Matthew McConaughey, King of 2012.
Two bits of casting news:
- Deadline reports that Jennifer Ehle is in talks to join the “RoboCop” remake. Joel Kinnaman plays the title role and Jose Padilha is directing. The rather impressive cast also includes Jackie Earle Haley, Gary Oldman, Hugh Laurie, Abbie Cornish, and Samuel L. Jackson. Ehle would play “Liz Kline.” She was last seen onscreen in “Contagion,” and is often seen onstage; she won Tonys for her performances in “The Real Thing” and “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
- The year of Matthew McConaughey continues. Deadline says he’s been added to Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street,” the adaptation of Jordan Belfort’s memoir about rising high and crashing hard on Wall Street. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Belfort along with Jonah Hill, Jean Dujardin, Rob Reiner, Kyle Chandler, Margot Robbie, Jon Bernthal. McConaughey will play Mark Hanna, Belfort’s “early boss and mentor.” McConaughey as an investment banker guy who teaches Leo how to play fast and loose with the rules and get rich quick? I buy it. Filming is set to begin in New York late this summer. McConaughey was most recently seen in “Magic Mike” and “Killer Joe.”
