BREAKING THE WAVES The best place for celebrity sightings in the coming months may well be offshore, as young actresses ride the waves in hopes of joining the ensemble cast of ''Surf Girls in Maui.'' Director John Stockwell is finishing mixing July's ''crazy / beautiful'' starring Kirsten Dunst, and is still rewriting ''Maui'' for Imagine, but already he's fielding calls. ''Suddenly every actress' agent is saying she can surf, from Melissa Joan Hart to Anna Paquin,'' says Stockwell. ''It's an interesting phenomenon.''
The director is also writing a coed ''Fatal Attraction'' like thriller for Sony called ''I Would Die For You,'' with visions of directing Dunst again. ''I'd love to see Kirsten playing an obsessive psycho stalker chick,'' he says, adding that he'll likely begin filming one of the projects late this summer, strike permitting. ''I'm going to see whether I want to spend six months with girls in bikinis in Hawaii,'' he says, ''or six months with some psycho chick in Santa Barbara.''
ROAD DRILL What's an aging action hero to do when he's losing his sweaty sparkle? Find a franchise that keeps his butt in the seat. If ''Driven,'' the Stallone auto racing vehicle due out April 27, does a bang up job at the box office, director Renny Harlin wants to make a sequel set in the world of Formula One. ''Driven'' was, in fact, originally intended to be about Formula One racing, but the sport's honcho -- who is past retirement age -- refused to allow Harlin to use actual race footage.
FURTHERMORE ''Cast Away'' screenwriter William Broyles Jr. would like Tom Hanks to saddle up on his next script, a Western he's writing called ''Tom Harris.'' Hanks, currently shooting ''The Road to Perdition,'' is attached to produce and possibly star in Broyles' next project, the Vietnam drama ''Khe Sanh.''
Additional reporting by Tricia Johnson
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