James Purefoy In Talks for 'I Hate Valentine's Day'
Filed under: Comedy, Independent, Romance, Casting
She hasn't delivered anything monumental since My Big Fat Greek Wedding, but actress/Oscar-nominated (ugh) screenwriter Nia Vardalos has been working hard enough to keep her career going. Following Connie and Carla, the bomb that was her follow-up to her big fat successful Wedding, she has written A Wilderness of Monkeys for director Tom Hanks (who co-produced Wedding with wife Rita Wilson), which has supposedly been completed, and the Greece-set comedy My Life in Ruins. Also, she has possibly been working on a Big Fat Greek sequel. Her next script, though, has been announced as I Hate Valentine's Day, another culture-clashing romantic comedy in which she will again star. This one will be directed by Nick Hurran (Little Black Book) and will co-star James Purefoy as Vardalos' love interest.Purefoy, who is best known for his work portraying Mark Antony in HBO's Rome series, will play a man who dates and then dumps Vardalos' character. The thing is, once rejected, the woman ends up falling in love with the guy. Originally, Vardalos wrote the male role as American, but she has since been rewriting the part for Purefoy, who is British. Now the character is being conceived as a foreigner who doesn't understand American women. Vardalos says the film, which begins shooting in Toronto this summer, will be for everybody (I doubt it will be for me), and will tackle the idea of forced and expected ideas of romance, particularly the kind of ideas that come with the Valentine's holiday.
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5-11-2007 @ 2:48PM
mari said...
Why such a problem with Nia Vardalos? I don't love her, but I don't see why anyone would hate her. I like Cinematical a lot, but sometimes I feel like the writers refuse to run out of people to hate, while the same six or seven actors/directors are untouchable.
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5-11-2007 @ 2:59PM
Christopher Campbell said...
I don't know about the rest of the writers, Mari, but I hate most of the people working in film these days. I probably even hate most of the six or seven 'untouchables' that my peers love. I can't help it. I'm just picky. It makes the good stuff more appreciable.
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5-11-2007 @ 3:50PM
dan said...
I'll see it out of respect for James Purefoy, who was so good as Mark Antony.
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