By Katey Rich
As the cast for the next Terminator movie rounds out, it becomes curiouser and curiouser that Christian Bale ever signed on to begin with. The Dark Knight's current co-stars include Sam Worthington, who may or may not break out in James Cameron's upcoming Avatar, and Anton Yelchin, a former child actor whose best efforts at leading-man status have been in little-seen indies like Charlie Bartlett and Fierce People. Now The Hollywood Reporter writes that Moon Bloodgood, most recently onscreen in the Viking drama Pathfinder, may join as the female lead. I guess you've got to have a star anchor for a big franchise movie like this one, but did Bale know he'd be paired with a bunch of also-rans when he signed on?
The cast for another sequel is rounding out, but this time it features a lot more familiar faces. Amy Smart has signed on to re-team with her Crank co-star Jason Statham in Crank 2: High Voltage, reprising her role as hitman Chev Chelios' girlfriend. Variety also reports that Dwight Yoakam and Efren Ramirez will reprise their previous roles, while Bai Ling will join for the first time. Clifton Collins, Jr. has also signed on as Chelios' nemesis, who replaces the hitman's indestructible heart with another that needs constant jolts of electricity to keep working. Say what you will about Christian Bale and his cohorts in the above item, but this is not a problem the Terminator would have to deal with.
A veteran in the animated field will be heading to live action thanks to the producing teams of Suzanne and Jennifer Todd and Joe Roth, based at Columbia. The Reporter says that the storyline of Linda Wolvertoon's (The Lion King, Mulan) spec script is under wraps. Woolverton also wrote the script for Tim Burton's upcoming revisionist take on Alice in Wonderland.
And finally, virginity or lack thereof continues to be a hot topic in Hollywood. Yet another virginity-losing comedy with a suggestive double entendre of a title (check out last week's news roundup for the first) is heading into production. Rob Schneider, Tania Raymonde ("Lost") and Rumer Willis will star in Wild Cherry, about a high school girl who seeks revenge on a football player who sought to take her virginity for decidedly unsentimental reasons. Variety writes that Redwood Palms, Rampage Entertainment and Farpoint Films are producing.
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