It’s been around for nearly a year, making it’s controversial premiere in Cannes 2009. [via The Playlist]
Some called it brilliant, others called it a pretentious, burdensome failure. But then that’s why you watch a Gaspar Noe film, to make your own decision.
And, either way, it looks really colorful.
Check out the trailer below:
Throw another hat into the already-full ring!
Apparently Marvel is making a play for hot star Channing Tatum, fresh off box-office successes G.I. Joe and Dear John. Deadline Hollywood is reporting that Tatum will most likely audition. Accepting, or even being offered the role, is a whole other cup of tea.
Tatum is (potentially) entering a ring of competitors that includes Mike Vogel (Cloverfield), Chris Evans and Garrett Hedlund (Tron Legacy). And, who knows, John Krasinski may still be in the mix. At least this writer hopes as much.
Tatum would certainly work as Steve Rogers, especially when one factors the intense faux-patriotism he tried at in G.I Joe. That said, one would hope the young, ambitious star tries a little harder. Then again, America’s being directed by another studio director – Joe Johnston. It doesn’t bode well for confidence, no matter who stars as the lead. Captain America’s an easy superhero to miscalculate.
Let’s just hope they chose someone fast.
Would you like to see Tatum play Mr. Rogers? How about Krasinski? Chris Evans? Bueller? Bueller?
What do you think of Mel Gibson as a director?
All in all, the man’s been pretty successful, with four well-made films to his name: The Man Without a Face, Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto.
2010, though poised to be a year of career rebirth for Gibson after half a decade of PR recovery, got off to a shaky start with the lukewarm action-thriller Edge of Darkness. Yet despite Darkness’s poor box office performance, Gibson’s got plenty of opportunities/months to make up for it.
Later this year, he’s starring in Jodie Foster The Beaver, adapted from Kyle Killen’s Blacklisted screenplay, along with being announced to star in two separate, high-profile films (Shane Black’s Cold Warrior and Adrian Grunberg’s How I Spent My Summer Vacation) as well as direct an epic Viking drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio, written by William Monahan. [The Playlist]
Here’s what Gibson had to say about the Viking project (via L.A. Times):
“We’re going hammer and tongs on the script right now,” Gibson said. “When I was 16, learning about the history of the English language I became fascinated with Vikings. And I imagined what they would sound like, how would they talk and that’s what I will be going for in this film. It’s a challenge though. There’s never been a good Viking film, not that I’ve seen. I think I have found the right way to get into it, though, but I don’t want to say too much. The real problem is making those guys sympathetic. They were monsters.”
Here’s what producer Graham King had to say:
With auteur Terrence Malick’s fifth film in as many decades coming out this November, starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn as father and son respectively (living in different generations of course), it begs the question: what kind of father will Pitt play?
Apparently not a very good one, a role that could be a refreshing, villainous departure for the perennial movie star cum character actor.
Here’s the verbose (pseudo) synopsis:
Solid romantic dramas are precious these days. Few and far between, like something on the verge of extinction. Rarity like that breeds cynicism, especially when the merits of a “solid romantic drama” are decided by some of the most cynical people in the entire world – movie critics.
So it is that despite the middling reviews and unnecessarily cult-like Robert Pattinson fandom, Remember Me, directed by the very capable Allen Coulter (Hollywoodland), is a simple, well-made love story about two young, tortured souls and the families that torture them.
Though this action film seems to be a long way off, the two leads announced as of yet are worth noting: Jason Statham and Clive Owen.
The name of the film’s The Killer Elite, based on the novel The Feathermen by Ranulph Fiennes.
Here’s the synopsis:
Director Andrew Jarecki has quite literally taken his film back into his own hands. From The (fledgling) Weinstein Company, that is. Jarecki gained critical acclaim for his piercing documentary Capturing the Friedmans and has been making All Good Things for years upon years, inspired by the true story of Robert Durst, son of a wealthy New York family who was accused of killing his neighbor and suspected of killing his wife.
Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst star as the wealthy couple; the film’s been finished for nearly two years, lingering in distribution hell thanks to TWC’s failing bank statements over the last few years.
Jarecki, the founder of Moviefone, bought back his film from TWC for several million dollars:
Though the 2009 film year will be remembered for Kathryn Bigelow’s triumph, Lone Scherfig (director of the critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated An Education) was close on the coat tails, reaffirming what a truly dynamite year it was for women directors.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid producer Nina Jacobson revealed Scherfig’s next potential project, an adaptation of David Nicholl’s novel One Day that will star Anne Hathaway and Jim Strugess.
John Carter Of Mars, the story of a Civil War soldier transplanted and imprisoned by Martians, has a new composer – Oscar Winner Michael Giacchino.
The film is Finding Nemo/Wall-E director Andrew Stanton’s first live action film, starring Taylor Kitsch as John Carter, along with Lynn Collins, Mark Strong, Willem Dafoe, Samantha Morton, and Thomas Haden Church.
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