Jared Padalecki Will Star in 'The Christmas Cottage'
Filed under: Drama, Independent, Casting, Lionsgate Films, Cinematical Indie
The latest Hollywood actor to play a famous painter is Jared Padalecki, who has been cast as still-living artist Thomas Kinkade (aka "Painter of Light"). Though he probably won't go down in cinematic history like Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh, Jeffrey Wright as Basquiat or (yet to be seen) Al Pacino as Dalí, Padalecki will be supported by a possibly memorable performance from the great Peter O'Toole, who will play the artist Glen Wessler, a mentor to the young Kinkade. He will also have the benefit of playing the artist in a trilogy. After the first movie, The Christmas Cottage, which follows Kinkade as a teen on the verge of deciding to become an artist, there will be two more pics portraying the artist as a young man (unless Lionsgate plans to wait years between movies and use Padalecki a la Jean-Pierre Léaud -- which I doubt).When the news was out that Lionsgate would make a movie based on Thomas Kinkade's painting The Christmas Cottage, I had thought the artwork was simply serving as inspiration for a fictional holiday movie set in the depicted wintry home (Yawn). Now that I know the movie actually focuses on the life of Kinkade I am no more interested, but it at least makes more sense to me. Living commercial artists, especially those as commercial as Kinkade, aren't very worthy of biopic treatment, but Kinkade is so popular that it could attract a lot of his fans. I must point out, though, that as popular as Gustav Klimt is these days (ever been in a female art student's dorm/apartment?), his recent biopic has not been a big success. So, Lionsgate has to do a good job of getting people in seats for Cottage, particularly if they hope for there to be audiences for its two sequels (which paintings will be used for those titles?).
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
4-09-2007 @ 7:28PM
Ben Beesley said...
I went to high school with this guy...at least he's finally getting...a "good movie?"
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4-09-2007 @ 7:44PM
Kim said...
I would've never even thought about seeing this movie had I not known Jared was going to be in it.
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4-10-2007 @ 11:59PM
Kez said...
I'll definitely see it - though it may be just because of Jared.
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4-11-2007 @ 12:58AM
oolookitty said...
I cannot even imagine how pink and purple this movie is going to be.
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5-02-2007 @ 7:46PM
Ashley said...
I will definaltey go see this movie, mostly because of Jared being in it. :P
I got the privalege to see Jared working on the movie set for the Christmas Cottage all though i didn't talk to him, i did get to see him :)
it totally made my day!
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5-12-2007 @ 2:49PM
Bert Hayling said...
Richard Burgi joined the cast as of May 7th, playing Kinkade's (Padalecki's) father, William Thomas Kinkade II.
Kindade on his father, from a recent interview:
Kinkade says his father was "a talented amateur artist" who passed his talent, but not his presence, to his son. "The movie will be an anthem to the survival of dysfunctional families. My dad traveled the roads. He was a womanizer, a World War II veteran, a Frank Sinatra-Rat Pack wannabe and was not involved with the family. He was a civilian employee of the Air Force after the war and drifted from job to job."
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7-26-2007 @ 11:16AM
Miss Michelle said...
I'm very curious about the Jean-Pierre Léaud reference. What exactly does that have to do with anything? Having never seen his work, I'm confused as to what you were thinking when comparing Padalecki to him. Were you talking about the improvisation? Color me confused.
As for getting people in seats - I guess you missed the throngs of Supernatural fans who flew thousands of miles to see Padalecki's partner, Jensen Ackles, perform the part of Lt. Kaffee in "A Few Good Men" this summer in Texas. Some paid upwards of a thousand dollars just to see his performance.
A movie we don't have to travel far to see, and which won't cost us more than twenty bucks, starring Jared Padalecki? Oh, we'll be filling seats. Most of us, repeatedly.
Even if some of us can't stand Kinkade's calendar quality work.
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9-19-2007 @ 1:22PM
Snpixiee said...
I agree with Miss Michelle. I was one of those few fans who spent a lot of money to fly down to Texas to see Jensen in this play. I also flew out to see Jensen's movie Ten Inch Hero. Trust me, getting people to fill seats for The Christmas Cottage will not be a problem.
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