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Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema & more

Ben Foster Set To Play Lance Armstrong For Director Stephen Frears

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ben-fosterAs soon as Lance Armstrong admitted he’d cheated during his cycling career, a couple of biopics about him were announced. We haven’t heard about them for a while, but now Stephen Frears has stepped up with yet another movie about Armstrong, with Deadline reporting that Ben Foster is in final negotiations to play Lance.

John Hodge (Trance, Trainspotting) wrote the screenplay, which covers the cyclist’s career from his testicular cancer comeback to winning seven Tour De France championships, through to his eventual admission that he used performance enhancing drugs during his record-breaking run.

Unsurprisingly, with other Armstrong projects in the works, they’re fast-tracking the project and hope to start shooting as early as this autumn, in the hope of getting a jump on the movie movies.

Paramount Pictures and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions are working on movie based on the book, Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong by New York Times sports journalist Juliet Macur. Warner Bros. is also developing a Lance Armstrong biopic, securing the life rights of Tyler Hamilton, one of Lance Armstrong’s teammates on the United States Postal Service cycling team, and one of the first to testify under oath that his teammate was doping. Jay Roach is attached to direct that movie from a script by Scott Z. Burns.

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Ain’t Them Bodies Saints Trailer – Take a look at the Casey Affleck & Rooney Mara movie

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Ain’t Them Bodies Saints was one of the favourites at Sundance earlier this year and certainly got director David Lowery a lot of interest, who’s since shown interest in a Pete’s Dragon remake, as well the the Robert Redford flick The Old Man And The Gun, and Torso.

However most us haven’t has a chance to see Ain’t Them Bodies Saints yet, but now a trailer has arrived to give us a taster.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Bob Muldoon (Casey Affleck) and Ruth Guthrie (Rooney Mara), an impassioned young outlaw couple on an extended crime spree, are finally apprehended by lawmen after a shootout in the Texas hills. Although Ruth wounds a local officer, Bob takes the blame. But four years later, Bob escapes from prison and sets out to find Ruth and their daughter, born during his incarceration. Set against the backdrop of 1970′s Texas Hill Country, director David Lowery paints a poetic picture, evoking the mythology of westerns and saturating the dramatic space with an aching sense of loss. Featuring powerful performances by Affleck, Mara as well as Ben Foster and Keith Carradine, AIN’T THEM BODIES SAINTS is a story of love, motherhood and searching for peace while faced with an unrelenting past.’

It’s out in the US in August but there’s no UK date set yet. [Read more…]

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First Pic Of Daniel Radcliffe & Dane Dehaan In Kill Your Darlings

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kill-your-darlings-daniel-radcliffe-dane-dehaanA few months ago we got a few set pics of Daniel Radcliffe playing gay poet Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings. Now we’ve got the first official pic, showing Radcliffe along Dane DeHaan, Jack Huston and Ben Foster (at least we think that’s who is on the left).

The movies charts how a murder helped shape the lives of a group of young men who went on to become the beat generation. Chronicle star DeHaan plays Lucien Carr, the man who introduced Howl writer Allen Ginsberg to the likes of William S. Burroughs (Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Huston). Indeed, Ginsberg said that “Lou was the glue” that brought the beat poets and writers together.

During these early, hedonistic days, a man called David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall) fell for Carr, with his infatuation becoming increasingly obsessive and unhinged – Ginsberg once discovered Kammerer trying to murder Jack Kerouac’s cat. It eventually resulted in Carr stabbing Kammerer to death him and going to prison for his murder. The violent event is said to have indelibly changed all the people involved and etched its way into the published works of the Beat writers.

Although Carr said the killing took place after he rejected Kammerer’s sexual advances and was assaulted as a result, many have suggested that Lucien wasn’t as heterosexual as he made out, and that he and Ginsberg had been lovers (something the earlier set pics suggest will also include). The full truth of what happened may never be known. Whatever happened, it was a pivotal moment for Ginsberg, who had been exceptionally close to Carr whether they’d been lovers or not.

The film premieres in January at Sundance and should hit cinemas in 2013.

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Ben Foster & Kirsten Dunst Join Red Light Winter

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Ben Foster and Kirsten Dunst have signed on to star in Red Light Winter for writer-director Adam Rapp, with Foster replacing Mark Ruffalo, who’s been attached to the film for a while but has had to drop out due to scheduling issues.

The movie is about two New York City friends holidaying in Amsterdam. Their friendship is tested when they both fall for the same prostitute (Kirsten Dunst). Katherine Waterston also stars as a woman who also has a romantic past with both men. Billy Crudup was previously attached to star as one of the friends, an up and coming writer, but like Ruffalo he’s left the project and his part remains vacant for now.

Adam Rapp is directing from a screenplay he adapted from his own play, and is hoping to start shooting in December or January. (Source: Variety)

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360 (Cinema)

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Very loosely based on Arthur Schnitzler’s 1900 play La Ronde, Fernando Meirelles’ movie tells a series of interconnected tales, stretching across the globe, all of which are loosely ties by looking at sexual politics and the ties of human connections, no matter how brief.

Meirelles showed his skill with complex ensemble tales with City Of God, but 360 is a slower affair, more meditative than the driving energy of his Brazilian favela movie. Amongst the many stories are Jude Law and Rachel Weisz’s married couple, who both find themselves in adulterous situations. Anthony Hopkins is an older man looking for his lost daughter, who makes a random connection with a young Brazilian woman. Ben Foster is fresh out of prison after a six-year stretch for paedophilia, trying to withstand the temptations and distractions of the outside world. There’s also a prostitute sent to an appointment with a brutish Russian businessman, while her sister makes friends with a man outside, whose marriage is on the rocks. [Read more…]

Emile Hirsch In Talks For Lone Survivor

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Emile Hirsch is one of those actors who’s attempted to straddle the line between indie and mainstream, so that he has enough Hollywood clout to allow him to pick and choose more interesting small projects. However his mass-market movies, such as Speed Racer and The Darkest Hour, haven’t turned out too well, so he could do with a bit of a career bump.

Now he’s in early talks to star in another proper Hollywood movie, as director Peter Berg wants him for Lone Survivor, according to Variety. He’d join a cast that already includes Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster, and Taylor Kitsch.

The project is based on the memoir of Navy SEAL Marcus Littrell, which tells his journey of survival when he and his SEAL team members were ambushed by the Taliban in Afghanistan. The soldiers were pinned down in the Hindu Kush mountains while on a mission to eliminate a terrorist. Mark Wahlberg is playing Littrell, with Ben Foster, Taylor Kitsch, and Emile Hirsch playing other SEAL team members.

Peter Ber is directing from his own adapted screenplay. It isn’t certain when the movie may shoot.

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360 Trailer – First promo for Fernando Meirelles’ ensemble tale

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It’s taken a while to get 360 from its festival debuts last September and October to its big screen release, but it’s due to hit UK cinemas on August 10th, and the first trailer is now here. Fernando Meirelles’ drama is inspired by Arthur Schnitzler’s classic La Ronde, and combines a modern and dynamic roundelay of stories into one, linking characters from different cities and countries in a vivid tale of love in the 21st century. Starting in Vienna, the film beautifully weaves through Paris, London, Bratislava, Rio, Denver and Phoenix, with cast including Anthony Hopkins, Rachel Weisz, Jude Law and Ben Foster.

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Ben Foster, Casey Affleck & Rooney Mara Join Ain’t Them Bodies Saints

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Rooney Mara has had a busy week, as she’s busy making Steven Soderbergh’s The Bitter Pill and yet has had time to attach herself to three other movies that we’ve heard about in the last few days. The latest of these is Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, which Deadline reports also has Ben Foster and Casey Affleck on board for writer-director David Lowery.

The project is an expansion of Lowery’s short film, which debuted at Sundance earlier this year. The short follows a 1970s outlaw who escapes from a Texas prison and sets out in search of his wife and daughter. It isn’t clear which roles the actors will portray.

David Lowery will direct from his own screenplay. Production is scheduled to take place this summer in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It’s not clear how Mara will fit this in, as she already has several other summer shoots planned.

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Mark Wahlberg On For Headhunters & Lone Survivor

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Mark Wahlberg is certainly planning to keep busy, as he’s already got several movies he’s planning to shoot this year, and now he’s adding a couple more to his dance-list, as Shortlist reports he’s eyeing a remake of the Norwegian movie Headhunters, while Deadline says that he, Ben Foster and Taylor Kitsch are all interested in the Navy SEAL movie, Lone Survivor.

Headhunters follows Roger Brown, who is good at two things: hiring people and stealing from them. He then risks it all when he meets a former mercenary who owns a painting worth millions. Wahlberg commented, “I saw a film recently called Headhunters. It’s a Norwegian film and it’s one of the best movies I’ve seen in a long time. I met with the director and pleaded with the studio that has the rights so we’ll see if we get anywhere with that.”

Slightly more certain is Lone Survivor, an adaptation of a book by Marcus Luttrell, which tells the harrowing story of how Luttrell and his Navy SEAL team fought to stay alive after being ambushed by Taliban forces in Afghanistan in 2005. Wahlberg is set to play Luttrell, with Taylor Kitsch and Ben Foster playing the other key Navy Seal roles.

Battleship helmer Peter Berg is on directing duties, and was inspired to write the drama after spending a month with a SEAL team in Iraq. The director had this to say about the movie: “Bin Laden’s death has cleared the way for this, a movie that will be an unapologetically patriotic film that honors and pays homage to an incredible group of badass guys who do this.”

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Ben Foster Plans His Directorial Debut

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It seems that at some point in every actor’s career, they want to have a go at directing. Just the other day it was revealed Joseph Gordon-Levitt was getting behind the camera, and now ScreenDaily reports that X-Men 3 and The Messenger’s Ben Foster is following suit.

There’s no news on the plot of the drama, but it could be ready to shoot this summer. Oren Moverman is on-board to produce, who worked with Foster on both The Messenger and Rampart.

Foster may have a tendency to go over the top occasionally as an actor (Alpha Dog being the prime example), but that’s largely because he’s always trying to push himself and explore new territory. It’s an attitude that should help him as a director, and hopefully Moverman’s presence will help keep him on track.

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