Columbia Pictures is negotiating with Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Brendan Gleeson and Robin Wright Penn to star in director Robert Zemeckis' "Beowulf" reports Variety.
The performance capture film, based on the Old English epic poem about a knight who slays a monster and becomes king, is being financed by Steve Bing's Shangri-La Entertainment. In a process pioneered in the Zemeckis-directed "The Polar Express" and the recently completed summer 2006 release "Monster House," the actors perform their roles, which get processed through a computerized motion capture animation process.
The film was scripted by Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman. Winstone will also be starring in the Anthony Minghella-directed "Breaking and Entering" and Martin Scorsese's "The Departed."
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