The Demolition Man?

It looks like Jake is in talks for another movie.

Variety is reporting that Jake is in talks to work with Dallas Buyer's Club director, Jean-Marc Vallee, in new drama from writer Bryan Sipe title Demolition. The script was part of the 2007 Black List, the annual list of most liked unsigned screenplays from a survey of Hollywood executives.

Jake is looking at taking on the lead in the story of an investment banker struggling to understand his emotional disconnect as his life unravels after the tragic death of his wife. As he tears apart his own life in order to figure out where he went wrong, his salvation ends up being found by a woman he meets in a chance encounter.


The brief description in The Black List summarizes it as: "A man who just lost his wife forms a relationship with a woman under bizarre and hilarious circumstances.

When Vallee came on board last year to direct, he said this about movie: “Demolition is such a powerful and touching story, written with a strong and sincere desire to try to understand the human psyche, what makes us so unique, so special, what makes us love. This is a script of a rare quality, of a beautiful humanity.”

Russell Smith is attached to produce alongside Lianne Halfon and John Malkovich. Jason Reitman, Helen Estabrook and Nathan Ross will executive produce.

As with many of Jake's projects there can be adjustments to the storyline before it cameras roll. That is if Jake remains attached to the project. It's a guessing game to see both if he will sign on and if so what Jake's input will do to the course of the story.

Jake was at the Ubuntu Education Fund 15 Year Anniversary NYC Gala earlier this week.

Does it look like to anyone else that Jake got cut over his left eye from a punch getting ready for Southpaw and was stitched up?

Poor Lords Rich Us

Austin's got a new project and it's with an old friend of John's

Austin is slated as part of the cast for Poor Lords.  And it's JFC's doctor
Garrett Delahunt confirmed as part of the cast too.

And the tag for this story:

When a wayward stripper and an overprotective sailor find themselves on the run together, they quickly discover that their past secrets have a way of catching up with them.

 Poor Lords is a modern myth about two outcast lovers and the ethereal journey they take in search of a home they never had. Having strayed far from her strict religious upbringing, Ruth finds herself living a life she never intended as a low-class stripper, among other unmentionable things. Glenn is a Navy deserter in hiding, barely making ends meet as a custodian. When Glenn violently defends Ruth’s honor against a grabby patron, he loses his job and Ruth makes the impulse decision to run away with him. Troubles quickly mount as the marooned couple struggles to navigate their volatile relationship and fugitive status. Complicating things further is the scorned strip club manager - Jim - who won't let go of Ruth easily. A confluence of misadventures and narrow escapes leads them to a local river with mysterious power. Despite the young lovers’ deep affection, each must learn to trust the other through heartbreak, triumph, and the questionably random fates that befall us all.


Can't they just rewrite it and make Austin's the wayward stripper. Ruth works - Babe Ruth.  Now that's a stripper name.

Who wouldn't love a stripper with a big - bat -ehm swing!

And you know he believes in Sparkle Motion.

 And you want bet he knows how to work a pole?

JakEE

Adding a couple of ee's for Jake today.

First a new trailer for Enemy



And another new  role - Ezekial Moss

Jake and Amy Adams have signed on to star in the Prohibition era drama “Ezekiel Moss”.

The story is of Iris a widow ", who, emotionally fragile after the loss of her husband, runs a boarding house  in a small town overrun by religious fervor  provide for her and her spirited son, Joel. Her life is forever changed when she falls in love with Ezekiel Moss (Jake), a mysterious drifter has the divine ability to channel and physically inhabit the spirits of the dead.

This is the sophomore directorial project for actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Jake you've got the drifter part down pat 

but it's a  little shape-shifteree  - hmmmm who would know something about that?