A few days ago it was revealed that Jake Gyllenhaal has dropped out of playing one of the pompous princes in Rob Marshall’s movie version of Stephen Sondheim’s musical, Into The Woods (due to scheduling clashes with the film Nightcrawler). While it might have seemed like bad news we wouldn’t be seeing Jake singing and dancing, from the evidence of the image above, Billy Magnussen will be a good replacement.
Deadline reports that the Broadwalk Empire and Broadway star is now in talks to over Gyllenhaal’s role in the movie. If he does sign on he will be Rapunzel’s prince, who gets a big musical number opposite Chris Pine as Cinderella’s Prince Charming.
The movie is about a baker (James Corden) and his wife (Emily Blunt) who head into the woods to confront an evil witch (Meryl Streep), whose curse prevents the couple from ever having children.
Along their way they encounter various fairytale characters such as Anna Kendrick’s Cinderella and the Big Bad Wolf (Johnny Depp). Tracey Ullman is set to be the mother of Jack the Giant Killer, while Christine Baranski is Cinderella’s mean stepmother. Anna Kendrick recently signed on to play Cinderella.
Rob Marshall is directing from a screenplay by James Lapine. Shooting is scheduled to begin this autumn.
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