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Skyfall Screenwriter Talks James Bond Gay Subtext

November 7, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


There’s been much interest in a particular scene in Skyfall where the villain played by Javier Bardem flirts with James Bond and stroked his chest. There was even a hint of possible 007 bisexuality, as Bond is trying to get out of the sticky situation and comments, “What makes you think this is my first time?”

So is Bond meant to be bisexual? Well, the film’s screenwriter,John Logan has now been talking about it, and he seems keen to burst the bubble of those wondering if the secret agent will be getting into a bit of man love in future adventures.

Speaking to THR at the film’s New York Premiere, he says people have said he’s turning Bond bisexual “Because I’m, in fact, gay but not true at all.”

He adds, “(Director) Sam (Mendes) and I were discussing, there were so many scenes where Bond goes mano-a-mano with the villain, whether it’s Dr. No or Goldfinger or whatever, and there’s been so many ways to do a cat-and-mouse and intimidate Bond, and we thought, what would truly make the audience uncomfortable is sexual intimidation; playing the sort of homoerotic card that is sort of always there subtextually with characters like Scaramanga in Man With the Golden Gun or Dr. No. So we just decided that we should play the card and enjoy it.”

Of course, that doesn’t mean 007 has never indulged in a bit of experimentation, but it’s seems unlikely we’d ever see that on screen, or that it would be anything other than obliquely mentioned. And the sad truth is, that even in the Skyfall scene, it comes across as more Bond playing the villain’s game against him that an actual confession.

When Craig was asked a couple of weeks ago about the scene and whether Bond is bluffing, the actor commented, ‘”What are you going to do? I don’t see the world in sexual divisions.” He then changed the subject from Bond to Bardem’s wonderfully flamboyant character, Silva. “Someone suggested that Silva may be gay,” Craig said with a big smile. “And I’m like, ‘I think he’ll f*** anything.’ I love that scene, It makes me laugh. I hope it makes you laugh.”

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Jared Leto Going Flamboyantly Gay For Dallas Buyer’s Club

November 7, 2012 By Tim Isaac 1 Comment

As he’s been concentrating on being a bit of a douche in his band 30 Seconds To Mars, Jared Leto hasn’t been doing a lot of acting in the last few years. His last role was in the indie flick Mr. Nobody in 2009. However now he’s set to return to the big screen in The Dallas Buyers Club, playing a flamboyantly gay cross-dresser, according to Variety.

The movie is about Ron Woodruff (Matthew McConaughey), a man who contracts AIDS in 1986. After becoming frustrated with the lack of medical options in the US, due to the fact drugs have to be extensively tested by the FDA before they become available to patients, he begins smuggling alternative drugs into the country from Mexico. Jared Leto will portray Rayon, another AIDS patient Woodruff befriends at the hospital. Gael García Bernal was previously in talks for the showy cross-dressing role, but a deal was never made. Jennifer Garner also stars.

Jean-Marc Vallée is directing from a screenplay by Melisa Wallack and Craig Borten, with production scheduled to begin next week in New Orleans. Leto can fit it in as 30 Seconds to Mars have recently wrapped up a world tour.

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ACTORS: Jared Leto, Matthew McConaughey  DIRECTORS: Jean-Marc Vallee  FILMS: Dallas Buyers Club  

Is Colin Trevorrow Up To Direct Star Wars VII?

November 7, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

As many predicted, the announcement of a new Star Wars movie has put the rumour mill into overdrive. A couple of days ago we reported that Matthew Vaughn is said to be in talks to helm Star Wars VII, and now we have another name to add to the list, Colin Trevorrow.

He’s not exactly a well known name, but he impressed many with his film Safety Not Guaranteed, which got a lot of praise at Sundance (and won the screenwriting award). Now CeleBuzz says they have to an insider, who’s told them the indie filmmaker met with George Lucas himself to discuss the project several months ago.

Lucas was apparently a fan of Safety Not Guaranteed, and it was enough to put Colin on the list of potential candidates to make this highly-anticipated sequel. However it should be noted that Lucas has already said that now he’s sold Lucasfilm to Disney, he’s not choosing the director. It doesn’t mean Trevorrow is ruled out, just that meeting Lucas is far from saying he’s got the job.

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DIRECTORS: Colin Trevorrow  FILMS: Star Wars, Star Wars: The Force Awakens  

First Look At Tom Hanks As Walt Disney On The Set Of Saving Mr. Banks

November 7, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Saving Mr. Banks has been shooting for a few weeks now, but it’s only now that we get our first slightly fuzzy look at him as Walt Disney, and to be honest, he does look the part. There’s also a shot below of Emma Thompson as PL Travers, from a scene that was shot on Hollywood Boulevard. The other pics seem to have been taken at Disneyland. The pics come from InsideTheMagic and the imagineeringdis Twitter account.

Tom Hanks is playing Walt Disney (it’s the first time the entrepreneur has ever been depicted in a dramatic film) alongside fellow double Oscar-winner Emma Thompson in the role of prickly Mary Poppins novelist, Travers. The film follows how, before signing away the book’s rights, Travers’ demands for contractual script and character control circumvent not only Disney’s vision for the film adaptation, but also those of the creative team of screenwriter Don DaGradi and sibling composers Richard and Robert Sherman.

When Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Disney’s desire to bring her beloved character to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario’s concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During her stay in California, Travers’ reflects back on her childhood in 1906 Australia, a trying time for her family which not only molded her aspirations to write, but one that also inspired the characters in her 1934 book.

The film is due for an Oscar-bait December 2013 release.

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ACTORS: Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks  FILMS: Saving Mr. Banks  

Elfquest Movie Finds New Life As An Indie

November 7, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

This one is a bit of a fan’s dream come true. Stephanie Thorpe and Paula Rhodes loved the comic book Elfquest so much they made their own fan short, Elfquest: A Fan Imagining. That’s now led to them being able to pick up the film rights to the property and announcing at the American Film Market that they’re going to make a movie version.

The plan is to set it up as in independent project, with funding now being sought. The news comes after years in which Hollywood has been mulling over making a movie about the bunch of elves who live on a primitive planet.

Wendy and Richard Pini created the comic series way back in 1978, and it’s managed to sustain popularity through various changes in the comic business, which have made it one of the rare titles that have been published by both Marvel and DC. The latter deal, which saw DC starting a four-year Elfquest run in 2003, led to Warner Bros picking up the film rights and planning a movie. They dropped that idea earlier this year, which has allowed Thorpe and Rhodes to step in.

As yet, it’s tough to say whether they’ll be successful in getting the cash together to make a proper Elfquest film, but you can take a look at their fan movie below and see if you think they’d make a good feature film. (Source: Variety)

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Gemma Arterton & Benedict Cumberbatch Will Do Absolutely Anything

November 7, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Although you’d have expected a movie that promises to reteam the surviving Pythons (minus Eric Idle) wouldn’t have much difficulty getting made, Absolutely Anything has been in development for a long time. Terry Jones has been in line to direct for nearly two decades, and in 2010 he signed up Terry Gilliam, John Cleese and Michael Palin to voice aliens in the movie.

At that time, John Oliver was lined up to star, but things have been languishing, only now moving forward with the news, via The Wrap, that Gemma Arterton has signed on the dotted line to star in the film, with Benedict Cumberbatch in talks.

The film is based on a script from Jones and Gavin Scott, which is about a group of aliens who decide to give a teacher (Cumberbatch) the power to do absolutely anything – Bruce Almighty style – with just a wave of his hand. The site reports, ‘He can wipe out classrooms of badly behaving students and bring people back to life. But he experiences mishap after mishap as he tries to learn how to use these powers’. Robin Williams is set to be a talking dog named Dennis (to be voiced by Robin Williams) who understands more about what’s going on than anyone else.

The plan in to shoot the movie in the first quarter of 2013.

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ACTORS: Benedict Cumberbatch, Gemma Arterton  DIRECTORS: Terry Jones  FILMS: Absolutely Anything  

Dominic Cooper Feels A Need for Speed Opposite Aaron Paul & Imogen Poots

November 7, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Dominic Cooper has quite a good thing going as a supporting character in big summer movies, as he’s popped up in the likes of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Captain America: The First Avenger, and now Variety reports he’s in talks for director Scott Waugh’s videogame adaptation Need for Speed.

The movie is about an underground race car driver (Aaron Paul) who owns a shop that modifies sports cars for racing. He is framed for the murder of his best friend, who died during a race, and upon his release from prison he seeks revenge. Dominic Cooper will play a former NASCAR driver who now owns a high-end shop that rebuilds race cars.

Imogen Poots is in also in talks to play the female lead. When news of her involvement was first revealed, there were no character details, but it’s now been revealed that she will play an exotic car dealer who works with both Aaron Paul and Dominic Cooper’s characters.

It isn’t known when production will begin, but Need for Speed is due to hit cinemas February 7th, 2014.

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ACTORS: Dominic Cooper, Aaron Paul, Imogen Poots  DIRECTORS: Scott Waugh  FILMS: Need For Speed  

World War Z Teaser Poster Revealed

November 7, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

The promotion of World War Z kicks off in earnest this week. Yesterday we had some brief first look footage, tomorrow we’ve been promised the first full trailer and today we have a teaser poster. It’s a bit of a minimalist one, pretty much just showing us the film’s logo.

But what’s it’s all about, well here’s a synopsis: ‘The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself. (Merielle) Enos plays Gerry’s wife Karen Lane; Kertesz is his comrade in arms, Segen.’

The footage yesterday suggested this will be a zombie movie on a scale we’ve never seen before. Let’s just hope the production issues, which included a delay from Christmas 2012 to summer 2013 so they could completely rehoot the ending, won’t result in a disappointing film.

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ACTORS: Brad Pitt  DIRECTORS: Marc Forster  FILMS: World War Z  

Gaspard Ulliel To Play Gay Fashion Designer Yves Saint Laurent In New Biopic

November 6, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

There are a couple of biopics of Yves Saint Laurent in the works, and now one of them has moved forward with the news that 28-year-old French actor Gaspard Ulliel (Hannibal) will play him. The film will concentrate on the early days of the fashion designer’s career and the launch of the YSL brand, which during the 60s and 70s became one of the most innovative fashion houses in the world. Bertrand Bonello (House Of Tolerance) is set to direct, with plans to shoot next spring.

Saint Laurent was, of course, gay, although it isn’t clear how far the biopic will go into that. That said, unlike some tales, it would be tough to disentangle Yves Saint Laurent’s love life from the rest of his story without outright lying. The designer met and fell in love with industrialist Pierre Berge in 1958, and they launched the YSL fashion house together 1961, running it together for several decades. They split in 1976, but remained close for the rest of Saint Laurent’s life, entering a civil partnership together just before the designer died in 2008.

There is another film about the designer in the works, which is said to concentrate of the ups and down of the relationship between Saint Laurent and Berge. That film has the backing of Berge himself, who hasn’t given his blessing or support to the one starring Ulliel (although that doesn’t mean he necessarily disapproves, just that he’s made a deal regarding the other one). (Source: Telegraph)

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ACTORS: Gaspard Ulliel  

Watch Pixar Short La Luna – Take a look at the full endearing toon

November 6, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


Pixar may be lauded for their feature-length movies, but they’ve also produced a range of great short, including La Luna, which featured alongside Brave when it was released this summer. The short will be included on the Brave Blu-ray and is also on the Pixar Short Film Collection 2, which will be released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK on November 12th. Now the full La Luna short has popped up online, courtesy of The Animation Blog.

It’s a sweet tale, obviously inspired by the likes of The Little Prince, about a boy who ends up in a rowboat at night with his father and grandfather. He doesn’t seems certain why he’s there, but then he discovers just how important their job is. Take a look at it above.

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