Greta Gerwig, in her first role since starring with Ben Stiller in "Greenberg," has been cast in the untitled Ivan Reitman comedy opposite Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher. Kevin Kline, Ophelia Lovibond and Ben Lawson have also been added to the cast.OK, that's really weird. Then there's the 'Arthur' thang:
Project, previously known as "Friends With Benefits," centers of the question of whether two long-term friends can have a purely sexual relationship without falling in love.
Gerwig will play a brainy friend of Portman's character who is the first to recognize signs that Kutcher's character has become smitten with her friend. Reitman is directing from Elizabeth Meriwether's script.
Greta Gerwig to Arthur?: I told you Greta Gerwig was going places, and like, whoa: The 25-year-old pride of Sacramento is reportedly in talks to star opposite Russell Brand and Helen Mirren in Warner Bros.’ remake of Arthur. Gerwig would inherit Liza Minnelli’s role as the shoplifting waitress who wins the titular playboy’s wealthy, drunken heart; it would be Gerwig’s second big get since Greenberg ... and her first leading-lady role for an honest-to-God studio. With the minor qualification that nobody should be remaking Arthur in the first place, this is fantastic!OK, that's weird too (but not as weird as Liza Minelli).
Which reminds me, "Greenberg" is now No. 33 on the boxofficemojo weekend chart, which strikes me as a strong showing right now, but might impress some people as weak.
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