Bogdanovich has landed a role in the upcoming thriller The Healer, about teenage twins who manage to get lost in a haunted forest during a camping trip with their father. Bogdanovich will be playing a character based on the Greek mythological figure Charon. Charon was the ferryman who transported souls into Hades across the River Styx. That description of his character just made the story of the movie one hundred times more intriguing.
Deadline: Jason Lewis (Sex and the City) has taken the lead male role opposite Dorian Brown in Running Wild, from Forrest Lucas and Ali Afshar’s newly launched ESX Entertainment. The film follows Stella Davis (Brown), a widow who saves her ranch by working with convicts to rehabilitate a herd of wild horses that wandered on to her property. Stella must fight prejudice, greed, bureaucracy and vanity – including her own – to finally understand that there is no better remedy to misfortune than helping another living creature. Stone will play the main ‘villain’ role, Meredith.
The Collider Writes: Following the success of his big-screen debut in Super 8, 15-year-old Joel Courtney has just landed a couple more projects. Variety reports that the actor is currently in talks to star as Tom Sawyer in Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn and he’s also in negotiations for the indie The Healer. Tom Sawyer will be written and directed by Jo Kastner, based on the classic Mark Twain tale. Filming is scheduled to begin this August in Bulgaria, because it’s the one place in the world that looks exactly like 1850’s Missouri.
I was actually wondering if Hollywood would exploit him. He was extremely talented in Super 8 and these roles honestly feel fitting to his character. I would love to check them out just to see how he pulls them off.
I'm wondering how he'd actually fit the Tom Sawyer role. He seems like a good wholesome boy-next-door type of kid. However, Tom Sawyer was the troublesome, conniving, menace type of kid always getting into stuff.
That what actors are for I guess. I think he's going to have a long career ahead of him if he doesn't screw his life up. Hopefully he'll have a good support system around him that will keep him in check so he doesn't end up on the wild side of the Hollywood track.
Based on that description, Bogdanovich should be the main character.
I just love supernatural movies anyway...hope this is a good one.