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This movie either has Oscar winner all over it, or will massively collapse under the incredible power of its own cast. Variety has announced the latest addition to Public Enemies and it is the brilliant Billy Crudup, who will be playing legendary FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. There cannot be another actor working who is less physically similar to Hoover, and yet I have no doubt Crudup can completely embody that controversial figure.

Given that the film has already been shooting for several weeks, I wonder if Crudup is really making a glorified cameo. I am always surprised when movies add a cast member so late in the game, but maybe he simply needed to be freed from Watchmen duty.

Stephen Lang has also joined the cast as Winstead, the Texas Ranger who joins the manhunt for John Dillinger and his gang. He's nearly a Michael Mann regular, having appeared in Manhunter, Band of the Hand, and the series Crime Story. Public Enemies is set for release in 2009. And we'll either be saying "Of course it was good, look who was in it!" or "It's a mystery how it failed with that line up."

As things gear up on James Cameron's upcoming Avatar, we've got some tough cast added to the roster. It's not a surprise, really, that Hollywood tough-girl Michelle Rodriguez just won a part in the film as an ex-marine pilot. With Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) already in place, who else could equal her toughness? Apparently, the director has wanted to work with her since seeing her performance in Girlfight years ago. Hopefully she won't have any further legal troubles to complicate matters. Also joining the cast is film and theater actor Stephen Lang. He's played a bunch of military men over his career, so he should feel right at home as "a seasoned Marine Corps colonel who travels to the faraway planet Pandora to take charge of its troops."

Apparently, the actor had tried out for a role in Aliens a whopping two decades ago. While he didn't get the part, the director never forgot him. That's a hell of a long time to wait for your memorability to come to fruition! As for the film, Cinematical has followed it every step of the way. Recently, a deal was made for a video game collaboration, and just the other day, Weaver was really talking up the film, calling it: "a fantastic movie. So ambitious. So romantic and sweeping." Ambitious? Cameron? Never!