Well, Father Geek here posting the local Paris weather report... well not really; just some news from the continent regarding some pretty big Hollywood names. Now some of this is just speculation, but it's pretty interesting stuff. Here's Edgard...
Hello... it's Edgard and it's raining outside, but it's
also raining in the Euro AICN mailbox... so much news,
so little time... So Brian De Palma would stay in
France for a while ??.. That's interesting... I always
thought that Brian De Palma could do great outside the
American studio system (as many directors actually...
why don't we have more American directors working here
?? I know there's a difference of budgets but
still...). And before giving the floor to Donnar who
brought us this news, I want to thank AICN readers...
you were so negative with MISSION TO MARS, that I went
expecting a really really bad movie and I was
surprised it was not as bad as planned (except the
last 15 minutes, THAT nothing can prepare you for). So
now I am actually looking forward to M:I2... you have been so
negative that I know I will like it !!
Anyway here's Donnar...
Anyway here's Donnar...
Brian De Palma has completed the script for a new thriller called FEMME FATALE, and he submitted it to a French film studio at Cannes. He told an interviewer there that he plans to stay in France for a while. He also said that he is through making big-budget special effects movies, and anything else he makes will be a smaller, less technical film.
You can call me Donnar.
Hello again... We got an interesting news both from
Ozymandias and Muad'Dip today... Same text but from
different sources... I don't know much about the
original British film they talk about here (I remember
I read about it but I don't think I saw it), but it
could be nice to see Will Smith and Robin Williams
together... as long as Robin Williams tries to be good
again... I mean we all know he has the potential but
lately I thought he was more annoying than anything
else... And if he has to play 8 characters (!)... this
could be... well... too much. But let's wait and
see...
Here's the text :
Will Smith and Robin Williams could be about to team up in a remake of the classic British movie "Kind Hearts and Coronets". The original version, made in 1949, starred Sir Alec Guinness as eight members of the same family who are killed off by a relative after they snub his mother. In the remake, to be directed by Brit Mike Nichols, Robin Williams would play all the victims and Will Smith the killer.
Nichols tells film magazine Cinescape: "The movie is about a large, rich family where this heiress marries a black man. She's thrown out of the family. Years later, her grown-up son, who I hope will be played by Will Smith, wants to bury his mother in the family tomb. They turn him down and he decides to avenge her. So he kills the rich family members one by one."
But Nichols, who directed The Graduate and Working Girl, says he won't be totally faithful to the original, that was about class struggle, the new one will be about race. "My movie will also end differently. We won't wind up in a prison," he says. Filming is expected to begin later this year
Edgard again here from rainy Paris... God ! I've never had such a bad spring... it really sucks ! But are we here to talk about the weather ?? I don't think so... This morning I was chatting with Darth Bond and we were both talking very positively on AMERICAN BEAUTY, looking forward to get the DVD to be able to watch it over and over... and here we just received some rumours on what COULD be the next project of Sam Mendes. Sounds intriguing... Dali is such a character... This was brought by Holly Martins, our friend from www.netribution.co.uk
Launching today (Tues 6th June) is the book "Sex Surrealism, Dali and Me", which is the memoirs of Carlos Lozano by Clifford Thurlow. Lozano was Salvador Dali's muse, lover, confident and playmate from 1969 through to Dali's death in '89. The book is packed with stories of Dali's encounters with the great and the good - Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner, George Harrison, Duchamp, David Hockney and so forth.
Anyway, pre-publication bidding from film studios has heated up pretty fast with a lot of interest. So far only two industry figures have been allowed copies. A big, as yet unnamed producer, and Sam Mendes. Mendes personally requested a copy and has enquired about option rights. He's reading it now, and if his enthusiasm is maintained, expect an announcement within the next week or two.
Holly Martins
