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CONFIRMED: Richard Dreyfuss to Cameo in ‘Piranha 3D’!
Confirmed story beyond the break: Although this has yet to be confirmed, website Nuke the Fridge is reporting that Richard Dreyfuss (Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) has been cast in Dimension Films’ upcoming remake of Piranha 3D. “Richard Dreyfuss will reportedly appear in a cameo that will pay homage to “Jaws,”” they report. “His character will even be drinking Amity brand beer (the setting of “Jaws”). (Spoiler Follows) Reportedly, Dreyfuss might be the first character killed off in the new movie.” He will star alongside the previously announced Elisabeth Shue and Adam Scott. Horror fav Alex Aja will be getting behind the camera this month in Arizona.
From the NY Post: RICHARD Dreyfuss may have thought he was done fighting killer fish after he starred in “Jaws.” But Bob and Harvey Weinstein have just cast him in “Piranha 3-D,” their Dimension horror flick, which films in Arizona next month with Adam Scott, Ving Rhames and Elisabeth Shue, an insider told Page Six. Whether Dreyfuss survives the flesh eaters is being kept secret, but director Alex Aja (“The Hills Have Eyes”) will supply enough gore to “cause a slump in the sushi industry,” our source joked.
Richard Dreyfussin ‘Jaws’ (1975)
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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