A pair of projects for Terrence Howard
Filed under: Drama, Casting, Family Films, Newsstand, Oscar Watch
After a quiet 10 years in the business, Oscar
golden boy Terrence Howard is suddenly desperately sought by every
studio head under the sun. Already signed to costar with Jodie
Foster in The Brave One and currently
in negotiations to play
Thurgood Marshall in The Crusaders, Howard
now has two more projects on his plate. The first is an ensemble piece called August Rush, in which Howard will play a social worker who helps a ruptured (but musical!) family get back together. As discussed here last month, his costars in the film will include Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Keri Russell, and Robin Williams. Howard's second new project - about which he is currently in talks - is a true story called PDR. PDR (which, for the 99% of you not in Philly, stands for Philadelphia Department of Recreation) tells the story of a swim coach (to be played by Howard) who, during the 1970s, "transformed a group of troubled inner-city kids into one of the best swim teams in the country." The movie will be directed by a South African director of commercials named Sunu Gonera, and is scheduled to start shooting this spring, so negotiations presumably will be sorted out fairly soon.
I guess four movies in 18 months or so is what they call striking while the iron is hot, huh? I just hope, for Howard's sake, that some of them are good - otherwise this good reputation he's got will be more fleeting than he could ever imagine. Right, Halle Berry?
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2-09-2006 @ 8:41PM
Tony said...
Howard is good but do we have to watch another crap story about troubled inner city kids on (fill in the blank with your favorite type of sports team) as they learn about being men and living honest, hard working lives and triumph in the end over (fill in the blank here with the evil mostly white private school of your choice) Give me a break, try exercising some of that creativity to make something relevant.
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2-10-2006 @ 11:25AM
Matt said...
Thanks for clearing up what "PDR" stands for, Martha. Librarian that I am, I thought the movie was going to be an adaptation of that venerable classic, the Physician's Desk Reference.
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