03.26.08: Stone Casts Banks As Laura Bush, 'Wolfman' Producer Talks & Ritchie Planning 'RocknRolla' Trilogy?

Oliver Stone has hired Elizabeth Banks (Fred Claus, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) to portray Laura Bush in W, his biopic about the life and presidency of the White House’s current squatter. Josh Brolin will play George Bush and Stone plans to start shooting in late April. More at The Hollywood Reporter

Wolfman Producer Jabbers
Empire has posted an online Q&A with Wolfman producer Scott Stuber that puts plenty of meat on the (bare)bones we’ve had so far about the horror revamp. More at Empire

Ritchie Plans RocknRolla Trilogy
So says Thandie Newton, who stars in RocknRolla alongside Gerard Butler, Jeremy Piven and Ludacris and claims the Snatch director is planning two more instalments. Newton plays a “crooked accountant” in Mr Madonna's London-set crime thriller and says she may be back since, unlike many of her co-stars, “I managed to get away, but quite a lot of them died. The sequel will follow whoever’s left.” More at MTV Movies

Kapur To Direct Minghella’s New York Story
Shekar Kapur, director of Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age, will direct one of Anthony Minghella’s last pieces of writing, a chapter in the urban tapestry New York, I Love You. Minghella had planned to direct his segment of the episodic film but, according to Kapur, asked the Indian-born director to take over before he went in for surgery two weeks ago. “He told me his film was about the value of life and how people just throw away their lives, unable to look beyond into the real beauty of it,” Kapur wrote on his blog. “I will direct the film now – with Anthony in my heart and in presence of his soul.” New York’s producers say they're still waiting to hear from Minghella’s family before making any decisions. More at The Hollywood Reporter

G.I. Joe Details Revealed
Access Hollywood gets more lowdown on Paramount's 2009 action blockbuster wannabe… More at Access Hollywood