Mary McCormack joins 1408

By: Karl Schneider
Date: Monday, August 14, 2006
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Mary McCormack has signed on to start in Dimension Films' upcoming horror film 1408. She will take over the role which was to be played by Kate Walsh (Grey's Anatomy) who was forced to exit due to scheduling conflicts with her ABC/Touchstone TV series.

McCormack will join John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson in the big screen adaptation of Stephen King's 1408.

Cusack will play a debunker of paranormal occurrences who encounters real terror when he checks into the notorious Room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel. McCormack plays Lilly, his ex-wife and the mother of his young daughter.

The film is set to be filmed this summer in the U.K. via director Mikael Hafstrom (Derailed). A picture of Kate Walsh is attached below if you are wondering who she is.

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Comments/Responses

• Aug 14, 2006, 07:06am •

Ok, now I'm sold on this movie. Cusak, Jackson and now McCormack. She's terrific in everything she's in...and gorgeous (and what a body!) to boot! Insert drool here. :-)

almostunbiased • Aug 14, 2006, 08:03am •

Drool

• Aug 14, 2006, 08:57am •

the 'scheduling conflict' excuse is probably just a nice 'positive' spin they're putting out.

the real truth is... they got somebody much hotter!!!

if you had the choice, wouldn't you make it so Walsh had 'scheduling conflicts'.

• Aug 14, 2006, 09:59am •

without a doubt jwesty. that's a no-brainer

muchdrama • Aug 14, 2006, 03:23pm •

MMMMMMmmmmmm...McCormack.

madmanic999 • Aug 14, 2006, 06:54pm •

I'm pretty up on my King, and I'm not familiar with 1408.... What is the skinny on this one?

• Aug 14, 2006, 08:27pm •

If I'm thinking of the right story, 1408 is a short story in the collection etitled Everything's Eventual.

Pretty creepy stuff, actually -- I had to take a breather after finishing that story (do not read in an actual hotel room -- you will scare yourself sh*tless).

• Aug 15, 2006, 03:09am •

1408 is about an author, Mike Enslin (Cusack in the film), who writes non-fiction works based around the theme of haunted places, although Enslin himself is not a believer in the occult or the supernatural elements he writes about. Research for his next novel brings him to the Dolphin Hotel's room 1408, which had been responsible for many deaths over a span of 68 years.

I just hope this film adaptation is better than the Riding the Bullet movie. Also, I heard that From A Buick 8 was to be a film, as well. And of course Cell. But since I don't like Eli Roth as a director, I won't hold my breath for the Cell movie. I did like the book, though.

coldhardtruth • Aug 15, 2006, 03:21pm •

NICE UPGRADE!

coldhardtruth • Aug 15, 2006, 03:22pm •

Oh, and Kate Walsh is butt ugly in that pic below. Talk about a coyote ugly...

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