The Morning Roundup: Disney Loves Depp, New Trailers, New Casting News

Written by: Tony Lazlo, CC2K Staff Writer

Disney has cut a huge deal to keep Johnny Depp very, very busy. There's also news about new remakes in the works, as well as new trailers, including a new TV spot for Oliver Stone's Dubya.

• Rachel McAdams will star alongside Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law in Guy Ritchie's upcoming Sherlock Holmes movie, which I find myself unaccountably stoked for.

• The duo behind Harold & Kumar are working on a new project.

• Steven Spielberg says his next project will be based on the science fiction novel Chocky, which follows a boy with an imaginary friend who turns out to be possessed by an alien.

• Disney loooooves Johnny Depp. The megastar will appear in a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, as well as Tim Burton's upcoming Alice in Wonderland as the Mad Hatter and a new version of The Lone Ranger, in which he'll play Tonto. Will George Clooney play the Ranger?

• Anne Hathaway will star in the romantic comedy/drama Opposite of Love.

• Cars 2 will hit theaters in 2011.

• Whoa! There's a remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels in the works?

• Hey, Slashfilm has a look at the teaser poster for Robert Zemeckis' all-CG A Christmas Carol.

• A prequel to I Am Legend is in the works.

• Here's a great-looking new poster for Valkyrie.

• MAJOR SPOILER ALERT: Did someone let slip the big twist at the end of Battlestar Galactica?

The Morning Roundup: Disney Loves Depp, New Trailers, New Casting News

Oliver Stone's Dubya

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