Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana To Star in 'The Time Traveler's Wife'
Filed under: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Casting, Deals
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Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana have inked deals to co-star in The Time Traveler's Wife, a science-fiction love story based on the best-selling novel by Audrey Niffenegger. Bana will play Henry De Tamble, a librarian with a genetic disorder that causes him to shift back and forth through time. During his journeys through time, he meets and falls in love with Clare Abshire, a young heiress. Robert Schwentke, who most recently directed the Jodie Foster disappointment Flightplan, will take the reigns with a script by Jeremy Leven. Variety notes that a rewrite is currently being penned by Bruce Joel Rubin, who successfully combined high-concept and romance once before, with Ghost. Shooting is scheduled to begin in August, with production duties being handled by Brad Pitt and Nick Wechsler, who is also producing the forthcoming Reservation Road and We Own the Night, and recently came off The Fountain, which Pitt famously backed out of after of a long engagement. The Variety story notes that McAdams has been dancing around this project ever since it was first snapped up by New Line in 2003. She's since starred in New Line hits Wedding Crashers and The Notebook, so the part was probably hers to lose. Next up for McAdams is The Return, a story of soldiers rotating back to the world from Iraq. Bana's next high-profile project is The Other Boleyn Girl, in which he plays King Henry VIII.
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4-17-2007 @ 9:59PM
Steve Shickles said...
I love Rachel McAdams. She rocks!
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4-17-2007 @ 11:32PM
bgdc said...
Flightplan may have been a horrible movie but get your editorial out of the way as it wasn't a disappointment to the investors.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408790/business
55M budget and it made almost 90M in the USA alone. DVD, rental, foreign, TV, POV...that film was totally in the black.
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4-18-2007 @ 11:25PM
Adam Wright said...
Didn't they make this movie years ago and call it Slaughterhouse Five?
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4-18-2007 @ 10:50AM
Anthony said...
Given the nature of the site I think a little "editorial" is entirely appropriate. The movie was certainly a disappointment to me.
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4-18-2007 @ 1:31PM
bgdc said...
Anthony, the film was crap on a large level. But financially, it wasn't a disappointment. The Departed and 300 may be ass but they made money; I can't take that away from them.
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