Having ranted my fingers off under a coffee high over some Jessica Simpson/Grease casting rumors, I’m going to try and calm down with some less-incendiary casting nibbles from Variety:
- Ugly Betty co-star Vanessa Williams has signed on for a role in Paramount Pictures’ NowhereLand. Unfortunately, there’s no word on who she will play, although IMDb says her character is called Lori Struthers, but that doesn’t help too much. The film, which has Eddie Murphy dipping into his daughter’s fantasy world to fix his work issues, already has Nicole Ari Parker signed on for his estranged wife. The flick is currently filming, so we’ll probably hear lots more about it soon enough.
- He’s been Spawn. He voiced Doomsday in one Justice League series, and the Green Lantern in another. He’s currently taking a stab as Gamble in The Dark Night, and now Michael Jai White has also signed on to star in …
