Hugh Laurie in Talks For ‘Tomorrowland’ Baddie; Does a UFO Conspiracy Factor Into the Plot?
By Russ Fischer
www.slashfilm.com
2-13-13
Brad Bird and Damon Lindelof, with Jeff Jensen, are cooking up a big secret with
Tomorrowland, a Disney-backed film that seems to have roots in parts of Disney’s past.
Though the precise nature of the story has been kept from the public, George Clooney is known to be the lead. Now Hugh Laurie is joining the cast as the villain.
What exactly will Laurie do to menace Clooney? The film was originally positioned as having some similarity to Close Encounters of the Third Kind; between that and the film’s first working title, 1952, speculation ran rampant that aliens will be featured. Damon Lindelof scuttled that idea, or tried to, but the latest theory is that UFOs play a big part in the story.
THR reports the casting, and says that the only known detail of his character is that he “serves as the movie’s antagonist.” Could be be a government man?
