Go JoGo: Joseph Gordon-Levitt has joined the high-profile Christopher Nolan–Leonardo DiCaprio project Inception, taking on the role James Franco had to give up (because he was too busy studying). The plot is still super-duper-secret, but character details have been revealed: Gordon-Levitt plays DiCaprio’s CEO-type buddy, Marion Cotillard plays his wife, and Ellen Page plays his grad-student sidekick. Ohhh … okay, yeah, we totally know what this is about now, but we don’t want to, like, spoil it or anything. [HR]

Trucks and Trains: Denzel Washington and Tony Scott are in talks to team up for the fifth time, on Unstoppable, a runaway-train action flick. Washington will play a grizzled-vet engineer who jumps in a train with a rookie conductor to chase said runaway train, one that is inconveniently carrying a whole mess-load of toxic chemicals. Seriously, how the fuck is one train supposed to run down another train? This doesn’t even sound like a bad SNL skit — it sounds like a bad MADtv skit. [HR]

Dorff Gets Born: The rebirth of Stephen Dorff continues! He’s landed a role in Born to Be a Star, the Adam Sandler–co-written-and-produced comedy about a small-town kid (Nick Swardson) who sets out to fulfill his erotic destiny after he finds out his parents used to be porn stars. Dorff will play porn star Dick Shadow. Hopefully Lucifer threw in a few roles a bit more plum than that one in this super-obvious straight-up soul-for-comeback exchange. [Variety]

Planning Ahead: Michaela Watkins has signed on for J. Lo romantic comedy The Back-Up Plan, in which she'll play Mona, the — and this you will not believe — longtime best friend of Miss Lopez. See, this is how it works — you grind for years in the comedy trenches, land your dream job on SNL, and only then reap the real reward: bit parts in crap Hollywood movies! [HR]

Blades and Dreads: Robert Rodriguez has two awesome-sounding projects in the pipeline. The first is Machete, an independently financed feature adaptation of a fake, violent, and delightfully preposterous Grindhouse trailer starring Danny Trejo as a badass. The second is Predators, a sequel to Brideshead Revisited. No, it’s a sequel to Predator. [Variety]

Almodóvar on the Small Screen: Pedro Almodóvar will executive produce a television adaptation of his 1988 hit Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown for FoxTV. The original revolved around a two-day period in the life of a freshly dumped voice actress comically trying to track down her ex-man; the series will revolve around a group of women, living in the suburbs, who are all longtime friends. And there's no better time for a big shout-out to Ms. Harrington, who made us watch Women in sophomore-year Spanish. [HR]