New Films in Production, v.2

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#726 Post by therewillbeblus » Thu Oct 13, 2022 6:39 pm

Liam Neeson to star in new Naked Gun movie. I guess that’s one way to replace Leslie Nielsen..

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#727 Post by domino harvey » Thu Oct 13, 2022 6:43 pm

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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#728 Post by hearthesilence » Thu Oct 13, 2022 7:28 pm

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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#729 Post by swo17 » Thu Oct 13, 2022 7:36 pm

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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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#730 Post by therewillbeblus » Thu Oct 13, 2022 7:42 pm

domino harvey wrote:
Thu Oct 13, 2022 6:43 pm
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
I always think of this as the best example of Neeson doing it

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#731 Post by yoloswegmaster » Thu Oct 20, 2022 7:09 pm

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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#732 Post by DarkImbecile » Fri Oct 21, 2022 1:58 pm


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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#733 Post by colinr0380 » Sat Oct 22, 2022 7:39 pm

yoloswegmaster wrote:
Thu Oct 20, 2022 7:09 pm
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".
Sounds as if it could be an unofficial Logan Paul biopic.


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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#735 Post by yoloswegmaster » Fri Oct 28, 2022 3:43 pm

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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#736 Post by thirtyframesasecond » Wed Nov 02, 2022 4:27 pm

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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#738 Post by Randall Maysin Again » Thu Nov 17, 2022 2:33 pm

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.

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#739 Post by The Narrator Returns » Thu Nov 17, 2022 4:18 pm

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.

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#740 Post by therewillbeblus » Thu Nov 17, 2022 5:48 pm

Bradley Cooper is now apparently our generation's Steve McQueen

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#741 Post by knives » Thu Nov 17, 2022 6:32 pm

Checks out. Does that make Alias our generation’s Wanted Dead or Alive?

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#742 Post by ryannichols7 » Fri Nov 18, 2022 3:49 pm

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

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#743 Post by The Narrator Returns » Wed Nov 30, 2022 2:23 pm

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.

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#744 Post by DarkImbecile » Thu Dec 15, 2022 1:27 pm


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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#745 Post by Mr Sausage » Thu Dec 15, 2022 2:10 pm

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).

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#746 Post by Stefan Andersson » Sat Dec 31, 2022 3:54 pm

News:
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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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#747 Post by DarkImbecile » Sun Jan 08, 2023 12:37 am


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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#748 Post by colinr0380 » Tue Jan 31, 2023 6:38 pm

thirtyframesasecond wrote:
Thu Sep 22, 2022 3:30 pm
therewillbeblus wrote:
Tue Sep 20, 2022 4:28 pm
Elizabeth 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
OK, that sounds a lot more interesting than Pitch Perfect 2.
And here's the trailer.



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