-as-nails rock band. Linney plays as the band's manager working hard to stay relevant in a 21st century musical world.
Thornton, a theater actor who is paralyzed from the waist down, is playing the DJ, and Ruffalo plays a priest.
Corner Store Entertainment is co-financing the film, with the company's Matt Weaver and Scott Prisand producing along with Andrea Sperling, Ruffalo and Thornton.
Joanne Jacobson, Barry Habib and Robert Stein are exec producing.
Kimmel International, headed by Mark Lindsay, will be handling international sales of the film and introducing it to buyers at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Keeping his nose in the indie grindstone since the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, Bloom, repped by CAA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners, will next be seen in the shorts omnibus "New York, I Love You."
Linney, repped by ICM and Brillstein, is coming off a Golden Globe win for her work in HBO's "John Adams." She and Ruffalo first worked together in "You Can Count on Me."
When Mark Ruffalo calls ‘action!’ on his directorial debut, Sympathy For Delicious, next week in Los Angeles, it will mean much more than just another milestone in his increasingly impressive career.
After all, Ruffalo’s brother, Scott, died in early December following a shooting incident. Understandably, it pushed Ruffalo’s professional life to the wayside, but now he’s decided to return to work. And what better way than by getting Sympathy For Decisions, which had been due to shoot around December, going again?
Due to a scheduling conflict, though, the previously-cast James Franco won’t be able to make the movie. Orlando Bloom has instead signed on to play the lead singer of a tough rock band. Laura Linney will play the manager of the band, but the lead role in the movie goes to Christopher Thornton, a wheelchair-bound theatre actor who also wrote the movie.
Thornton will play a disabled DJ who discovers that he can heal the sick (but not, as it turns out, himself). Rather than exploit his gift for the good of others, though, he decides to follow his dreams of a rock’n’roll lifestyle.
Ruffalo will also appear in the movie, as a priest.
The indie film doesn’t have a distributor in the States yet – it’ll be shopped around at the Berlin Film Festival. And we know that we’re always wishing filmmakers well with their projects – we’re nice like that – but we particularly mean it in this instance.
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=24053
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ib43b7159feabcf532d20dbf33df16341
http://www.elflady.com/orlandolove/showthread.php?p=621788&posted=1#post621788 更多詳情。
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