Casting Call: Bill Murray Gets The Keys To The 'City'

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (June 11, 2007) -- Bill Murray gets the key to the "City." Gus Van Sant serves up some funky "Kool-Aid." And a "Scrubs" gal introduces her "Two Sisters." It's all in today's Access Hollywood Casting Call

Billy Murray has signed on to star in "City of Ember," per Variety.

Based on the Jeanne DuPrau novel, the film revolves around a dark place where the only light comes from street lamps.

But as the power source begins to fail, two teens set out on a search for clues that will unlock the city's ancient mysteries that is, if they're not stopped by a corrupt mayor.

Shooting is slated to begin this summer in Belfast. "City of Ember" will hit theaters October 2008.

Elizabeth Banks will star in the remake of the horror film "A Tale of Two Sisters," according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Based on the Kim Jee-Woon's 2003 Korean horror film of the same name, the story revolves around two sisters who return home to their father after spending time in a mental institution.

Banks, who played Zach Braff's girlfriend Kim on the sitcom "Scrubs" and also had roles in "Spider-Man 3" and "40-Year-Old Virgin," will play the girls' cruel stepmother.

"Tale" will begin shooting in July in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Banks also stars in the upcoming comedy "Starship Dave," alongside Eddie Murphy and Gabrielle Union, slated for a May 2008 release.

Move over Kool-Aid man. Gus Van Sant is bringing his own bowl of spiked punch to theaters.

Van Sant ("Finding Forrester," "Psycho," "Good Will Hunting") has signed on to direct "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," based on the classic hallucinogenic novel by Thomas Wolfe, according to Variety.

Script will be written by "Big Love" writer Lance Black.

The psychedelic novel chronicled the tales of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" author Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters as they traveled the country in a psychedelically painted bus. Kesey and his band used the trip as a way to turn on those they met to the mind-expanding wonders of LSD.

Van Sant, whose latest film, "Paranoid Park," was honored at Cannes, cast Kesey in his 1993 film "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" and dedicated his 2002 film "Gerry" to the author, who died in 2001.

It's likely Wolfe will not be a major character in the film, which will focus on Kesey and include events that occurred after the road trip.