Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth Perkins will star...

Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth Perkins will star as TV talk-show hosts whose love lives affect their on-camera behavior in Hometown Films and Paramount’s “He Said She Said.” Marissa Silver and Ken Kwapis will co-direct Brian Hohlfeld’s screenplay. The film gets underway in June at a still-undetermined location for producer Frank Mancuso Jr.

Fresh off his Oscar nomination for “Henry V,” Kenneth Branagh will direct and star in Paramount’s “Dead Again.” Emma Thompson and Patti LuPone will co-star in this drama, written by Scott Frank, concerning a woman suffering from amnesia that takes place in present-day L.A. and the late ‘40s. Shooting begins in October.

Tommy Lee Jones plays Jessica Lange’s nuclear-physicist husband in Prairie Films and Orion’s “Blue Sky,” which begins filming May 7 in Alabama and Florida. Tony Richardson will direct and Bob Solo produce this drama, written by Rama Blum, about life on a 1950s Army base.

Meanwhile, Blum is writing an untitled film for Columbia and Sally Field’s Fogwood Prods. Field would play a resident in an Oregon town whose logging business is taken over by a conglomerate. But first, Field stars this summer in MGM’s “Conundrum” (due for a title change), in which she plays a Minneapolis cop who becomes romantically involved with her younger partner. Phillip Noyce will direct from a script written by actor Doug Barr. David Kirschner and Kevin McCormick produce.

Oscar-winner Haing S. Ngor will play Lou Diamond Phillips’ father in “Mind Game” (previously “Death Sentence”), a psychological thriller that Phillips wrote. Director Scott Goldstein rolls cameras for Spirit Films in L.A. this June.

Scott Bacula plays a small role in Carolco’s “L.A. Story,” which stars Steve Martin and Victoria Tennant.

Darren McGavin plays Hank Dick, a bitter, hard-boiled cop in IRS Media’s film noir “Blood and Concrete,” starring Jennifer Beals and Billy Zane.

Lucinda Jenney, who played the hooker in “Rain Man,” plays a key role in Pathe’s “Thelma and Louise,” starring Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon.

Keith Coogan (Jackie Coogan’s grandson) has been cast as Christina Applegate’s brother in “The Real World.” Stephen Herek directs Neil Landau and Tara Ison’s script about a young woman leaving high school to face life. Warners will distribute in a negative pick-up deal with Outlaw Prods. in association with Mercury Douglas.

Another Jim Thompson novel heads for the big screen: American Road Productions has acquired film rights to “Cropper’s Cabin,” a romantic thriller set in Oklahoma in the 1950s about an affair between a sharecropper’s son and a wealthy Indian’s daughter. Lorenzo DeStefano is writing the screenplay for producers Don Guest and Debra Capogrosso.