This Australian import makes my toes curl with his smoldering good looks and when he’s sporting a full beard I just want to grab it and play with it.
Joel Edgerton joins Kathryn Bigelow’s untitled Osama Bin Laden movie.
PARK CITY, Utah — Joel Edgerton could tell you about Kathryn Bigelow’s untitled Osama Bin Laden movie, but then he’d have to kill you.
OK, perhaps it’s not as dramatic as all of that. Still, the “Wish You Were Here” actor spoke briefly with MTV News about starring in the Navy Seal thriller alongside Chris Pratt and Jessica Chastain, and while he’s “very excited” to start shooting the film, his lips are sealed on the top-secret op.“I can’t really tell you anything about it,” he told MTV during the Sundance Film Festival. “I don’t know that I can’t tell you anything about it, but I’d be very ill-informed to talk about it at this point. But I’m just excited to work with all of those guys.”
Joel Edgerton sells ‘One Night Stand’ script to New Regency.
Most audiences have gotten to know Joel Edgerton through his work as an actor, thanks to roles in movies like The Thing, Warrior and Animal Kingdom, but he also happens to be a talented writer as well. In 2008, along with Matthew Dabner, Edgerton wrote the Australian thriller The Square. While the movie didn’t get much attention at the box office in the United States, it was one of the projects that studios start paying attention to the future star, who is now set to star in Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby and Kathryn Bigelow’s untitled Osama bin Laden thriller. Edgerton hasn’t gotten a script produced since The Square, but new reports are saying that one is now in development.
According to THR, Joel Edgerton has sold a script titled One Night Stand to New Regency. Described as “a drama with comedic elements,” the film is about a man and woman who randomly hook up one night and must deal with the aftermath. While he is currently attached to the project as a producer, he is not inked to star. The sale was actually made late last year, but now Regency is excited about the project and will start taking meetings with potential directors in the coming weeks.
This actually sounds like a really great story idea. Obviously there are a lot of story factors missing – like if they will be dealing with the aftermath separately, how they initially met, if they have significant others, etc. – but it’s a great nugget of an idea. I look forward to seeing who they land as a director.
Stats
Born: Joel Edgerton born on June 23, 1974 in Blacktown, Sydney, Australia.
Occupation: Actor, writer and producer
Height: 5′ 11″
Weight: 180 lbs
The Odd Life of Timothy Green is an upcoming American fantasy drama directed by Peter Hedges and scheduled to be released by Walt Disney Pictures on August 15, 2012. In the film, Cindy Green (Jennifer Garner) and Jim Green (Joel Edgerton) are unable to conceive, so they bury all their wishes for a baby in a box in their backyard. The following day they wake up to find a child, Timothy (CJ Adams), on their doorstep, but the child is not all that he appears to be.
Cindy Green and Jim Green, a childless couple, become frustrated with their inability to conceive, so one night they dream up their ideal offspring and write the child’s characteristics and life events on pieces of paper, including “scoring the winning goal.” The couple places the notes in a box and buries them in their backyard. After a stormy night in Stanleyville, a 10-year-old arrives at their doorstep, claiming the Greens as his own. Soon they realize that the child, named Timothy, is far more special than they originally thought.
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