Casting Bites: Feb. 23, 2007

McConaughey, Jordan, Waters and Dorff

By: Brad Brevet
Published: Friday, February 23rd 2007 at 4:12 AM

Apparently Matthew McConaughey is set to make his next project Surfer Dude, slated to begin filming early May. However, that is all there is to say about that. [Production Weekly]

In other McConaughey news, he is already set to star in The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past with Mark Waters set to direct and Variety confirms the film has been picked up by New Line Cinema. The picture will feature McConaughey portraying a bachelor who goes to his younger brother's wedding and gets visited by the ghosts of his past girlfriends.

New Line also set Neil Jordan to direct the future fantasy pic Killing on Carnival Row based on Travis Beacham's spec script centered on a Victorian city inhabited by humans, faeries, elves and vampires, with a detective pursuing a serial killer. [Variety]

Vinnie Jones is set to star opposite Bradley Cooper in Clive Barker's The Midnight Meat Train based on Barker's short story published in his popular "Books of Blood" series. Jones will portray Mahogany, a serial killer who rides the midnight subways, looking for victims to butcher before the train reaches the last stop. Leslie Bibb and Brooke Shields have also taken roles in the film scheduled to begin production next month in Los Angeles. [Production Weekly]

Stephen Dorff is set to star in The Passage, a Morroccan thriller to be directed by Mark Heller. This news comes post production as the film already wrapped lensing in Morocco. Story revolves around an American man who falls in love with a Moroccan woman. The couple quickly discover that their forbidden romance could cost them their lives. [Variety]

Evan Ross, Michael Rapaport, Kerry Washington and Victor Rasuk are all set to star in Brooklyn to Manhattan for director Buddy Giovinazzo. The drug-fueled indie is a thriller about four Manhattanites stalked by killers in Brooklyn subway tunnels after a failed drug deal based on Giovinazzo's eponymous 1993 collection of short stories, which intertwine several unsettling tales of people in a neighborhood ravaged by crack cocaine. [The Hollywood Reporter]

Barry Levinson has found his Man of the Year follow-up and it's Boone's Lick with Tom Hanks and Julianne Moore attached to star. The film centers on a headstrong woman (Moore) who drags her family on a rickety wagon from Boone's Lick, Mo., to the Wyoming fort where her husband lives. Her brother-in-law (Hanks) escorts her on the dangerous journey and along the way falls in love with her. [The Hollywood Reporter]