Eckhart, Blanchard, Wiest Join RABBIT HOLE Film
Eckhart, Blanchard, Wiest Join RABBIT HOLE Film
#1Eckhart, Blanchard, Wiest Join RABBIT HOLE Film
Posted: 5/6/09 at 12:03am
Variety is reporting that Aaron Eckhart, Tammy Blanchard and Oscar winner Dianne Wiest will join Nicole Kidman in the big screen adaptation of David Lindsay-Abaire's Broadway play "Rabbit Hole."
John Cameron Mitchell is directing and Kidman will produce through her Fox-based Blossom Films .
http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Eckhart_Wiest_Blanchard_Join_Kidman_in_RABBIT_HOLE_Film_20090505
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Updated On: 5/6/09 at 12:03 AM
#2re: Eckhardt, Blanchard, Wiest Join RABBIT HOLE Film
Posted: 5/6/09 at 12:05am
Yup. Saw this earlier today.
Wiest is PERFECT casting!!
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#2re: Eckhardt, Blanchard, Wiest Join RABBIT HOLE Film
Posted: 5/6/09 at 12:06am
Never saw this show, but I'm excited. I hope it fares better than some recent plays-to-screen transfers at the box office.
Who is going to play the John Gallagher, Jr. role?
#3re: Eckhardt, Blanchard, Wiest Join RABBIT HOLE Film
Posted: 5/6/09 at 12:07amA strange choice for John Cameron Mitchell.
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#4re: Eckhardt, Blanchard, Wiest Join RABBIT HOLE Film
Posted: 5/6/09 at 12:34am
Aaron Eckhart is perfect.
As long as John Cameron Mitchell doesn't screw it up (he shouldn't), this is shaping up to be quite he film.
#5re: Eckhardt, Blanchard, Wiest Join RABBIT HOLE Film
Posted: 5/6/09 at 12:44am
The whole cast seems great, save for Kidman who used to be a fantastic actress but has turned in really overacted, robotic performances as of late. Maybe Mitchell will get something better from her.
I'm not familiar with the play, I assume Wiest is playing the Tyne Daly part but what is Tammy Blanchard's role like? I also wonder who will be playing John Gallagher Jr.'s part, would it be naive to hope that he's at least in the running?
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#6re: Eckhardt, Blanchard, Wiest Join RABBIT HOLE Film
Posted: 5/6/09 at 12:47amMinus Kidman, I am horrifically excited. Wiest?! Eckhart?! Blanchard?! Talk about perfect casting. And a little John Cameron Mitchell to top it all off? Not so bad. I can't wait to see this.
#7re: Eckhardt, Blanchard, Wiest Join RABBIT HOLE Film
Posted: 5/6/09 at 1:06amray, Blanchard is playing Izzy, the neurotic younger sister of Kidman's character.
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#8re: Eckhardt, Blanchard, Wiest Join RABBIT HOLE Film
Posted: 5/6/09 at 2:49am
Eckhart! PERFECT casting.
I adore Nicole Kidman, I'm not totally sold on her for this role though.
#9re: Eckhardt, Blanchard, Wiest Join RABBIT HOLE Film
Posted: 5/6/09 at 2:06pm
I love this cast! But I think Wiest is kind of a departure from the ballsy personality Daly gave to the role on Broadway.
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Updated On: 5/6/09 at 02:06 PM
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
#10re: Eckhardt, Blanchard, Wiest Join RABBIT HOLE Film
Posted: 5/6/09 at 2:15pmWatch Bullets Over Broadway. You'll never doubt Wiest's ballsiness.
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#11re: Eckhardt, Blanchard, Wiest Join RABBIT HOLE Film
Posted: 5/6/09 at 2:52pmCynthia Nixon should have been given the opportunity to reprise her role.
#12re: Eckhardt, Blanchard, Wiest Join RABBIT HOLE Film
Posted: 5/6/09 at 3:09pm
The only reason the movie is being made in the first place is because Nicole Kidman bought the rights so that her film company could produce it so that she could star in it.
It wouldn't have been made with Nixon attached.
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#13re: Eckhardt, Blanchard, Wiest Join RABBIT HOLE Film
Posted: 5/6/09 at 3:39pmI get more and more excited everytime for this film!
I'll have them clawing at eachother, like drag queens at a wig sale"
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