Waits to Star for Noi Albinoi's Dagur Kari!

This is just plain excellent news ...

Variety has broken word that Icelandic director Dagur Kari will continue his trend of every film being in a different language - Noi in Icelandic, Dark Horse in Danish - with his next one, The Good Heart, being an English language release. Already slated to star are Ryan Gosling and Tom Waits.

Frankly I don't care much wither way for Gosling but Waits is an entirely different story. I just plain love this man's work both as a musician and an actor. He seldom plays major roles but even in small bits Waits can absolutely steal a film and he'll be a very, very good fit for Kari's aesthetic, I think. In The Good Heart he will have a lead role as a bartender recovering from his fifth heart attack who trains Gosling's drifter character to take over the bar after his death.

Waits as a ramshackle bar man? Not real hard to picture that ...

Thanks to Craig for the pointer.