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Casting Couch: Leto, Arnett, LeBlanc

By Garth Franklin Friday November 4th 2005 02:16PM

"Lindsay Lohan and Jared Leto are set to star in "Chapter 27," a feature about the murder of John Lennon. Peace Arch is financing the pic, which was penned by Jarrett Schaefer, who will make his feature directing debut. Leto will play Lennon's murderer Mark Chapman, while Lohan will play a devoted Lennon fan who befriends Chapman on the weekend in 1980 when he kills the former Beatle..." (full details)

Will Arnett is in final negotiations to star in "We're the Millers," a comedy Peter Cattaneo is directing for New Line Cinema. The story follows a a drug dealer (Arnett) who on his 30th birthday realizes that he wants out of the business. He decides to do one more job, which forces him to travel to Mexico and create a make-believe family, the Millers, in order to bring 1,400 pounds of marijuana into the US. The script was written by Steve Faber and Bob Fisher ("Wedding Crashers")..." (full details)

"Matt LeBlanc, star of NBC's "Joey," has set up sci-fi horror thriller "The Watch" at Dream Entertainment with Victor Salva attached to direct. Based on a original screenplay by John Claflin and Daniel Zelman, the World War II-set "Watch" revolves around a team of highly specialized soldiers sent to blow up a Nazi fuel depot, only to discover they are being hunted by an evil spirit unleashed by the Nazi's secret occult experiments..." (full details)

Thanks to 'KC'

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