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Jon Cryer and James Denton Join Fishburne for 'Tortured'
Filed under: Drama », Thrillers », Casting », Mystery & Suspense »
James Denton and Jon Cryer -- two guys who have found enormous recent success on the small screen -- are heading to the bigs for the psychological thriller Tortured. The film starts production on Monday, Erik brought you a bit of news on it last week. Denton is best known for his nuanced portrayal of hunky plumber Mike Delfino on Desperate Housewives, a role that I'm sure has led to countless saucy jokes involving the words "pipe," "tool," and "plumbing." Cryer plays Charlie Sheen's brother on the smash comedy Two and a Half Men, but to an entire generation, he will forever be known as "Duckie" from Pretty in Pink. The guy could cure cancer and I'd still think of him lip-syncing to Otis Redding to impress Molly Ringwald.
Tortured stars Morpheus himself Laurence Fishburne and Cole Hauser. (I have this theory that Hauser and Josh Lucas are the same person, but that's a discussion for another time). Tortured is about "an FBI agent (Hauser) who goes undercover as an organized crime enforcer. When he's ordered to undertake the weeklong torture of an accountant (Fishburne), he begins to question his roles." For his first feature film since 2001's Glam (missed that one), Cryer will go against type to play Hauser's (wisecracking?) partner. Denton will play their supervisor. Nolan Lebovitz (Dr. Benny -- missed that one, too) wrote the script and will direct. Denton's next film is Undead or Alive: A Zombedy, which co-stars Chris Kattan as "a cowboy with a broken heart." My prediction on that one? $100 million easy.
Denton and Kattan Battle the Undead
Filed under: Comedy », Independent », Casting », Newsstand », Cinematical Indie »
Look out, it's the attack of the not-quite-undead
TV stars! According to this morning's Hollywood Reporter, Chris Kattan (who, technically, is an ex-TV star) and James Denton (AKA Mysterious Mike Delfino from Desperate
Housewives) have signed on to star in Wanted: Undead or Alive, an indie comedy western, which is a genre
you don't see every day. In the film, the duo will play cowboys (hence the "western" part of the description)
who, along with an Indian girl, are on the run -- in a funny way -- from an evil sheriff whose henchmen are all zombies.
The film was written and will be directed by someone named Glasgow Phillips who, despite never having directed before, has an incredibly cool name. His only writing experience was on the short-lived Father of the Pride TV series, but he seems to be friends with Matt Stone and Trey Parker, which never hurt anybody.
The film begins shooting next month in Sante Fe.
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