The Casting Couch: Orlando Bloom is The Good Doctor, Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin and Billy Crudup Join The Convincer
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Orlando Bloom will star in the indie drama The Good Doctor, starring opposite Michael Pena, Troy Garity, Courtney Ford, Taraji P. Henson, Rob Morrow and J.K. Simmons, who are all in negotiations to co-star. Pena will play an orderly who discovers the doctor’s budding relationship and blackmails him for prescription painkillers. Garity is a successful, self-assured doctor, a counterpoint to Bloom. Ford is a woman who has eyes for Bloom’s character.
From a script byJohn Enbom is described as a Hitchcockian thriller, and centers on a frustrated doctor looking to impress his superiors and colleagues. When his 18-year-old patient, admitted for a kidney infection, provides him with the esteem he so craves, the doctor tampers with her treatment so that she’ll have to stay at the hospital with him.
THR is also reporting that Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin and Billy Crudup have boarded the Jill Sprecher-directed crime drama The Convincer, written by Jill and Karen Sprecher. The film centers on a desperate insurance salesman who gets his hands on a rare violin.
As always the couch is full of casting buzz from around the tinsel town and we are here to give it to you. The Casting Couch, is a news feature on FusedFilm.com designed to cover all the casting news around Hollywood.
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