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March 15, 2011 / ben lewin, casting, christina hendricks, john hawkes, movie, news, seconds of pleasure, surrogate, tom hanks

- Tom Hanks is attached to play Captain Richard Phillips in a film about the real-life captain who offered himself hostage to Somali pirates to save the rest of his crew. Does this rule him out from playing "Sully" Sullenberger whenever we get to making that movie?

- Conan O'Brien Can't Stop, Rodman Flender's documentary chronicling Coco's post-Tonight Show journey, has been picked up for distribution in theaters and on-demand venues.

- Christina Hendricks has signed to star in Seconds of Pleasure, a film consisting of vignettes connecting people on an airplane. Hendricks will play a wife who catches her husband, played by Brendan Fraser, "in a compromising position." Because it's not enough for Brendan Fraser to just keep making Brendan Fraser comedies; he also has to cheat on his highly-coveted chest of a wife. What an a-hole.

- Recently Oscar-nominated actor John Hawkes is attached to star in Ben Lewin's Surrogate, a film about the real-life story of Mark O'Brien, a poet/journalist largely confined to an iron lung who hires a surrogate to experience sexuality for him. If you can't wait for the film, you can also experience this in real life if you keep an eye on Craigslist.

- Chloe Sevigny is going to play Lizzie Borden in an HBO miniseries, which should hopefully help to answer some questions I was left with after only ever hearing the schoolyard rhyme about the murderess.

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