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Liv in with ‘Strangers’
Liv Tyler, fresh off the heels of “Jersey Girl” and “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy (has it been that long since we’ve seen her?), has signed on to appear in Rogue Pictures’ Strangers. This thriller, written and directed by first-timer Bryan Bertino, revolves around a young couple who are harassed in their vacation home by three unknown ‘strangers,’ thus the title. Tyler will play the female half of the couple. The male roles have yet to be cast.
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Liv Tyler, fresh off the heels of Jersey Girl and “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy (has it been that long since we’ve seen her?), has signed on to appear in Rogue Pictures’ Strangers. This thriller, written and directed by first-timer Bryan Bertino, revolves around a young couple who are harassed in their vacation home by three unknown ‘strangers,’ thus the title. Tyler will play the female half of the couple. The male roles have yet to be cast.
Since she starred opposite Casey Affleck in Steve Buscemi’s under-seen and under appreciated film, Lonesome Jim, there hasn’t been much activity on her part. Liv has no doubt spent her time off caring for her child, who was born in 2004, and who’s father, Royston Langdon, was once in a band called Spacehog. They were big in the early 90s. In other news, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler is a grandfather. Liv will also be starring in Empty City by writer/director/actor Mike Bender (In the Mind of a Married Man, The Upside of Anger). That film co-stars Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, and Jada Pinkett-Smith, and comes out in some capacity later this year. Liv is also penciled in to star alongside Val Kilmer, Asia Argento and fellow rock star progeny Sean Lennon in Michele Civetta’s Coin Locker Babies, which is due to hit silver screens in 2008.
Strangers is being produced by Mandate Pictures’ Nathan Kahane and Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee and Doug Davison. Cameras will be loaded and focuses will be pulled sometime this fall, with hopes for an October 2007 release (Halloween bucks, duh). The up-and-comer Bertino has two more scripts in development; his Green Eyes is over at Paramount under the watchful brown eyes of Scott Rudin, and Beware the Night is Mickey Mouse property with Jerry Bruckheimer producing.
