Movie News: Rock's New Role
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson by John Shearer/WireImage.com
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has confirmed for SCI FI Wire that in the upcoming
Shazam! movie, he's going to play the villainous Black Adam rather than the heroic Captain Marvel because that's what fans told him they wanted him to do. I had no idea you guys were so powerful. Can you please make sure there won't be a "Game Plan 2"? Please?....
Jennifer Connelly has signed on to star opposite
Keanu Reeves in a remake of
The Day the Earth Stood Still....
Jeanne Tripplehorn has landed the part of Jackie O in the
Drew Barrymore/
Jessica Lange adaptation of the docu-turned-Broadway hit
Grey Gardens....
Frances Conroy (
Six Feet Under) and
Will Patton (
No Way Out) have been cast as the parents of
Disturbia hottie
Sarah Roemer in the thriller
Waking Madison, about a nutjob who locks herself in her apartment for 30 days to cure her mental illness.
Taryn Manning has also signed on to play a fellow loony. -
Ben Katner
