BEIJING, Feb.
1 -- Claire Danes has joined the cast of Richard Linklater's "Me and Orson
Welles," an adaptation of the period coming-of-age novel by Robert Kaplow.
Eddie Marsan ("The Illusionist"), Leo Bill ("Becoming
Jane") and Imogen Poots ("28 Weeks Later") also have been cast in the film.
They join Zac Efron and Ben Chaplin in the 1937-set
movie, which centers on a high school student (Efron) who, while strolling the
streets of New York, happens upon the yet-to-open Mercury Theatre and is noticed
by its mercurial founder, Orson Welles.
He lands a bit part in "Julius Caesar," the
production that catapulted Welles to the top, and in the process learns about
life and love.
Newcomer Christian McKay plays Welles, and Chaplin
("The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep") has been cast as English film and stage
actor George Coulouris.
The script was penned by Holly Gent Palmo, who worked
on Linklater's "Dazed and Confused," and Vince Palmo, who is a longtime
collaborator with the American director.
(Source:
chinadaily.com.cn/Agencies)
