WEIRDLAND: Jake & Reese together

Thursday, September 28, 2006

Jake & Reese together









According to Variety: "Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon will topline New Line's Middle East political thriller "Rendition."
Gavin Hood ("Tsotsi") will direct and Steve Golin will produce via his Anonymous Content banner. [...] Multilayered story centers on a CIA analyst, based in the Middle Eastwhose world spins out of control as he questions his assignment after overseeing the secret-police interrogation of a suspected terrorist," it would be based on a spec script by Kelley Sane about a Cairo-based CIA analyst that's in pre-productionpre-production at New Line.


And Hollywoodreporter also confirms this scoop: "Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon are in final negotiations to star in New Line Cinema's "Rendition," Gavin Hood's follow-up to his Oscar-winning South African feature "Tsotsi." Written by Kelley Sane, the multilayered story revolves around a CIA analyst based in Cairo who finds his world spinning out of control after he witnesses the interrogation of a foreign national by the Egyptian secret police. Gyllenhaal will play the analyst, while Witherspoon will play the pregnant American wife of the national. [...]The film is planning shoots in Los Angeles, Washington, Morocco and South Africa starting in November."

7 comments :

  1. And if you look back in my blog, I anticipated somehow that this would happen, quoting myself when I replied to kokodee on 12th August: " Ah, the chosen one [Jake] plus the rom-com queen [Reese]: So hot, more than with Mark Ruffalo if that is possible! here!

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  2. Anonymous2:33 PM

    hey, well done, kendra!

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  3. Anonymous2:35 PM

    it could be western: she would be a cowgirl and Jake should be a cowboy ;)
    what more do you need?

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  4. What more do I need? Besides myopic laser, a lobotomy and battling insomnia(joking)? I'm gonna make another Jake and Reese post ;)

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  5. Anonymous6:36 PM

    the more i think of this the more excited i get!!!
    reese is one of my favourites

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  6. This is too exciting!!!
    Kendra more hot star hook-ups please. My choices are Johnny Depp and Natalie.

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  7. more hot star hook-ups
    Naughty kokodee!
    Johnny Depp and Natalie?
    I'll try, I'll try...

    "Rendition" writer Kelley Sane must be a covered Watch agent longing to be close to Jake Tbl;)

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