Major casting is getting underway on Switch, the adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel The Switch and a prequel to Rum Punch, which Quentin Tarantino turned into Jackie Brown in 1997. With a cast already including Ty Burrell, John Hawkes and Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def), a few more have joined on, Deadline reports.
After her recent project with Jason Bateman (no, not Horrible Bosses), Jennifer Aniston has joined another Switch, along with Dennis Quaid. Set 15 years before the events of Brown, the film follows Louis Gara (Hawkes) and Ordell Robbie (Bey), two career criminals whose successfully kidnap the wife (Aniston) of a corrupt real estate developer (Quaid), but have to come up with a new plan when the husband decides not to pay the ransom. And the wife, feeling jilted by her husband’s refusal to pay, decides to extract revenge using the two career criminals.
In Tarantino’s under-appreciated (at least compared to his other filmography) drama Gara and Ordell were played by Robert De Niro and Samuel L. Jackson. This time around Dan Schechter wrote the script and will direct the film. Deadline is reporting the film shouldn’t count as a prequel since it just includes characters, but not a continuation of a story. I respectfully disagree, but we’ll see when the final product comes out.
As for Aniston, she seems to be on a roll with Bosses and David Wain‘s upcoming Wanderlust. Quaid will be seen in Playing the Field and What to Expect When You’re Expecting, but at least he has that still untitled Ramin Bahrani project to keep us interested.
What do you think about the cast additions?