Casting Call: Justin Timberlake Ready For ‘Love’

Justin Timberlake is looking for “Love.” Ice Cube gets ready for his big “Comeback.” Plus, David Schwimmer is ready to tell the “Truth.” It’s all in today’s Access Hollywood Casting Call…

Justin Timberlake is joining the cast of the Mike Myers comedy “The Love Guru,” Access Hollywood has learned.

Timberlake will play Jacques Grande, a professional hockey player in the film, alongside the previously announced Jessica Alba, Romany Malco and Verne Troyer.

“Guru” centers on Pitka (Myers), an American who was left at the gates of an ashram in India as a child and raised by gurus. He moves back to the U.S. to seek fame and fortune in the world of self-help and spirituality.

But his unorthodox methods are put to the test when he must settle a rift between a star hockey player (Malco) and his estranged wife. After the split, Roanoke’s wife starts dating fellow hockey star Jacques Grande (Timberlake) out of revenge, sending her husband into a major professional skid , much to the dismay of the team’s owner Jane Bullard (Alba) and coach (Troyer).

Pitka must return the couple to marital nirvana and get Roanoke back on his game so the team can break the 40-year-old “Bullard Curse” and win the Stanley Cup.

“Guru” marks a reunion for Timberlake and Myers, who previously teamed up on “Shrek the Third.”

Timberlake’s other film credits include “Alpha Dog,” “Black Snake Moan” and “Edison.”

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Fresh off his Thanksgiving feast, Ice Cube is ready to launch his “Comeback.”

The rapper-turned-actor will star in and produce “Comeback,” an inspirational sports drama to be released November 26, 2008,reports Variety.

Based on a true story, Cube will play a former high school football star who takes his niece under his wing, as she becomes the first female quarterback in Pop Warner history.

Rocker Fred Durst is in talks to direct “Comeback. Durst, best known as frontman of Limp Bizkit, has been attached to numerous projects over the years and made his directorial debut on “The Education of Charlie Banks,” a coming-of-age film that stars Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Ritter.

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Terrence Howard is joining Channing Tatum in the untitled street fighting film written and directed by Dito Montiel (“A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints”), reports Variety.

Howard will play a veteran street-fighting coach who mentors Tatum’s character, a young man who had been scraping up a living scalping tickets in New York City.

Filming is slated to being in NYC in September.

Howard also stars in the upcoming drama “The Hunting Party” alongside Richard Gere. Howard recently wrapped the comic feature “Iron Man,” starring Robert Downey Jr.

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Carla Gugino is joining Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in “Righteous Kill,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Gugino (“Sin City,” “Night At The Museum”) will play a crime-scene investigator with a dark personal life who gets romantically involved with De Niro’s serial killer-chasing cop character.

The film re-teams Pacino and De Niro for the first time since 1995’s “Heat.”

Gugino recently wrapped production on the indie sports drama “Our Lady of Victory” and next appears opposite Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington in Ridley Scott’s “American Gangster.”

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Former “Friend” David Schwimmer has joined the cast of the political thriller “Nothing but the Truth,” per The Hollywood Reporter.

Starring Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Edie Falco and Alan Alda, “Truth” follows a female newspaper reporter (Beckinsale) who outs a CIA agent and is imprisoned for refusing to reveal her source.

Schwimmer will step into the role of Beckinsale’s husband, who initially supports his wife’s decision not to name names but as time goes by begins to resent her for choosing a principle over her family.