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The Daily Dish: June 3

Posted on Wednesday, June 3, 2009
by Andrea Miller - Cineplex Entertainment

Hamlet

-- Hirsch and Hardwicke do Hamlet The Danish tragedy gets yet another modern retelling, this time at the capable hands of Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown, Twilight), the Hollywood Reporter revealed. Emile Hirsch, who just so happens to be in our coveted Hollywood Hottest Men Top Ten list, will take on the lead role of the potentially mad prince who is tormented by thoughts of killing his murdering uncle and avenging his father's death. While maintaining its universal, and timeless, themes of betrayal, greed, love and revenge, the Bard's famous work will be transplanted to modern-day America where producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen hope to " present the story as a suspense thriller. We want to make it exciting and accessible for an audience today." You may recall Ethan Hawke's contemporary retelling, wherein he played Hamlet as a young man suffocated by corporate politics in a 2000 remake, and how well that did. Our fingers are, and shall remain, crossed for this one.

-- Does anyone actually want Scream 4? Well Kevin Williamson sure hopes so. The writer-director who shot to fame thanks to the clever send-ups of horror cliches in the Scream trilogy, not to mention bringing “Dawson's Creek” to the world, has apparently been working on an entirely new series of the scary movie franchise. Entertainment Weekly reports that Williamson has approached David Arquette and his on-and-off screen Scream love Courtney Cox to reprise their original 1996 roles. You may remember Arquette played severely dim-witted Depute Dewey Riley and Cox bared her fangs as Gale Weathers, the heartless, ladder-climbing TV reporter. Word has it that this new trilogy will bring back many of Scream's main characters and one imagines that Neve Campbell, Jamie Kennedy, Skeet Ulrich, Matthew Lillard and Rose McGowan will likely be able to pencil it into to their fairly empty dance cards.

-- Bardem and LaBeouf take a walk on Wall Street 2 The star of Transformers and and the recent Oscar winner join Michael Douglas in Oliver Stone's sequel to the classic 1987 drama. Douglas reprises his role as the ruthless Gordon Gekko and LaBeouf is tapped to play a young, ambitious stock trader who's engaged to Gekko's daughter, natch. Javier Bardem will take on the role of the villain as a hedge fund manager who mentors young LaBeouf, but is all sorts of evil. The film is set to begin filming this August in time for a February 2010 release.

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