New Films in Production

[Antoine Doinel]

I hope this means that Ridley has passed Blood Meridian to someone a little... um, better.

Jesus, let's hope so. I'm so sick of Ridley Scott and his ego. Should've retired after bladerunner.

I would really like to see Malick tackle a McCarthy novel, I think another version of All the Pretty Horses would be ideal.

Though I wouldn't mind seeing what Billy Bob Thorton's original three hour cut was like.

[Fletch F. Fletch]

Guillermo del Toro answers questions about his take on The Hobbit. I really like the approach he's going with these films. Sounds good.

[Via_Chicago]

According to details here Johnnie To will be shooting an English language remake of Le Cercle Rouge this summer in Hong Kong with Chow Yun-Fat, Liam Neeson and Orlando Bloom.

well, at least it's not being remade by John Woo.

What the hell? Orlando Bloom? Chow Yun-Fat talking in English? Odd.

[Forrest Taft]

After finishing The Informant, Soderbergh will make his next film for HDNet, The Girlfriend Experience. A film about a call call girl. Yay. Variety

[colinr0380]

John Hurt is to play Quentin Crisp again.

[Fletch F. Fletch]

Nicole Kidman to play Dusty Springfield.

[flyonthewall2983]

Mel "Sugar Tits" Gibson to star in remake of Edge Of Darkness. Wonder who will do the music. In case you're wondering what I'm referring to, here's the original theme, performed by it's composer.

[Person]

Nicole Kidman to play Dusty Springfield.

Crikey! What's next - Tom Cruise as Liberace? Actually, I am surprised that a flashy, big budget biopic on Lee hasn't been made in the last six years.

[Lino]

Nicole Kidman to play Dusty Springfield.

Crikey! What's next - Tom Cruise as Liberace?

That would be perfect! He's got the big smile to go with and all!

[NABOB OF NOWHERE]

Nicole Kidman to play Dusty Springfield.

Crikey! What's next - Tom Cruise as Liberace? Actually, I am surprised that a flashy, big budget biopic on Lee hasn't been made in the last six years.

Does this mean that both of them will be coming out the closet too?

[Ovader]

In pre-production Jacques Rivette’s 36 vues du Pic Saint-Loup (36 Views from the Pic Saint-Loup), starring Sergio Castellitto and Jane Birkin. This French/Italian co-production is set for shooting in August-September.

[Barmy]

Werner Herzog remaking Bad Lt. starring, natch, Nic Cage.

[Cold Bishop]

That doesn't make any fucking sense.

This surely must be some hoax... I mean...

exec producer Avi Lerner promising it will deliver as much filth as the original.

Yeah, its in keeping with Lerner's character, but c'mon.

I would still love to see Herzog remake Wages of Fear however.

[miless]

wtf?
Herzog?
Nicolas Cage?
Bad Lieutenant?

I'm confused and I want my mommy.

[Cronenfly]

Werner Herzog remaking Bad Lt. starring, natch, Nic Cage.

If it's as much of a comedic masterpiece as The Wicker Man remake (and this sounds like it), count me in...assuming there's full frontal Cage as well, of course.

[TheGoodDoctor]

That's fantastic news about Herzog's Bad Lieutenant. We need a good nun rapin' these days.

[Barmy]

Let's face it, Ferrara's sanitized and romanticized approach to Bad Lt. did not do justice to the material. I can't think of another director besides Herzog, except maybe Sokurov, who could do this thing right. Apparently Asia Argento has been approached to play the nun.

[Oedipax]

I'm just flabbergasted by the Herzog/Ferrara thing. I'm curious as to how Herzog will handle or rework the material, since his madmen usually have their charms and LT has none whatsoever.

[colinr0380]

That's fantastic news about Herzog's Bad Lieutenant. We need a good nun rapin' these days.

As opposed to nun rapping that featured in the Sister Act films!

But you might be disappointed either way as according to Screen Daily (which I got to via Twitch) the nun angle is being changed for the murder of Senegalese illegal immigrants.

[Cold Bishop]

I just don't see the point in calling it a remake. Bad LT WAS Ferrara, Keitel, and Catholic guilt. With those three gone, it can be nothing but a completely different movie.

[flyonthewall2983]

'Beavis & Butt-Head' Creator Mike Judge Says He Might Be Ready For The Duo's Live-Action Debut

SANTA MONICA, California — They pissed off our parents, filled our mouths with clever catchphrases, mocked your favorite music videos, and followed their hit TV show with the #1 opening of a nationwide film.

Then they were gone.

Now, Beavis & Butt-Head might be getting ready to do it all over again — and wait until you hear what they're gonna look like.

"I feel like it's something I can come back to and do," creator Mike Judge told us when he stopped by our studios to promote "The Animation Show," an eye-popping theatrical/DVD cartoon extravaganza that has occasionally featured the dimwitted duo. "I did a little animated intro for this ['Animation Show: Volume 3'] thing."

Judge — who also created TV's "King of the Hill," as well as the films "Office Space" and "Idiocracy" — recently spoke to us about the next phase in his career, which includes the Jason Bateman-starring comedy "Extract." After that film, he might turn his attention to bringing back everyone's favorite fire-loving fools.

"I've even thought about doing a live-action 'Beavis & Butt-Head' possibly," he revealed.

As his die-hard fans know, the now-iconic "Office Space" characters Milton and Lumbergh came from early cartoons drawn by Judge long before Stephen Root or Gary Cole brought the characters to life. It was Judge's infamous "Frog Baseball" short that landed him the deal to create a show for Beavis & Butt-Head, and now he's warming up to the thought of giving them a similar animated-to-live-action makeover.

"I guess Seann William Scott's kinda got Butt-Head eyes," Judge agreed when given one possible casting idea. "A long time ago, Johnny Depp had said to me that he really wanted to play Beavis. ... He was doing that ['Don Juan DeMarco'] movie with Marlon Brando, and he said Marlon Brando used to imitate Butt-Head, and he would do Beavis."

A big fan of both cartoons and classic comedy, Judge agreed that the notion of two headbanging, fast-food-slinging, smartass buddies seems as relevant today as it did in the '90s. So perhaps fans would embrace new, real-life guys rocking those iconic AC/DC and Metallica T-shirts.

"The Three Stooges survived a lot of different guys with Shemp, Curly," he reasoned. "I haven't yet said, 'OK, I wanna make a live-action "Beavis & Butt-Head" movie, and here's the idea.' But for some reason, I used to hate the idea for years, and now I think maybe there's something there."

All he has to do now is find two teen actors who can deliver the perfect "heh-heh-heh" laughs. And after the arduous process of casting his first two live-action films, Judge isn't sure he's ready to watch all those actors unveiling their best underbites and "uhhhhh ..." line deliveries.

"Casting is bad enough as it is. I don't know if I want to sit through a casting session trying to find the live-action Beavis & Butt-Head," he laughed.

[Cold Bishop]

Honestly, Herzog never ceases to amaze

Werner Herzog, David Lynch take on murder drama

CANNES -- Werner Herzog and David Lynch are teaming for "My Son, My Son," a horror-tinged murder drama based on a true story.

Herzog and his longtime assistant director Herbert Golder co-wrote "Son," loosely based on the true story of a San Diego man who acts out a Sophocles play in his mind and kills his mother with a sword. The low-budget feature will flash back and forth from the murder scene to the disturbed man's story. A guerrilla-style digital video shoot on Coronado Island is tentatively set for March.

In a separate development, Lynch's Absurda production company has attached Asia Argento and Udo Kier to star with Nick Nolte in Alejandro Jodorowsky's metaphysical gangster movie "King Shot."

Marilyn Manson is touted to appear as a prophet in the "Sin City"-style film, which producer Eric Bassett said has enough sex and violence to guarantee an NC-17 rating.

Lynch is executive producing both projects, and Absurda is repping their sales rights in the Cannes market.

"Son" is produced by Eric Bassett, who also is producing "King" with his Absurda colleague Norm Hill and Clavis Films' Simon Shandor.

Herzog, repped by Gersh, is having a busy 2008. He was set to film "Son" in the summer but postponed it to direct Nicolas Cage in a remake of Abel Ferrara's "Bad Lieutenant" starting in July. In the fall, he will shoot the Victorian-era drama "The Piano Tuner" for Focus Features.

[Antoine Doinel]

Brian De Palma has another Iraq film in the pipeline, Print The Legend.

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

We're officially in the Silly Season now -- first Bad Lieutenant, now this:

Roman Polanksi's longtime producer Alain Sarde is lining up a $50m prequel to Emmanuelle with the erotic franchise's rights holder Alain Siritzky.

What Else Emmanuelle? will be the first theatrical release in the series since Emmanuelle IV came out in 1984 and is scheduled to begin shooting at various exotic locations in September.

The producers are out to casting for the lead role of the sexually liberated character, first made famous by Sylvia Kristel in Emmanuelle in 1974.

The producers are aiming for a PG-13 rating and Siritzky said he was hoping to entice viewers of all ages on the story of a young girl who blossoms into a sensual woman. Alan Siritzky Productions is producing.

[domino harvey]

That has to be a joke.