Estevez adds three stars to 'Bobby' cast
Lohan joins 'Bobby'
Oct 27, 2005
Lindsay Lohan, Shia LaBeouf and Brian Geraghty are joining the cast of "Bobby," Emilio Estevez' project about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, which he wrote and is directing.
Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Elijah Wood, Nick Cannon and Freddy Rodriguez already are cast in the film, which is set to go into production next week in Los Angeles. Estevez also has a role.
Bold Films is financing and producing the ensemble film, which mixes fact and fiction to chronicle the intertwining lives of a grand cast of characters present at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel in the hours leading up to Kennedy's assassination.
Lohan plays a woman who marries her boyfriend's brother (Wood) to keep him from going to Vietnam, only to fall in love with him.
LaBeouf plays a Kennedy campaign volunteer who decides to spend the day dropping acid. Geraghty also plays a campaign worker.
Bold Films' Edward Bass is producing, while the company's Michel Litvak will executive produce along with his team of Bold Films president Gary Michael Walters and Dan Grodnik. Hopkins also is executive producer. The budget is less than $10 million.
"This might be one of the most incredible casts ever assembled," Bass said. "For studios to do something like this would cost them $100 million. And it's cast so well because Emilio is so receptive as a director. He's done what independent films should be (doing) and made casting choices that are not obvious. Lindsay, who you do not think of as an indie film actress, is an inspired choice and is the heart of the movie."
"Bobby" is Lohan's second indie film in a row, following Robert Altman's "A Prairie Home Companion," co-starring the likes of Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones. Lohan, whose hit "Herbie: Fully Loaded" grossed more than $66 million at the boxoffice, next stars in "Just My Luck." She is repped by CAA, Untitled and Dina Lohan, and attorney Jason Sloane.
LaBeouf, repped by Endeavor and John Crosby Management, recently wrapped a starring turn in "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints" with Robert Downey Jr. and is doing voice work in Sony Pictures Animation's "Surf's Up." He stars in "The Greatest Game Ever Played," now in theaters.
Geraghty also has been cast in Working Title's "The Guardsman" and will be seen in "Jarhead." He also will appear in "Art School Confidential," "Conversations With Other Women" and "When a Stranger Calls," all slated to be released next year. Geraghty is repped by Endeavor, Roklin Management and Craig Emanuel at Loeb & Loeb.
Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Elijah Wood, Nick Cannon and Freddy Rodriguez already are cast in the film, which is set to go into production next week in Los Angeles. Estevez also has a role.
Bold Films is financing and producing the ensemble film, which mixes fact and fiction to chronicle the intertwining lives of a grand cast of characters present at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel in the hours leading up to Kennedy's assassination.
Lohan plays a woman who marries her boyfriend's brother (Wood) to keep him from going to Vietnam, only to fall in love with him.
LaBeouf plays a Kennedy campaign volunteer who decides to spend the day dropping acid. Geraghty also plays a campaign worker.
Bold Films' Edward Bass is producing, while the company's Michel Litvak will executive produce along with his team of Bold Films president Gary Michael Walters and Dan Grodnik. Hopkins also is executive producer. The budget is less than $10 million.
"This might be one of the most incredible casts ever assembled," Bass said. "For studios to do something like this would cost them $100 million. And it's cast so well because Emilio is so receptive as a director. He's done what independent films should be (doing) and made casting choices that are not obvious. Lindsay, who you do not think of as an indie film actress, is an inspired choice and is the heart of the movie."
"Bobby" is Lohan's second indie film in a row, following Robert Altman's "A Prairie Home Companion," co-starring the likes of Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones. Lohan, whose hit "Herbie: Fully Loaded" grossed more than $66 million at the boxoffice, next stars in "Just My Luck." She is repped by CAA, Untitled and Dina Lohan, and attorney Jason Sloane.
LaBeouf, repped by Endeavor and John Crosby Management, recently wrapped a starring turn in "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints" with Robert Downey Jr. and is doing voice work in Sony Pictures Animation's "Surf's Up." He stars in "The Greatest Game Ever Played," now in theaters.
Geraghty also has been cast in Working Title's "The Guardsman" and will be seen in "Jarhead." He also will appear in "Art School Confidential," "Conversations With Other Women" and "When a Stranger Calls," all slated to be released next year. Geraghty is repped by Endeavor, Roklin Management and Craig Emanuel at Loeb & Loeb.
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