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Paul Dano Joins Steve McQueen’s Twelve Years A Slave

May 22, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Steven McQueen is going from sex addiction in Shame to slavery in 12 Years A Slave. He’s already got Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt and Chiwetel Ejiofor signed up to star, and now Deadline reports that Little Miss Sunshine and There Will Be Blood’s Paul Dano has joined him.

The project is based on the true story of Solomon Northrup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man in the mid-19th Century who was kidnapped in Washington and sold into slavery. He was rescued from a Louisiana cotton plantation in 1853. Dano will be play one of the slave owners who beats the lead character unmercifully

McQueen is directing 12 Years a Slave from a screenplay he co-wrote with John Ridley.

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ACTORS: Paul Dano, Michael Fassbender, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt DIRECTORS: Steve McQueen FILMS: 12 Years A Slave

Ruby Sparks Trailer – Paul Dano creates a woman!

April 20, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

It’s ridiculous that it’s taken six years for Little Miss Sunshine directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris to make a follow-up movie, but finally Ruby Sparks is on its way and the first trailer has been released. In the film Calvin (Paul Dano) is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby (Zoe Kazan), in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person. It hits US cinemas in July, but no UK date is currently set.

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ACTORS: Paul Dano DIRECTORS: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris FILMS: Ruby Sparks

Michel Pitt & Paul Dano Testing For Akira

November 21, 2011 By Movie Muser Leave a Comment

It seems that after a hell of a lot of behind-the-scenes issues, Warner’s live-action version of Akira is finally going to go into production. However before that they need to sort out a cast, which is proving surprisingly tricky. After much machinations over who would play the main role of Kaneda, they finally settled on Garett Hedlund, and now it appears they’re hard at work looking for Kaneda’s friend, Tetsuo.

According to THR, a whole host of actors are testing for the role, including Michael Pitt (Boardwalk Empire), Paul Dano (Cowboys & Aliens, There Will Be Blood), Alden Ehrenreich (Tetro), D.J. Cotrona (Detroit 1-8-7, G.I.Joe 2: Retaliation), Logan Marshal Green (Devil, Prometheus), Toby Kebbell (RocknRolla, Control), Richard Madden (Game of Thrones), and Rami Malek (The Pacific, Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 2).

The film sees Kaneda trying to rescue Tetsuo from dangerous government experiments that are attempting to harness Tetsuo’s latent powers. However those telekinetic powers are also capable of unleashing the powerful being known as Akira.

It’s an interesting list of actors they’re testing and rather diverse, so doesn’t really give us much of a hint as to the direction they’re heading with the movie, other than that as all those actors are in their late 20s, Tetsuo is going to be older than the teen of the original manga and anime. A decision on who to hire should be made soon, with shooting starting on the Jaume Collet-Serra directed movie early in the new year.

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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ACTORS: Michael Pitt, Paul Dano, Alden Ehrenreich, Toby Kebbell, Richard Madden, Rami Marek DIRECTORS: Jaume Collet-Serra FILMS: Akira (2013)

Being Flynn Trailer

November 15, 2011 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

After the likes of Cirque Du Freak and Little Fockers, director Paul Weitz wants to show another side of himself with an adaptation of the memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. Unsurprisingly the title has had to ben changed to somehting a little less evocative, so they’re calling it Being Flynn. The film follows Nick Flynn (Paul Dano) who is shocked to have his eccentric and long-absent father, Jonathan (Robert De Niro) reach out to him unexpectedly. Still feeling the loss of his mother (played in flashbacks by Julianne Moore) and in the midst of starting a new relationship with Denise (Olivia Thirlby), the last person Nick wants to see is his father. Slowly Nick comes to realise he has been given the chance to make a real future not only for himself, but for his struggling father too.

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ACTORS: Robert De Niro, Paul Dano DIRECTORS: Paul Weitz FILMS: Being Flynn

Young Actors Sought For Die Hard 5

October 22, 2011 By Movie Muser Leave a Comment

Yesterday, we brought you news that 20th Century Fox has set a Valentine’s Day 2013 release date for the fifth Die Hard flick, A Good Day to Die Hard. We also got a bit more info about the plot, which involves Bruce Willis’ John McClane heading to Russia to help his son.

Now Variety reports that Fox is already eyeing up actors as potential people to fill the role of McLane Jr, with Aaron Paul, Ben Foster, Paul Dano, and Milo Ventimiglia all set to test for the role next week. Fox has also reportedly shown interest in Paul Walker, although he is not expected to test for the role. However this isn’t just about finding someone to fill a supporting role like Justin Long did in Die Hard 4.0, as it’s being suggest that this character may end up carrying the franchise in future sequels.

As we said yesterday, A Good Day To Die Hard follows John McLane Moscow, where he tries sweet talk some cops into letting his apparently-wayward son out of jail. However, when he gets there, the events surrounding his son’s arrest aren’t what they appear and world-threatening terrorist hijinks ensue.

John Moore is directing A Good Day to Die Hard from a screenplay by Skip Woods with shooting expected to start early next year.

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ACTORS: Aaron Paul, Ben Foster, Paul Dano, Milo Ventimiglia, Paul Walker, Bruce Willis FILMS: A Good Day to Die Hard