EXCLUSIVE: What a cast Cameron Crowe and producer Scott Rudin have cooked up for the film they are prepping at Sony Pictures. Rachel McAdams is in talks to star with Bradley Cooper and Emma Stone. McAdams will play a former lover of Cooper’s character. They’re keeping the plot specifics under wraps, but the role McAdams is in negotiations for is a great part and the movie is funny and romantic, with a tone similar to past Crowe films Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous. Crowe wrote the script and will direct the film beginning in October. McAdams is repped by UTA and Magnolia Entertainment.
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Rachel can’t play Bradley Cooper’s former love interest! She’s within five years of his age! No one will buy it.
Is Selena Gomez available?
Hahahaha. So funny yet so true.
Nice! Beat me to it.
1. Rachel McAdams looks young.
2. She is playing!!! it’s not real.
You didn’t get the joke did you?
hahahahaha…… sooooooo true!! and wait, she can act!!
Great news!
Great cast. I hope Cameron gets back into his Jerry McGuire zone. After Jerry, Cameron was the next John Hughes (sorry Judd Apatow) but he dropped the ball with Vanilla Sky and Elizabethtown. Who’s the next fillmaker who can lay claim to Hughes’ comedy crown?
You forgot ‘Almost Famous’, IMHO his best. Even John Hughes had ‘Uncle Buck’; here’s hoping for some of Crowe’s good stuff.
Which was AWESOME! Uncle Buck was one of John Candy’s favorite and best roles.
Let us never speak of Elizabethtown again.
Bert Royal
Sure, if his agent wasn’t such a nightmare to deal with
Yes, please! Love Rachel, and Crowe would be a great director for her.
Here’s hoping Mr. Crowe gets his groove back with this one.
Cameron needs a hit, that’s for sure.
Rachel needs a hit, her career never hit the heights she promised through poor choices, bad box office and bad reviews. Emma Stone is very overrated for me, she just bores me and she was terrible in The Help. Hopefully it will be good
Agreed about the highly overrated Emma Stone. Rachel McAdams is going to wipe the floor with Emma Stone. Rachel deserves the lead role, not supporting Stone in any movie. This is ridiculous.
Tina, to be fair, Rachel did star in the box-office lousy hit The Vow.
What’s this nonsense that “Rachel needs a hit” ? Her last film – last year! – was a a BO smash (The Vow), before that she reprised her role in a blockbuster sequel (Sherlock Holmes 2) AND starred in a critically acclaimed international hit (Midnight in Paris) which also happened to be a Best Picture nominee. Next up ? Terrence Malick’s latest (To the Wonder), Brian De Palma’s latest (Passion), Richard Curtis’s latest (About Time) AND a great role in ‘A Most Wanted Man’…and all that just this year. Long story short : she is doing remarkably well both commercially and artistically.
Don’t confuse people with facts, phantom.
Love her in that pic above, though. Pale and beautiful.
Great news. I figured this was the case when she was spotted meeting with Crowe, Cooper, and Stone last month in Boston.
What’s wrong with UNCLE BUCK?
(It’s the hat. It angers people. I’ve seen it.)
Yeah, whoever hates Uncle Buck has no soul. I miss John Candy. He was one of my childhood comedy heroes.
Speaking of Canadians, nice to see Rachel in what looks like a quality project. I like Emma, too. F her haters. They prefer Lohan.
Both Lindsay Lohan and Emma Stone are limited in the acting department. I never see them transform into their film characters. I always see Lohan & Stone in all their performances.
The only one of these that I consider to be “overrated” is Mr. Cooper. To me, he was horrible in Silver Linings. Seriously, that scene where he fights with De Niro and says he’s sorry, I couldn’t watch it.
Emma is perfectly fine. Very smart choices and has a big, bright future ahead of her. Seems like a good girl too. A nice one.
McAdams needs a good movie, she was great in Midnight in Paris, she just doesn’t get the right gigs to showcase her talent.
I hope this turns out to be good. I really do!
Wow, it’s great that T.J. hooked her up with another great U.T.A. package. Oops. They’re all with C.A.A. My bad. (And no – packaging is not a myth. Movie packaging may not be as potentially lucrative as television packaging but it’s what floats the big careers. The agencies combining with all these private equity concerns makes them more powerful as de facto producers than ever before, More, in a way, than even the studios distribution aside.)
Crowe got right back on track with “We Bought a Zoo.” “Elizabethtown” is an interesting film about dealing with the loss of a parent but was handicapped with an inexpressive lead (O.B.)
As for Rachel (a personal favorite) there’s always Lasse Hallstrom; is he still with U.T.A? I have no idea; as with a lot of people I think I just stopped following his career.
I LOVE Cameron Crowe and all his films, some more than others of course.
The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we’re uncool.
How can you NOT love the man that wrote that?
Attention Bradley Cooper: Please stop making films every month. Less is more. Over-exposed is over-exposed.
P.S. I know you won’t listen.
I know. Plus, Cooper is doing The Elephant Man on Broadway this year or next year. His over-exposure is going to be very excessive. Men can get away with over-exposure, but female celebrities cannot get away with it.
Isn’t Emma Stone playing Bradley’s love interest? Or was that some old version of the script? Bradley is 38 and Rachel is 34 and Emma is 24…just feel like the age difference is going to be really noticeable in this film. If they had cast two women in their mid 20s, or a woman in her late 20s and one in her mid 30s…but an actress who is ten years younger than an actress playing her romantic rival and fourteen years younger than an actor playing her love interest?
Also, I like Emma but I’m kind of baffled as to how she keeps booking roles playing a lead alongside actors like Benedict Cumberbatch, Jessica Chastain, etc. She’s excellent at commercial comedy films, but whenever she is in films that require something more (a la “The Help” or “Gangster Squad”) she comes across as severely lacking. I don’t ever recall reading a review by a top critic where they flip out over her in those types of roles. Are people just desperate to find a new Julia Roberts type of actress, since Rachel McAdams’ career kind of fizzled out?
Are there more than 5 movies in the next two years that DON’T star Bradley Cooper? Either his agent is greedy to cash in while the iron’s hot, or neither of them understand the concept of overexposure. In either case, he needs new representation. Nobody goes to see a movie because Bradley Cooper is in it. Hollywood doesn’t make movie stars, audiences do.
As much as I have been enjoying discovering Bradley Cooper’s movies, (I didn’t know who he was before SLPB) I have to agree with Cooperitis. A huge overload of publicity was done for that movie and seeing Mr. Cooper’s face on every tv talk show and news channel got old really fast. I believe that he does have talent, I just want to feel like he is picking roles because he feels like he can add something to the character, not because he feels that if he doesn’t plaster his face everywhere, he might lose some money.
If I have to hear him say the word “Authentic” one more time, I’m going to scream. For God’s sake, he has a degree in English, doesn’t he know any other words?
I have high hopes for Rachel’s comedy with Richard Curtis, “About Time,” scheduled for this November.