CASTING NEWS: Scott Speedman May Join Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams in ‘The Vow’
August 19, 2010 · Print This Article | Email This Article
I may be dating myself here, but when I was growing up I was a HUGE fan of the show “Felicity“. I loved Keri Russell, who played the main character Felicity Porter, but I will admit that a big part of my obsession with the show had a lot to do with her on-again, off-again, on-again adorable boyfriend Ben Covington who was played by Scott Speedman (’Underworld’, ‘Adoration’, ‘The Strangers’). For you young bucks, “Felicity” was kind of like a collegic-level “Gossip Girl” with a smaller wardrobe budget and a late 90’s era angst.
So what does my college celeb crush have to do with Chan? Well…THR is reporting that Scott is in negotiations to join Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams’ romantic drama ‘The Vow‘.
The film is based on a true story about a young woman (played by ‘The Notebook’s Rachel McAdams) who loses all recent memory in a car accident and struggles to rebuild her identity and remember her husband (played by Chan). Speedman will potentially play McAdams’ former fiance, with whom she begins to rekindle a romance in her amnesiac state.
‘The Vow‘ is the real-life story of Arizona couple Kim and Krickitt Carpenter, which is chronicled in a book called “The Vow: The Kim and Krickitt Carpenter Story
Here’s a description of the book that the film is based on…
“Life as Kim and Krickitt Carpenter knew it was shattered beyond recognition on November 24, 1993, two months after their marriage, when their Ford Escort was hit from behind by a fast-moving truck. A massive head injury left Krickitt in a coma for weeks. When she finally emerged from the coma, she recognized her parents and everyone else — but she didn’t know Kim. She had no idea who he was. The ‘Krickitt’ Kim had married essentially died in the accident. The Vow is the true tale of the reconstruction of two lives and a marriage after an event so shattering that most others would have parted ways long ago. Though it was not easy, and it tested every fiber of who they were, Kim and Krickitt fell in love all over again.”
Screen Gems Studios (a Sony-based shingle) will co-finance with Spyglass Entertainment and will also distribute the Michael Sucsy-directed film. Spyglass’ Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, and Jonathan Glickman are producing ‘The Vow,’ and Sucsy, who directed HBO’s award-winning film ‘Grey Gardens’, is rewriting the script. The production will start filming in Toronto, Canada in September.
I was already excited about this film, and casting just seems to keep getting better and better. From Chan to Rachel to Scott, this is one set I would LOVE to visit!!! Even if I don’t make it to set, I can’t wait for the press junket and/or premiere!
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Wow, Scott is going to be a great addition to the cast, not only because he is so talented and handsome ust like Chan is, but because he will make this movie more intriguing. It would be nice if they officially add him. What I am using as a support to my statement is that once the movie comes out, if Scott will actually be part of the movie, I want to sit on that movie theater chair and actually try to figure out where in the world Kim will be at when Mcadams tries to get Krickitt back completely, and something begins to emerge. I wonder if Kim had given up or something. Evidently I haven’t read the book, I don’t really know what happens, but I would be dying to know did he know she was still married? How is Kim going to try to get that marriage back?Wowwww a lot of critical thinking questions. Yes, yes, yes, he has to be in this movie!!! I’m looking forward to the day it comes out.
[…] working on pre-production for his next film ‘The Vow’. Chan, Rachel McAdams, and possibly Scott Speedman will start filming the romantic drama next month in Toronto. The film is based on a true story […]