Is A Star is Born Finally Born Again at Warners?
· Warner Bros. is attempting once again to revive its enduring property A Star is Born, which has supported three previous versions with leading-lady showcases including Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand. Word that Will Fetters has been assigned the umpteenth crack at a reboot will no doubt stimulate a whole new round of murmurs in Beyonce Knowles’s camp; she’s been a rumored front-runner for the pop-ingenue melodrama for years. And anyway, let’s face it: You’re happy for Garland and Streisand, but Beyonce would have the best Star is Born incarnation of ALL TIME. [THR] Paul Dano meets Tom Cruise in Wichita, ABC surges big-time, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump. · Paul Dano is the latest actor to join the Film Formerly Known as Wichita, the Tom Cruise-Cameron Diaz action-comedy about an unlikely duo’s search for a battery with world-threatening implications. Dano will play the “charming but mysterious scientist” who invented said battery. [Variety] · It’s not a bad time to be at AB
