Vince Vaughn And O Russell Go To St Louis

30 July 2010

I've been a huge fan of Vince Vaughn since I saw him eat up the screen in the brilliant Swingers in 1996. He took a while becoming a superstar, but that he is now; mostly through making broad, not-that-funny comedies. I love Old School, Wedding Crashers and Dodgeball, while The Break-Up is underrated; but the actor hasn't made a decent flick since that Jennifer Aniston co-starrer. 

Alas, he's beginning to work with some more established directors, and is currently shooting the Ron Howard helmed, What You Don't Know, opposite Jennifer Connelly, Winona Ryder and Kevin James. While next up after that, according to the increasingly prolific Deadline.com, will be the David O Russell production, Old St Louis, where Vaughn would play a travelling salesman, who has been missing out on all the good bits with his daughter because of work. Kick Ass star, Chloe Moretz, is being mentioned for the daughter role.

O Russell has wrapped The Fighter, while his Jessica Biel comedy Nailed may never see the light of day after severe production troubles. This sounds fairly straight forward for the director of (the painful) I Heart Huckabees, but O Russell has churned out a (modertly conventional) modern classic before, Three Kings.