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TREK Doc cast in RED
If we're not reporting a new 'Thor' cast member today, then it must be time to report on a new 'Red' cast member.

Comics2Film at Mania can exclusively report that actor Karl Urban has joined the swelling ranks of the film. Already cast are Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Mary-Louise Parker, John C. Reilly, Helen Mirren, Julian McMahon, Brian Cox, Ernest Borgnine and Richard Dreyfuss.

Urban was seen recently playing Doctor "Bones" McCoy in 'Star Trek'. He also recently completed a turn in the manhwa-to-film adaptation of TOKYOPOP's 'Priest'.

The film, based on Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner's comic, focuses on a retired CIA agent targeted for death by a mysterious assassin. The film expands greatly on the comic series (which Ellis says should be thought of as a "short story").

Our source tells us Urban is playing the role of "Cooper" but offered few details about the part. We've also that McMahon ('Fantastic Four', 'Nip/Tuck') is playing none other than the Vice President of the United States. Finally, our source confirmed that Borgnine and Dreyfuss have signed their deals for the film.

'Red' rolls cameras this January in Toronto.

The director Robert Schwentke (Flightplan - Mystery in flight, a love suddenly) does not attend certainly to expenses. At least as to actors. For its next film, cinecomic the Red, in fact has engaged a parterre of actors who go from Bruce Willis to Helen Mirren, from Morgan Freeman to John C. Reilly, till Mary-Louise Parker.

It is news today that for the film fresh ones arrive also other new entry: not only one of the members of the Enterprise of Star Trek of J.J. Abrams, that is Karl Urban (dottor the McCoy), but also the popular protagonist of series cult like Nip/Tuck and Streghe Julian McMahon (the Fantastic ones 4), for a long time in negotiations and now definitively in the cast. And as if it were not enough they have been rendered official engages also it of Ernest Borgnine and Richard Dreyfuss.

Urban, that it is known also for its roles in The Chronicles of Riddick and the gentleman of rings, interpretà a personage of Cooper name, but on which still it is known very little. For he it will be the second cinecomic after the imminent Priest, in arrival in 2010. Julian McMahon instead will be nothing less than Vice-president of the United States.

We remember to you that Red is drawn from a miniseries to comic strips, in which an agent of the CIA in pension begins to being persecuted from a Hi-Tech assassin who wants to be revenged for unjust a last one. The film will exit in the 22 United States October 2010.

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John Malkovich Replaces John C. Reilly In ‘Red’

I'm starting to get déjà vu today. Early this morning news broke that John Malkovich has confirmed his role as the villain in Spider-Man 4, then later one actor has been replaced by another actor in another big budget comic-book adaptation. Now Heat Vision Blog reports that John Malkovich has replaced another actor (John C. Reilly in this case) in the comic-book adaptation of Red. They cite no reason for the replacement but that the “part will allow Malkovich to exercise his comic sensibilities as he plays retired a CIA agent, a contemporary of Willis’, who is erratic and paranoid that everyone is out to kill him and joins Willis in is quest to find out who wants them dead.” He will join the aforementioned Bruce Willis as well as Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, Mary-Louise Parker, Brian Cox, Richard Dreyfuss, Julian McMahon, and Ernest Borgnine. Robert Schwenke (The Time Traveler’s Wife, Flightplan) is directing while Jon and Erich Hoeber, who were behind Whiteout, wrote the script. Red, the three issue series, is about a retired CIA agent who is living a comfortable life in retirement until one day a “high-tech assassin” is sent to kill him.

Production is starting in Toronto this week for a November release.

А, во-вторых, произошли по всей видимости уже последние "перемещения".

Jonathan Lloyd Walker ("Traitor") has been added to the cast of Summit pic "Red." He joins an ensemble that includes Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren. Walker will portray a man put in charge of protecting the vice president from hired killers.