Scientists have long wondered how slow a news day it has to be before the news actually starts to go backwards and erase the news of the day before. Well, today may prove the answer, because the most interesting story out there is the news that Woody Allen has added a few more names to his Untitled Barcelona Project, chief among which is the ever-glowing Patricia Clarkson.
Clarkson joins the already-cast Scarlett Johansson (again, Woody?), the awesomely talented Javier Bardem and the lovely Penelope Cruz. Allen also announced a few more new names, including Transformers' Kevin Dunn (Shia LaBeouf's dad, for those of you with the trailer on a continuous loop), Chris Messina, Zak Orth (who you may - or may not - remember as the fat Montague from **Romeo + Juliet **and who previously worked wiht Allen briefly in Melinda and Melinda) and Pablo Schreiber, brother of Liev and previously seen in Lords of Dogtown, amongst other things.
Spanish actors who have signed on include Abel Folk (Iris and The Dancer Upstairs), Lluis Homar (Bad Education, To Die in San Hilario), Joel Joan, Julio Perillán and Mireia Ros.
Allen also announced that he plans to make a film that will be, "a love letter to Barcelona and from Barcelona to the world. I hope I can present Barcelona to the world as I see it, the same way I presented Manhattan to the world as I saw it with my eyes." Hmm, so full of rich, smart liberal people who live in improbably glamorous apartments, and men who date women about sixty times better looking than they are? Well, we're guessing that there'll be a bit of that, but this time with some Gaudi buildings in the background instead of Central Park, so that's alright then.
Shooting starts on July 9, so we can hope to see this in the early months of next year - assuming that, unlike Scoop, it gets a release in this country.