It looks like Jeffrey Dean Morgan is keeping rather busy and we’ll have quite a few JDM movies to see in 2010.
Once he’s finished with The Losers he’ll be joining the cast of Red Dawn, which is filming in Detroit. One of his co-stars is Sam Winchester’s doomed fiance Jessica, Adrianne Palicki. From Puerto Rico to Detroit should be an easy transition!
Apparently this is not a done deal, as he is still in final negotiations for the role.
He also has his sights on playing the part of Lobo in Guy Ritchie’s upcoming movie based on the comic book character. Lobo is described as having exceptional strength and fortitude. He enjoys nothing better than mindless violence and intoxication. Sounds kind of like Denny…
Jeffrey Dean Morgan is a very, very busy man. Having shot the thriller The Resident earlier this year, Dean Morgan moved immediately into production of the DC/Vertigo comic book adaptation The Losers, currently shooting in Puerto Rico. Now word comes from the actor himself that he’ll be taking a role in the upcoming remake of the 1984 John Milius cult classic, Red Dawn.
“I’m jumping back in,” Dean Morgan reveals to ComingSoon.net, ” I go to work on something about ten days after I’ve finished shooting ['The Losers']… It’s a remake of a movie that I love… ‘Red Dawn.’ I just love that f**king movie, ever since I was a kid.”
Red Dawn, slated to start shooting soon in Detroit, MI, takes place in an alternate reality where the United States has fallen to the forces of communism and focuses on a group of high school students who form a militant band to fight back.
“I guess I’m more or less the old Powers Booth character,” says Dean Morgan of his role, “There’s all the kids and Powers Booth is the pilot that lands in the film and kind of helps them take down the bad guys. Blow communism away. It’s a really good, young cast. I’ll be the old guy in it, which is cool.”
The currently-announced cast includes Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Adrianne Palicki, Josh Hutcherson, Isabel Lucas, Connor Cruise and Edwin Hodge with second-unit director Dan Bradley stepping up to the full director’s chair for the first time.
“He’s the real deal,” says Dean Morgan of Bradley, “A real good action director and apparently a really good, stylized director with actors anyway. I’m very much looking forward to it.”
Red Dawn is currently slated for a September 2010 release.
“They’re making ‘Lobo’ right now,” offered JDM, “That would be cool. ‘Lobo’ would be very cool. I don’t think that I’m as big as Lobo is, but if you could, like, transplant Mickey Rourke’s body on my head, that would be just great.”
The comic book character, re-developed in the early ’90s, is that of an intergalactic bounty hunter and hard-drinking biker. Designed as somewhat of an over-the-top parody of his violent anti-hero contemporaries, Lobo has become a popular mainstay of the DC Universe, appearing outside of comics in “Superman: The Animated Series” and “Justice League,” as well as in his own animated web-series.
“You’re always looking for material that’s kind of smart and fun and this seems to be where it is right now,” says the actor in regards to his interest in so many comic book properties, “The studios are really gravitating towards it, more than I’ve ever seen them gravitate towards anything in a long time. Comic books are really the thing right now and I don’t see that going away for at least the next couple of years.”
Lobo has two major creative forces in common with The Losers in producers Joel Silver and Akiva Goldsman, a connection not at all lost on Dean Morgan.
“I do have an in,” he admits, “I’ll be elbowing somebody soon.”
