In the works: Willem Dafoe does "Antichrist."

2008-08-13 19:00:10

In the works: "Antichrist," Lars von Trier's $11 million English-language horror flick, having gotten its funding down late last month, now has a cast -- Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg "will play a couple who retreat to an isolated cabin in the woods following the death of their child." Dafoe's actually coming back for more -- he's worked with Von Trier before, in "Manderlay." [Variety] And Isabel Coixet, whose "Elegy" topped out the indie box office this past weekend, is in talks to cast Rinko Kikuchi in "Map of the Sounds of Tokyo," "a Japanese-set dramatic thriller that centers on a fish-market employee who doubles as a contract killer." [Hollywood Reporter] On the unlikely source material front, the rights to former Veuve Clicquot CEO Mireille Guiliano's smuggish best-seller "French Women Don't Get Fat" have been picked up by Hilary Swank and producing partner Molly Smith to be worked into a...

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