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[Cinesimilitude]

Raymond Chandler + Frank Miller + Clive Owen = =P~

I don't think I could type enough expletives to show how truly excited I am for that movie. I hope they make it in black and white, and give David Bowie a supporting role.

[Cosmic Bus]

Raymond Chandler + Frank Miller + Clive Owen = =P~

Hopefully this can avoid being overly stylized in the visuals department. Straight black-and-white, nothing more, would be lovely.

[Jeff]

I don't think I could type enough expletives to show how truly excited I am for that movie. I hope they make it in black and white, and give David Bowie a supporting role.

I wish all movies were in black and white and had David Bowie in a supporting role.

[Jem]

If not already posted: Elizabeth The Golden Age - Trailer

[Matt]

If not already posted

There's a thread for the film here, but this "official" trailer is an improvement over watching it on YouTube, so thanks for posting it.

[Cinesimilitude]

I don't think I could type enough expletives to show how truly excited I am for that movie. I hope they make it in black and white, and give David Bowie a supporting role.

I wish all movies were in black and white and had David Bowie in a supporting role.

After I typed that I looked up Clive Owen only to find out that he's a massive David Bowie fan. We could be best friends I bet. [/swoon]

[Scharphedin2]

From comingsoon.net

Alan Parker's next film...

Alan Parker Helming Coram Boy
Source: Variety July 11, 2007


Alan Parker will write and direct Coram Boy, the feature version of Jamila Gavin's novel with Scott Rudin and Allison Owen producing, says Variety.

The adaptation has been set as a co-production of Scott Rudin Productions, Owen's Ruby Films and BBC Films, in partnership with Miramax and the U.K. Film Council.

The novel, winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award, is an epic adventure about two orphans -- one rescued from an African slave ship, the other the abandoned son of the heir to a great estate. The duo are raised in Britain's Coram hospice in 1741.

[Jeff]

After I typed that I looked up Clive Owen only to find out that he's a massive David Bowie fan. We could be best friends I bet. [/swoon]

Surely then, Death Monkey, you will be pleased to learn that Owen and Naomi Watts are slated to star in an action-thriller called The International for Tom Tykwer. I don't think it has a production start-date yet (though I've heard Fall '07), so I haven't started a thread for it, but it certainly sounds like a done deal.

[Jem]

11808 (What-eva it's called)

[Hai2u]

Holy SHIT! Don't know if this has been posted yet. Although I love the book, I just can't see how the movie will be able to capture the real essence of the book. A tree of dead babies, two babies being grabbed by the legs and their brains being bashed out on a rock, and babies being scalped? I just don't know.

[John Cope]

Although I love the book, I just can't see how the movie will be able to capture the real essence of the book.

It won't. Especially if Ridley Scott is at the helm.

[kaujot]

Holy SHIT! Don't know if this has been posted yet.

I believe that page has been up for close to forever. Still, being updated in March is somewhat good news.

It's my favorite McCarthy, and whilst I think Scott will do a passable job, nothing will be able to match the book.

[Matt]

That Layer Cake guy is gonna direct the Thor movie.

[lord_clyde]

Holy SHIT! Don't know if this has been posted yet. Although I love the book, I just can't see how the movie will be able to capture the real essence of the book. A tree of dead babies, two babies being grabbed by the legs and their brains being bashed out on a rock, and babies being scalped? I just don't know.

How strange - I just finished that book last night. I have to say I think it's completely unfilmable, and Ridley shouldn't even try.

[Via_Chicago]

I just finished that book last night. I have to say I think it's completely unfilmable, and Ridley shouldn't even try.

I don't like Scott's films at all (I actually prefer his oft-maligned brother, Tony's, more), so I don't see how he could possibly do anything interesting with this. I definitely won't be paying to see it. Wow. How sad. To my mind this is like letting Mike Newell direct Love in the Time of Cholera...oh wait.

[miless]

on another Cormac McCarthy note... John Hillcoat, director of (the overrated) The Proposition, has been attached to develop (and eventually direct) The Road. I really hope it doesn't happen, however, as I want to make the movie (wishful thinking, I know). I love almost anything post-apocalyptic (especially if it's realistic) and I just know that any sort of 'normal' film adaptation of the story will completely ruin it (they'll, undoubtedly, add an some sort of shoot-out/action sequence/chase scene which will be completely out of place). As the novel stands, it's like a darker version of Michael Haneke's Time of the Wolf (except with western conventions).
It could be a beautiful and terrifying film, but you need someone with a sense of monotony to adapt it... someone like Béla Tarr (although it wouldn't work in B&W... and Béla wouldn't be right for anything other than the traveling moments)...

just my rant, and I'll probably be ripped to shreds for it.

[Person]

Interrupted (2009, Philip Kaufman)

If it's savage, merciless, yet humane, it could be great.

[Person]

Kaufman also has an Ernest Hemingway biopic lined up, too, written by Barbara Turner (Pollock). Good to see that he has found material that interests him after the mess that was Twisted.

[tryavna]

Kaufman also has an Ernest Hemingway biopic lined up, too

I've always felt that Hollywood totally missed the boat in not casting the older George C. Scott as Papa in his later years.

[Robert de la Cheyniest]

Dunno if this has been reported yet, but it looks like Hou might be taking the Zhang Yimou route:

Taiwan's Hou Hsiao-hsien plans to direct kung fu movie

HONG KONG: Cannes winner Hou Hsiao-hsien, best known for his art-house movies set in his native Taiwan, is about to try his hand at kung fu cinema.

Hou plans to start shooting the martial arts film starring Taiwanese actress Shu Qi late this year, Venus Chen, a spokeswoman for one of the investors, SinoMovie, told The Associated Press.

Chen said the script is still being written and that the movie's budget hasn't been decided. She said the Taiwan branch of Hollywood studio Fox has also invested in the movie.

The new kung fu movie marks a departure from Hou's examinations of Taiwanese culture. The director has shot movies about a local puppeteer ("The Puppetmaster"), southern Taiwan's gang culture ("Goodbye South, Goodbye") and government oppression ("City of Sadness").

"The Puppetmaster" won the jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993 and "City of Sadness" won the top Golden Lion prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1989.

But Hou's most recent movie is the French-Taiwanese co-production "The Flight of the Red Balloon," starring Juliette Binoche. The movie is about a single mother who hires a Taiwanese student to take care of her son.

Shu and Hou have collaborated on "Millennium Mambo" and "Three Times," which won Shu best actress honors at Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards, the Chinese-language equivalent of Oscars, in 2005.

[Kirkinson]

I know it sounds like a joke, but Keanu Reeves is starring in a remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still.

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

Dunno if this has been reported yet, but it looks like Hou might be taking the Zhang Yimou route

Hou's been talking about something like this for ages -- well before Zhang went down that path. In Speaking in Images he and Chu Tien-wen give a detailed summary of a film about Nie Yinniang (a woman assassin from Tang Dynasty literature). It was briefly in the news a couple of years back when he got some government funding for the project. Nice to see it's still moving forward.

[exte]

I know it sounds like a joke, but Keanu Reeves is starring in a remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still.

He's probably the most bankable white actor for sci-fi movies, so I can believe it...

[tryavna]

I know it sounds like a joke, but Keanu Reeves is starring in a remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Darn! I was hoping he'd be playing Gort. That way, he wouldn't have to open his mouth.

[Via_Chicago]

on another Cormac McCarthy note... John Hillcoat, director of (the overrated) The Proposition, has been attached to develop (and eventually direct) The Road. I really hope it doesn't happen, however, as I want to make the movie (wishful thinking, I know) ... It could be a beautiful and terrifying film, but you need someone with a sense of monotony to adapt it... someone like Béla Tarr (although it wouldn't work in B&W... and Béla wouldn't be right for anything other than the traveling moments) ... just my rant, and I'll probably be ripped to shreds for it.

Not at all. McCarthy is one of the greatest living writers (IMO), and adaptations should only be attempted by those willing to actually graple with his prose and his style (and not visually imitate it like I suspect the Coens have). In that sense, one of the directors who I think is best suited to a McCarthy adaptation is David Cronenberg.