As he builds his cast for ‘80s-set rock musical adaptation Rock of Ages, Adam Shankman has locked in a fairly eclectic selection of performers, with Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Mary J Blige, Julianne Hough and Russell Brand all ready to belt out tunes. Now, according to Deadline, he’s looking to find a singing (and romantic) partner for Cruise’s character, aiming to cast Amy Adams as cynical music journalist Constance Sack.
After his original top choice, Anne Hathaway, took herself out of the running by jumping aboard The Dark Knight Rises, Shankman began approaching Adams to play the initially icy writer who is out to take down rocker Stacee Jaxx a peg or two, but ultimately ends up falling for his charms. Like Hathaway, she’s proved she can sing, and will apparently be musical again for the upcoming Muppet movie.
And Adams isn’t the only actor now circling the film, with Paul Giamatti said to be in talks with New Line to take the role of Paul Gill, a music executive who lays on the smarm.
Shankman needs to get his actors in place as he wants to start the cameras rolling in May and will want them all in rehearsals as soon as possible.