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Chan-wook Park Circles The Brigands of Rattleborge

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Park Chan-wook has gained an amazing reputation thanks to his Korean movies such as Oldboy and Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance. Next spring we’ll get to see his first English language effort, the vampire drama Stoker, and now Variety reports he’s sticking with English as he’s in negotiations to direct the languishing Western The Brigands of Rattleborge for Warner Bros.

The project has been around since August 2006, when the studio acquired the script by S. Craig Zahler. It’s about a sheriff and a doctor, who team up to seek revenge against the band of outlaws who’ve robbed their small town. The screenplay made the Black List in 2006, but has been stuck in development due to its incredibly violent content. It is said that a major star will likely have to come on board for this project to finally move forward.

It isn’t known when the movie might shoot.

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Michael Keaton Getting Villainous For Robocop

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Until recently Hugh Laurie was in talks to be the bad guy in Robocop, but a few days ago he had to drop out, leaving producers to scramble to find a replacement. Now they’ve got their man, as Michael Keaton has signed on to play the primary villain, OmniCorp CEO Raymond Sellars, in the movie.

Director José Padilha commented on this latest casting, “Michael is the final addition to the amazing cast we have assembled for this film and it is so great to have the last puzzle piece in place. It is thrilling that everything has come together to bring this innovative new vision of RoboCop to life. We’ve got a great script, a great cast, some killer ED-209’s and I can’t wait to get Alex Murphy back on the streets.”

Joel Kinnaman is set to star as the Detroit cop Alex Murphy, who is fatally wounded in the line of duty and resurrected by OmniCorp, who turn him into a half-man half-machine crime fighter. Gary Oldman, Samuel L. Jackson, Abbie Cornish, and Jackie Earle Haley also star. Shooting starts next month.(Source: Variety)

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Michael Douglas To Play Reagan In Reykjavik

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Michael Douglas is in negotiations to portray US President Ronald Reagan in Reykjavik, according to THR. When the project was first announced last May, Ridley Scott was set to direct, although as with most movies he attaches himself to, he’ll no longer helm but will instead produce.

Now Mike Newell (Harry Potter 4, Great Expectation) is in talks to direct the film, which is a dramatisation of the 1986 summit between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Russian leader Mikael Gorbachev, to discuss a peace agreement in the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. As the movie’s title suggests, the talks were was held in Reykjavik, Iceland. The search is still on for an actor to play the Soviet premier.

The $10 million movie should start shooting next March in Germany.

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Ryan Gosling Turns Director For How to Catch a Monster

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Ryan Gosling isn’t content with being a respected actor and generally thought to be the sexiest man around, he now wants to turns writer and director with How to Catch a Monster, and he’s set Driver co-star Christina Hendricks to play the lead role. Shooting is scheduled to begins next spring.

How to Catch a Monster weaves elements of fantasy noir, and suspense into a modern day fairytale. Set against the surreal dreamscape of a vanishing city, Billy, a single mother of two, is swept into a macabre and dark fantasy underworld while her teenage son discovers a secret road leading to an underwater town. Both Billy and Bones must dive deep into the mystery, if their family is to survive. It all sounds a bit weird, but hopefully Gosling’s script will make sense when we see the movie.

The movie is looking for buyers at the Toronto International Film Festival. Indeed Gosling will be busy at TIFF as he also stars alongside Bradley Cooper and Eva Mendes in Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond the Pines, which will premiere at the upcoming festival. (Source: Deadline)

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Great Expectations To Close London Film Festival

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A few days ago it was announced that Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie is set to open 56th BFI London Film Festival on October 10th, and now it’s been revealed that the closing movie will be the European Premiere of Mike Newell’s take on Great Expectations.

In the film, young orphan Pip is given a chance to rise from his humble beginnings thanks to a mysterious benefactor. Moving through London’s class-ridden world as a gentleman, Pip uses his new-found position to pursue the beautiful Estella, a spoilt heiress he’s loved since childhood. Yet the shocking truth behind this great fortune will have devastating consequences for everything he holds dear.

The movie stars Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes, Jeremy Irvine, Holliday Grainger, Robbie Coltrane, Ewen Bremner, Jason Flemyng, Sally Hawkins, David Walliams and Tamzin Outhwaite. It was adapted for the screen by David Nicholls, writer of the global best-seller One Day. The film will be released nationwide on 30th November 2012 in the UK.

Director Mike Newell comments: “It’s a great honour to be invited to be the BFI London Film Festival’s Closing Night film. I’m proud that our new version of Great Expectations should be presented this year, the bi-centenary of Dickens’ birth. I’ve tried to make a film that is true to the theatrical vividness, energetic characters and high colour that he is loved for, while mining the deep seams of emotional cruelty and madness that underlie one of Dickens’ darkest-shadowed stories. I’ve tried to make a film for a young modern audience in which Pip and Estella’s fated love affair is shown through feelings and stresses that are of today and in a city that was, then, full of brawling energy, was unimaginably wealthy and very bad.”

Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes and Mike Newell are expected to attend the Festival. The 56th BFI London Film Festival runs from Wednesday 10th October-Sunday 21st October.

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Ben Foster & Kirsten Dunst Join Red Light Winter

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Ben Foster and Kirsten Dunst have signed on to star in Red Light Winter for writer-director Adam Rapp, with Foster replacing Mark Ruffalo, who’s been attached to the film for a while but has had to drop out due to scheduling issues.

The movie is about two New York City friends holidaying in Amsterdam. Their friendship is tested when they both fall for the same prostitute (Kirsten Dunst). Katherine Waterston also stars as a woman who also has a romantic past with both men. Billy Crudup was previously attached to star as one of the friends, an up and coming writer, but like Ruffalo he’s left the project and his part remains vacant for now.

Adam Rapp is directing from a screenplay he adapted from his own play, and is hoping to start shooting in December or January. (Source: Variety)

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Homophobic Bullying Drama Drown Seeks Funding

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We feature quite a few crowd-sourcing campaigns on BGPS, as there are a lot of good projects out there, but limited funding. The latest looking to the interwebs for financial help is Drown, an Aussie movie based on an acclaimed play by Stephen Davis. They’ve set up a funding page over at IndieGogo, and to help you decide if you’d like to help, they’ve released a pre-production trailer which you can see above. As usual with these sorts of the things, there are different perks available depending on how much you want to give.

Here’s a bit more about the project, taken from the film’s IndieGogo page: Based on the acclaimed Queensland Theatre Company play, DROWN tells the story of Len, an heroic but homophobic surf lifesaver who finds himself attracted to Phil, a younger, openly gay lifesaver. Unable to cope with sex-attraction within the confines of male sports culture, Len enlists his best mate Meat in a campaign of intimidation and bullying against the newcomer. Phil dethrones Len as the reigning club swimming champion and a night of heavy drinking ensues. A visit to a gay nightclub (to “pick up chicks”) confounds Len’s crisis of identity. Len and Meat force-feed Phil rum and they drive to the beach to sort out once and for all who is the bigger man.

DROWN, inspired by true events, is a bold and confronting film dealing with urgent problems. We aim to tell a suspenseful and gripping story and challenge audiences to consider issues around identity and sexuality. Why is male identity so narrowly defined? Why do we punish those who are different from the majority? Why do so many people turn a blind eye to bullying and intimidation when they know they should take a stand?

Bullying affects everyone either directly or indirectly. Very often, as depicted in Drown, bullying is related to sexuality – 90 per cent of LGBT report being bullied at school in the past year because of their sexuality.

By making, publicising and distributing Drown, we can make bullying a talking point and raise awareness about how young people are affected by issues around sexual identity.

Find out more at IndieGogo or the film’s website.

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Sightseers Trailer – The latest from the director of Kill List

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Chris (Steve Oram) wants to show Tina (Alice Lowe) his world and he wants to do it his way – on a journey through the British Isles in his beloved Abbey Oxford Caravan. Tina’s led a sheltered life and there are things that Chris needs her to see – the Crich Tramway Museum, the Ribblehead Viaduct, the Keswick Pencil Museum and the rolling countryside that accompanies these wonders in his life. But it doesn’t take long for the dream to fade. Litterbugs, noisy teenagers and pre-booked caravan sites, not to mention Tina’s meddling mother, soon conspire to shatter Chris’s dreams and send him, and anyone who rubs him up the wrong way, over a very jagged edge… The film is due out November 30th.

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Evan Rachel Wood Up For 18 Wheel Butterfly

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We haven’t seen much of Evan Rachel Wood since The Ides Of March in 2011, but she’s got The Necessary Death Of Charlie Countryman coming up, as well as Barefoot and A Case Of You. Now Variety reports that Wood is now in talks to star in 18 Wheel Butterfly, an indie road movie which is set to be directed by Michael Polish (Twin Fall Idaho).

Written by Christian Divine and described as a mix between Thelma and Louise and Smokey and the Bandit, the story is set in 1977 and follows Rainbeaux (Wood), a trucker on the run from the police, bounty hunters, and her fellow truck drivers after she is set up for a crime she didn’t commit.

Aaron Magnani is producing the project and currently seeking financing. There is currently no date for the start of production.

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Safe House Helmer Daniel Espinosa Takes On Child 44

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Ridley Scott signs up for a lot of movies – far more than he can ever actually make – and so many of them end up going to other directors. That seems to be happening with Child 44, which Scott was attached to helm but Deadline reports now has Safe House director Child 44 attached.

The film will be based on British novelist Tom Rob Smith’s chilling crime novel, which focuses on a string of heinous child murders. The book was inspired by the shocking and true story of Andrei Chikatilo, a Ukrainian serial killer known as the Rostov Ripper who was prosecuted and executed for committing 52 murders within the USSR’s borders. Making these crimes even more terrifying is the cultural zeitgeist that allowed him to remain hidden for so long.

While Espinosa is also attached to The Outsider, he’s likely to have to prioritise Child 44, as Lionsgate wants to shoot it next year.

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