Sentences with phrase «cast in the lead»

However, it is inconceivable that there would have been an identical result had different individuals been cast in the lead roles.

Maybe it would have helped if Josh Lucas had been cast in the lead.

In 1977, Langella was cast in the leading role of a Broadway revival of Dracula, and his con brio performance as the bloodthirsty count earned rave reviews, turning the production into an unexpected hit.

In 1999, Sheen's brother, Emilio Estevez, cast him as real - life adult filmmaker Artie Mitchell in the made - for - cable feature Rated X — a daring role, given Mitchell's drug abuse and sexual promiscuity — and the following year, Sheen became Hollywood's comeback kid when he was cast in the leading role of the popular situation comedy Spin City after the departure of actor Michael J.

While attending Boston University, the 20 - year - old Alexander was cast in the lead of the Stephen Sondheim Broadway musical Merrily We Roll Along, which might have made him an overnight star had it not closed almost as soon as it opened.

Tommy, who casts himself in the lead, can't remember his lines, much less say them convincingly.

Pic's biggest drawback is that the helmer has again cast himself in the leading role.

Her next project, the Heathers take - off Jawbreaker, faltered both at the box office and with critics, but did Gayheart the service of casting her in another leading role, helping to increase her fresh - scrubbed profile.

Although she has had little acting training, she was cast in the leading role of Pocahontas in 2005's Academy Award - nominated motion picture, The New World.

Upon graduating to director, Capra reciprocated Grave's kindnesses by casting him in leading - man roles in several Columbia silent features.

The battle of making Permanent Midnight may have been half over when Ben Stiller was cast in the lead role.

Following the obscure single - season Fox dramedy «Get Real», Hathaway was cast in the lead role of the G - rated comedy The Princess Diaries, which became a substantial hit for Disney in the summer of 2001.

One can get star actors to cast in the leading roles.

He has been cast in the lead role of Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's two - part adaptation of The Hobbit.

Carrie Coon has already been cast in lead role for sophomore run of Jessica Biel - produced series

It looks like New Line Cinema is keeping it in the family with regards to its Conjuring 2 spinoff The Nun, with Deadline revealing that Taissa Farmiga — younger sister of The Conjuring's Vera Farmiga — has been cast in the lead role.

Wisely, Allen doesn't cast himself in the lead role of the neurotic playwright, and he doesn't ask Cusack to mimic his mannerisms to the point where he's doing an all - out Allen imitation, as he has other lead actors in films where he doesn't star.

Two Days, One Night stars Marion Cotillard — the first movie star the Dardennes have ever cast in a leading role — as Sandra, an employee at a small firm that makes solar panels.

His castmates — comic character actors Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, and Clark Duke — displayed no such integrity, wisely recognizing that getting cast in a lead role without an audition is a luxury they're rarely extended.

Vanessa Kirby has been cast in the lead female role.

Not long after, Rosa Salazar was cast in the lead role.

Last month it was announced that Atonement and Darkest Hour director Joe Wright is set to helm an adaptation of A.J. Finn's bestselling novel The Woman in the Window, and now comes word from Variety that Amy Adams (Arrival, Nocturnal Animals) has been cast in the lead role.

Ólafur Darri Ólafsson is wonderfully cast in the lead role.

Rosemarie DeWitt (Cinderella Man) was cast in a lead role earlier this summer and Sam Rockwell (Moon) remains rumored.

Cast in the lead of the new show is Corey Hawkins, whom you may know from his star turn as Dr. Dre in Straight Outta Compton.

Also recently cast in a leading role on the show was Homeland alum Rupert Friend.

Jenna Elfman (Dharma & Greg) has been cast in the lead of FOX's untitled comedy pilot from Dana Klein (Friends).

Taron Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service) has already been cast in the lead as the famous thief from Nottingham, and the filmmakers have set about finding their leading lady and have shortlisted British actress Gugu -LSB-...]

Sorkin and Chastain sat down with TheWrap to talk about the film, with stops along the way to talk about Harvey Weinstein, Gilbert and Sullivan and who Sorkin really wanted to cast in the lead role.

Moreover, Nicolas Cage has been cast in the lead role of Joe, an ex-con who «becomes the unlikeliest of role...

The big mystery of the new prison actioner, The Last Castle, is not how Robert Redford was cast in the lead — he received $ 11 million, his highest paycheck to date — but how did director Rod Lurie get low - key and unimpressive performances from a stellar cast that includes, in addition to Redford, The Sopranos's James Gandolfini and You Can Count On Me's Mark Ruffalo.

Lucas cast him in a lead role in 1973's American Graffiti.

(Random / better thought / idea: what if the charismatic and largely underused Rasuk were cast in the lead instead...?)

According to Deadline, Freeman has been cast in a leading role...

Isaac would be the first male to be cast in Annihilation thus far, with Natalie Portman being cast in the lead earlier this year, followed quickly by announcements of Jennifer Jason Leigh, Creed «s Tessa Thompson, and Jane the Virgin «s Gina Rodriguez joining her.

Hollywood has not failed to take notice, casting her in the lead role in next year's big «Hunger Games» clone, «Divergent.»

Emmy - nominated actress Connie Britton (Nashville,) has been cast in a lead role in FOX's gripping new drama, 9 -1-1.

The genteel Edward Woods was originally cast in the lead part of Tom Powers, but after a few days shooting Wellman switched parts and James Cagney had the volatile lead part — the rest is cinema history.

The film based on Masamune Shirow's manga series has faced a controversy over Johansson being cast in the lead role.

«Sherlock» star Benedict Cumberbatch has been cast in the lead role for Marvel's upcoming «Doctor Strange» film.

Despite repeatedly insisting that the lack of any non-white Oscar nominees was in no way a sign that the industry might have a race issue, Paramount and DreamWorks recently went ahead and announced that Scarlett Johansson would be cast in the leading role of Major Motoko Kusanagi in the live - action remake of legendary anime, Ghost in the Shell.

Silent Movie is a more personal film than the others, and — probably not coincidentally — the first in which Brooks has cast himself in a lead role.

Despite a Hollywood movie adaptation being surprisingly far in pre-production, with a certain Merc with a Mouth being cast in the lead role just a few days ago, the Pokémon Company has said surprisingly little about the Detective Pikachu 3DS game heading overseas.

I've also already expressed my disappointment in Elle Fanning having been cast in the lead role.

The breakout star of the 2011 sci - fi comedy «Attack the Block,» Boyega was catapulted to international fame when he was cast in the lead role of Finn in J.J. Abrams» «The Force Awakens.»

Mark Wahlberg was perfectly cast in the lead role, portraying vulnerability as well as charisma, but this is Burt Reynolds» film.

Into this bizarre world comes Domhnall Gleeson — an actor I am quickly beginning to find tiresome and wish would stop being cast in lead roles — a paragon of normality and mediocrity, who is both drawn to Frank and his entourage and yet repelled by their rejection of the conventions of normal behavior.

Trivia: When the project was announced, Daniel Day - Lewis, Gael García Bernal and Benicio Del Toro were cast in the lead roles.

Proving his acting ability, he would also be cast in the lead role of legendary boxer Mike Tyson in the HBO biopic, Tyson.

Unfortunately, Affleck cast himself in the lead role.