Bloom to be cast in Foote’s final screenplay

Posted on March 27, 2009
Filed Under Actors, Actresses, Directors, News

Friday folks! Oh, how sweet it is… I’m going to end the working week with some news about the talented actor Orlando Bloom. The Hollywood Reporter has the latest on him.

Horton Foote’s final screenplay, “Main Street,” is now adding cast and moving closer to production. Foote, who died this month, was best known as a playwright but also wrote amazing screenplays, “To Kill a Mockingbird” was probably his most famous work. Producers on “Main Street” are in negotiations to cast Orlando Bloom and have signed Andrew McCarthy ahead of the project’s planned April shoot. The pair join an ensemble that already includes Ellen Burstyn, Patricia Clarkson and Colin Firth.

Foote’s drama centers on a group of people in a small town in North Carolina whose lives are shaken up when a stranger arrives. Bloom will play a small-town policeman, while McCarthy will play a Lothario business manager.

The project is set to start shooting in Durham. N.C., next month. Tony Award winner John Doyle is helming the picture.

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