The Back Nine
Renee Zellweger is set to star in the Michael Patrick King-directed golf comedy “The Back Nine” at Landline Pictures. King will helm from a script he wrote with Jhoni Marchinko and Krista Smith, while Amy Baer will produce.
Zellweger will play a former golfer who set her clubs aside to make way for her husband’s pro career and to raise her son, only to decide to turn pro during the “back nine” of her life after her marriage goes into free fall. [Source: THR]
Let The Right One In
Anika Noni Rose (“Dreamgirls,” “Power”) has scored a leading role opposite Demian Bichir in Showtime’s vampire drama pilot “Let the Right One In” based on John Ajvide Lindqvist’s 2004 novel and its subsequent 2008 film.
Bichir plays a man who, along with his 12-year-old daughter, finds their lives changed forever when she was turned into a vampire. Rose pays a single mother and homicide detective whose son befriends the girl. Andrew Hinderaker serves as showrunner. [Source: Deadline]
Paint
Owen Wilson, Michaela Watkins, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ciara Renée, Lusia Strus, and Stephen Root have signed on to star in Brit McAdams’ indie drama “Paint” at Silver Lining Entertainment. Shooting is underway in upstate New York.
McAdams also penned the screenplay which follows Carl Nargle, who has hosted Vermont’s top painting show for the past three decades. Then the network hires a younger, better painter who steals everything and everyone Carl loves. [Source: Deadline]
Don’t Make Me Go
John Cho and Mia Isaac have been set for the lead roles in Hannah Marks’ father-daughter road trip feature “Don’t Make Me Go”. Vera Herbert penned the script and filming begins next month in New Zealand.
The pair play a father-daughter duo who goes on a road trip to find the estranged mother. Over the course of the journey, the single father attempts to impart life lessons on his teen daughter. [Source: Deadline]
