Oh, what BIG EYES you have Mr. Church!
SPIDER-MAN 3 actor cast as the sick husband who lived off the royalties and fame of his socially inept wife's (Kate Hudson) paintings in the real life biopic of Margaret Keane.
A stroke of great casting right here. Variety say Thomas Haden Church will play Walter Keane in Big Eyes, the bastard who became a celebrity in the 50's and 60's when he took credit for his socially shy wife's (to be played by Kate Hudson) best selling paintings of big-eyed children.
The film comes from two of the best screenwriters of biopics - Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (Man on the Moon, Ed Wood, The People vs. Larry Flint) who will be directing the feature too. We've spoken about the film many times, it's a tale that seems perfect for film - especially it's climax. Great choice of casting - as much as I sometimes go on about Kate Hudson and her career choices, here I think she will be brilliant as the small feeling and socially inept painter and with the mammoth figure of Church and his ability to play sickly smooth as her husband, this could make for one uncomfortable movie!