May 5, 2009

The Last Samurai joins Nolan's Inception

The Hollywood Reporter has the story on the cast that just keeps getting better:
Ken Watanabe and Tom Hardy are boarding Christopher Nolan's "Inception" for Warner Bros.The story, which Nolan wrote, is a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind, with Leonardo DiCaprio as a CEO type. Watanabe will play the film's villain, a man who is blackmailing DiCaprio. Hardy is a member of DiCaprio's team.The duo join a cast that includes Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page and Marion Cotillard. Watanabe's deal reunites him with Nolan, with whom he collaborated on 2005's "Batman Begins."Nolan and the studio are aiming for a summer shoot ahead of a 2010 release. Nolan and Emma Thomas are producing through their Warners-based Syncopy Films shingle.Watanabe next appears in the Weinstein Co.'s September release "Shanghai" with John Cusack, Chow Yun-Fat and Gong Li. He is repped by Endeavor and ROAR. Hardy, who is in negotiations for his role, next appears in "Bronson," playing a criminal who spent 30 years in solitary confinement. He is repped by CAA.
-It's almost silly to keep saying, but oh my god, I can't wait for this to come out...

7 comments:

  1. geek orgasm commencing....

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  2. Ok, it's really unlike me to gush over a film that I don't even know the basic plot summary to yet, and I really shouldn't be judging this by star power, but OMG OMG best cast ever!!!!!!

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  3. loving every bit of news about this
    -Matt

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  4. the news is getting better and better. im so amped for this movie bro. so amped.

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  5. this cast is out of control - you have to wonder if the cast member's even know what they're signing up for!!

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  6. It seems to keep getting better every week.

    -Robbie

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