The Casting Couch: April 10, 2006

Originally this pic was supposed to star Amber Tamblyn and Shia LaBeouf, but apparently Blake Lively and Max Minghella have wormed their way into the roles of the title characters for Elvis and Annabelle for writer/director Will Geiger.

Variety reports the film will begin shooting today (4/10/06) in Texas.

In the film Lively plays Annabelle, a beauty queen who wins the title of Miss Texas and then instantly drops dead on stage. Minghella plays a young Texan working at a mortuary who falls in love with Annabelle, who miraculously comes back to life on the embalming table.

First off is Dreamgirls for Paramount followed by Holiday for Columbia. Before those flicks he has a role in Christopher Guest's For Your Consideration, which, ironically enough, stars British "Office" star, Ricky Gervais.

We Are Marshall tells an inspiring true story set in Huntington, West Virginia, of a small town's efforts to rebuild after the devastating effects of a tragic plane crash.

The film was pitched to the studio by Garcia and is said to be a tale about a girl who wakes up from a 15-year coma and finds herself in a haunted hospital ward.