Viggo Mortensen is slated to be a guest on ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’ tonight on CBS. He is there to promote his latest film ‘Eastern Promises’, which is currently premiering at the Toronto and Montreal Film Festivals, and opens this weekend. ‘The Late Show’ airs on CBS at 11:35PM.
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A rep for Viggo Mortensen confirms that the Lord of the Rings star is in early talks to star in the big-screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s best-selling, Oprah-approved novel The Road. The story, about a man and his young son traveling through a desperate, post-apocalyptic world, is being adapted by Joe Penhall (Enduring Love). Aussie John Hillcoat, who helmed last year’s down-under Western The Proposition, will direct. [More]
Viggo Mortensen will be a guest on ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’ on Wednesday, September 12th. He is there to promote his latest film ‘Eastern Promises’, a new thriller again directed by David Cronenberg, who worked with Mortensen on ‘A History of Violence’. ‘The Late Show’ airs on CBS at 11:35PM Eastern. ‘Eastern Promises’ is set to be released on September 14th.
Pipkin Sweetgrass writes: Could you please run a reminder that the 2nd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is upon us and the gulf coast is still a mess, but the Billy Boyd’s Loons Charities cookbook Recipes for Disaster is still available and all profits are still given to the Red Cross for victims of natural disaster…? [More]
Stage and screen star Ian McKellen will speak at the Guthrie Theater on Oct. 8 as part of the theater’s Global Voices program. McKellen, who will appear at the Guthrie with he Royal Shakespeare Company’s productions of “King Lear” and “The Seagull” in October, has appeared in the Broadway productions of “Amadeus” and “Dance of Death” as well as the films “God and Monsters, “Lord of the Rings” and “X-Men.” He also has won Tony, Olivier, Screen Actors Guild. [More]