Paul Haggis begins filming his new movie, the Russell Crowe/Elizabeth Banks-starring thriller The Next Three Days, this week and, just in the nick of time, he’s fleshed out his cast with Olivia Wilde and Jonathan Tucker.
Wilde, the unbelievably gorgeous House star who’s slowly but surely turning her attentions to movies (she’ll next be seen in Tron: Legacy), will play a woman who befriends Crowe’s character as he tries to exonerate his wife (Banks) of a murder she claims she didn’t commit. We’ve no idea if ‘befriends’ has any bouncy-bouncy connotations at this juncture, by the way.
Tucker, who worked with Haggis on In The Valley Of Elah, will play a street thug – or urban entrepreneur, if you will - who runs a meth lab. So clearly the flick, based on the French movie Pour Elle, will take Crowe into some pretty murky areas.
Haggis is also producing the movie, which will shoot in Pittsburgh.