Today we bring you the latest in promo posters from Ralph Fienne’s directorial debut, Coriolanus, the controversial Jim Carrey comedy, I Love You Phillip Morris, and Disney’s upcoming animated adventure, Mars Needs Moms.
Coriolanus, a modern version of Shakespeare’s play, has been adapted into a “dangerous political thriller” by screenwriter John Logan, whose previously penned Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and The Aviator. The film will star Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave, and Brian Cox.
Synopsis provided by Icon Movies:
The citizens of Rome are hungry. Coriolanus, the hero of Rome, a great soldier and a man of inflexible self-belief, despises the people. His extreme views ignite a mass riot. Rome is bloody.
Manipulated and out-maneuvered by politicians and even his own mother Volumnia, Coriolanus is banished from Rome. He offers his life or his services to his sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius. Coriolanus and Aufidius march on Rome intending to destroy the city. Volumnia appeals to her son. He tries to reject her but eventually breaks. Aufidius, feeling bitterly betrayed, brutally murders Coriolanus.
There is not yet an announced release date for Coriolanus.
Disney’s Mars Needs Moms, based on the Berkeley Breathed book, centers on a young boy named Milo (Seth Green), whose Mom (Joan Cusack) is abducted by aliens. The outer space adventure is helmed by Simon Wells (Balto), great-grandson of iconic sci-fi author, H.G. Wells, and will invoke producer Robert Zemekis’ performance-capture animation, which has been used previously in The Polar Express and A Christmas Carol.
When the Washington Post asked Breathed, the Pulitzer-prize winning Bloom County creator, how he felt about his book being adapted into a feature film, his response was typically snarky yet hopeful, “This is like throwing my daughter into a pit of tattoo artists and hoping I’ll still recognize her after pulling her out…I just hope that they don’t draw flaming skulls all over her forehead…On the other hand, it’s Disney and Zemeckis running the place. I can’t wait.”
Mars Needs Moms will hit theaters on March 11, 2011.
We’ve previously reported on the difficulties I Love You Phillip Morris has had reaching theaters. The film’s latest poster seems a jubilant celebration of the film’s release and the gay love story on which the film centers.
I Love You Phillip Morris tells the (based on true events) tale of Steven Russell (Jim Carrey), a man happily married to Debbie (Leslie Mann) until a serious car accident leads him to reassess his life. Soon, he’s an openly gay con man, who winds up in jail, where he meets and falls for Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor). The two’s love inspires them to attempt a prison break that leads to a string of improbable and hilarious cons.
I Love You Phillip Morris comes out December 3, 2010.
Which film are you most excited about?