Downey & Witherspoon Up For ‘Days Before’
Written by Ian Cullen on February 19, 2009 – 10:00 am -It looks like Robert Downey Jr has a lot of love lately for genre movies. The Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes star is apparently in talks to star in the new science fiction movie The Days Before, according to Production Weekly.
Also in talks for a role is Reese Witherspoon who is best known for her Academy Award winning performance in Walk The Line, and has recently wrapped up work on Monsters vs. Aliens video game, which is currently in post production.
The movie will centre on a race of Aliens who hatch a plan to travel back in time and invade Earth in an attempt to wipe out the human race. Downey Jr will play a man who is trying to stay one step ahead of the time traveling aliens, so he can warn the earths authorities of their pending arrival.
Witherspoon’s role is unknown at this point, though the actress recently voiced her desire to star in an action movie.
Timur Bekmambetov who is best known for directing the critically acclaimed Night Watch and Day Watch as well as last years Wanted could be helming The Days Before.
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Tags: Reese Witherspoon, Robert Downey Jr, The Days Before
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