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You Were Never Really Here Trailer – Lynne Ramsay directs Joaquin Phoenix in the violent drama

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You Were Never Really Her got a great reception at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, including seeing Joaquin Phoenix pick up Best Actor. Not bad for a movie that sounds like a more serious version of Taken.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘A missing teenage girl. A brutal and tormented enforcer on a rescue mission. Corrupt power and vengeance unleash a storm of violence that may lead to his awakening. Written and directed by Lynne Ramsay and based on the book by Jonathan Ames, You Were Never Really Here stars Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, Judith Roberts, John Doman, Alex Manette, Dante Pereira-Olsen, and Alessandro Nivola.

‘You Were Never Really Here premiered at the 70th Cannes Film Festival, where Joaquin Phoenix won the award for Best Actor and Lynne Ramsay was the joint winner for Best Screenplay. The film is scheduled to be released March 9th 2018.’ [Read more…]

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Bradley Cooper Signs Up For Jane Got a Gun

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bradley-cooperHopefully the musical chairs cast and directing problems with Jane Got A Gun have come to an end, with Bradley Cooper stepping in to replace Jude Law in the Western, according to Variety. Jude Law dropped out of the project last month, just one day after original director Lynne Ramsay abruptly left the project on the first day of shooting.

Jude Law himself was a last-minute replacement, boarding the project last month to take over for Michael Fassbender. Jude Law left after Lynne Ramsay departed as he’d only joined the project so that he could work with her.

Gavin O’Connor (Warrior) has taken over in the director’s chair working from a screenplay by Brian Duffield. The movie is about Jane (Natalie Portman), a young wife whose husband comes home riddled with bullet wounds, clinging on to dear life. She seeks the help of an ex-lover (Joel Edgerton) when the outlaw (Bradley Cooper) who shot her husband comes back to finish off the job.

Bradley Cooper is currently shooting David O. Russell’s next movie, and will shoot his Jane Got a Gun scenes once he’s completed that.

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Gavin O’Connor Replaces Lynne Ramsay On Jane Got a Gun

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gavin-o-connorAs we reported yesterday, there was plenty of drama on the set of Jane Got A Gun on Tuesday, when director Lynne Ramsay didn’t show up to shoot the movie. That set off a mad scramble to find a replacement. The producers have now found one as Warrior director Gavin O’Connor has officially replaced Lynne Ramsay as the director on the troubled Western.

Ramsay apparently fled without notice after a week of clashing with producer Scott Steindorff. It is not known what the fight was over.

The ructions have also now caused the departure of star Jude Law, according to Deadline. He only signed up last week, but has now left as he specifically signed on to work with Ramsay. It’s been a slight case of musical chairs in the last few weeks, as Michael Fassbender had to drop out due to a scheduling conflict with X-Men: Days of Future Past. Joel Edgerton, who was already cast in a different role, took Michael Fassbender’s role, with Jude Law taking Joel Edgerton’s place.

Now that Gavin O’Connor has signed up, it’s hoped shooting can commence in the next couple of days. Natalie Portman stars in the Western, which is about a wife whose husband coming home riddled with bullet wounds. She enlists the help of an ex-lover to help defend her land when the gang of outlaws who shot her husband return to finish him off. Rodrigo Santoro also star.

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Director Lynne Ramsay Abandons Jane Got a Gun By Not Showing Up For The Shoot

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lynne-ramsayWhile actors and directors come and go from movies all the time before they start shooting, it’s very unusual for a director simply to not turn up for the first day of shooting. However that’s what’s happened with Jane Got A Gun, as while the cast and crew assembled yesterday to make the movie in Arizona, director Lynne Ramsay (We Need To Talk About Kevin) didn’t show up. It was later confirmed that she had dropped out.

The film’s producers, including star Natalie Portman are currently scrambling to find a replacement. Here’s what fellow producer Scott Steindorff had to say in a statement, “I have millions of dollars invested, we’re ready to shoot, we have a great script, crew and cast. I’m shocked and so disappointed someone would do this to 150 crew members who devoted so much time, energy, commitment and loyalty to a project, and then have the director not show up. It is insane somebody would do this to other people. I feel more for the crew and their families, but we are keeping the show going on, directors are flying in, and a replacement is imminent.”

The producer also added that he has retained celebrity lawyer Marty Singer to explore legal ramifications of Ramsay’s actions. “She was pay or play [meaning she’d be paid even if the movie wasn’t made], and Marty Singer has been retained. My focus is on making this movie, but I will protect all my rights. This comes down to an irresponsible act by one person.”

Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, Jude Law, and Rodrigo Santoro are all set to star in this Western, written by Brian Duffield. It’s about a wife (Natalie Portman) whose husband returns home, barely alive after being shot eight times. She seeks the help of an ex-lover to defend her home when the gang of outlaws who shot her husband comes to finish what they started

Instead of shooting as planned on the Santa Fe, New Mexico set yesterday, the cast and crew spent the day rehearsing. The producers plan on keeping the film afloat until a new director can be found. It’ll also be interesting to see if Ramsay is ever given funding to make a movie again. (Source: Deadline)

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Jude Law Up For Jane Got A Gun, With Joel Edgerton Replacing Michael Fassbender

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jude-lawIt’s a game of musical chairs over at Jane Got A Gun, as while Natalie Portman stays attached to the Lynne Ramsey film, the main male roles are busy moving around. For a long time Michael Fassbender was set to co-star, but with shooting now scheduled to start next month, he’s had to step aside as he committed to X-Men: Days Of Future Past.

His role has gone to Joel Edgerton, who had recently signed on for a different role in the movie, with THR reporting that Jude Law is now stepping into the part Edgerton jumped from.

Portman is set to play Jane Hammond, a woman in the Old West who enlists the help of a former lover (Egderton) when a band of outlaws come searching for her husband. Jude Law will play John Bishop, the villainous leader of this evil group.

Ramsay is set to direct from Brian Duffield’s Black Listed screenplay.

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Rodrigo Santoro Joins Portman & Fassbender In Jane Got A Gun

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Rodrigo-Santoro-slideRodrigo Santoro will be returning to his most famous role of Xerxes in 300: Rise Of An Empire this August, and now he’s got a new role, teaming up with Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton and Michael Fassbender for Jane Got A Gun, according to Deadline.

Lynne Ramsey is set to direct the film, which is about a woman (Portman) whose outlaw husband returns home barely alive and riddled with bullet wounds. She is forced to reach out to an ex-lover (Fassbender) and ask if he will help defend her farm when her husband’s gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job. Edgerton is set to play the new leader of the gang.

Santoro meanwhile is up to play a character called Fitchum, although it hasn’t been revealed exactly how he fits into the plot.

The film is set to start shooting in April in New Mexico.

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Joel Edgerton May Join Michael Fassbender & Natalie Portman In Jane Got a Gun

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Joel Edgerton is still waiting for the movie that will properly break him in Hollywood, but now Deadline reports that The Thing and Zero Dark Thirty actor has entered talks to join the cast of Jane Got a Gun for director Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin).

Natalie Portman is already onboard to play Jane Hammond, a woman in the Old West who enlists the help of a former lover (Michael Fassbender) when a band of outlaws come searching for her husband. Joel Edgerton will play John Bishop, the villainous leader of this evil group.

Ramsay is set to direct from Brian Duffield’s Black Listed screenplay. It isn’t clear when production will begin.

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Michael Fassbender May Join Jane Got A Gun

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Michael Fassbender is certainly a busy man, but it appears he may have time to slot another movie in, as Vulture reports that he’s in talks to join Lynne Ramsay’s Jane Got a Gun, starring opposite the already attached Natalie Portman.

The movie a woman whose outlaw husband returns home barely alive and riddled with bullet wounds. She is forced to reach out to an ex-lover and ask if he will help defend her farm when her husband’s gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job. Portman will play the main woman, while Fassbender would be the ex-lover.

Ramsay is hoping to shoot the movie by early next year, although it doesn’t appear a firm date has been set yet, with timings presumably having to fit around Portman and Fassbender’s other commitments.

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Natalie Portman Joins Jane Got A Gun

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Natalie Portman is going to to old west, as THR reports that she’s attached to star in and produce the Jane Got a Gun for director Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin). And just having Ramsay involved suggests this won’t be your average western.

The project is about a woman who must defend her farm from her outlaw husband’s gang, after he manages to return home, clinging to life after a gunfight. The wife seeks the help of an ex-lover when the gang shows up on their land.

Brian Duffield wrote the screenplay, which landed on The Black List of the best unproduced screenplays and has sparked a bidding war at Cannes between financiers, foreign sales agents, and studios. The project may end up being funded by a combination of studio funds, private equity firms, and foreign pre-sale deals.

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We Need To Talk About Kevin (Blu-ray)

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Lynne Ramsay became a true darling of the British indie film scene with Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar. While I found things to admire in both those movies, I remained undecided about Ramsay as a filmmaker, as I personally found that overall both movie felt lacking. However, I do think her third film, We Need To Talk About Kevin, based on the bestselling book by Lionel Shriver, is very good, although perhaps not for exactly the same reasons Ramsay and the actors do.

We Need To Talk About Kevin is a movie that’s possible to take two completely different ways. It could be a mother trying to deal with a son who was simply born evil, or alternately it could be about a son who ends up bad because his mother never felt the bond parents are supposed to, or perhaps somewhere in between. In the cast and crew interviews that make up the special features, the actors suggest they believe it’s more about the mother not feeling the expected bond with her son and the incredibly smart Kevin reacting to it, but when I watched it, I saw the exact opposite. [Read more…]