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Matthew Fox to Play Billy Smoke
Published 6/30/2008 by The ODI (noreply@blogger.com) at Media Mentions - All the latest news of the cast from the TV Show LOST
... says Variety. The project is produced by Basil Iwanyk at Thunder Road and Eric Gitter at Closed on Mondays Entertainment. Oni's Peter Sherwin will executive produce. The story centers on an elite hit man who's nearly killed during a botched job and realizes that his only way to find redemption is to rid the world of all assassins. The comic book series, written by B. Clay Moore and illustrated by Eric Kim, will be published by Oni Press next year. Source: Variety Posted By: The ODI

Watts Joins 'Lear' and Ryan Returns to 'The Office'
Published 6/30/2008 at RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines
... ] Matthew Fox Goes All Billy Smoke : Matthew Fox ("Lost" and Speed Racer ) is in negotiations to star in Warner Bros.' Billy Smoke , based on the Oni Press comic about a hit man seeking redemption. Story centers on an elite hit man who's nearly killed during a botched job and realizes that his only way to find redemption is to rid the world of all assassins. [ Variety ] Four More Whip It! : Marcia Gay Harden , Kristen Wiig , Juliette Lewis and Zoe Bell are mixing it up with Ellen Page and Drew Barrymore in Barrymore's directorial debut, the roller derby comedy ...

Movie News Roundup: Watts, Fox, Another 300 Movie and More
Published 6/30/2008 by BuzzSugar at BuzzSugar -- Entertainment hourly.
According to The Guardian, Naomi Watts will play one of King Lear's daughters in the next film adaptation of Shakespeare's play. Gwyneth Paltrow and Keira Knightley will take on the roles of the other two daughters to Anthony Hopkins's King Lear. Matthew Fox is in talks to star in yet another one of Hollywood's comic book-turned-movies, Billy Smoke, about "an elite hit man who's nearly killed during a botched job and realizes that his only way to find redemption is to rid the world of all assassins." Hollywood Reporter writes that Helena Bonham Carter will have a ...

Matthew Fox About To Be Cast As A Not-Yet-Introduced Comic Book Character!?!?
Published 6/30/2008 by Merrick at Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
Matthew Fox About To Be Cast As A Not-Yet-Introduced Comic Book Character!?!? Merrick here... Matthew Fox... [image] ...whose "Racer X" was one of the better elements of SPEED RACER, is about to be cast as BILLY SMOKE. Story centers on an elite hit man who's nearly killed during a botched job and realizes that his only way to find redemption is to rid the world of all assassins. ..says THIS ARTICLE in Variety. The project is based on an upcoming comic series from Oni Press that'll be written by B. Clay More, of Images Comics' HAWAIIAN DICK. AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Matthew Fox is 'Billy Smoke'
Published 6/30/2008 by Elisabeth Rappe at Cinematical
Filed under: Action, Thrillers, Casting, Deals, Warner Brothers, Newsstand, Comic/Superhero/GeekAccording to Variety, Matthew Fox is in talks to play the title character in Warner Bros' Billy Smoke, an adaptation of Oni Press's newest comic book series. Don't feel bad if you're wondering who the hell Billy Smoke is, and why you can't keep up with comic books these days -- it won't be published until next year. Oni Press doesn't even have a preview of it up, so we can't judge it based on six pages. However, the story goes a little something like this: Smoke is ...

Matthew Fox Takes Assassination Vacation
Published 6/30/2008 at Cinema Blend News
Matthew Fox Takes Assassination Vacation As the blandest actor on Lost , and quite possibly on all of television, Matthew Fox doesn't strike me as a particularly strong superhero type. But apparently a Saturn Award for best TV actor gets you places, and Fox will be the latest actor to star in an adaptation of a minor graphic novel, Billy Smoke . Yeah, this one is so minor you haven't even heard of it-- it doesn't come out until next year. Variety says the novel, written by B. Clay Moore and illustrated by Eric Kim, is about a hitman who decides to change his ways after a ...

Movie Hopping: July 1, 2008
Published 7/1/2008 by James Cook at TheMovingPicture.net
Matthew Fox is in negotiations to star in Warner Bros.’ Billy Smoke , based on the Oni Press comic about a hit man seeking redemption. >> More Christopher Guest, Jon Bernthal, Bill Hader and French actor Alain Chabat have joined the cast of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian . >> More Eddie Murphy might have become a little tired of the fat suit. The actor recently spoke to Extra and said “I have close to fifty movies and it’s like, why am I in the movies? I’ve done that part now. I’ll go back to the stage and do standup.” >> More CBS Films has pre-emptively purchased Richard D’Ovidio’s spec screenplay The Seminar . The ...