Casting Notes: Ice Cube In Rampart; Bryce Dallas Howard In The Help, Paul Reubens Joins The Smurfs
I was thrilled a couple weeks ago to see thatOren Movermanwillrewrite and directRampart, based on a story and script byJames Ellroy. The film covers the scandal that engulfed the Rampart Division of the LAPD in the ’90s and now, perhaps appropriately,Ice Cubeis in the cast. The guy went from being a full-on anti-authority spokesman to reformed family man and comedy filmmaker, and now he’s going back to the subject of crooked cops.
The irony is that Cube will play a cop in the film — he’s the homicide detective that investigates a dirty Rampart cop played byWoody Harrelson.Ben Fosteris in the film, as well, but we don’t yet know his part. [Deadline]
After the break, Bryce Dallas Howard joins Viola Davis inThe Helpand Paul Reubens gets blue.
I talked aboutThe Helpin briefa few days agowhenViola Davisjoined the cast in the lead role. NowBryce Dallas Howardis on board too, and will play “Hilly Holbrook, the beehive hairdo-wearing busybody who is cruel to the black maids and generally rubs everyone the wrong way.“Tate Taylordirects the adaptation ofKathryn Stockett’s novel.Emma Stonewill playa young journalist who interviews maid Viola Davis about the indignities of being an African-American servant in pre-civil rights Mississippi. [Deadline]
Finally,Paul Reubenswill voice Jokey Smurf inThe Smurfs. That makes some kind of weird, sick sense, though it still doesn’t make me any more willing to consider the movie as a thing that isn’t an aberration of nature. Reubens joinsNeil Patrick Harris,Sofia Vergara,Hank Azaria,Anton Yelchin,Jayma Mays,Katy Perry,George Lopez,Fred Armisen, andJonathan Winters. [Deadline]
