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Casting Couch: Fiennes, Weaving, Bakula

By Garth Franklin Friday January 14th 2005 11:05PM

"Ralph Fiennes is set to play the lead in the feature adaptation of the 1999 Booker Prize winning novel Disgrace. Steve Jacobs will direct the politically-charged story that will be filmed in South Africa. Fiennes will play a twice-divorced academic in Cape Town who retreats to his daughter's farm in response to the fall out from an impulsive affair with a student..." (full details) "Hugo Weaving has joined his fellow Aussies Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman, and Jack Thompson in Fox Searchlight's $18 million-budgeted Eucalyptus. Shooting will begin at Bellingen in February. The film is being directed by Jocelyn Moorehouse..." (full details) "Sources have quoted Scott Bakula's publicist, Jay Schwartz, as saying they want this season of "Enterprise" to be the final one. It appears that Bakula has lost his faith and passion that he once had with this project. It's thought this might have something to do with the long rumored Quantum Leap series ideas floating around..." (full details) Thanks to 'Absurd'.

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