Jonathan Groff is just one of the recent stars to join the roster of Ryan Murphy’s HBO movie Normal Heart, he’ll be playing the love interest named Craig, an early victim of the disease and the first lover of Bruce Niles (Kitsch)

Also just cast: Broadway actor and director Joe Mantello as Mickey Marcus, a man who’s an instrumental member of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis.
The actors join previously announced cast members such as Julia Roberts (Dr. Emma Brookner), Mark Ruffalo (Ned Weeks), Matt Bomer (Felix Turner) and Jim Parsons (Tommy Boatwright). The Normal Heart is expected to premiere next year.

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With the movie releasing March 9, just two months away, Taylor’s started doing a lot of press surrounding it. Recently he talked to Screenrant about the movie and why people should go see it.

“There’s a lot. I keep saying that the great white ape scene is worth the price of admission alone. Visually it’s going to be incredible. I think they’ll like the characters; they’re going to be able to relate. It’s not just a special effects movie with things blowing up and basically one guy that you don’t care about. You care about John Carter and you care about his journey. You see an incredible arc of who he is, his new beginning and rebirth, and although you have special effects, you’ve also got the brilliant actors whom I’ve had the fortune of working opposite as well.

“… [Also] I’m telling you, [the Martian dog] Woola will steal this movie… He’s loud and awkward, like a puppy in a sense. If anyone has an animal or has had an animal growing up, they know that there are so many things that you do with an animal that you don’t do in a relationship with another human. Eventually, John lets his guard down quite a bit and I love that because it makes those moments with Woola quite great.”

You can read the entire interview at the source.

Walt Disney Pictures has released the first HQ still of Taylor as John Carter and I’ve added it to the gallerY!

With the new John Carter trailer out in the US, Japan has released a trailer as well that features a few more scenes that give us a better understanding of what to expect. If you don’t speak Japanese then you’re going to be a bit confused by the speaking parts, since they’re in Japanese, but the footage itself is well worth the watch.

Taylor’s being eyed by Emma Watts for the remake of the older movie “Romancing The Stone”, though nothing is actually set in stone, reports have it that he’s one being considered.

Despite appearances to the contrary, 20th Century Fox’s planned remake of Robert Zemeckis’s 1984 action-adventure romatic comedy, Romancing the Stone, is apparently not dead, even though there has been little to no progress made on it since it was first announced back in December 2008. According to MovieHole, a “trusted source” has revealed that the remake is still in active development at Fox and that producer Emma Watts is looking to choose “someone newish to the moviemaking scene” to helm the movie. It was not revealed whether screenwriter Daniel McDermott (Eagle Eye) is still involved, but apparently Watts is looking at Taylor Kitsch and Gerard Butler to play Michael Douglas’s character, Jack T. Colton, and Katherine Heigl for the role of Joan Wilder, played by Kathleen Turner in the original.

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Taylor attended D23 to start promotion for John Carter and I’ve added 11 high quality images to the gallery from the event.

Public Appearances > 2011 > D23 (8/20/11)