Jessica Simpson becomes a “Star.” Tea Leoni’s new “Ghost” story. And Sean Connery’s “Indiana Jones” future revealed! It’s all in today’s Access Hollywood Casting Call?
Forget “Dukes of Hazzard” and “Employee of the Month.” Jessica Simpson is ready to become a real “Movie Star.”
Jessica is set to start filming her new movie “Major Movie Star,” reports Variety.
The film, directed by Steve Miner (“Lake Placid,” “Halloween H2O”), follows a pampered star who decides to enlist in the military to win the approval of a producer who considers her unsuitable for his new military-themed pic.
Once she arrives at the military base, she realizes she’s made a mistake but decides to stick to it so she won’t let her country down.
The songstress will next be seen on the big screen alongside Rachael Leigh Cook and Luke Wilson in “Blonde Ambition,” a romantic comedy about a young woman’s (Simpson) unconventional, comedic journey up the corporate ladder while ultimately finding love along the way.
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Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear have already wandered into “Town,” and now Tea Leoni is coming with them.
Leoni has joined the cast of the romantic comedy “Ghost Town,” per Variety.
Film revolves around a dentist (Gervais) who dies for seven minutes during a colonoscopy. Recovering, he can see the dead and is bothered by the ghost of a businessman (Kinnear) who wants the dentist to break up the impending marriage of the ghost’s wife, played by Leoni. 91697
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It looks like the next “Indiana Jones” won’t be a father-son affair.
Sean Connery has revealed he will not return as Harrison Ford’s father in the latest “Indy” pic, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Connery played Indy’s father in 1989’s “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” the third installment of the franchise directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by George Lucas.
“I get asked the question so often, I thought it best to make an announcement,” Connery said in a statement posted Thursday on Lucasfilm’s “Indiana Jones” Web site. “I thought long and hard about it, and if anything could have pulled me out of retirement it would have been an ‘Indiana Jones’ film. I love working with Steven and George, and it goes without saying that it is an honor to have Harrison as my son. But in the end, retirement is just too damned much fun.”
The fourth “Indiana Jones” film, not yet titled, is again directed by Spielberg and produced by Lucas. Shooting begins this month, and the movie is set for release May 22.
Lucasfilm also said Thursday that John Hurt and Ray Winstone will be joining the cast, which, along with Ford, includes Shia LaBeouf and Cate Blanchett.
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