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Today, New Line announced the cast for the upcoming film adaptation of The Time Traveler's Wife. Genetically gifted/cursed, Henry DeTamble, will be played by Eric Bana (Incredible Hulk, Troy) and his wife, Clare Abshire, will be Rachel McAdams (The Notebook, Wedding Crashers).
The rights to the book were purchased by Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston's Plan B production company back in 2003. At the time the studio was in discussions with Gus Van Sant to direct the film, but it seems that is has now gotten the big-budget treatment and will be directed by Robert Schwentke (Flightplan). Additionally, the book was originally adapted by Jeremy Leven (The Notebook), but has now been re-written by Bruce Joel Rubin (Deep Impact, The Last Mimzy). In other words, the film has gone from being a well-crafted film to a summer blockbuster. I just hope that we get some Terminator-esque time travels and some major explosions a la Deep Impact; maybe they will add Henry traveling to the future, and the robots have taken over, and he has to lead the resistance.
Rachel McAdams has been rumored to be the first choice for Clare since the beginning, with some rumors stating that the rest of the movie was cast around her.
There was no announcement of where the movie will be filmed when they begin rolling in September. However, it seems it would be hard to shoot anywhere other than Chicago with the Newberry Library and the Aragon Ballroom playing key roles, and most of the book taking place in Chicago or in other parts of the Midwest.
We aren't entirely sure about the casting since we associate McAdams with Regina George in Mean Girls, and we had kind of imagined Kate Winslet and Christian Bale in the leading roles. Bale has that tortured soul thing going for him from Batman and The Machinist, and he will already be in Chicago. What about you Chicagoist readers — do these characters fit your mental image of Clare and Henry as you cried yourself to sleep finishing the book?
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Eric Bana. He is so good looking, I encourage my wife to cheat on me with him should she ever get the chance!
Man, is it girl (and gay man) crush day here at Chicagoist?
I took a class taught by the book's author, Audrey Niffenegger, at Columbia College back in '92 or '93. I remember her as pretty interesting. I remember her once saying she tried to live her life in the ways of the 19th century as much as she can... no TV, avoiding extraneous technology. Now her book is to become a summer blockbuster.
Weird world. Good for her, though.
this book was awesome. and just as good the second time around. for some reason, i've always pictured the guy who played max headroom (waaay back!) as henry. tall, lanky, pale. the actor's name is matt frewer. google him and see what i mean. i always pictured audrey herself as clare.....
I always had Scarlette Johanssen pegged as Clare.
Meh.
I thought this was a great book as well--found it difficult to put down once I started. When I first read it, I pictured a younger Julianne Moore or Diane Lane as Clare. I think they made a pretty decent choice in Rachel McAdams...
This is when I say:
too bad Harrison Ford is too old to play Henry. He would have been perfect.
Rachel McAdams was great in Mean Girls but she has been good in everything. I watched The Notebook against my better judgement and wound up really enjoying it. Pretty sure her sassy, wonderful performance had a lot to do with that. And she was pretty good in The Family Stone or whatever that was called. I think she'll do this justice.
Clearly I have bad taste in movies -- please, no need to comment on that.
No, No, No! Maybe Rachel McAdams is ok for clare, but everything else is wrong! It should be a well done indie movie, not a blockbuster. Their life was not action packed in the way an action movie is. This is such a let down, I can't believe Neffinegger let this happen to her baby!
Can it have a sassy, wisecracking alien in it? We could have Robin Williams do the voice and he could do his HILARIOUS "black preacher voice" or "mincing gay guy" voice.
That would be so great!