News: Diane Lane
November 24, 2006The actress probably still best known for either 1983’s The Outsiders or the 1989 Western TV mini-series Lonesome Dove is on good form in this week’s Hollywoodland, although the role is probably too small to see her land another Oscar nomination to add to her one for 2002’s Unfaithful.
She has a fair few more projects in the works, however, including the potentially promising action thriller Killshot, where she’ll play one half of a couple in a witness protection programme who are tracked down by hitmen Mickey Rourke and the insanely promising star of last year’s superb high school noir flick Brick, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, with additional roles for the likes of Rosario Dawson and Jackass‘ Johnny Knoxville.
Also sounding promising is Ed Harris’ directorial follow-up to his critically-acclaimed 2000 biopic Pollock. Other than Harris, who will star as well as write and direct, Lane will appear alongside Viggo Mortensen in the Western Appaloosa, based on the novel by Robert B. Parker about two friends appointed to police a small town, which is set to start filming in Autumn 2007. We need more Westerns these days - it’s amazing after the success of TV show Deadwood that more aren’t on the way.
