After endless post-production delays and reports that producer George Lucas demanded huge amounts of reshoots on his long-planned movie about the legendary Tuskegee arimen, anticipation has certainly dropped for Ted Tail. However the trailers certainly make it look good! The film is about a crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, who, having faced segregation and been kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard. No official UK date has been set yet, but it arrives in the US on January 20th (and it’ll be interesting to see if it gets an Oscar qualifying run in LA before that, or if they just don’t bother).
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Glenn Close & Elizabeth Olsen On For Therese Raquin
How quickly things can change. Until a few months ago Elizabeth Olsen was just one half of the mini-industry that is the Olsen twins. Then she made Martha Marcy May Marlene and suddenly people realised she could act and she started getting a lot of serious movie attention.
Now EW reports she’s signed on for a period drama that will see her face-off against the veteran powerhouse that is Glen Close. The film is Therese Raquin, based on the 19th century novel and play by Emile Zola. EW says ‘Described as a dark, erotic thriller, the film, set in Paris in 1867, follows young Therese (Olsen), who is forced by her aunt, Madame Raquin (Close), into a loveless marriage to her sick, spoiled first cousin. Therese soon becomes obsessed with her husband’s friend Laurent and is pulled into a devastating affair with him that unravels all of their lives. Close has been attached to the project for years; the role of Laurent has yet to be cast.’
Charlie Stratton will direct with shooting set to begin in the spring. Well, that’s assuming Olsen and Close don’t fall out during awards season, as both are expected to be getting a lot of attention for Martha Macry and Albert Mobbs respectively.
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
David Schwimmer Is An Iceman
When people think of David Schwimmer, the words ‘stone-cold killer’ rarely come to mind. However it seems he’s looking to change our minds about that as Variety reports that he’s in talks to play a mob assassin in The Iceman. Yes, I did just say Ross from Friends might be playing a mob assassin.
In fact it’s almost a surprise he’s playing anything, as he’s done little acting other than a few voice roles and cameos since Friends came to an end, instead concentrating on becoming a director of movies like Run Fatboy Run and Trust.
The long-gestating Iceman has Michael Shannon lined up to play the title character, Richard Kuklinski (Shannon), a notorious mob contract killer and loving family man. He earned his nickname by freezing the bodies of his victims, disguising the time of death, and throwing police off-track. However he didn’t just kill for money, as Kulinski was a true psychopath, and had murdered numerous people before he attracted the mob’s attention. His family and neighbors believed he was an average businessman, having no idea about his deadly alternate life. Kuklinski killed over one hundred people during his life.
Schwimmer is going to play Josh Rosenthal, a fellow assassin in the employ of mob boss Roy Demeo (Ray Liotta), a man he reveres and desperately wants the respect of. Those role were originally going to be played by James Franco and Benicio Del Toro, but production delays caused them to drop out. Maggie Gyllenhaal will also be in the movie as Kulinski’s doting wife, while Ryan O’Nan will play a young hustler who gets caught up in Kuklinski’s deception.
Ariel Vromen is set to direct the film, with shooting beginning in December.
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
James Remar And More Join Django Unchained
We’ve gotten used to Tarantino putting together great casts for his movies and Django Unchained is no exception. We already have Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L Jackson, Kurt Russell, Tom Savini, Don Johnson, Gerald McRaney and (probably) Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Now Variety reports that James Remar (Dexter), Tom Wopat (The Dukes Of Hazzard), James Russo (Public Enemies) and Todd Allen (The Apostle) have been added to the mix.
The film sees Foxx’s Django escaping enslavement and with the help of Washington’s bounty hunter going of a mission of revenge against those who wronged him. Most importantly he wants to find his wife, who being kept be evil plantation owner Calvin Candie (DiCaprio).
Remar and Russo have signed on to play Ace and Dicky Speck, the slave trading brothers who originally bought Django. Allen is on as plantation boss Dollar Bill, and Wopat will be Marshall Gill Tatum.
Shooting is set to begin in January.
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Woody Harrelson Added To Seven Psychopaths
There were going to have to be some casting changes on Seven Psychopaths, as it was revealed in the last couple days that Mickey Rourke had left the production (with a few choice words for director Martin McDonagh, with Rourke saying “The director was a jerkoff. He wanted a whole lot for nothing.”).
However In Bruges helmer McDonagh probably isn’t crying to much, as while Rourke goes off in a corner to take himself far too seriously again (one of the things that helped derail his career first time around), the always excellent Woody Harrelson has taken over the gangster role Rourke was in talks for. Olga Kurylenko and Tom Waits have also joined the cast in unknown roles, according to Deadline.
Rourke actually dropped out of The Expendables 2 to focus on Seven Psychopaths, but now he’s not gonna get to do either.
Seven Psychopaths is about a screenwriter (Colin Farrell) who is stuck on how to write his latest script. He gets lured into his friends’ (Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken) plot to steal a gangster’s Shih Tzu. The ordeal provides plenty of fodder for his writing, if he can get out of it alive. Shooting started this week in Los Angeles.
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
Eddie Murphy Out As Oscar Host
After the news yesterday that Brett Ratner had stepped down as producer of the Oscars following some ill-advised and homophobic comments, his chosen presenter, Eddie Murphy, has followed suit and resigned.
Murphy says, “First and foremost I want to say that I completely understand and support each party’s decision with regard to a change of producers for this year’s Academy Awards ceremony. I was truly looking forward to being a part of the show that our production team and writers were just starting to develop, but I’m sure that the new production team and host will do an equally great job.”
Quite why he can’t host if Ratner isn’t producing is anyone’s guess, but apparently the two go together.
And with only a few months until the ceremony, the Academy has moved quickly to find someone to replace Ratner, settling on Brian Grazer, best known for producing Ron Howard’s movies, amongst much else. It’s difficult not to think that with gay groups now looking hard at the Oscars following Ratner’s ‘Rehearsal’s for fags’ comment, Grazer was partly chosen because he produced the somewhat gay-themed J. Edgar.
However only last year he had a bit of a gay controversy of his own over a joke included in the trailer for his movie, The Dilemma, where Vince Vaughn’s character says, “Electric cars are gay. I mean, not homosexual, but my-parents-are-chaperoning-the-dance gay.” The joke was eventually removed from the trailer but not the film.
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas UK Trailer
It’s just come out in the US and will be in UK cinemas on December 9th, but if you fancy a taste of A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas, we’ve got the new UK trailer right here. The boys are still getting into plenty of trouble, this time of the festive variety, and Neil Patrick Harris is back, once more playing his womanising alter-ego, who in an extra-postmodern twist is using the fact people think he’s gay to get into ladies’ pants.
Absolutely Fabulous Going Big Screen
A few months ago it was revealed that Jennifer Saunders was hoping to put together an Absolutely Fabulous reunion, letting us catch up on Edina and Patsy 20 years after they first debuted back in 1992. However at the time, it was assumed that whatever Saunders came up with would appear on TV. Now though, it looks like it’ll be getting a cinematic outing, according to Deadline.
Jennifer Saunders apparently plans to start work on the script after she finished writing the Spice Girls musical, Viva Forever. It’s been suggested that the movie, tentatively titled Ab Fab: The Movie (which is stunningly uninventive), will begin with Edina and Patsy waking up, hung over, on a yacht in the middle of the ocean, with no cell phone signal to call for help.
It’s early days though, as while BBC Films boss Christine Langan commented, “I think she’s a genius. I can’t imagine anything more exciting than working with her,” no proper deal is currently in place with Jennifer Saunders for the movie yet. Let’s hope it all come together.
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
First Pics From Silver Linings Playbook
After spending months flitting from project to project, director David O’Russell finally went into production on a new project recently, The Silver Linings Playbook, with a great cast including Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Jackie Weaver Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Stiles and Chris Tucker.
Now the first images have popped up online, via Collider, who got hold of them at the AFM, along with a synopsis. Take a look at the pics above and below. Here’s the synopsis:
Adapted from the best-selling novel by Matthew Quick, THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK is a touching, one-of-a-kind comedy about love and second chances.
Pat Peoples (Bradley Cooper) is a man always trying to look on the bright side of life – the title of the story takes it’s name from the expression that “every cloud has a silver lining.” Released from the hospital after losing his wife to another man, Pat believes this age-old adage is just the ticket to trying to win her back and get his life on track. Trying to remain resolutely undiscouraged, Pat moves back in with his parents and devotes himself entirely to becoming the man his wife always wanted him to be. But it’s an uphill battle. Until Pat meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a beautiful young woman whose life also has not turned out the way she wanted. Together, the couple will try and navigate through their lives and stay true to who they are, always just one adventure away from a unique friendship, and possibly even love.
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
New Pics Of R-Patz In Cosmopolis
Some new images have popped up online from the upcoming Robert Pattinson movie, Cosmopolis, including the gun-toting one above, which shows us R-Patz in a different (and less soppy) way than we’ve seen before. Based on Don DeLillo’s novel, Young billionaire Eric Packer (Pattinson) starts out just wanting to get a haircut, but as the day progresses, he must deal with the fallout from the decisions he’s made in his life.
David Cronenberg is in the director’s chair, which should ensure this is well worth a watch. The cast also includes Sarah Gadon (who’s in the image at the bottom of this post), Juliette Binoche, Paul Giamatti, Samantha Morton and Mathieu Almaric. There’s no release date set as yet. (Images via CosmopolisFilm)
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