Rose McGowan And Robert Rodriguez Have Split
Last week Robert Rodriguez said the following about his fiancée Rose McGowan:
“Rose is a pistol. She’s whip-smart, has attitude to burn, is sexy, extremely strong, yet has a vulnerable side that would surprise her closest friends. That description also fits Red Sonja.”
He said that in an article by Variety who broke the news that he would be producing a remake of Red Sonja, with Rose McGowan playing the lead.
Cut to today and the pair have apparently split. Now, Filmonic is not a gossip site and couldn’t give a crap who is bonking who, but this shocking revelation could affect Red Sonja and the Barbarella remake. Robert had just managed to get Red Sonja green light and filming was expected to begin in October. Does this mean Rose McGown will be replaced? Or will they be ‘professional’ and carry on regardless?
The gossip sites say the sources believe the split it due to McGowan not being famous enough, therefore Robert cannot get financing for movies such as Barbarella. If this is true then I think Robert Rodriquez should actually hire a casting director and stop using his penis to cast roles. We know Tim Burton does it by casting Helena Bonham Carter in everything, but he has a famous actor who goes by the name of ‘Johnny Depp’ in the movies as well, so they have no problem getting greenlight.
However, I think there are other reasons for the split. You don’t compare your fiancée to the Virgin Mary one week and then split the next. You also don’t split because your partner isn’t famous enough to get movies green light, a week after a movie with your partner in the lead gets green light.
More Info On Helena Bonham Carter In Terminator Salvation
Two days ago it was revealed that Helena Bonham Carter will have a small but pivotal role in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. When I read this it got me interested because the role must be important, otherwise they wouldn’t have got an actress like Helena on-board. They could have just hired any random actress for such a small role. It reminded me of Emma Thompson’s part at the beginning of I Am Legend. She is a great actress and rather well known, yet was only on-screen for a minute or so and her role was important in explaining the whole ‘cure for cancer’ thing and was pivotal to the plot.
Joblo got some more info on Helena’s part in Terminator:
Just got word earlier this morning that it’s a done deal and Helena Bonham Carter will be filming are very substantial (in importance not necessarily in size) part in TERMINATOR SALVATION. The character is not Sarah Connor, as speculated below, but someone named “Serena.” Hmmm…..
Devin from CHUD also posted on his forum that the character will be a lead villain, but is only in two scenes.
I think the two scenes ‘Serena’ is in could set up for the next movie, where Helena Bonham Carters role will be considerably larger. But that just me speculating, I guess we won’t find out until next May.
Casting Couch: Bonham Carter Gears Up for T4; Matthew Fox Up in Smoke
Helena Bonham Carter is testing her mettle against the Machines.
The Oscar-nominated thesp is in negotiations to play a small but pivotal role in Terminator Salvation, the fourth film in the sci-fi/action franchise, Warner Bros. confirmed today.
T4 stars Christian Bale as an adult John Connor leading humanity’s rebellion against Skynet and its army of killer cyborgs. Sam Worthington costars as a time-hopping amnesiac who teams up with Bale’s character. McG (Charlie’s Angels) is directing.
No word exactly on the nature of Carter’s part, but, along with Bale, the Wings of the Dove star’s casting brings a whiff of prestige to a series best known for launching the big-screen career of Arnold Schwarzenegger with robotic lines like “I’ll be back” and “hasta la vista, Baby.”
Carter is no stranger to summer blockbusters, with roles in the Harry Potter franchise and partner Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes redo.
Shooting began last month in New Mexico; Terminator Salvation is being targeted for a May 22, 2009, release.
In other casting news:
- Marcia Gay Harden, Juliette Lewis, Kristen Wiig and Zoe Bell have signed on to star opposite Ellen Page and Drew Barrymore in Whip It!, a roller-derby comedy that will also mark the E.T. star’s feature-helming debut. Harden plays a bossy beauty queen who pressures her daughter (Page) to forgo the ring for pageants, while Lewis is the team’s star, Dinah Might, SNL’s Wiig is boisterous mentor Malice in Wonderland and Bell is a medical technician moonlighting as derby skater Bloody Holly. Shooting starts this summer.
- Gone Baby Gone Oscar nominee Amy Ryan will be back for a multiepisode stint in NBC’s The Office, reprising her role as a human resources rep (and potential Michael Scott love interest) Holly Flax.
- Lost’s Matthew Fox is in talks to headline Warner Bros.’ movie adaptation of the forthcoming comic book Billy Smoke, about a contract killer who’s eyeing to redeem himself after a bungled job by ridding the world of all of its hitmen.
- Jesse Plemons is putting aside the pigskin in NBC’s Friday Nights Lights for a role opposite Kevin Spacey, Robin Williams and Saffron Burrows in the indie drama Shrink. Plemons plays a drug dealer who supplies pot to Spacey’s character, a Hollywood psychiatrist who turns to Mary J. due to his inability to deal with a personal tragedy and his own patients.
- Erik Jensen, Jose Pablo Cantillio and Clea DuVall are set to topline a two-hour backdoor pilot for Fox called Virtuality, a sci-fi drama about a starship on a mission to explore a distant solar system. Jensen plays the ship’s navigator, Cantillo a mathematician and DuVall the copilot and engineer.
- Malik Yoba and Warren Kole are joining the ensemble of Fox’s one-hour pilot Inseparable, a sort of modern-day Jekyll and Hyde tale starring Lloyd Owen. Both play detectives.
Christian Bale Compares Terminator 4 to Batman Begins; Helena Bonham Carter Joins Cast
Christian Bale took to the defensive, insisting that he accepted the role as John Connor in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins because it reinvents the series.
“What I saw with Terminator was what I saw with Batman Begins,” Bale told at The Dark Knight junket.
But accepting another franchise role was not an easy decision in the least.
“That was actually something that I questioned greatly… ‘Do I want to do that again?’” Bale continued. “While Batman Begins was clearly an origin story and we were in many ways ignoring any of the other films that had come before it, this won’t be the case with Terminator, as we’re staying true to the mythology, certainly to one and two more than three, but it gave us the opportunity and the chance to reinvent and revitalize that. There is no point in making it otherwise. So that is my aim, and that is why I finally decided yes, I want to try this. Because that is the responsibility we have as filmmakers, and that is what I’m aiming to achieve.”
Meanwhile, the trades are reporting that Helena Bonham Carter is in talks to join the film in a “small but pivotal” role.
In the highly anticipated new installment of The Terminator film franchise, set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet’s operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind. The film also stars Anton Yelchin as Kyle Reese, Bryce Dallas Howard as Kate Connor, Moon Bloodgood as Blair Williams, Common as Barnes, and Jadagrace as Star. Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins hits theaters on May 22nd 2009.