Me and Orson Welles

Claire-Danes-Orson-Welles.jpgThis looks like it could be a lot of fun to me. Yahoo News gives us this description of the new project “Me and Orson Welles

movie, which centers on a high school student (Efron) who, while strolling the streets of New York, happens upon the yet-to-open Mercury Theatre and is noticed by its mercurial founder, Orson Welles. He lands a bit part in “Julius Caesar,” the production that catapulted Welles to the top, and in the process learns about life and love.

The cast for the film looks pretty promising. Claire Danes (Stardust), Eddie Marsan (“The Illusionist”), Leo Bill (“Becoming Jane”) Imogen Poots (“28 Weeks Later”) Zac Efron (Hairspray) and Ben Chaplin (“The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep”). But I’ll be honest… the name that really makes this for me is Danes. I am so in love with this girl it defies imagination. I’ve always appreciated Danes as an actress, but she totally blew me away with how much pure innocent charm she generated in “Stardust” and she made a fan for life out of me. Anything she’s in, I’ll give a shot.

The film is being directed by Richard Linklater, who I have mixed feelings about. Bad News Bears (the remake) was some of the worst screen trash I’ve seen in my life. A Scanner Darkly was over-praised blandness. However, the man also did School of Rock and Before Sunrise… so he’s sort of hit and miss… but his “hits” have been good enough to warrant curiosity.

Mmmmm… Claire Danes.

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