Movie Make-out

The Hollywood Reporter, um, reports that Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine, There Will Be Blood) and Zooey Deschanel (Elf) have signed onto the "indie romantic comedy" Gigantic (named after the Pixies song?). The article seems to be focused on Dano, but I can’t find anything earlier about Deschanel being attached, so I’m not sure why they’re glossing that part over.

Deschanel has long been attached to the dormant Janis Joplic biopic, The Gospel According to Janis, but will next appear on screen in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening, opposite Mark Wahlberg.

Dano’s next appearance on screen is up in the air; he’s one of the voices in Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are, and is set to re-unite with his L.I.E. co-star Brian Cox in The Good Heart.

UPDATED (3/3/08): More details about this project have emerged with the latest casting announcement; according to The Hollywood Reporter, John Goodman, Ed Asner and Jane Alexander have joined Dano and Deschanel:

Dano will play Brian, a depressed mattress salesman whose quest to adopt a Chinese baby is sidetracked when he falls for Happy (Deschanel).



Asner will play Brian’s pot-smoking, gangsta rap-loving father, and Alexander is set as his long-suffering mother. Goodman will play Happy’s brilliant, domineering dad.

I’m starting to have some doubts about this project.…

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