Casting Couch: Jonas Bros Ready for Farting

Tue., Oct. 28, 2008 7:47 AM PDT by Marcus Errico

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The Jonas Brothers are taking their dreamy selves to the big screen, with a little help from a seriously flatulent canine.

Nick, Joe and Kevin Jonas, along with younger brother Frankie (aka the Bonus Jonas) will make their first feature-film foray toplining Walter the Farting Dog. Based on the hugely popular kid books, the film focuses on some musical siblings (apparently the Jonases subscribe to the Method acting camp) who must take care of their aunt's odiferous pooch.

According to Variety, another set of famous siblings obsessed with bodily-function hijinks, Bobby and Peter Farrelly, are in talks to direct for 20th Century Fox.

Among the other A-listers taking a spin on today's casting couch: Natalie Portman, Amy Adams and Jennifer Lopez...

• Natalie Portman is getting all indie on us again, leading the Don Roos-directed family drama Love and Other Impossible Pursuits as a young mother trying to connect with her stepson.

• Amy Adams has landed an Oscar-bait role in Daughter of the Queen of Sheba, playing a woman struggling to deal with her mother's dementia.

• Jennifer Lopez has been locked up by Universal to develop several TV projects for NBC and its cable networks, potentially bringing the former Fly Girl back to the small screen.

• Move over, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Douglas is hot for Mary-Louise Parker. The Weeds woman will play the much younger romantic interest of Douglas' down-on-his-luck bigwig. Susan Sarandon, Danny DeVito and Jenna Fischer costar.

• Adrien Brody makes a run for it as The Courier, an indie film about a deliveryman trying to avoid the cops and hand over a prized package to a mysterious mobster.