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Showing posts with label Duncan Jones. Show all posts
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Monday, May 30, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
**Ben Stiller in Talks for THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY Remake **Arnold Schwarzenegger Also in Talks for "The Tomb" **Arnold Schwarzenegger to Star in "Last Stand" Action Film? **Sylvester Stallone Will Direct "The Expendables" Sequel **Duncan Jones in Talks to Direct "Wolverine" Sequel
Ben Stiller in Talks for THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY Remake
by Brendan Bettinger Posted: April 7th, 2011
A remake of the 1947 film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (based on a short story by James Thurber) has been kicking around in development for years now. Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, and Sacha Baron Cohen have all eyed the lead role at some point, but even such considerable star power failed to overcome a reportedly problematic script. Ben Stiller is the latest actor to set his sights on the role, and Deadline hears the actor is committed enough to plan Secret Life as his next film.
Steve Conrad (The Pursuit of Happyness) scripted a page-one rewrite, and won Stiller over with his fresh take on the material. Though the project has previously sirened the likes of Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, and (most recently) Gore Verbinski, no director is currently attached. 20th Century Fox is looking for a director who can handle action scenes and deliver a PG cut. There are tentative plans to start filming in late fall. Read a synopsis for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty after the break.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
**New Set Photos from Steven Soderbergh’s HAYWIRE Starring Gina Carano and Ewan McGregor **Mark Ruffalo Set to Play Jazz Pianist Joe Albany in Indie Drama LOW DOWN **Danny Huston Joins the Cast of MEDALLION Starring Nicolas Cage and Malin Akerman **Duncan Jones Plans to Turn MUTE into a Graphic Novel
New Set Photos from Steven Soderbergh’s HAYWIRE Starring Gina Carano and Ewan McGregor
by Matt Goldberg Posted: March 11th, 2011 at 11:44 am
If you want to see Gina Carano fake-beating the snot out of Ewan McGregor, then today’s your lucky day. Set photos from Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming thriller Haywire have leaked on line and show the wetsuit-clad MMA fighter throwing some fake punches against the British actor. I’m not sure about the context of the scene, but the plot centers on a covert agent (Carano) who is double-crossed on a mission and returns home to protect her family and get revenge. While the premise sounds bland, I don’t expect Soderbergh to deliver a typical spy-thriller.
Hit the jump to check out the set photos. Haywire also stars Michael Douglas, Channing Tatum, Michael Fassbender, Antonio Banderas, and Bill Paxton. The film was rumored to be released in April, but obviously since we’ve seen no official marketing, we probably won’t see the film until late summer at the earliest.
........read more;
http://collider.com/haywire-movie-images-set-photos/80087/
Mark Ruffalo Set to Play Jazz Pianist Joe Albany in Indie Drama LOW DOWN
by Adam Chitwood Posted: March 11th, 2011 at 5:54 pm
Following his Oscar nominated stint in The Kids Are All Right, Mark Ruffalo has signed on to portray legendary jazz pianist Joe Albany in the indie drama Low Down. Epoch Films partner Jeff Preiss is set to make his feature film debut on the project which will tell the story of Albany’s life from the perspective of his 11-year-old daughter. While in the 40’s and 50’s Alabany was playing with the likes of Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, he struggled with a heroin addiction throughout the later years of his life.
Variety reports that the film will focus mainly on Albany’s life during the 60’s and 70’s, with his daughter watching her “charismatic but strung-out father interact with other eccentric characters in cocktail bars and transient hotels.” Topper Lilien and Amy Albany wrote the script, based on Alabany’s memoir focusing on her father. Ruffalo will also serve as an executive producer on the project. The actor is currently prepping for his turn as Bruce Banner/the Hulk in Joss Whedon’s The Avengers.
......read more; http://collider.com/mark-ruffalo-low-down/80186/
Danny Huston Joins the Cast of MEDALLION Starring Nicolas Cage and Malin Akerman
by Adam Chitwood Posted: March 11th, 2011 at 4:02 pm
Actor Danny Huston (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) has joined the cast of director Simon West’s (When a Stranger Calls) upcoming action-thriller Medallion. The Playlist reports that Huston will join Nicolas Cage in the flick, which centers on a former master thief (Cage) who has only a few hours to find his daughter when she is kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a New York medallion taxi cab. Malin Akerman will portray an ex-girlfriend of Cage’s who teams up with him to find his daughter. The Taken-esque flick has a script from David Guggenheim (Safe House) and marks the re-teaming of Cage and West after their previous collaboration on Con Air.
.....read more;
http://collider.com/danny-huston-medallion/80152/
Duncan Jones Plans to Turn MUTE into a Graphic Novel
by Matt Goldberg Posted: March 11th, 2011 at 11:04 am
When we last reported on Duncan Jones’ Mute, the project was in limbo. The script is reportedly takes cues from Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and centers on a mute bartender in 2046 Berlin who must go against the city’s gangsters in order to find his girlfriend. Unfortunately, that doesn’t translate well to a collector’s cup so the project is having trouble finding funding. Jones, whose new film Source Code opens April 1st, says that he’s going to adapt the story in to a graphic novel and hope that makes the property more attractive to investors. Speaking to Gordon and the Whale, Jones explains:
Although, I can sort of tell you that I’ve been talking to my producer today and we have decided that we’re going to release MUTE as a graphic novel. Because we’ve had so many problems trying to get this film made, you know? The people who are involved with financing films have just been…shy…shy of making the script. So what we decided to do is we’re going to make a graphic novel of it, prove it…prove it to an audience that this works and maybe in the future get the chance to come back and make it.
In the meantime, Jones is working on an untitled project that he hopes will fulfill his need to make a Blade Runner-like “city-based, futuristic sci-fi film.”
.......read more; http://collider.com/duncan-jones-mute-graphic-novel/80084/
by Matt Goldberg Posted: March 11th, 2011 at 11:44 am
If you want to see Gina Carano fake-beating the snot out of Ewan McGregor, then today’s your lucky day. Set photos from Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming thriller Haywire have leaked on line and show the wetsuit-clad MMA fighter throwing some fake punches against the British actor. I’m not sure about the context of the scene, but the plot centers on a covert agent (Carano) who is double-crossed on a mission and returns home to protect her family and get revenge. While the premise sounds bland, I don’t expect Soderbergh to deliver a typical spy-thriller.
Hit the jump to check out the set photos. Haywire also stars Michael Douglas, Channing Tatum, Michael Fassbender, Antonio Banderas, and Bill Paxton. The film was rumored to be released in April, but obviously since we’ve seen no official marketing, we probably won’t see the film until late summer at the earliest.
........read more;
http://collider.com/haywire-movie-images-set-photos/80087/
Mark Ruffalo Set to Play Jazz Pianist Joe Albany in Indie Drama LOW DOWN
by Adam Chitwood Posted: March 11th, 2011 at 5:54 pm
Following his Oscar nominated stint in The Kids Are All Right, Mark Ruffalo has signed on to portray legendary jazz pianist Joe Albany in the indie drama Low Down. Epoch Films partner Jeff Preiss is set to make his feature film debut on the project which will tell the story of Albany’s life from the perspective of his 11-year-old daughter. While in the 40’s and 50’s Alabany was playing with the likes of Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, he struggled with a heroin addiction throughout the later years of his life.
Variety reports that the film will focus mainly on Albany’s life during the 60’s and 70’s, with his daughter watching her “charismatic but strung-out father interact with other eccentric characters in cocktail bars and transient hotels.” Topper Lilien and Amy Albany wrote the script, based on Alabany’s memoir focusing on her father. Ruffalo will also serve as an executive producer on the project. The actor is currently prepping for his turn as Bruce Banner/the Hulk in Joss Whedon’s The Avengers.
......read more; http://collider.com/mark-ruffalo-low-down/80186/
Danny Huston Joins the Cast of MEDALLION Starring Nicolas Cage and Malin Akerman
by Adam Chitwood Posted: March 11th, 2011 at 4:02 pm
Actor Danny Huston (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) has joined the cast of director Simon West’s (When a Stranger Calls) upcoming action-thriller Medallion. The Playlist reports that Huston will join Nicolas Cage in the flick, which centers on a former master thief (Cage) who has only a few hours to find his daughter when she is kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a New York medallion taxi cab. Malin Akerman will portray an ex-girlfriend of Cage’s who teams up with him to find his daughter. The Taken-esque flick has a script from David Guggenheim (Safe House) and marks the re-teaming of Cage and West after their previous collaboration on Con Air.
.....read more;
http://collider.com/danny-huston-medallion/80152/
Duncan Jones Plans to Turn MUTE into a Graphic Novel
by Matt Goldberg Posted: March 11th, 2011 at 11:04 am
When we last reported on Duncan Jones’ Mute, the project was in limbo. The script is reportedly takes cues from Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and centers on a mute bartender in 2046 Berlin who must go against the city’s gangsters in order to find his girlfriend. Unfortunately, that doesn’t translate well to a collector’s cup so the project is having trouble finding funding. Jones, whose new film Source Code opens April 1st, says that he’s going to adapt the story in to a graphic novel and hope that makes the property more attractive to investors. Speaking to Gordon and the Whale, Jones explains:
Although, I can sort of tell you that I’ve been talking to my producer today and we have decided that we’re going to release MUTE as a graphic novel. Because we’ve had so many problems trying to get this film made, you know? The people who are involved with financing films have just been…shy…shy of making the script. So what we decided to do is we’re going to make a graphic novel of it, prove it…prove it to an audience that this works and maybe in the future get the chance to come back and make it.
In the meantime, Jones is working on an untitled project that he hopes will fulfill his need to make a Blade Runner-like “city-based, futuristic sci-fi film.”
.......read more; http://collider.com/duncan-jones-mute-graphic-novel/80084/
Friday, December 17, 2010
***Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze Pitching New Film; Plus New Details on Kaufman’s Script, FRANK OR FRANCIS ***George Clooney Replaces Robert Downey Jr. in GRAVITY ***Duncan Jones’ SOURCE CODE to Open the 2011 SXSW Film Festival
Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze Pitching New Film; Plus New Details on Kaufman’s Script, FRANK OR FRANCIS
by Jake Horowitz Posted: December 16th, 2010
Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze, writer and director, respectively, of Being John Malkovich and Adaptation., are pitching a new movie around Hollywood. While the script hasn’t yet been written, one can be assured that it will incorporate some sort of meta or mind-meltingly incredible premise.
The plot is being kept under wraps, but seems to be separate from Kaufman’s script Frank or Francis, which he has been working on since finishing Synecdoche, New York in 2008. According to the LA Times, two people familiar with the project say that in recent weeks it has been making rounds to independent financiers. Hit the jump for more info on both projects.
Kaufman and Jonze’s latest collaboration was back in 2002 with Adaptation., which received four Oscar nominations, including Best Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Being John Malkovich, their first outing together, was likewise nominated for an Oscar for best screenplay, as well as best director.In 2008, Jonze was set to direct Synecdoche, which Kaufman had written, but instead went on to Where the Wild Things Are. Kaufman instead took the directing chair for his first time and created his most elaborate, meta, and unconventional film to date.
As Kaufman’s films seem to get more and more complex, his newest script seems to be no exception. Frank or Francis follows a commercially successful director who resents his success and wants to be considered an auteur. This would be the opposite of Kaufman’s life, who is in fact considered an auteur and has no immensely commercial hits to speak of (although he did some rewrite work for Kung Fu Panda 2).
Kaufman has written himself into at least one of his movies, Adaptation., with great success, and if anyone knows how to pull together a movie about a movie where the character is the writer but is also the character in a movie about his movie, it’s Kaufman…the writer…or maybe the character. As Shirley on Community said, “Come on, Charlie Kaufman. Some of us have work in the morning.”
Frank or Francis had been set up as a Sony project, but according to people close to the script, they do not appear to be moving forward on it at the moment. In the meantime, neither Jonze nor Kaufman have any other upcoming projects they are tied to, so their collaboration together may very well be the next thing they work on.
George Clooney Replaces Robert Downey Jr. in GRAVITY
by Matt Goldberg Posted: December 16th, 2010
Gravity, the first film from director Alfonso Cuaron since Children of Men, has had its share of struggles in trying to get to the big screen. The story features a female lead character who is by herself for the majority of film. The film, which is about an astronaut trying to return to Earth after a disaster in space, was originally set to star Angelina Jolie and Robert Downey Jr., but then Jolie dropped out. Warner Bros. required a bankable actress for the part and eventually Sandra Bullock signed on to the film…only to have Robert Downey Jr. drop out shortly thereafter due to scheduling conflicts. Downey was set to play another astronaut who survives the disaster. Now Heat Vision is reporting that George Clooney has come to the rescue of the project and will play the role, which, while not major, is pivotal in the first act of the film.
Hit the jump for more on Clooney’s schedule and where Gravity will fit in.
According to Heat Vision, Warner Bros. plans to begin shooting on Gravity in the spring after Clooney has wrapped directing on The Ides of March, which is an adaptation of the stage play Farragut North. Clooney is also circling an adaptation of the 1960s TV spy series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. with Steven Sodebergh directing.
While I’m bummed that Downey left Gravity, you’ll hear no complaints from me regarding Clooney as a replacement. With two fantastic leads, let’s hope that the film finally launches without any more problems.
Duncan Jones’ SOURCE CODE to Open the 2011 SXSW Film Festival
by Matt Goldberg Posted: December 16th, 2010
We have received a press release announcing that the sci-fi thriller Source Code will open the 2011 South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival. Directed by Duncan Jones (Moon), the film follows a soldier (Jake Gyllenhaal) who wakes up in the body of a stranger and keeps reliving the last eight minutes of the man’s life in order to discover who was responsible for bombing a train in an attempt to prevent the bomber’s next attack. Like just about anyone who saw Moon, I can’t wait to see what Jones has pulled off this time, and the trailer makes the film look smart and intense.
Hit the jump for the full press release. The 2011 SXSW Film Conference and Festival runs from March 11 – 19th in Austin, Texas. Source Code opens nationwide April 1, 2011.
Here’s the press release:Austin, Texas – December 16, 2010 – Earlier today, the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival announced it will host the world premiere of the Summit Entertainment film Source Code for its 2011 Opening Night. The smart action thriller is the second feature from SXSW Alum Duncan Jones (Moon), and stars Jake Gyllenhaal (Love and Other Drugs, Brokeback Mountain), Michelle Monaghan (Eagle Eye, Due Date), Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air, The Departed) and Jeffrey Wright (Quantum of Solace, Syriana). The South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival runs March 11 – 19, 2011 in Austin, Texas.
When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he’s part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. In an assignment unlike any he’s ever known, he learns he’s part of a government experiment called the “Source Code,” a program that enables him to cross over into another man’s identity in the last 8 minutes of his life. With a second, much larger target threatening to kill millions in downtown Chicago, Colter re-lives the incident over and over again, gathering clues each time, until he can solve the mystery of who is behind the bombs and prevent the next attack.
Opening in theaters nationwide on April 1, 2011, the film was written by Ben Ripley. A Mark Gordon Company production, and presented by Vendóme Pictures, the film was produced by Mark Gordon, Philippe Rousselet and Jordan Wynn, with Hawk Koch, Jeb Brody, and Fabrice Gianfermi executive producing.
“We are delighted to welcome Duncan Jones back to SXSW. His debut Moon showed an intelligence, skill, and exceptional use of limited resources that’s exactly the kind of filmmaking we love to support,” said Film Conference and Festival Producer Janet Pierson. “Source Code is a terrific follow-up; it’s a smart, suspenseful thriller, and a perfect fit for our 2011 Opening Night!”
