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Casting Couch: Fortunas Rise for Dominic Monaghan
2008-10-09
Truth may be stranger than fiction, but no thriller is scarier than our current economic crisis. At least not according to the suits who run Hollywood. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Dominic Monaghan and Freddy Rodriguez have signed on to star in Fortuna, a horror flick set in the not-too-distant future of 2100, when global economic and climate crises lead to the elimination of the middle class, leaving only the megarich and the severely poverty stricken. Talk about fingers on the pulse. The forthcoming flick centers on the creation of a bizarre game dubbed Fortuna, which awards one dirt-poor citizen a major payout and the opportunity to join the upper class, but whose contestants seem to mysteriously disappear. Cameras roll on the thriller in Bulgaria next month. Meanwhile, on a slightly more feel-good note...
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