The site Estrelando has a note about Rodrigo being a participation in the new Fernando Meirelles project for TV. The minisseries “Som e Fúria” (Sound and Fury) is being produced right now in São Paulo, and Rodrigo should make a special participation in it.

Being recorded part in Municipal Theater and part in O2 studios (in Cotia, 33km of São Paulo city) the show will be released in the first 2009 semester. It’s inspired in the Canadian series “Slings and Arrows”, and tell the story of a theatrical group that sets up four shows of Sheakespeare: Hamlet, Dreams of a Night of Summer, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth.

According to UOL, Rodrigo will be in a new project, “I Love You Philip Morris“, besides Ewan McGregor and Jim Carrey. The work begins this month.

Rodrigo will be in Brazil next year. He will do on stage “A Música Segunda“, from french Marguerite Duras.
His partner will be Maria Fernanda Cândido, and they will be directed by Luiz Fernando Carvalho.

Buena Onda Americas, the new U.S.-based Latino-focused production shingle, is rapidly raising its ante, launching three ambitious productions: “Anarcomarca,” (Pink Cocaine) “Morro velho” (The Old Mountain) and “Capitaes de areas” (Captains of the Sands)…

… Set in the epic highland of Minas in central Brazil, “Old Mountain” is billed as a Brazilian “Novecento,” charting the childhood friendship and adult-life confrontation of a rich landowner’s son and the son of his humble black foreman.

Rodrigo Santoro is in advanced talks to play the heir. Clara Bellar will play the love interest.

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Brazilian thesp Rodrigo Santoro, who played Persian ruler Xerxes in “300,” has been cast opposite Rose McGowan in Hit and Run’s “Black Oasis.”

Film, to be written and directed by Stephan Elliot (”Priscilla, Queen of the Desert”), chronicles the life of troubled starlet Susan Chabot, a favorite of the B-movie circuit who was bludgeoned to death by her son.

Hit and Run partners Hilary Shor and Tony Smith are producing.

Santoro will play Chabot’s husband.