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Gosling skips out on LOVELY BONES, but guess which bright, shining star has taken his place...

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I know the original casting of Ryan Gosling in Peter Jackson's THE LOVELY BONES had some fans of the book scratching their heads. He was very young for the role, but I had heard rumblings that he might not have been cast as patriarch of the Salmon family, but as the lead cop investigating the murder of Susie. That made more sense.

But now it seems Ryan Gosling has stepped out just as they're about to start shooting. A little deja vu here. If you remember Jackson cast Stuart Townsend as Aragorn in LORD OF THE RINGS and realized at the last minute that the actor was too young and brought in Viggo Mortensen just as shooting started. Here they don't state that as the reason, but the trades say it was the neutral fallback "creative differences."

Stepping into the role of Jack Salmon is Mark Wahlberg. This is a very interesting choice in my book. He's not the everyman father figure I pictured in my mind when I read the book or the script, but he's proven himself a great actor. Very curious to see how this one shapes up. I'm expecting great things. The script was fantastic and it's a return to fantastical drama for Jackson and Fran Walsh.


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by Liberty Valance
Oct 21st, 2007
11:32:30 PM
Gosling > Wahlberg
by TheDohDoh
Oct 21st, 2007
11:33:23 PM
Marky Fucking Mark?
by tehgreekhammer
Oct 21st, 2007
11:34:18 PM
Wow, this sounds interesting.
by tHeGRinGoGenTiLE
Oct 21st, 2007
11:41:23 PM
Maybe he is the detective
by Bass Ackwards
Oct 21st, 2007
11:41:29 PM
ODD CASTING PJ
by THE KNIGHT
Oct 21st, 2007
11:42:31 PM
Yes, the writer should have taken a real world view
by Bass Ackwards
Oct 21st, 2007
11:44:24 PM
Dont know why PJ would need to shoot with the red camera
by tehgreekhammer
Oct 21st, 2007
11:46:17 PM
Michael Imperioli?
by scratcher
Oct 21st, 2007
11:55:47 PM
You know Quint I too am a fan of Wahlberg
by AllPowerfulWizardOfOz
Oct 22nd, 2007
12:16:02 AM
Isn't this sort of a lateral move?
by ImFixingtoDie
Oct 22nd, 2007
12:21:51 AM
I thought Gosling was too young
by messi
Oct 22nd, 2007
12:36:08 AM
tehgreekhammer
by THE KNIGHT
Oct 22nd, 2007
12:40:10 AM
Still think Hugh Jackman was the obvious and best choice...
by film_fanatic_in_the_original_b lack_and_white
Oct 22nd, 2007
12:59:08 AM
The best casting in this is Tucci as the murderer.
by Barry Egan
Oct 22nd, 2007
01:03:13 AM
On the other hand...
by film_fanatic_in_the_original_b lack_and_white
Oct 22nd, 2007
01:03:28 AM
Marky Mark
by Live.
Oct 22nd, 2007
02:07:53 AM
I don't care if Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch are cast...
by TheBigDogg
Oct 22nd, 2007
02:25:44 AM
SO, WAIT, MIGHT GOSLING BE PLAYING BATMAN/SUPERMAN IN JA?
by TheDohDoh
Oct 22nd, 2007
02:30:45 AM
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
by ryan74
Oct 22nd, 2007
02:44:37 AM
Sadly
by Kizeesh
Oct 22nd, 2007
02:46:37 AM
My Intrest just dropped...
by Redfive!
Oct 22nd, 2007
03:37:56 AM
Gosling should be playing Yorick..
by Redfive!
Oct 22nd, 2007
03:41:15 AM
I agree, this is just BAD casting.
by brokentusk
Oct 22nd, 2007
05:07:35 AM
Redfive!
by brokentusk
Oct 22nd, 2007
05:13:52 AM
Marky Mark?
by CuervoJones
Oct 22nd, 2007
05:17:37 AM
That Red camera...
by metaluna
Oct 22nd, 2007
05:37:39 AM
and Gosling
by metaluna
Oct 22nd, 2007
05:40:04 AM
metaluna
by THE KNIGHT
Oct 22nd, 2007
07:42:36 AM
"Apthes ah afraid ah watah?"
by Osmosis Jones
Oct 22nd, 2007
07:52:39 AM
Actually, IAmMrMonkey! . . .
by Nice Marmot
Oct 22nd, 2007
08:05:13 AM
Wow
by RipVanMarlowe
Oct 22nd, 2007
08:05:26 AM
Please God, No Fucking Wahlberg
by dundundles
Oct 22nd, 2007
08:10:45 AM
So when's Temeraire shooting?
by performingmonkey
Oct 22nd, 2007
09:28:55 AM
anyone made a joke about
by ironic_name
Oct 22nd, 2007
12:00:25 PM
Is this the third time in a row...
by Kirbymanly
Oct 22nd, 2007
01:17:59 PM
THE KNIGHT
by tehgreekhammer
Oct 22nd, 2007
01:44:46 PM
IRONIC WANG
by tehgreekhammer
Oct 22nd, 2007
06:57:47 PM
Knight... and the last poster SK229
by metaluna
Oct 23rd, 2007
05:37:07 AM
HEY HEY HEY
by tehgreekhammer
Oct 23rd, 2007
10:57:12 AM
to all posters from sk229
by wigby
Oct 23rd, 2007
01:17:25 PM
Wigby
by metaluna
Oct 23rd, 2007
02:44:27 PM

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