'Fairytale In New York' Attracts Kiefer Sutherland

Kiefer Sutherland

24 star Kiefer Sutherland has signed up to new indie romance film Fairytale In New York. Actress Kate Bosworth will be joining him for the NY based film. Sutherland will play an Irish stand-up comic (seems a strange role for him to me) who meets an unusual woman during a trip to New York.

Lee Cleary will be directing the flick which will mark his debut in film making. Despite it being his first solo directing attempt he has previously been Assistant Director for both The Hurt Locker and X-Men: First Class which should serve as good experience. The film will be set in both Northern Ireland and New York and will begin shooting later this year.

Sutherland has just finished starring in Lars Von Trier's new film Melancholia alongside Kirsten Dunst which was revealed at the Cannes Film Festival this week. Kate Bosworth has also been busy recently starring in the

Sofia Coppola Casts Kirsten Dunst In 'Secret Door'

Kirsten Dunst

With her fifth feature film Secret Door, Sofia Coppola will keep up her use of actress Kirsten Dunst, after previously casting her in two of her other films (Marie Antionette, The Virgin Suicides). Production company American Zeotrope, run by Sofia's father Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather), tweeted today about the news: “Happy to announce that Kirsten Dunst has agreed to be in Sofia Coppola’s new film Secret Door,” and also added that “Script is still being finished. Stay tuned!”.

As yet there are no details regarding the film's storyline but Total Film has suggested it will be much like her previous films and will feature a disillusioned lead character trying to find new meaning in life.

Kirsten Dunst's newest film Melancholia will debut at the Cannes Film Festival this year and is directed by Lars Von Trier.