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"It has been an eventful last few days, sort of, for the actor&amp;nbsp;Jesse Eisenberg.On Friday, it was announced in&amp;nbsp;Variety&amp;nbsp;that he was in talks to play an eco-terrorist in&amp;nbsp;Kelly Reichardt\u2019s upcoming \u201CNight Moves,\u201D which is to start filming in Oregon in October.Yesterday, he was attending the USA vs. Spain gold medal basketball game at the Olympics when an NBC commentator mistook him for his \u201CSocial Network\u201D character, Facebook\u2019s&amp;nbsp;Mark Zuckerberg. \u201CEvery executive of note it seems worldwide is attending these games,\u201D one of the commentators said, compounding the error.How long before Eisenberg is asked to explain what his strategy is now that Facebook shares have fallen from $38 on May 18 to $21.81 (as they were on Friday), or how he thinks the potential issue of 1.6 billion shares, starting Thursday, will impact the price.Written by Reichardt, \u201CNight Moves\u201D is expected to star Eisenberg,&amp;nbsp;Dakota Fanning, and&amp;nbsp;Peter Sarsgaard&amp;nbsp;as a trio who plot to blow up a dam. \u201CEisenberg will play the ringleader,\u201D Variety\u2019s&amp;nbsp;Jeff Sneider&amp;nbsp;reported, \u201Cwhile Fanning will play a wealthy young girl who funds the plan. Sarsgaard will play the mastermind behind the bomb.\u201D It is not known to be connected in any way to&amp;nbsp;Arthur Penn\u2019s&amp;nbsp;1975 film noir \u2013 an elliptical commentary on Watergate \u2013 of the same name.The casting of the \u201CSocial Network\u201D Oscar nominee could have had intertextual implications had&amp;nbsp;Rooney Mara,&amp;nbsp;who played Eisenberg\u2019s love object in that film, agreed to be in \u201CNight Moves.\u201D Reichardt\u2019s team approached her last year apparently, but she was never officially involved in the project, says Sneider.With the exception of her debut \u201CRiver of Grass,\u201D Reichardt, who also directed \u201COld Joy,\u201D \u201CWendy and Lucy,\u201D and \u201CMeek\u2019s Cutoff,\u201D has worked in a quiet, minimalist style that has made her one of America\u2019s most interesting independent filmmakers \u2013 a kind of specialist in reflective road movies laden with subtle allegorical meanings.Although&amp;nbsp;Michelle Williams&amp;nbsp;starred (with a dog) in \u201CWendy and Lucy\u2019\u201D and in \u201CMeek\u2019s Cutoff,\u201D in which she played the most principled of the seven pioneers faced with a crisis on the Oregon Trail in 1845, Reichardt has seldom worked with \u201Cname\u201D actors. If all sign on, Eisenberg (who replaces \u201CMeek\u2019s Cutoff\u201D\u2019s&amp;nbsp;Paul Dano in the new film),&amp;nbsp;Fanning, and Sarsgaard will be the starriest cast with which she has worked.The news that \u201CNight Moves\u201D is a thriller, however, shouldn\u2019t imply that Reichardt will be changing style. It would be a major shock if she were to turn in a talky suspense movie in the mode of a conventional Hollywood genre flick.[content:advertisement-center]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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