In further Oscar bait casting news, GI Joe star Channing Tatum has signed on to play a heroin junkie in an adaptation of Richie Farrell’s novel What’s Left Of Us. The actor has taken on dramatic turns before in films such as Stop-Loss but this role would see him stepping out of his hard body/pretty face comfort zone. He is actually quite effective in A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints which leads me to believe he has the potential to pull this role off.

Farrell will be adapting his own novel  which takes course over 7 days of heroin detox. The author previously directed the documentary High On Crack Street for HBO.

The film is being produced by Berkley Square Films.

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Channing Tatum and Queen Latifah are joining Ron Howard’s comedy Cheaters at Universal Pictures.

The two join a cast that includes Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Jennifer Connelly and Winona Ryder.

The the film, written by Alan Loeb, Vaughn and James will play best friends and business partners, and Vaughn’s character is tortured when he observes his pal’s wife (Ryder) getting intimate with another man in a restaurant. Should he tell?

Tatum would play Ryder’s tattooed and pierced lover.

The movie, being produced by Brian Grazer and Vaughn, begins shooting in June in Chicago.

Cheaters is scheduled for a January 14, 2011 release.

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The MTV Movies Blog had a chance to talk to producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura and got a status report on the planned sequel to Stephen Sommers’ summer 2009 hit G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, which grossed $300 million last summer. Although writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick have yet to submit a full script, di Bonaventura is optimistic they’ll be ready to start shooting the G.I. Joe Sequel sometime next spring for a summer 2012 release.

Otherwise, Bonaventura didn’t have a lot to say and was unwilling to confirm who might direct the sequel, which actors may be back and whether they might join the current trend by shooting the movie in 3D, although he did say he was “open to it.”

You can read the full interview over on MTV.

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Happy 30th Birthday, Channing!

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