Alex & Emma II.

As some of you might know, I'm not the biggest fan of Finding Neverland. I'm especially unimpressed with Marc Forster. I don't think this is going to help matters:

Queen Latifah and Emma Thompson are joining Stranger Than Fiction, director Marc Forster's follow-up film to Finding Neverland... Will Ferrell already has been cast as an obsessive/compulsive IRS auditor who begins to hear a voice that turns out to be an author who is writing a novel in which Ferrell is the ill-fated protagonist. The auditor heeds the narrator's advice and turns his life around. Thompson is in final negotiations to play the author suffering from writer's block, and Latifah is in final negotiations to play a book-company employee whose job is to unblock writers. Maggie Gyllenhaal signed on this week to play Ferrell's unlikely love interest, a baker with anarchist leanings. (From The Hollywood Reporter.)

First of all, I can't believe Rob Reiner isn't directing this one. It's got his name all over it. And what the hell are Ferrel, Mags, and Emma doing in this? Shouldn't it be Luke Wilson or Jimmy Fallon and Kate Hudson and, er, Queen Latifah? Bleh all over that one.