A stupefying loose-lipped extra who worked on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has incurred the wrath of no less than George Lucas and Steven Spielberg by blabbing plot points to a hometown paper. Despite having inked a nondisclosure agreement with the production, Tyler "You'll Never Hear About Me Again" Nelson — who played "a dancing Russian soldier" in a reportedly since-snipped scene — revealed to Oklahoma's Edmond Sun (Non-spoiler alert) the nature of Indy's latest quest, how Karen Allen's Marion plays into it, and the context of a pivotal scene between Harrison Ford and Cate Blanchett. A rep for Spielberg would not confirm for the New York Post the veracity of the apparent spoilers, but literally mwa-ha-haed, "Who knows whether that particular person will ever work in this town again?" And I'm assuming he didn't mean Edmond, Oklahoma.
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American Idol alumna Jennifer Hudson will play Carrie Bradshaw's assistant in Sex and the City: The Movie.... Also per the Reporter, the new Indiana Jones film is officially subtitled The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.... Kate Bosworth has the title role in Veronika Decides to Die, an adaptation of the best-selling novel.... Desperate Housewives' Jesse Metcalfe and Prison Break's Peter Stormare are on board for the horror thriller Insanitarium.... Mischa Barton, who apparently is an actress when she's not posing for the glossies, will costar with Deborah Kara Unger in the thriller Walled In, says Variety.... Having recently wrapped an update of Prom Night, Nelson McCormick will next direct a redo of 1987's The Stepfather.
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Forget my crack about the slashed Metamucil budget. Per Variety, Jim Broadbent will play a Yale professor in the fourth Indiana Jones film, which Steven Spielberg began lensing Monday in New Mexico, but will also shoot in, among other global sites, New Haven, Connecticut.... Kate Hudson will star opposite Dane Cook in Bachelor No. 2, a rom-com about a man hired to take other men's exes out on horrific dates, thus sending them back to their former fellas.... HBO Films is adapting the British play My Zinc Bed, with Uma Thurman, Jonathan Pryce and Paddy Considine all on board.... DreamWorks and Universal are turning the graphic novel Cowboys & Aliens into a live-action feature.
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The fourth (and final, whispers Harrison Ford's back) Indiana Jones film, scheduled to start shooting this month, will not revisit the father-son relationship introduced in Last Crusade, if only because Sean Connery simply isn't up to it. "I thought long and hard about it, and if anything could have pulled me out of retirement, it would have been an Indiana Jones film," the 76-year-old actor says in a statement. "I love working with Steven [Spielberg] and George [Lucas], and it goes without saying that it is an honor to have Harrison as my son. But in the end, retirement is just too damned much fun."And just like that, craft services' Metamucil budget gets reduced by half.
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Ray Winstone (Jack Nicholson's bearded right-hand man in The Departed) has joined the fourth Indiana Jones film, playing Harrison Ford's sidekick, sources tell the Hollywood Reporter.... Oscar winner Forest Whitaker is in final talks to join James Ellroy's cop drama The Night Watchman, about an alcoholic LAPDer (Keanu Reeves) pitted against his longtime mentor.... Denzel Washington will produce and may star in Journal for Jordan, a drama inspired by the 200-page journal a U.S. soldier had written for his son before he was killed in Baghdad a month before returning home.
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