Unusual make-up of Johnny Depp
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Where did the Indian Tonto, handy main character in "Lone Ranger", took a crow on his head? On the origin of their makeup in the film Gore Verbinski Johnny Depp told the publication Entertainment Weekly.
For Johnny is no stranger himself to think for his hero makeup. When the actor confirmed the role of Jack Sparrow, Depp has completely changed the character. According to the script was originally the captain sober and positive guy, nothing like an unstable profligate with his eyes circled in the "Pirates of the Caribbean." Images of heroes Johnny in the movie "Edward Scissorhands," "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "Alice in Wonderland" is also not without its participation.
In the "Lone Ranger" Johnny Depp plays the Indian Tonto, who, judging by the first pictures is not similar to his predecessor from the series of the fifties. In the face bleached actor spread out the black bars, and head crowned effigy of a crow.
"I saw a picture of the artist Kirby Sattler, looked at the face of a warrior and I thought that's what we need - says Depp. - His face painted stripes is as if the different facets of his personality. " The actor explains that section divided by the face, as it seems, is the different sides of the emotional life of man. "There is a quarter-wise, exhausted, angry and violent, and very understanding and unique. It's as if the division of the brain. Make up picture inspired me. "
As for the crow, the Depp explains it thus: "It so happened that Sattler wrote a bird, flying right behind the head of a warrior. It seemed to me that she was sitting on his head. And I thought, at the Tonto on the head is a bird. As a sort of spiritual mentor. For all he seems to be dead, but not for Tonto. For him, the raven is even alive".
The picture shows a soldier Sattler Crow, while Tonto, in fact, refers to the Comanche tribe. At the very same Depp's blood flowing in the veins of Cherokee Indians and the cries, so that his Tonto in the movie will not belong to any particular tribe.
Recently on the set of pictures, and Depp in the role of Ranger Armie Hammer met with the leaders of the Navajo Nation, who warmly praised the work of Johnny and pledged their support.
Another project from Tarsem Singh
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The third film of Tarsem Singh "Gods War: The Immortals" was launched recently at the box office, the fourth - "Mirror, mirror" – will be released in March of 2012, and the director looks for material already for the fifth project. It will be a steampunk Killing on Carnival Row, which in 2006 was going to shoot Guillermo del Toro.
Killing on Carnival Row - a curious detective noir in the style of Steampunk. Travis Beacham wrote it before he became one of the writers' of Clash of the Titans. But it is to cope with the script for the new film Guillermo del Toro's "Pacific rim."
Beecham story is a mixture of the spirit of Neil Gaiman's novels and Tea Mevillya. In a world populated by human beings, fairies and other magical creatures, there is a city Burgi, similar to Victorian London. There lives and works detective Raykroft Philostratus. He tracks down the vampire who is suspected of murdering his mistress-fairy. On the part of the story seems a standard investigation, but a world in which Beauchamp settled his characters stand out from all the existing cinema world.
Del Toro was going to shoot Killing on Carnival Row, but the director gave light to the continuation of "Hellboy," so that steampunk of Travis Beecham has orphaned. Once it was interested in Neil Jordan, but nothing came of it. And only now the project has director.
The film's producers, Anne and Arnold Kopelson worked on it from the very beginning, when the project was based on the studios New Line.
Tarsus offered a range of paintings, including the history of the Venetian traveler Marco Polo, but Killing on Carnival Row became a director priority. Filming is already scheduled for June next year and will be held in New Orleans. In the near future Tarsus begins casting.
Angelina Jolie wants to be in love in Iraq
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Filmography of Angelina Jolie can be extended with another strong character. The actress wants to play a British aristocrat, Gertrude Bell, who was nicknamed the "uncrowned queen of Iraq." The film is developed by brothers Scott Scott Free Productions, and Ridley doesn’t mind to sit in the director's chair.
British aristocrat, archaeologist and spy, Gertrude Bell was in love with Iraq and wanted to turn this country into an ideal state. During the First World War, Bell worked for British intelligence and played an important role in the breakup of the Ottoman Empire and the formation of Iraq. Going after the First World War, a dangerous journey through the shifting sands of Arabia, Bell soon became the closest adviser to the king.
The script for "Gertrude Bell," writes Jeffrey Caine, nominated for "Oscar" for his film "The Constant Gardener." On account of the writer are films about James Bond "Golden Eye" and drama "Inside I'm dancing."
Today the project is in its infancy, and no major studios have not been interested in it.
Angelina Jolie in December in the United States will release her directorial debut "In the land of blood and honey," which will be shown on the Serbian and Croatian with English subtitles. The actress is assigned to multiple projects. Among them is Patricia Cornwell adaptation of detectives in a series of Kay Scarpetta, as well as the tale of a witch Malefisent from the studio Disney. The work on the sequel to the thriller "Salt", as well as on a biopic about the Egyptian queen Cleopatra.
As for Ridley Scott, the director now leads the final touches on a fantastic thriller "Prometheus" and the Fox insiders are already talking about a possible sequel. Ridley has many plans, but some of them are difficult to predict. Two of the projects from director on the list - a story of family Gucci and thriller Child 44 about a serial killer in the Soviet Union since Stalin.
British version of Captain Nemo
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While Americans simply can’t run the new version of the adventures of Captain Nemo in theaters, British had hurried up and found $ 10 million on their own project "The Return of Captain Nemo." The project has joined Hugh Bonneville, David Morrissey and star of "The First Avenger" Hayley Atwell.
In November 2009, Disney stopped project of McGee "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo." The film was among the priority projects, while the studio was headed by Dick Cook, but with his departure, much has changed. Then in the spring of 2010, the project surfaced again as the ship "Nautilus", but with David Fincher at the helm. Fincher has promised his support to James Cameron, but to date project status is unknown.
Meanwhile, producer Amy Krell said about the launch of production of the film "The Return of Captain Nemo," with Hugh Bonneville in the title role. Krell has found funding from American, Asian and British investors, and from January 14, director Theo Pirrie begins shooting, which will take place in Romania.
Shooting of "The Return of Captain Nemo" will be in the pavilion on the green screen as a movie "300" and "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow." "If we worked in the U.S., it would have to double the budget", - says producer.
Hugh Bonneville, who won the role of Captain Nemo, now enjoys great popularity in Europe due to the TV series "Downton Abbey." The actor starred in "Notting Hill" and "Mansfield Park", as well as in the series' to animated book of Jane Austen.
David Morrissey is well known in the UK TV series "Red Riding". He will play the chief advisor of President Ulysses S. Grant, liberating Nemo from prison that he discovered the mysterious sea creatures that drowned ships near the Atlantic coast.
Hayley Atwell is known to viewers thanks to Woody Allen's drama "Cassandra's Dream" and the role of the beloved Captain America in "The First Avenger." The actress recently auditioned in "Horizons" by Joseph Kosinski, but it seems to no avail, once consented "The Return of Captain Nemo." Here she plays Sarah, the daughter of David Morrissey's character.
Milla Jovovich criticizes Summit studio
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Adventure thriller "The Musketeers" of Paul W. S. Anderson has started in the U.S. last week, having collected only 8.8 million dollars at the moment. Film star Milla Jovovich in her Twitter has accused studio Summit in lack of advertising. The studio has answered.
On the way to Tokyo, where the "Musketeers" opens film festival, the actress wrote: "Today, in the U.S. will start "The Musketeers"! Do you think the audience knows about the film? Ask your friends! Do they know that this is a family movie?" Milla continued: “Does Summit generally advertise the film as an adventure and family? Or do they repose on their laurels after the "Twilight" and do not put any effort? Tell me!”
At this Milla has not stopped. "I think, Summit is trying to merge the beautiful rolling adventure family film "The Musketeers" in the U.S. SHAME, SUMMIT”. Then followed the next tweet: "The Musketeers"-entertaining movie for the whole family, nothing to do with "Resident Evil". People do not even know that they can take children with them at the cinemas".
The whole Friday evening Hollywood noised about words of Milla, well, Saturday morning studio Summit replied to Jovovich via the website Deadline.
"As far as we know, the actress was in Canada, where removed in the next part of "Resident Evil", working 15 hours a day and will likely not see an ad campaign of "Musketeers" in the U.S. She has no idea what she is talking about and we are not entirely clear what’s going on with her".
Representatives of the studio are a little upset with behavior of the star: "Oh she would call and say what she thinks."
"The Musketeers" earned a worldwide box office total of just over 73 million dollars. The budget belt is about 90 million. Critics have branded the film and an American audience is also not interested in adaptation of Dumas' books.
Biopic movie about pioneer of UFO movement
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Universal Studio is developing the film "Charles Fort" of the compilers of handbooks on sensationalism and pioneer of UFO movement. Speaking the language of Hollywood, it would be "Ghostbusters" of early XX century. Robert Zemeckis took over producing the picture and Evan Spiliotopulos writes a script.
In the early twentieth century American Charles Fort has inherited his uncle's business, dismantled it and got enough money to indulge his hobby - watching all the filings of the scientific and popular publications in English in search of facts, inexplicable in terms of the Science. For 30 years, Fort was filing a data of unexplained cases and has written several novels. In one of his books, he suggested that all events on Earth are made by aliens, but in a fit of depression, the author has burnt his works. The main work in the life of Charles Fort was the "Book of the Damned," published in 1919.
Charles Fort was one of the first authors who tried to explore all sorts of anomalies - from levitation and teleportation to abduction by aliens. After Charles death his novel has filed 60 000 notes. About his work has been written many books and in 2002 the publisher Dark Horse Comics released a series called "Fort Prophet inexplicable. " In it Charles acts as an adventurer, who faced with various aliens and paranormal phenomena. The action takes place in late XIX - early XX century.
Along with Zemeckis to produce "Charles Fort" will be also Mike Richardson from Dark Horse. The script writes Evan Spiliotopulos who worked on the fairy tale "Snow White and the Hunter" and "Ouija". It is safe to assume that "Charles Fort" will be far from dull biopic.
Robert Zemeckis himself is preparing to shoot his first in a long time feature film "Flight" with Denzel Washington. Will he direct "Charles Fort" we shall see soon.
Universal has refused from “Ouija”
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In the treasury of the projects that were closed in recent, Universal studio adds adventure film "Ouija", which is based on the same-name game of the company Hasbro.
Universal and Hasbro contract was concluded in early 2008. According to the agreement for six years, the studio had to shoot the four films on the most famous series of game conglomerate. Peter Berg has already filmed "Sea Battle", but what are the other three? The list is constantly changing. Earlier plans were listed Stretch Armstrong game, board game "Monopoly", "Clue", Candy Land, "Ouija" and Magic, The Gathering.
To date, there are only projects to turn Taylor Lautner in stretchy man and screening of the game Candy Land. In early August it was announced that Universal refuses to "evidence" that was planning to shoot Gore Verbinski from "Monopoly" and Magic, The Gathering. However, these projects are not dead, but only parted with the studio. In particular, Hasbro is now looking for funding for Verbinski picture and hired screenwriters.
A lot of directors wanted to make a film about the Spiritist board. As a result, Universal stopped at McGee - director of "Charlie's Angels" has presented very interesting concept. Michael Bay company Platinum Dunes has produced the project. According to insiders, when it was time to give the green light to the “Ouija” the studio came to the conclusion that the film with this budget is too heavy for them. The cost of "Ouija" was not disclosed, but it was planned to turn the tape in a big adventure movie in the style of "The Mummy". Universal will pay $ 5 million penalty for refusing the draft. It seems that the budget really was decent, and the studio that is going through hard times, decided to get rid of a little blood.
Hasbro, Michael Bay and McG went with their project to other studios. The first was the Paramount, where the Bay shot his "Transformers." The studio will make a decision today. In case of refusal of Paramount "Ouija" can find refuge in the studio of Fox, where McGee had just finished work on the spy comedy "This means war."
Universal is investing heavily in "Snow White and the Hunter", having spent "47 ronin" and "Battleship." The project of Peter Berg cost $ 200 million. Hope on the profit from the western "Cowboys and Aliens" was not justified - the film proved to be poorly at the box office. Studios are increasingly afraid to invest big money in risky projects. Much more likely to have adaptations of famous comics and books, remakes, prequels and sequels.
We recall that the studio has recently abandoned the project of Guillermo del Toro's "At the mountains of madness" and the film adaptation of the "Dark Tower" by Stephen King.
Pixar will show the life of human and dinosaurs together
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This weekend, Pixar announced about two future projects. To them will be attributed Bob Peterson and Pete Docter. Both shot cartoon "Up", but now each of them will work on different movies. Peterson got a story about dinosaurs, while the Docter project will tell us about the activities of the human brain.
The first of the planned films will be in theaters in November 27, 2013. It has no name, but you know what will be discussed. The action will unfold on an alternate Earth. Magicians from Pixar will dream on the theme of "what would happen if in our planet has not hit an asteroid, destroying all the dinosaurs." That is, this story will be dinosaurs co-exist with humans. Behind all this is Bob Peterson, a veteran of the company. He is also a screenwriter of "Finding Nemo," "Ratatouille" and "Up." Cartoon about dinosaurs will be his second directorial work, which Bob will do on a par with Peter Sonoma.
The second film will be in theaters later, on 30 May 2014. It also has yet no name. According to the site Playlist, the script writer had a hand in the third part of "Toy Story" Michael Arndt. All the same site found out that the film tells of how a human head formed ideas.
This will be an incredibly ambitious project even by the standards of Pixar. Going to shoot the new movie - Pete Docter, the author of "Monsters, Inc.". "The action of my film developed, where we all were, but never seen," - says the director.
Another cartoon of Pixar, film "Braveheart," will be released in June 22, 2012. In the summer of 2013th we will be surprised with the adventures of rejuvenated Mike Vazovsky and thinner Sally at the prequel "Monsters, Inc.".
Morgan Freeman has joined magician community
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Director of "The Battle of the Titans" Louis Leterrier has been recruiting actors for his new film, "Now I can be seen". For a long time, the process was at the one place, but getting on the one of the main roles Jesse Eisenberg, the process has moved from the dead point. The project has already joined Mark Ruffalo, Amanda Sayfred and Melanie Laurent, and recently-Morgan Freeman.
Initially it was assumed that in the lead roles will be a little older cast, but then Summit studio has changed the concept. The film tells about the confrontation between FBI agents and a group of the best magicians of the world, calling themselves the "Four Riders". During their performances, "Riders" perform daring robberies and even show the whole stolen to the audience.
At the head of the "Four horsemen" will be Jesse Eisenberg. He will play the arrogant but brilliant magician, for who hunts the FBI. Office headed by a team of Mark Ruffalo. The actor is now completing a deal with studio.
Frenchwoman Melanie Laurent and American Amanda Sayfred will be a great addition to Louis Leterrier film and will play femme fatale who are also on the opposite sides of the law.
Hollywood veteran Morgan Freeman got the role of Thaddeus, a former magician, who made his career to exposing the tricks of colleagues, for this community of magicians hate him. Freeman is currently busy on the set of "Dark Knight Rises" and this fall the actor will be seen in the drama "Dolphin Tale".
Studio Summit bought a scenario of Boaz Yakin and application of Edward Rico last June, and in February of this year reached an agreement with Louis Leterrier about the production. Among the producers of the project appear writers of "Star Trek" Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.
Release date of the project is not appointed yet, but we can assume that the film will be released at the end of 2012 or at the beginning of 2013th.
Benjamin Walker in the role of Archangel Michael
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Hollywood has spent several years on preparing adaptation of the poem of John Milton's "Paradise Lost" that technology has reached a desired level. Now in charge of the project is director Alex Proyas. He has found his Lucifer - it will be Bradley Cooper. His opponent, the Archangel Michael, may play Benjamin Walker, who starred in the film by Timur Bekmambetov, "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter."
"Paradise Lost" is being in development for seven years. Five writers passed through Milton's poem, but the final version belongs to Ryan Kondalu. The scope of the project is not just wide, but very wide. This is supposed to be epic in 3D with a mass of special effects and large-scale battle scenes. To represent the work front, it is enough to know that pre-production will take 20 weeks, shooting itself - 8 weeks, but in post-production will take 72 weeks, that is more than a year.
At the centre of the story - the battle that started all the wars. Fallen Angel Lucifer gathers an army in order to fight against the forces of good, which is led by the archangel Michael. Alex Proyas is now preparing for the shooting and says it is not just a film about the clash of armies of good and evil.
"It is an adventure film about the origins of good and evil, after Lucifer expelled because of his rebellion. He begins to fight against his brother Archangel for the souls of people, the first of which were Adam and Eve. We tried to stick as closely as possible to the text of Milton, particularly at the evolution of Lucifer and the birth of evil. This is a family saga about two brothers whose paths have diverged. Lucifer believes that his father has betrayed him and the family pushes him on the path of evil".
According to the director, the project will have three large-scale battle scenes. One of them will be in heaven, the other - in Hell, and the third - in Paradise.
"Sometimes I think only a fool will take up such a project - says Proyas. - It's a very bold in terms of visual pattern based on a poem beloved by many. In my view, technology is only now reached the desired level for such film, so it's great to be director during such possibilities of visual effects. "
Yet Proyas said that despite the special effects, the main thing in "Paradise Lost" - its characters.
Ben Walker has not yet signed a contract, but director has high hopes that the actor becomes his Archangel Michael.
"He has surprising combination of power and innocence. Bradley - an incredibly charismatic guy! After all, Lucifer was the smartest and brightest among the archangels, and even being expelled, it still does not turn into classic villain. I am sure that Bradley will provide the necessary depth to his hero. "
For Benjamin Walker the role in the film of Proyas - another major step up in career. He previously starred on the third roles, played in musicals, but, receiving the main role in the project by Timur Bekmambetov "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter", the actor instantly pulls the lists of the most promising young actors in Hollywood.
"Paradise Lost" will be released at the end of 2013.