As soon as anything is announced with Joss Whedon’s name attached, us geeks just go nutty. We get sweaty and scream and pass out like all those women at Michael Jackson concerts in the 80s. Did anyone else used to count them as a kid? I totally did. It’s how I learned math.
Anyways… a while back we found out that Mr. Whedon and Drew Goddard (Cloverfield) would be doing a horror movie called The Cabin in the Woods and that it would be a horror true to all of our hearts, only nothing we’ve ever seen before.
Not that that wasn’t more than enough to win our ever-adoring geek hearts, a double casting announcement has been made, and it truly shows what Whedon and Goddard meant. It’s being reported that Richard Jenkins (Burn After Reading, Me, Myself & Irene) has joined the cast and Bradley Whitford (The West Wing, Billy Madison) is in final negotiations to join him.
It’s expected that the pair will play a couple of white collar colleagues with some sort of strange connection to the cabin out in the woods.
Goddard summed up the casting perfectly by stating:
It’s really just your basic typecasting: When you need two actors to run through the woods in low-cut nighties, you immediately think of Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford
[Source: THR]
YEA! Joss is fantastic, I can’t wait!
[...] Geeks of Doom has learned that Richard Jenkins (Burn After Reading, Me, Myself & Irene) has has signed on while Bradley Whitford (The West Wing, Billy Madison) is in final negotiations to join the cast. [...]