The Words premiered at Sundance, but it’s only now we’re getting the first trailer, ahead on a release this autumn. The romantic drama follows writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There’s only one catch – he didn’t write it. As the past comes back to haunt him and his literary star continues to rise, Jansen is forced to confront the steep price that must be paid for stealing another man’s work, and for placing ambition and success above life’s most fundamental three words.
GENERAL MOVIE NEWS
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New Prometheus Poster Gets Explosive
It’s just a couple weeks until Prometheus hits, and a rather explosive new international poster has debuted, which is rather cool. It’s also nicely unusual in putting female characters front and centre in a sci-fi flick. The film hits the UK on June 1st.
Cage And Rourke Going To Marble City (And Mickey’s back for Sin City 2)
Mickey Rourke has a lot to thank Sin City for, as it massively reinvigorated his career. However until now we haven’t known whether he’d be back as Marv in the upcoming sequel, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. However The Playlist confirms that not only will Rourke be back, but Jessica Alba will return for the film too. It starts shooting soon, with an October 2013 release now set – and it’ll be in 3D too!
It’s not the only Rourke news, as Coming Soon reports that he’s also signed up for Marble City, as has Nicolas Cage. Marble City has been doing the rounds in Hollywood for quite a few years now, but it finally looks like it’s moving forward, with Azumi and Midnight Meat Train director Ryuhei Kitamura helming.
Apparently, ‘Marble City takes us on a journey of a newly released prisoner who seeks revenge on those that put him inside. It is the story of a man who finds his inner peace through vengeance.’
Producer Jeremy Wall says, “The film is a high action and close combat fighting picture. We will bring a dynamic flair to the screen with this director and story. We are delighted to be attracting the highest caliber of actor in the business to work with us in this venture, namely Oscar winning actor Nicolas Cage and Oscar winning actor Mickey Rourke. let the battle begin.” Umm, we know a producer’s job is to big up a project, but giving Mickey Rourke an Oscar he hasn’t won is going a bit far.
The ‘Kill Bill meets Drive’ movie starts shooting in August.
Anthony Mackie Joins Affleck & Timberlake In Runner, Runner
Ever since The Hurt Locker, Anthony Mackie seems to have been poised on the edge of becoming a big name without quite making it. Now he has a new project he’ll hope will further his climb up the star tree, as Variety reports he’s joined the cast of Runner, Runner.
The thriller already has Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake onboard, and is set in the world of illegal online gambling. Timberlake will play a Princeton student who is cheated out of his tuition money playing online poker. Hoping to reclaim his money, he flies to Costa Rica to get his cash back from the site’s owner (Ben Affleck), but ends up becoming the corrupt CEO’s right hand man. Mackie will be an FBI agent who has spent years trying to take the site owner down as comes to see Timberlake’s character as the key to the investigation.
The script is from Brian Koppelman and David Levien, who have a bit of a speciality in writing about the gambling world, as they wrote the screenplay for Rounders, and created the short-lived TV series Tilt.
Alex Proyas Worshipping Gods Of Egypt
Dark City and I Robot Alex Proyas has been having trouble getting movies made, with his big budget Paradise Lost getting shut down shortly before production was due to begin. However he recently signed up for the Robert Heinlein adaptation, The Unpleasant Profession Of Jonathan Hoag, and has now entered negotiations to make Gods Of Egypt for Summit.
Not much is known about the plot, but THR reports that it’s a fantasy epic that sees a mortal, a god and a goddess unite to fight an evil force in ancient Egypt.
Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, who wrote the scripts for the upcoming Dracula: Year Zero and Flash Gordon, wrote the script.
First Stills From Taken 2 Debut – Liam Neeson is back in revenge mode
Liam Neeson has a lot to thank Taken for, as it re-energised his career as a leading man. Now he’s returning to the role of Bryan Mills in Taken 2, and to prove it EW has debuted the first three stills from the movie.
This time around, the events of the first film catch up with Bryan, resulting in the retired CIA Agent and his wife (Famke Jansen) getting taken hostage during their vacation. Bryan must rely on his daughter (Maggie Grace) to help him escape.
Here’s what Neeson had to say about it, “The action is supposed to take place about a year or a year and a half after the first story. It’s a very clever sequel with the usual thrills and spills, but the ante is upped quite a bit in this one.” … “I’ve taken a job over in Istanbul looking after a sheik who is there, and afterward I discover that my wife’s going through a very bad time with her new husband. So I suggest she and my daughter come over for a few days and hang out with me in this amazing city. And then… [laughs] all this s—t happens, of course.” … “I’m taken — let’s put it that way. They kidnap him to humiliate him, torture him, and ultimately bring him back to the village in Albania where the boys from the original film came from. With the help of my daughter… she wants to help me escape from where these bad guys have me.”
Taken 2 is due out on October 5th.
Blade Runner Sequel Gets Screenwriter Hampton Fancher
For a while now, a new movie set in the world of Blade Runner has been in the works, and it’s even got Ridley Scott on board to direct. However exactly what the film would be has been a bit nebulous, as we haven’t known if it would be a prequel or sequel, or if it would feature any of the characters from the first film.
Now we now that it will be a sequel and that Hampton Fancher, who was one of the man writers of the first film, is in talks to reunite with Ridley Scott to develop the idea for the screenplay for the film. The filmmakers have revealed only that the new story will take place some years after the first film concluded, with absolutely no plot details released.
Scott and Fancher originally conceived of their 1982 classic as the first in a series of films incorporating the themes and characters featured in Philip K. Dick’s groundbreaking novella, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which Blade Runner was adapted from. Circumstances, however, took Ridley Scott into other directions and the project never advanced.
Hampton Fancher, although a writer of fiction, was known primarily as an actor at the time Ridley Scott enlisted him to adapt the novel for the screen. Hampton Fancher followed his Blade Runner success with the screenplays, The Mighty Quinn (1989) and The Minus Man (1999). He has continued to write fiction throughout his career.
There’s still no news on when the movie might go into production, and knowing Scott it may take some time, as he won’t go forward until he feels it’s really worth making. (Source: Deadline)
Liam Neeson Taking A Walk Among the Tombstones
Liam Neeson has signed up for quite a few films in the past few weeks, and now he’s added one more, A Walk Among The Tombstones. The movie will be the first in a new financing deal between Exclusive Media and Cross Creek Pictures, who have entered into a three year 50-50 co-financing, co-producing, co-development deal for a minimum of two feature films per year with budgets up to $65m.
Written and to be directed by Scott Frank (The Lookout), the film is one of the popular ‘Matt Scudder’ book series written by Lawrence Block, with principal photography set to start in February 2013 on location in New York City.
The film is about a former NYPD cop, who’s now an unlicensed private eye and a recovering alcoholic haunted by past mistakes, Matt Scudder (Liam Neeson) is hired to find the kidnapped wife of a drug dealer. He operates just outside the law where the police don’t go to track down the kidnappers, who he discovers have been involved in multiple kidnappings and brutal murders.
Scott Frank has been involved with the film for a long time, having first written the script 14 years ago. While various directors has come and gone, Frank is now taking it on himself.
Eli Roth Directing The Green Inferno
We haven’t had a film from Eli Roth since Hostel: Part II in 2007 (unless you count Inglourious Basterds’ film with a film, Nation’s Pride), but now he’s ready to get back behind the camera with the horror movie The Green Inferno.
Details on the storyline are being held under wraps, but here’s here’s what the director had to say about the project, “I’ve had an amazing few years producing, writing and acting, and am very excited to get back in the director’s chair. I’ve been working on this idea for several years, and was inspired by filming in Chile and cannot wait to get back. Worldview backs my vision and believes in me, and is giving me the support I need and the freedom to take risks and make something daring and terrifying. I believe this will be the scariest and most intense film I have made to date. I want to audiences worldwide to feel my return to directing was worth the wait.”
Production will begin in the autumn in Peru and Chile
Maleficent Adds Juno Temple To The Fairy Ranks
After quite a long time in development, Disney’s Maleficent will shoot this summer. Now THR reports the film has added Juno Temple as one of three pixie fairies who try to help the Princess Aurora, in this look at Sleeping Beauty from the bad fairy’s point of view. Angelina Jolie is set to play the title charater.
The story explores why Maleficent is so angry she’d curse Aurora, which apparently has less to do with not being invited to her Christening and more to do with a love affair gone wrong with the king. Imelda Staunton and Lesley Manville will play Juno Temple’s two fairy companions, Knotgrass and Flittle, tasked with taking care of Aurora in the woods. Temple is Thistletwit, who is described as neglectful and superficial.
Elle Fanning is also onboard as Aurora, with Sharlto Copley playing a half-human, half-fairy bastard son of the king. Other cast members include Miranda Richardson and Sam Riley.
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