**First Trailer For Hesher Shows Off Joseph Gordon-Levitt In A New Light **Robert Downey Jr. Expressing Interest In Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice

First Trailer For Hesher Shows Off Joseph Gordon-Levitt In A New Light

published: 2011-02-19 17:01:30 Author: Eric Eisenberg

There are few actors right now more captivating than Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Whether you've only recently become interested in him thanks to Inception or have been watching him become a rising star since 2004's Mysterious Skin, one project that has been the subject of much discussion has been Hesher. Premiering at last year's Sundance Film Festival, the film sees Gordon-Levitt become a long-haired, nihilistic burnout with an appetite for destruction. Up until now very little has been seen from the film, but today is different. Today we get a trailer.

YouTube user Dazzazzad has uploaded the first full trailer for Hesher, directed by Spencer Susser, which also stars Rainn Wilson, Natalie Portman, Piper Laurie and Devin Brochu. In the movie Brochu stars as T.J., a young kid lost after his mother is killed in a car accident. One day while riding to school, however, he encounters a strange man named Hesher who turns his entire world upside down.

Check out the trailer below as well as a clip from the film that features Gordon-Levitt protecting Natalie Portman from an asshole. http://www.cinemablend.com/new/First-Trailer-For-Hesher-Shows-Off-Joseph-Gordon-Levitt-In-A-New-Light-23261.html

 

 

 

 

Robert Downey Jr. Expressing Interest In Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice

published: 2011-02-19 15:29:02 Author: Katey Rich
From the moment Paul Thomas Anderson revealed his plans to adapt Thomas Pynchon's novel Inherent Vice for the screen, we knew he had Robert Downey Jr. in mind to star as Larry "Doc" Sportello, the pothead private detective at the center of the sprawling novel. Now that Downey has cleared up his schedule beyond the Sherlock Holmes and Iron Man sequels, he may actually be able to make it happen. According to Deadline he's "eyeing" the project, which is far from an actual commitment but definitely a good sign.

When Downey Jr. dropped out of both Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity and Sam Raimi's Oz: Great And Powerful, I speculated that he was trying to back away from the giant blockbuster projects and focus more on the kind of envelope-pushing indies that made his name in the late 90s. Inherent Vice with Paul Thomas Anderson would most definitely fit that bill. It'd make Downey Jr.'s fans happy-- though really, at this point, there are plenty of people who would watch the man do anything-- and mark yet another marquee actor to sign on with Anderson and do something different. Basically, it's exactly the perfect match we thought it was back in December.

It's unclear if Anderson will move forward first on this project or The Master, the Scientology-inspired film that recently got bailed out of a financing disaster. It probably goes without saying we'll anticipate both of them intensely.
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Robert-Downey-Jr-Expressing-Interest-In-Paul-Thomas-Anderson-s-Inherent-Vice-23260.html