In today's Callbacks -- your daily roundup of casting news from Deal Central -- Jeremy Irons bosses around fellow Oscar winner Kevin Spacey, Amanda Seyfried and Taylor Lautner find their movie moms, Gina Gershon travels to New York with Danny Glover and Robert Patrick, producer David Permut gains a "B.F.F." and Terrence Malick's new film gets rated PG-13.
Previously on Deal Central: Oscar-winning director John G. Avildsen makes a big-screen comeback and Total Film perpetrates a completely unnecessary "Back to the Future" hoax. Thanks again, guys!
• In May Kevin Spacey was among the first actors to lead the parade of talent that comprises the cast of J.C. Chandor's Wall Street thriller "Margin Call" and today, another Academy Award winner has been added to the impressive ensemble.
Jeremy Irons ("Reversal of Fortune") will play the CEO of a financial firm in the midst of some day-long drama, the actor's publicist has confirmed to TheWrap.
The film follows key players at a prominent investment bank during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.
I always enjoy Irons on screen, as he never fails to bring something interesting to the characters he plays, particularly his delicious villains Scar ("The Lion King") and Simon Gruber ("Die Hard With a Vengeance"). We'll see if his "Margin Call" character is similarly sinister ...
"Margin Call" also boasts stars Demi Moore, Zachary Quinto, Paul Bettany, Simon Baker, Stanley Tucci, Carla Gugino, Penn Badgley and Mary McDonnell.
Chandor wrote the script, and Quinto will produce with his Before The Door Pictures partners Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa, and Benaroya Pictures' Michael Benaroya and Robert Ogden Barnum. Joe Jenckes also produces, while Myriad Pictures CEO Kirk D'Amico is exec produces.
CAA represents Irons. Speaking of the Irons family ...
• Virginia Madsen will play Amanda Seyfried's mother in Warner Bros.' supernatural thriller "Red Riding Hood," the Oscar-nominated actress' publicist has confirmed to TheWrap.
Max Irons (Jeremy's son), Shiloh Fernandez, Lukas Haas, Julie Christie, Gary Oldman and Michael Hogan co-star in the medieval movie, which is set in a village that is being terrorized by a werewolf.
Catherine Hardwicke ("Twilight") directs from a script by David Leslie Johnson, the man who birthed "Orphan." Appian Way's Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Michael Ireland and Alex Mace are producing, and WB will release "Red Riding Hood" on March 11.
Call me crazy, but for some reason, I think this werewolf movie will actually deliver the goods. I'm encouraged by a few things. 1. Gary Oldman is awesome. 2. Julie Christie doesn't just agree to be in any movie. 3. Catherine Hardwicke is better than the "Twilight" franchise 4. DLJ's "Orphan" probably can't be called a "good" movie by any generous definition of the word, but there's no doubt that, however implausible, it was insanely entertaining and fairly unforgettable. 5. Former "Big Love" star (well, until the series finale, I'm sure) Amanda Seyfried is beauty incarnate ... and a pretty damn good actress too.
