New Films in Production, v.2
- therewillbeblus
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Liam Neeson to star in new Naked Gun movie. I guess that’s one way to replace Leslie Nielsen..
- domino harvey
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Same basic idea: hire “serious” actor to be straight faced silly. Plus he already did that in A Million Ways to Die in the West
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No, what happened was no one told them Leslie Nielsen was dead, so when they tried reaching out to him they got Liam Neeson, and by the time they figured it out the contracts were already signed.
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Relatedly, I read that Gillian Anderson may end up in the Community movie because Joel McHale tagged the wrong Gillian in a social media post
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I always think of this as the best example of Neeson doing itdomino harvey wrote: ↑Thu Oct 13, 2022 6:43 pmSame basic idea: hire “serious” actor to be straight faced silly. Plus he already did that in A Million Ways to Die in the West
- yoloswegmaster
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Netflix is the home for the new Safdies/Sandler film. It's also said to likely be set in the world of "high-end card collecting".
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Sounds as if it could be an unofficial Logan Paul biopic.yoloswegmaster wrote: ↑Thu Oct 20, 2022 7:09 pmNetflix is the home for the new Safdies/Sandler film. It's also said to likely be set in the world of "high-end card collecting".
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Take this with a grain of salt since it is coming from Jordan Ruimy but Lynne Ramsay’s ‘Stone Matress’, starring Julianne Moore and Sandra Oh, is set to start shooting in December.
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Neeson is terrific in Life's Too Short, from forgetting who Warwick Davis is to his gradual worsening of the doctor's joke. Should add though that Gervais used the same kind of punchline in an episode of The Office (the training episode).
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Old news (2017) but this seems to have flown very much under the world's radar: John MacNaughton, whoever that is, is involved in making a film of Flannery O'Connor's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find":
https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/343 ... hard-find/
imdb says it's in pre-production, five years later. It's apparently scripted by one half of the same duo of brothers who wrote Wise Blood for John Huston, Benedict Fitzgerald. I think the Fitzgerald family is very involved with the O'Connor estate, or something. It's my favorite Flannery story, and it could make an amazing film! Though given the movie undustry's track record with canonized Great Literature, I'm only very cautiously optimistic. Wise Blood is, on the other hand, easily the worst work I've seen from her, to the point where for me there's no point in filming it at all.
https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/343 ... hard-find/
imdb says it's in pre-production, five years later. It's apparently scripted by one half of the same duo of brothers who wrote Wise Blood for John Huston, Benedict Fitzgerald. I think the Fitzgerald family is very involved with the O'Connor estate, or something. It's my favorite Flannery story, and it could make an amazing film! Though given the movie undustry's track record with canonized Great Literature, I'm only very cautiously optimistic. Wise Blood is, on the other hand, easily the worst work I've seen from her, to the point where for me there's no point in filming it at all.
- The Narrator Returns
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Todd Haynes is currently shooting May December, a drama with Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman. It'll be his first movie without Ed Lachman since Velvet Goldmine (Lachman was set to do it but he broke his hip shortly before production started), with Christopher Blauvelt taking Lachman's place.
- therewillbeblus
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Bradley Cooper is now apparently our generation's Steve McQueenCremildo wrote: ↑Fri Feb 25, 2022 8:47 pmSpielberg is attached to direct an original story starring the character Frank Bullitt.
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Checks out. Does that make Alias our generation’s Wanted Dead or Alive?
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Ang Lee is returning to Mandarin and is scouting in Malaysia for locations. I personally think Lee needs a comeback big time - he has such potential and has made some seriously great films. and The Ice Storm aside, the best ones are his mandarin works.
since the article discusses Lee potentially getting the wonderful dish Bak Kut Teh in Malaysia, I will take this opportunity to remind everyone he's a massive foodie and this is one of the best pictures of all time
since the article discusses Lee potentially getting the wonderful dish Bak Kut Teh in Malaysia, I will take this opportunity to remind everyone he's a massive foodie and this is one of the best pictures of all time
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I don't know if this is what he was scouting for, but Ang Lee will direct his son Mason in a biopic of Bruce Lee.
- DarkImbecile
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I didn't see the point until I read this line: "[it] is intended to reignite Night of the Living Dead as a franchise". So that's it. They want their own cinematic universe. Seems unnecessary--horror is one of the few things that remains consistently profitable without needing a larger IP umbrella. People will even go see 2.5 hour sequels to indie horror films they've never heard of (ie. Terrifier 2).DarkImbecile wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 1:27 pmNikyatu Jusu will be directing a direct sequel to Night of the Living Dead
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News:Cremildo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 1:38 pmVíctor Erice will be returning to the director's chair after three decades with Close Your Eyes.
https://www.fotogramas.es/noticias-cine ... -los-ojos/
https://www.20minutos.es/cinemania/noti ... 3-5083780/
Off-topic but interesting for Erice aficionados -- texts about Erice´s screenplay "La promesa de Shanghai", written in the late Nineties, based on the novel Shanghai Nights by Juan Marsé; the project was abandoned:
http://braidednarrative.com/wp-content/ ... -essay.pdf
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/vie ... ontext=etd
https://www.revistadelibros.com/la-prom ... tor-erice/
https://riunet.upv.es/bitstream/handle/ ... sequence=4
Erice published the screenplay in Spanish in 2001: La promesa de Shanghai, Plaza & Janés (Areté), Barcelona, 398 p.
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- colinr0380
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And here's the trailer.thirtyframesasecond wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 3:30 pmOK, that sounds a lot more interesting than Pitch Perfect 2.therewillbeblus wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 4:28 pmElizabeth Banks directed a thriller called Cocaine Bear, inspired by true events that took place in 1985 Kentucky, during which a 175-pound black bear ingested 88 pounds of pure cocaine and went on a murderous rampage. A star-studded cast includes Keri Russell, Margo Martindale, Alden Ehrenreich, O’Shea Jackson Jr., and the late Ray Liotta
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