November 13, 2012 – GQ Men of the Year Party

Also, Topher Grace attend the ICM Partners Pre-Emmy Brunch at Fig & Olive Melrose Place on September 22, 2012 in West Hollywood, California.

Deadline, which found the casting news, says that the movie exists somewhere between (500) Days of Summer and Amelie, telling the story of a down-and-out young man who meets and falls in love with an engaged women white attending a charity dinner and pretending to be a philanthropist. Getting encouragement from his friends and ignoring her soon-to-be husband, the protagonist decides to fake a platonic relationship with her so that he can make his way to her heart. News about the “anti-romantic comedy” sprung up early last month when Evans and Monaghan were cast. The script by Chris Shafer and Paul Vicknair was featured on 2011′s Black List (the annual list of the most popular unproduced screenpalys in Hollywood) and was also a Nicholl Fellowship Finalist.

Grace will play the main character’s best friend, but character details aren’t given about the other new actors. The That 70s Show star will next be seen in the recently-delayed The Big Wedding; Mackie will also be starring alongside Evans in Captain America: The Winter Soldier; Plaza can currently be seen on NBC’s Parks and Recreation; and Ribisi will next appear in Gangster Squad this January. A Many Splintered Thing will go into production at the end of this month (on October 26th to be exact), and there is no current release date.

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Here’s the synopsis for The Big Wedding:

With an all-star cast lead by Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Susan Sarandon, Robin Williams, Katherine Heigl, Amanda Seyfried and Topher Grace, THE BIG WEDDING is an uproarious romantic comedy about a charmingly modern family trying to survive a weekend wedding celebration that has the potential to become a full blown family fiasco. To the amusement of their adult children and friends, long divorced couple Don and Ellie Griffin (De Niro and Keaton) are once again forced to play the happy couple for the sake of their adopted son’s wedding after his ultra conservative biological mother unexpectedly decides to fly halfway across the world to attend. With all of the wedding guests looking on, the Griffins are hilariously forced to confront their past, present and future – and hopefully avoid killing each other in the process.

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Gallery Links:
• MAY 7, 2012 – “LONELY, I’M NOT” OFF-BROADWAY OPENING NIGHT
• “GIANT MECHANICAL MAN” PREMIERE AT TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL 2012
• TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL 2012 PORTRAIT STUDIO

Synopsis: THE GIANT MECHANICAL MAN is an offbeat romantic comedy about two outsiders — a misunderstood street performer (Chris Messina) and the soft spoken zoo worker who falls for him. Akerman will play Fischer’s well-meaning sister who pushes her towards dating a pompous motivational speaker, played by Topher Grace.

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Among the invited guests were writers from /Film and Collider. Both sites recount the events of the night and go into detail as to what Grace did with the film. They report that he used footage from all three movies, a few cuts from the original trilogy, some music from ‘The Clone Wars’ television series, and a dialogue bit from Anthony Daniels’ (C-3PO) audio book recordings. He even created his own opening crawl sequence for his cut of the film that asked people to forget about the prequels as they knew them. It then goes on to say that politicians are being targeted for assassination and it’s up to the Jedi to set things right. From there, after some establishing shots, he starts his film with the Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon vs. Darth Maul lightsaber battle at the very end of Episode 1.

To find out exactly what went down in Topher Grace’s version of the ‘Star Wars’ prequels, go on over to /Film or Collider to read their accounts of the night. Below is a video reaction after the screening from /Film’s Peter Sciretta, Collider’s Steve “Frosty” Weintraub, First Showing’s Alex Billington, and ‘Fanboys’ director Kyle Newman.

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Also, Topher attended to the 5th Annual Hollywood Domino Gala & Tournament presented by Bovet 1822 at the Sunset Tower Hotel in Los Angeles, California on February 23, 2012.