February 2012
19 posts
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Cormac McCarthy, Ridley Scott, and Michael Fassbender?!
EXCLUSIVE: The Cormac McCarthy script The Counselor might well be traveling on the fastest track toward production of any film in recent memory. I’m told that Ridley Scott has now committed to make The Counselor his next film. Other sources tell me that Scott has been talking to his Prometheus star Michael Fassbender about playing the title role. While a formal offer hasn’t been made, I believe there’s a high likelihood that Hollywood’s hottest actor will star in the film.
Scott is eyeing a May 1 start date, and he is talking to a number of high-profile actors to take part in a film that insiders are describing as “No Country For Old Men on steroids.” Let’s put the whole thing in perspective: McCarthy’s ICM agents, who expected him to turn in a new novel, were surprised that he instead took a detour and turned in his first feature spec script in December. The agents started talks on a rich spec deal with The Road producers Nick Wechsler and Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz. Negotiations started before the end of the year and the deal was done in mid-January.
While a number of directors began chasing the material, Scott jumped the line and basically settled on directing the film in late January. Now, there is a group of top actors who’ve read the script and want to be in the movie. Even though McCarthy’s books have been turned into such films as No Country For Old Men, The Road and All The Pretty Horses, this has to be heady stuff for the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. We’re talking six months between the time McCarthy turned in the script and when production is likely to begin.
The Counselor is reminiscent of the rough and tumble world depicted in the Oscar-winning adaptation of McCarthy’s novel No Country For Old Men. The protagonist is a respected lawyer who thinks he can dip a toe in to the drug business without getting sucked down. It is a bad decision and he tries his best to survive it and get out of a desperate situation.
When the producers bought it, Wechsler said “The spec falls smack in the middle of what everyone responds to with Cormac’s novels. Said Steve Schwartz: “Since McCarthy himself wrote the script, we get his own muscular prose directly, with its sexual obsessions. It’s a masculine world into which, unusually, two women intrude to play leading roles. McCarthy’s wit and humor in the dialogue make the nightmare even scarier. This may be one of McCarthy’s most disturbing and powerful works.” The script is contemporary, and set in the Southwest.
There is an active group of buyers and sellers doing brisk business in the frozen climes of Berlin at the European Film Market. Trust me, this is the project that has distributors talking. Fassbender’s repped by CAA.
(source: Deadline)
January 2012
22 posts
Chewie vs. Worf
This article has been submitted by Nick Jarmo following our recent announcement that we are open to submissions. It’s a highly amusing piece based around the sort of rows we’ve all had growing up, rows that, if we’re honest, we still have.
Marty and I still disagree over who would win between a Predator and a Terminator (T-800 to be specific).
Enjoy.
This is what happens when worlds collide.
Chewie VS. Worf
By Nick Jarmo
Two rival universes of the past and future meet one more time
Jurassic Park. 1996 AD. Nobody disputes that Jurassic Park was an awesome movie, or at least a great concept. Dinosaurs rock. As I sat in Nick VanderMolen’s basement in the Lombardo Barnyard listening to Heart of Gold, which had been on repeat for the last 12 hours, I realized something that nobody has ever realized before. Nobody. Ever since the Great Debate began back before I was even alive, there have always been problems putting arch-enemies toe-to-toe on equal soil. The characters of Star Trek and Star Wars could never have an unbiased match, primarily due to location. One always had some sort of advantage over the other. It wasn’t until years after I had seen Jurassic Park that I realized that it was the only environment in which a completely fair battle could take place. And so it began.
Everyone always loves to see the big guys fight. Like when Arnold fought that huge guy in that room full of pipes at the end of Commandos. That was hot. It’s no question about which big guys to pick from the Star Wars and Trek universes. Chewie and Worf. The two are meant for each other. During those crucial moments, they are the ones that kick the crap out of tons of people. You can count on it. So it’s quite obvious that they need to kick the crap out of each other.
“There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald — The Great Gatsby
I was 99.9% sure that “Red Tails” — or as I like to call it “Fly Boys” — would suck based on the previews alone, but now that I know George Lucas is behind it I’m 100% sure.
Remember when George Lucas didn’t suck?
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“I done wrassled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale, Only last week I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, hospitalized a brick, I’m so mean I make medicine sick.”
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- Muhammad Ali
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December 2011
31 posts
“Think you could blow him over with one puff, but when it comes to the storm he’s the only one left standing at the end of it.”
—Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
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