Jeremy Strong had a pretty good 2012, scoring roles in Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty as well as the upcoming Robot & Frank. He’s continuing that run by booking a part as one of history’s most infamous killers, JFK’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, according to Variety.
Paul Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton, Jacki Weaver, Zac Efron and Marcia Gay Harden are already set for the movie, which is based on the book Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, by renowned author and former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi. The screenplay comes from Peter Landesman, who will also make make his directorial debut with Parkland.
The film recounts the dramatic true story of the chaotic events that occurred at Parkland Hospital in Dallas on the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22nd 1963. JFK was taken to the hospital, where they worked on him for some time, hoping to save his life, even though it was hopeless.
The film will presumably also look at the assassination itself, as Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t get to Parkland that day. He had to wait to go to the same hospital until November 24th, when he was shot by Jack Ruby. He died at Parkland during surgery (Ruby also died at the hospital four years later).
The film, to be shot in Austin, Texas is destined for a 2013 US theatrical release around the 50th anniversary of the assassination.
A lot of people thought it would many years before a filmed gross £100 million at the UK box office, and just a few months ago if you’d said the one to do it would be a Bond movie, most people would have simply laughed at you. However Skyfall has done just that, with Sony & MGM revealing that the Sam Mendes directed movie has now taken £100,460,679 in the UK and Ireland, becoming the first film to ever pass that milestone.
Despite some stiff competition from newbies Les Miserables and Django Unchained, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey held them them off to top the box office for a third weekend, taking another $32 million. That takes its US total past the $200 million mark, while worldwide it moves past $600 million.
Ryan Murphy is a very busy man, creating and producing Glee, The New Normal and American Horror Story, as well as directing episodes of those show and planning a movie adaptation of Larry Kramer’s acclaimed AIDS-themed play, The Normal Heart.