Natasha | 
05 21st, 2008| 
Yay for no 4 year hiatus between films! DD-L landed a new role for himself:
It looks like the producers of the movie musical Nine are replacing one Oscar winner with another.
Nearly three weeks after this year’s Best Supporting Actor (for No Country for Old Men) Javier Bardem withdrew from the upcoming screen adaptation of the Broadway show, citing exhaustion, this year’s Best Actor winner (for There Will Be Blood) will assume the leading role, reports Weekly Variety.
The London-born Day-Lewis, 51, will play the Italian film director Guido Contini, based on flamboyant cinema artist Federico Fellini and his semi-autobiographical 1963 romp 8 ½, which starred Marcello Mastrioianni. (The title referred to the number of movies Fellini had previously directed.)
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