While Russell Crowe and Ed Harris battle for best actor at next week's Academy Awards, the University is preparing to close a deal with Universal Pictures that would put the pair side by side on the silver screen for "A Beautiful Mind," Director of Visitors and Conference Services Eric Hamblin said.
Though the filming is set to begin March 26, the studio has yet to sign a contract with the University. Hamblin said he expects to present Universal with the University's terms today.
In addition, the film's casting director, Bill Dance, has almost finished the selection of extras for the movie. He said he plans to meet early next week with Ron Howard, the film's director, to lay out each scene with "potential types" for extras.
"We're putting files together right now," Dance said. "We're right at the tail end of it and making sure everything's carefully organized."
Dance said 5,000 people attended last month's Princeton casting call, including 1,800 students. In addition, Dance said he held a casting call in New York, which 5,000 people attended. Of the pool from both sessions, Dance said he expects to use 3,000 extras for the entire movie.
"A Beautiful Mind" tells the inspiring life story of mathematical genius John Forbes Nash GS '50, who won the Nobel Prize in 1994 for his work on economic game theory. The film stars Crowe (nominated for "Gladiator") as Nash, Harris (nominated for "Pollock") and Jennifer Connelly, who appeared alongside Harris in "Pollock." Connelly also recently starred in the television show "The $treet."
"A Beautiful Mind" is the sixth movie to use Princeton as a setting in the past decade. Parts of the campus also provided the background in "Scent of a Woman," "IQ," "Infinity," "One True Thing" and basketball documentary "Hoop Dreams."
In addition to the University's hundreds of notable alumni, Princeton also boasts a slew of fictitious alumni — Mary Jensen Matthews in "There's Something About Mary"; the high school student turned panderer, Joel Goodson in "Risky Business"; the ghost in "What Lies Beneath"; Carlton and Phil Banks from "Fresh Prince of Bel Air"; Sam Seaborne on "The West Wing" and Sideshow Bob's brother, Cecil, in "The Simpsons," who was ridiculed by Bob for wasting four years at "clown college."
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