Viggo Mortensen is leading the race to replace Kevin Costner in the sequel to Dances With Wolves.

The Holy Road is the follow-up to the hit 1990 western, which Costner directed and starred in, but Costner didn’t want to reprise his John Dunbar character.

Free Willy director Simon Wincer will take over the film, and insiders suggest producers want Mortensen to play Dunbar.

Graham Greene, Mary McDonnell and Wes Studi are expected to reprise their roles from the original film, according to movie news website MovieHole.net.

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Atonement, starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, has won the best film award at this year’s Orange British Academy Film Awards.

The movie, adapetd from Ian McEwan’s novel, was nominated for 14 awards, but only went home with two, Best Film and Best Production Design.

James McAvoy lost out on the best actor award to Daniel Day-Lewis’s towering performance in There Will Be Blood, and Keira Knightley was beaten by Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose.

The Best British Film category was won by Shane Meadows’s 1980’s drama This Is England, beating off strong competition from The Bourne Ultimatum and Control.

The full list of winners:

Best Film - Atonement

Best British Film - This Is England

Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)

Best Actress - Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose)

Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem (No Country For Old Men)

Best Supporting Actress - Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)

David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction - Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country For Old Men)

Best Original Screenplay - Juno (Diablo Cody)

Best Adapted Screenplay - The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (Ronald Harwood)

Film Not in the English Language - The Lives of Others

Best Animated Film - Ratatouille

The Carl Foreman Award for Most Promising Newcomer - Matt Greenhalgh (writer of Control)

Orange Rising Star Award - Shia LaBeouf

Music - La Vie En Rose

Cinematography - No Country For Old Men

Editing - The Bourne Ultimatum

Production Design - Atonement

Costume Design - La Vie En Rose

Sound - The Bourne Ultimatum

Special Visual Effects - The Golden Compass

Make Up & Hair - La Vie En Rose

Short Animation - The Pearce Sisters

Short Film - Dog Altogether

Red Carpet: Amanda Peet and husband, James McAvoy and wife,  Javier Bardem,  Jessica Biel, Kate Hudson, Keira Knightley, Kevin Spacey, Rosamund Pike, Samantha Morton, Sienna Miller and boyfriend Rhys Ifans and Viggo Mortensen.

Backstage: Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Daniel Day Lewis, Daniel Radcliffe, Emily Blunt, Eva Green, Harvey Keitel, Hugh Laurie, Ian McKellen, Javier Bardem, Marion Cotillard, Orlando Bloom, Paul Dano, Rosamund Pike, Thandie Newton and Tilda Swinton.

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Viggo Mortensen’s naked fight scene for ‘Eastern Promises’ was “slippery, painful and embarrassing.”

The ‘Lord of the Rings’ actor, who had to shoot a four-minute nude fight in a steamy Turkish bath for the movie, insists it would have ruined the film if he had kept his towel on.

Viggo, who plays a Russian mob member in the film, said: “That scene was slippery, painful and embarrassing. I always knew the scene should be as realistic as the rest of the movie, so I couldn’t feasibly keep the towel on.

“Plus, we shouldn’t be trying to hide things or pretty it up in any way. I knew at times it would be awkward and vulnerable. It was also painful because I couldn’t wear any pads to protect me. All I was wearing was a bunch of tattoos!”

The 48-year-old actor also revealed he would jump at the chance of doing another naked fight scene, if it meant he could work with director David Cronenberg again.

He added: “One thing is for sure, I’ll definitely work with David again. And if he wants me to fight naked, so be it!”

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In his movies he kinda has that bad boy thing going on.  I loved him in A Perfect Murder with Gwyneth Paltrow.  And WHO didn’t love him in LOTR.

But one movie I HAVEN’T gotten to is The Indian Runner (1991).  And little did I know our Viggo bared all!  I mean I know he’s an artist…but wow, I had no idea! I just read the IMDB synopsis of the film, and I don’t think I’ll be renting it…. I don’t like depressing movies.  Can’t we all be naked AND happy?

The Indian Runner: An intensely sad film about two brothers who cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother see’s and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things which his brother desperately tries to point out to him. Frank understands the atrocities of life as a big picture, Joe does not, Joe is content to enjoy smaller pleasures -children, family, routine. Joe mistakenly believes he can straighten his little brother out and convince him that life is good. Frank is a cursed man. He is cut between his love for his brother and his repulsion at self-indulgent contentment. The result is a painful story of heartbreak, heartache, dissapointment, despair, and the tragic side of love.

Thanks to OMG blog for the pics!

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