Tracking Shot October 2009: The Social Network, The No Game, Cedar Rapids

At the beginning of every month, IONCINEMA.com’s “Tracking Shot” features a half of a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing and that we feel are worth signaling out. This October (2009), we are keeping tabs on….

Arteta’s Youth in Revolt got pushed back to 2010, by then he’ll be in post-production with Cedar Rapids. Backed by Ad Hominem and Alexander Payne, hot off The Hangover, Ed Helms will play a sad-sack insurance agent who goes to an industry. convention to try to save the jobs of his colleagues. I imagine the comedy will film in a tax incentive friendly city with a convention center for rent. Robert Redford will be directing the long gestating Lincoln assassination project with Wright Penn in the lead. More murder can be expected in one more Hamlet film – its a contemporary take with Catherine Hardwick re-teaming with Emile Hirsch. Fresh off the premiere of Desert Flower at Venice, Sherry Horman has put together a pair of actresses (Shohreh Aghdashloo and Marcia Gay Harden) who’ve had some recent Broadway hit performances in a tale about identity. And David Fincher is tackling a biopic project that I’m still having a little trouble believing that he’ll end up lensing.

* Update: Hamlet is set to shoot in January.

Cedar Rapids
Director: Miguel Arteta – Screenwriter: Phil Johnston
Producer(s): Ad Hominem Enterprises’s Jim Burke and Jim Taylor with Alexander Payne 
Cast: Ed Helms, John C. Reilly

The Conspirator
Director: Robert Redford – Screenwriter: James D. Solomon
Producer(s): Brian Peter Falk, Robert Redford, Greg Shapiro, Robert Stone Webster Stone
Cast: James McAvoy, Robin Wright Penn

Hamlet
Director: Catherine Hardwick – Screenwriter: Ron Nyswaner
Producer(s): Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks
Cast: Emile Hirsch
Filming in Massachusetts.

The No Game
Director: Sherry Horman – Screenwriter: David Abramowitz
Producer(s): Doris Kirch
Cast: Shohreh Aghdashloo and Marcia Gay Harden

The Social Network
Director: David Fincher – Screenwriter: Aaron Sorkin
Producer(s): Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca , Scott Rudin, Kevin Spacey
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield
Filming in Boston and Los Angeles.