Move over Fanning, there’s a new Dakota in town and it’s 11 year old Dakota Goyo. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the young actor has been signed to play Hugh Jackman’s son in Shawn Levy’s new film, Real Steel. Every child actor in town was trying to get their hands on this part, and little Goyo scooped it up!
Hugh Jackman has landed a new role that will be a far departure from his stint as Wolverine in the X-Men series. The Australian actor has been cast as the lead in the next film from Precious director, Lee Daniels. According to USA Today, the pair will team up for Selma, a civil rights drama that he hopes to start filming soon.
Want your kid to star across from Hugh Jackman in the upcoming DreamWorks film? Now is your chance to scar you child, I mean give your child the opportunity of a lifetime. The studio has just launched a nationwide casting search to fill a lead role in its upcoming movie Real Steel.
Actors interested in the role have two ways to audition. Beginning immediately, individuals can submit a videotaped audition through www.realsteelcasting.com or you can show up and audition in person on Sunday, February 14, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois and then on Saturday, February 20, 2010 in New York, New York. No acting experience is necessary for interested actors, nor are they required to prepare anything for the audition.
Here’s a shocking revelation that will have plenty of people shaking in their boots. According to Variety, the multi-talented Hugh Jackman will not return to host the Academy Awards next year. That means we won’t see him singing and dancing on the Oscar stage again, which leaves a huge slot open for someone else to step in.
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Actor Hugh Jackman is currently on Broadway opposite Daniel Craig in the drama A Steady Rain, but that hasn’t kept him from landing another feature film role. According to Variety, Jackman is in negotiations to star in the Shawn Levy directed film Real Steel. When the project first surfaced a few weeks ago details were scarce, and the cast was nonexistent, but now we have some developments on both fronts.
An official promo image has surfaced of Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig in the play A Steady Rain. The two actors are signed on to star in the Broadway production, opposite one another this fall. If you think alone they’re good looking, try to contain yourself when their both doing the infamous “Blue Steel” stare into the camera. Don’t take my word for it, view the photo below.
It’s already been set in stone that a sequel to this summer’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine is happening, and a writer has just been confirmed. According to /Film, Christopher McQuarrie will pen the screenplay for what we’re tentively calling Wolverine 2. After the sorry excuse that passed for a script the last time around, there’s nowhere to go from here but up.
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I’m going to shift focus from the film that wrapped up the 2009 summer blockbuster season (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) to the one that kicked it off, X-Men Origins: Wolverine. According to /Film, star and producer Hugh Jackman has recently dropped a few hints regarding the upcoming sequel to the hit. He already acknowledged with one of the two surprise endings of the film that Wolvie would be heading to Japan, but now he’s opened up about its current stage of development.
We all know Hugh Jackman is more than just a pretty face, he’s a song and dance man too! As we previously reported 20th Century Fox is looking to bring the story of entrepreneur P.T. Barnum to the big screen, and Jackman’s the man to do it. According to Variety, the Australian actor is attached to play the showman in the upcoming film entitled, The Greatest Show on Earth.
