Yesterday I reported that Mark Wahlberg had been called in the day before shooting began to replace Ryan Gosling. The reason given was “creative differences”. Well, looks like Ryan may have been replaced because he was too difficult? Here is what Page Six had to say:

Those old “creative differences” are to blame for director Peter Jackson’s firing of Ryan Gosling from “Lovely Bones.” “Peter couldn’t stand Ryan,” said one source. Though Variety reported that Gosling had “stepped down” and was replaced by Mark Wahlberg, our source said, “Ryan cut his own hair, and was fighting with wardrobe. He was so demanding . . . Peter booted him two days before filming started.” The flick is based on the best-selling novel by Alice Sebold. A rep for Gosling did not return calls.

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UPDATE: Ryan too fat for the part, according to Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson was said to be quite surprised that Gosling had showed up to start work on “The Lovely Bones” looking like he’d donned a fat suit. According to sources, the 26-year-old Gosling had apparently told the director he was going to gain weight to age himself up to play the part of a grieving father, but Jackson was still expecting some movie star allure — not paunch and a beard. By Friday, Gosling had left the high-profile production over those pesky “creative differences,” and, by Sunday, he’d been replaced by 36-year-old Mark Wahlberg, who actually could be old enough to father a teenager.

Gosling’s departure comes on the heels of his indie pic “Lars and the Real Girl,” which, according to Boxofficemojo.com cost $12 million. So far the film has earned $316,000, and will go wide this weekend. A DreamWorks representative declined to comment, as did Gosling’s manager.

Still, “The Lovely Bones,” which starts shooting today in Pennsylvania, will continue relatively unhampered.
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Only one day before shooting was scheduled to begin, Mark Wahlberg has replaced Ryan Gosling in the Peter Jackson-directed “The Lovely Bones” for DreamWorks reports Variety.

An adaptation of the Alice Sebold novel, the story follows a couple whose world is shattered after their daughter is murdered. The girl watches over her family and her killer from heaven.

Gosling’s departure was attributed to “creative differences” and comes after the acclaimed thesp grew a beard and stacked on 20 pounds in preparation for the role of the grieving father.

Wahlberg’s quick sign-up seems to have been affected by the delay of the Darren Aronofsky-directed “The Fighter” at Paramount which he’d been in training for. That film now won’t begin production until next Fall once Aronofsky completes work on the Nic Cage-led drama “The Wrestler.”

‘Bones’ begins shooting today in Pennsylvania, where Wahlberg most recently wrapped the lead in the M. Night Shyamalan-directed “The Happening” for Fox.

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A moment of silence, please…

Here’s an exerpt of Ryan’s recent interview with GQ:

Sometime after The Notebook wrapped, Gosling and his costar Rachel McAdams started dating. The movie won them a Teen Choice Award for Best Kiss, and they reenacted their winning lip-lock onstage in front of screaming fans. Gosling, in a DARFUR T-shirt, looked like the happiest dude on Earth. They were young and famous and famously in love—recall, if you will, Saturday Night Live’s “Lazy Sunday” skit, in which Andy Samberg raps about loving cupcakes “like McAdams loves Gosling”—and the degree to which strangers felt a personal stake in the relationship creeped Gosling out.

“I mean, God bless The Notebook,” Gosling says. “It introduced me to one of the great loves of my life. But people do Rachel and me a disservice by assuming we were anything like the people in that movie. Rachel and my love story is a hell of a lot more romantic than that.”

They broke up, is the thing. It’s been a few months. Gosling says it wasn’t the attention that did it, but other than that he doesn’t really know what to say. “The only thing I remember is we both went down swingin’ and we called it a draw,” he says.

The Notebook people have taken it harder. “Women are mad at me,” Gosling says with a rueful smile. “A girl came up to me on the street and she almost smacked me. Like, ‘How could you? How could you let a girl like that go?’ I feel like I want to give people hugs, they seem so sad. Rachel and I should be the ones getting hugs! Instead, we’re consoling everybody else.”

This makes me sad!! I want them to be together! Forever! How dare they have a life of their own!

My main man Ryan Gosling was at the premier of his new movie “Lars and the Real Girl”. I have watched the trailer for this and it looks FUNNY. I love me some Ryan Gosling. Hello….The Notebook!

Ryan Gosling has denied reports he’s had plastic surgery on his nose. The 26-year-old is the subject of online speculation he’s had the bump on his nose reduced.

But a spokesperson for Gosling says, “It’s ridiculous. There is no truth to it.”

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Ryan Gosling at the premiere of his new movie “Lars and the Real Girl” at Toronto International Film Festival, 9/10.

Have you seen the trailer for “Lars and the Real Girl”?  NO? Well go here! Definitely looks good!

He is! He’s the lead singer of Dead Man’s Bones.  You can check them out on their myspace, plus hear their song “Dead Man’s Bone’s.”  Interesting music…I doubt I’m going to run out and buy the cd…but it’s interesting that Ryan’s singing the song.  I guess you can call it singing.  Check it out here.

Pictures via their myspace.