McAdams to be The Time Traveler's Wife?
Filed under: Drama, Romance, Casting, Mystery & Suspense, Newsstand
Time travel is, well, a time-honored tradition in Hollywood with movies like Back to the Future, The Terminator, The Time Machine and the upcoming New Line film The Time Traveler's Wife, based on the bestselling novel by Audrey Niffenegger. The movie version of the novel was announced recently with screenwriter Jeremy Leven of The Notebook handling the adaptation duties, while Steven Frears (The Queen, Dirty Pretty Things) and director Robert Schwentke (Flightplan) are left to battle it out for helming duties. And now we can add some casting news to the mix as well.According to TMZ (via Coming Soon), super-hot Rachel McAdams, star of Wedding Crashers, Red Eye and The Notebook, is in serious talks to star in the film as Clair, a beautiful art student who falls for Henry, a librarian with a problem: At random moments he disappears and travels through time to other parts of his life. Obviously, this causes a great deal of trouble for Henry and Clair as they struggle with children, jobs, friends and any semblance of a normal life. If she takes the role, this will mark McAdams' second go-round with screenwriter Leven after their work together on The Notebook.
No word yet on who will play time traveling Henry, but if producers are looking for any suggestions, I'll throw one out: How about casting McAdams' co-star from The Notebook Ryan Gosling in the role? Although Gosling might be a little busy these days seeing as he's appearing in at least four new movies over the next year, including director David Michael's The Other Side and The Last Face for director Erin Dignam. Still, casting these two actors together worked pretty well for The Notebook and I'm sure the duo could do wonderful things with The Time Traveler's Wife too.
What do you think, is Gosling a good idea?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
10-20-2006 @ 9:24PM
EO said...
They can stick anybody into the movie they want to. If Rachel McAdams is in it, I won't notice anyway.
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10-20-2006 @ 9:35PM
Lyndsey said...
I loved The Notebook and they played an awesome couple and they just look like they fit together, so I would love to see them together again!!
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10-21-2006 @ 1:38AM
Amanda said...
I agree, you can put anyone in the role opposite Mcadams...she's just stunning. I don't know the book well, but I certainly wouldn't mind seeing Gosling and Mcadams together again. They had awesome chemistry in The Notebook...those roles were written for them alone.
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10-21-2006 @ 2:10PM
joanne said...
Hell yes!!!! They had such chemistry great in The Notebook! I'm sure it would translate to TTTW!
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10-21-2006 @ 3:20PM
marty fitzpatrick said...
They'll need all the chemistry they can get to make this dud of a story work! Hated the book so won't be first in line for the movie version.
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10-21-2006 @ 10:43PM
Joyce Tyler said...
McAdams is an ideal choice to play the luminous Clare. But as fine an actor as Gosling is, if the screenplay follows the book, he'd have to age to 43, and I'm not sure he could do it.
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10-24-2006 @ 10:11PM
abigail said...
no no no. I love McAdams as Clare, but Ryan Gosling could not pull off the age/weariness, or even the look of Henry. Henry is supposed to be very lean, wiry (a runner) and have long black hair which he later cuts short.
while I loved Gosling in The Notebook, and with McAdams, he would not fit Henry at all
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10-27-2006 @ 1:23PM
Sheri said...
The best Henry would be Six Feet Under's Peter Krause. LEan, wiry, right age etc.
Can't wait for this movie. Been waiting since I read the last sentence of the book!
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10-28-2006 @ 12:54PM
Katie said...
Heck no!!!!!! the best henry ever would be adrien brody, (hello skinny, long hair, jewish features) he would be perfect
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11-02-2006 @ 4:37PM
Jane said...
Totally yes for casting Ryan Gosling! :)
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11-18-2006 @ 10:26AM
Kevin said...
Adrien Brody and Rachel McAdams = Henry and Clare...
Perfect. Good call, Katie.
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