Kathryn Morris UK

Kathryn In Not So Sweet Alice

Website The Inquisitr.com reported yesterday (15th April 2013) that Kathryn has been cast in a lead role in a remake of the 1970s horror film Alice Sweet Alice.

Also, Kathryn’s production company Revival House will be co-producing along with the company that manages her career, Mosaic Media Group.

The original Alice Sweet Alice (aka Communion) was a 1976 film by director/writer Alfred Sole and writer Rosemary Ritvo. The plot involved the murder of a young girl called Karen and the suspicion that her older sister Alice was responsible. Further deaths occur and Alice is increasingly thought to be the killer. It starred Brooke Shields (Suddenly Susan) in her first film role as Karen and Paula E Sheppard as Alice. Linda Miller (The Mississippi) was Catherine Spages, the girls’ mother.

Kathryn is described as taking the role of the mother, Catherine.

New Jersey born Dante Tomaselli has been working on remaking Alice for some time with a teaser poster being released last October. He wrote initial drafts of the script and brought in Michael Gingold of Fangoria Magazine to co-write the screenplay. Dante will be directing. Dante has four feature films to his name, all in the horror genre. What else could a man called Dante do but make horror films?

It looks like Alfred Sole (now a production designer on Castle) was responsible for getting Kathryn involved. She agreed to executive produce and brought Mosaic Media Group to the table. They are, apparently, targeting a cinematic release of the remake.

Dante gave an interview to the Aric Mitchell at the Inquistr website, which is where news of this development first broke. You can read Aric’s piece in full HERE. Aric has a lot of connections to the original film himself.

When asked about casting Dante said:

Kathryn Morris will star as Catherine Spages, Alice’s mother. Kathryn was the lead in the CBS series Cold Case and had a role as Tom Cruise’s wife in Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report. She’s like a chameleon — totally versatile. Slips right into a role. Her character in Alice is modelled after the original Catherine Spages, played by Linda Miller. In keeping with the spirit of the original, Kathryn’s character will look and feel similar, strikingly beautiful, perfectly sculpted dark hair, fiercely protective of her children and plagued by deep Catholic guilt.

The casting of the other roles has not yet taken place.

The trailer for the 1976 film, for some reason with the different name of Holy Terror, is included in the article. It seems to be trying to suggest that Brooke Shields is Alice, and pretty much saying that Alice is the killer. The first is not true and the second…

What we don’t know at this stage is the timing of the production. Kathryn clearly has other things to deal with at the moment including babies and a possible TV show due for delivery in September of this year. If Surgeon General goes ahead with a full season order then it could be next year before she has enough free time to make a film. It is quite common for actors tied to series to use the short time in the summer between filming seasons to take on other projects like film roles. These projects can take a while to get off the ground and such time scales are common.

Hopefully we’ll hear more on this soon and can look forward to another very different role for Kathryn, both in front of and behind the camera. And, it is good to see that Kathryn’s production company Revival House is alive and well.

The trailer and some concept art images are now in the Gallery.

Thank you to Kathy for the heads-up.

Kathryn & Johnny Expecting Twins

Us Magazine has published an exclusive story that Kathryn and Johnny Messner, her boyfriend of 3 years, are expecting twin babies in September.

“We’re beyond excited and doubly blessed!” the happy couple told Us of their twins-to-be. Morris, 44, is best known for her role as Detective Lilly Rush on the now-defunct hit CBS series, which came to an end in 2010.

The picture is proof enough it is not a made up tabloid story and Johnny has Tweeted about it saying:

Happiest man in the World. 2 Dirty Messner boys on there way!!!! – Link

KM UK wishes all four of them the very best. Let’s just hope they inherit their looks from their mother as well as their brains

Kathryn Guests On Brett Gursky Podcast

on_the_list_with_brett_gursky_logo_150x150 Kathryn made a surprise guest appearance on the Brett Gursky “On The List” podcast on the HAHAJK website.

The interview is primarily Johnny Messner talking about his recent role in the play “A Family Thing” and his career to date. Kathryn is in the studio and joins in occasionally, either in the background or more ‘on mic’. In a odd quirk of fate Kathryn was key in Johnny getting the part in the play.

The text on the website that describes the podcast includes the following sentence:

Johnny’s girlfriend Kathryn Morris (Cold Case) is a surprise special guest and joins them in the discussion as well.

You can hear the whole two and half hour long podcast on the HAHAJK website HERE. A small copy has been added to the Gallery.

We’ll post an update if there is anything significant regarding Kathryn in it.

Update: At around the 1:20 mark the conversation turns to Cold Case so Kathryn gets more involved.

Not Just Young At Heart

We were all young once. Some of us have never really grown up either

Thanks to the always generous and ever vigilant Kareen_T for passing along the photo above sent to her by the merelala Tumblr site with the message:

Hello! My parents showed me this picture, and I thought it was pretty cool. Kathryn Morris used to go to their church when they lived in Connecticut, and when they were newly married, they babysat her a couple times. This is a picture of her (on the left) at church sometime in the early 80s. Thought you guys would like it!

We do and thank you.

We’ve added it to our Gallery, where you will find the full version. Staying on the young theme we’ve included a photo (below left) many of you will be familiar with, though we are unsure of the origin. Any thoughts? Plus, we’ve thrown in a screenshot from The Sweeter Side Of Life of a young Desiree, which is actually photo of the young Kathryn, as confirmed to KM UK by the director Michael Damian.

Kathryn Gets Juiced

Recently I was window shopping… No, it was online so that should be Windows shopping… but on a Mac. Finder shopping? OK, forget the whole window/Windows thing because the analogy soon falls apart.

Anyway, whilst browsing I stumbled across the Silver Lake Juice Bar website. Not surprisingly it is the website of a juice bar, in Silver Lake, called Silver Lake Juice Bar. The image you see above is how the front page of the website of this juice bar in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles looks. The eagle-eyed amongst you will have already spotted it. For those that haven’t: look again, more closely this time. Yes, “New locations coming soon!” I know, it’s amazing right?

No, of course I’m talking about the fact a photo of Kathryn appears in the top left corner. She has given the juice bar her blessing and a statement in writing to prove it. The testimonial talks about the time she spent in Romania for the filming of The Sweeter Site Of Life, the effect that returning to a more typical American diet had on her, and the positive change caused by products from this shop. Exactly when this appeared on the website is not clear but it must have been towards the end of last year (2012).

It has to be said that the photo of Kathryn they have used (new to me) is perhaps not the best one to promote a healthy life style. Unless it is the ‘before’ photo

A copy of the text of the testimonial can be found below. It ends with Kathryn having something of a Victor Kiam moment. If you don’t know who Victor is go ask a grown-up.

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