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

Baby Driver (Blu-ray Review) – Kevin Spacey coerces a young man for director Edgar Wright

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The subheading about Kevin Spacey above may be a bit unfair, but I do wonder whether director Edgar Wright is wishing right now he’d picked someone else to play a powerful man coercing a much younger guy to do his bidding. There are also moments in the special features on the Blu-ray where they’re talking about how wonderful Spacey is and how good he is at ‘playing’ a manipulative asshole, where you know the distributors wish they’d had time to cut it out before the disc his shelves, but which certainly give things an unexpected subtext now.

Thankfully though, the presence of the disgraced actor doesn’t completely overshadow the movie, which got great reviews and word of mouth on its cinema release for reasons that had nothing to do with Spacey. [Read more…]

New Baby Driver Trailer – Ansel Elgort & Jamie Foxx get revved up with director Edgar Wright

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There’s a lot of excitement about Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver. That revved up after SXSW, where festival audiences suggested the director has another success on his hand. Now a new trailer has arrived

Here’s the synopsis: ‘A talented, young getaway driver (Ansel Elgort) relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best in the game. When he meets the girl of his dreams (Lily James), Baby sees a chance to ditch his criminal life and make a clean getaway. But after being coerced into working for a crime boss (Kevin Spacey), he must face the music when a doomed heist threatens his life, love and freedom.’

The movie is due out on June 28th. Take a look at the new trailer below. [Read more…]

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New Baby Driver Trailer – Edgar Wright revs up with Ansel Elgort & Jamie Foxx

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There’s a lot of excitement about Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver. That revved up after SXSW, where festival audiences suggested the director has another success on his hand. Now a new trailer has arrived

Here’s the synopsis: ‘A talented, young getaway driver (Ansel Elgort) relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best in the game. When he meets the girl of his dreams (Lily James), Baby sees a chance to ditch his criminal life and make a clean getaway. But after being coerced into working for a crime boss (Kevin Spacey), he must face the music when a doomed heist threatens his life, love and freedom.’

The movie is due out on June 28th. Take a look at the new trailer below. [Read more…]

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Baby Driver Trailer – Ansel Elgort & Jamie Foxx star in Edgar Wright’s latest

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Yesterday, Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver premiered at SXSW in Texas to generally positive reviews. They also decided that it was a good time for the rest of us to be able to take a look at the movie, by releasing a trailer for the music-fuelled flick.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘A talented, young getaway driver (Ansel Elgort) relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best in the game. When he meets the girl of his dreams (Lily James), Baby sees a chance to ditch his criminal life and make a clean getaway. But after being coerced into working for a crime boss (Kevin Spacey), he must face the music when a doomed heist threatens his life, love and freedom.’

The film is due out in August. Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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Take Your First Look At Ansel Elgort & Jamie Foxx In Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver

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Shaun Of The Dead and Scott Pilgrim’s Edgar Wright has been working on Baby Driver for a long time. However, he put it on hold while working on Marvel’s Ant Man, but after his somewhat abrupt departure from that project, he went back to it. However, it’s only now we’re getting out first look with a couple of pic via EW.

It’s something a bit different from Wright, of which the director says, “I always wanted to do an action movie that was powered by music. It’s something that’s very much a part of my previous films and I thought of this idea of how to take that a stage further by having a character who listens to music the entire time. So, you have this young getaway driver who has to soundtrack his entire existence, particularly the bank robberies and fast getaways that come afterwards.”

The film stars Ansel Elgort as a young man who gets coerced into being a getaway driver, but finds himself part of a heist that seems doomed to epic failure. Jamie Foxx, Jon Hamm, Elsa Gonzalez, Kevin Spacey, and Jon Bernthal also star.

It’ll be in cinemas next summer. Take a look at the first pics above and below.

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Johnny Depp & Edgar Wright Up For Neil Gaiman Time Travel Movie

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johnny-deppWhile there has been a huge amount of talk about adapting Neil Gaiman’s books and stories for the screen, relatively few have actually been made, with the exception of the likes of Coraline. Now another of his children’s books is up for adaption, Fortunately the Milk.

THR reports that Johnny Depp is in talks to star in the movie, with Edgar Wright directing. Flight Of The Conchords and The Muppets’ Bret McKenzie will write the script, for what will be a mixture of live-action and animation.

Here’s a description of the book from Amazon, ‘A little boy and his little sister awake one morning, milkless. Their mother is away on business, their father is buried in the paper, and their Toastios are dry. What are young siblings to do? They impress upon their father that his tea is also without milk and sit back to watch their plan take effect. But something goes amiss, and their father doesn’t return and doesn’t return some more. When he does, finally, he has a story to tell, a story involving aliens; pirates; ponies; wumpires (not the handsome, brooding kind); and a stegosaurus professor who pilots a Floaty-Ball-Person-Carrier (which looks suspiciously like a hot-air balloon). There is time travel, treachery, and ample adventure, and, fortunately, the milk he has procured is rescued at every turn.’

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Edgar Wright To Direct Film About Sexual Identity Confusion & Killer Praying Mantises

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Edgar-Wright2After his last minute departure from Ant-Man, Edgar Wright has had to look around for other things to do. It’s already been revealed that he plans to shoot one of his long-gestating projects next, the action crime flick Baby Driver, and now he’s signed on for a new one.

He signed up for Sony Pictures’ Grasshopper Jungle, based on Andrew Smith Dutton’s young adult novel, according to Deadline.

Scott Rosenberg will write the screenplay, which is a coming-of-age story about an Iowa teenager, who think his worst problem is confusion over his sexual identity, as he can’t tell whether he’s in love with his friend Robby or his girlfriend, Shann. However things get decidedly more complicated when he and Robby accidentally unleash a deadly, genetically engineered plague of 6-foot-tall praying mantises.

The bugs ‘live a life the boys could only dream of, acting out on their insatiable appetites for food, fighting and fornicating’.

While with most Hollywood films we’d worry the issue around sexual identity would be erased for the screen, with Wright at the helm it’s hopeful they will remain and become a major part of the movie.

It’s believed Wright will shoot the movie directly after Baby Driver

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Peyton Reed Announced To Direct Marvel’s Ant Man

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peyton-reedAfter Edgar Wright’s departure and Adam McKay saying he couldn’t do it, Marvel has been scrambling to find a replacement director for Ant Man. As they want to keep their Summer 2015 release date, there’s only a short list of directors with the right experience and who might be free.

Now it seems they’ve found one they think can do the job – Peyton Reed. He has plenty of experience with comedy, having helmed the likes of Bring It On, The Break-up and Yes Man. However he hasn’t really done much on the major tentpole action or, special effects front, so this will be something rather different for him.

He’s not a name that’s likely to get that many people excited (and indeed some will undoubtedly say he’s been brought in more by necessity than that he’s truly the right man for the job), but he’s a decent director and if he’s got the right people around him to help with the more technical FX side, there’s no reason to say he can’t make a success of it.

Along with the news of who will direct came a bit more of a plot synopsis, which says, ‘When Marvel’s “Ant-Man” hits theaters July 17, 2015, director Peyton Reed will help shepherd the hero into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with a cast led by Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas, with writer Adam McKay contributing to the film’s script.

‘Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, con-man Scott Lang (Rudd) must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym (Douglas), protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.’

It’s interesting news that while McKay won’t direct, he will put the final touches on the script, especially as it was the changes new writers had added to Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish’s script that resulted in Wright walking. Hopefully when the film’s released Edgar will let us know how close it is to what he was planning.

It also means that Reed will have to push back his work on The Fifth Beatle, about the legendary music group’s gay manager, Brian Epstein.

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Adam McKay in Talks To Helm Marvel’s Ant-Man

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adam-mckayAfter last week’s shock news that Edgar Wright was stepping away from Ant-Man despite working on it since 2006 (apparently he was upset with last minute script rewrites), Marvel has been scrambling to find a replacement, partly in the hope they wouldn’t have to delay the summer 2015 opening.

Now it seems they’ve found one, as AICN and Variety reports that frequent Will Ferrell collaborator Adam McKay has been offered the job.

It’s an interesting choice, as it suggests that Marvel still hopes Ant Man will be a comedy (there had been suggestions the rewrites had stripped out a lot of the humour), although perhaps a more mainstream one that the usually quirky Edgar Wright might have been hoping for. McKay has also worked with Paul Rudd on the likes of Anchorman – so a rapport with the leading man already exists – and the director has shown he can handle action with the likes of The Other Guys.

It will be more of an effects film than anything he’s done before though, although the likes of Talladega Nights has involved SFX work. It’ll be interesting to see if they bring in Will Ferrell in some capacity, as McKay has never directed a feature-length movie without him.

The director does have plenty of other films in the works, but if he signs on for Ant Man, he’ll have to drop everything else, especially if it’s going to keep its July 17th, 2015 release date.

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In A Shock Move, Egdar Wright Is Out Of Marvel’s Ant-Man

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Edgar-Wright2In a very surprising announcement, Marvel has revealed that Edgar Wright will no longer direct the Ant-Man movie. It’s a bit of a shock as the movie has its main cast and a release date, and Wright has been working on it since its inception in 2006 – so it’s not like he isn’t heavily invested.

However the studio has issued the statement: ‘Marvel and Edgar Wright jointly announced today that the studio and director have parted ways on Ant-Man due to differences in their vision of the film. The decision to move on is amicable and does not impact the release date on July 17, 2015. A new director will be announced shortly.’

Variety reports that the studio has already found a replacement – which isn’t surprising as they’re keeping the release date – which would suggest Wright’s departure has been in the works for some time now. It’s also led many to suggest the new helmer could be Attack The Block’s Joe Cornish, who co-wrote the Ant-Man script alongside Wright. That’s just speculation at the moment though.

At the moment it seems Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Michael Pena, Clifton Collins Jr., Evangeline Lilly, Patrick Wilson and Corey Stoll remain attached to star.

Expect more news on exactly who will be taking over very soon.

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