Quentin Tarantino is set to be “honored” at the next Friar’s Club roast. Scheduled to take place on October 1st at the New York Hilton, Tarantino will endure an evening’s worth of bad jokes most likely revolving around foot fetishes and kung-fu movies. While past roasts have aired on Comedy Central, there is no confirmed network for the event at this time.
Gus Van Sant is set to make public for the first time over 20 years worth of photos of various actors that he’s taken during casting meetings. Unveiling at The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene, Oregon and running until September 5th, the exhibit titled “One Step Big Shot: Portraits by Andy Warhol and Gus Van Sant” will feature over 200 photos by Van Sant sitting alongside similar work by Warhol. Short films by both artists will screen as well including “Discipline of DE,” “Thanksgiving Prayer” and “Ballad of the Skeletons” by Van Sant.
Paramount has acquired the rights to forthcoming novel “Gideon’s Sword” by writing duo Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child for Michael Bay to produce. The duo specialize in “horror and techno-thrillers,” though details on the new book are unknown at this time.
Character actor Grant Bowler (“True Blood,” “Ugly Betty”) has lined up a busy summer for himself with roles in “The Killer Elite” and “The City Of Gardens.” In ‘Elite,’ which stars Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert De Niro, Bowler will play “Capt. James Cregg, an SAS officer and war hero who is one of the targets” of the vigilante group hunting down a band of contract killers. In ‘Gardens,’ which stars John Robinson, James Remar and Deborah Unger, he plays “a schizophrenic named Jesus Christ who is stuck in solitary confinement” in a film about “a young California surfer in 1980 who is framed and thrown in a Peruvian jail for political prisoners before escaping.” Both films go in front of cameras this month.
“Vampire Diaries” star Nina Dobrev is set to join Kellan Lutz and Samuel L. Jackson in the terrible sounding “Deathgames.” The film, variations of which seem to be made every year, “centers on a young man (Lutz) who is kidnapped and forced into the savage world of a modern gladiator arena, where men fight to the death for entertainment of the online masses in games orchestrated by Jackson.” Dobrev will play Lutz’s wife.