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wilderesque:
'Martha Marcy' Director Sean Durkin To Remake 'The Exorcist' As 10-Part TV Series
via The Playlist

Vulture reports that "Martha Marcy May Marlene" director Sean Durkin will get his Hollywood feet wet with a ten-part television adaptation of the iconic horror movie classic for Morgan Creek. Producer Roy Lee ("The Grudge," "The Departed," "The Eye" and upcoming "Oldboy") is on board to help steer the ship, in the tale that will explore the events that lead up to the possession before Father Damian Karras (played by Jason Miller in Friedkin's film) is called in.

wilderesque:
'Martha Marcy May Marlene' Director To Helm 'Joplin' Biopic With Tony Winner Nina Arianda In The Lead Role
via The Playlist




Of all the long-developing music biopics out there in the world, a movie about Janis Joplin nearly tops the list of much dicussed, but unmade projects. Before Fernando Meirelles made "360," he was linked to a version that would've starred Amy Adams and been produced by Wyck Godfrey of "Twilight" fame. And over the years, names ranging from Pink to Zooey Deschanel to Renee Zellweger have all cropped up to play the iconic singer, without much happening. But it looks like all the pieces are in place for what could be a very unique pairing.

"Martha Marcy May Marlene" director Sean Durkin will direct "Joplin" with rising stage star and actress Nina Arianda ("Midnight In Paris," "Tower Heist") taking on the lead role. If you haven't heard her name yet, you likely will soon. She's already on the Hollywood radar, having been in contention for a role in Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty," and she just took home a Tony award for "Venus In Fur." But it seems we've been down the Janis Joplin Movie path many times over the past few years, so what makes this one so different?

Well, producer Peter Newman ("The Squid And The Whale," "Blue In The Face") not only has the rights to the songs and arrangements of Joplin and her band Big Brother And The Holding Company, but also to "Love, Janis" a book collecting her letters, the David Dalton biography "Piece Of My Heart," hours of interviews and three of her apperaces on "The Dick Cavett Show." That's some very solid source material right there, but more importantly, having the music is a big piece of the puzzle particularly for a movie that unlike the Andre 3000 Jimi Hendrix pic "All Is By My Side," will focus on the last six months of her life, before she died of a heroin overdose at the age of 27.

"Joplin" will be made on a small $20 million budget ($2.5 million has been sunk into development thus far) but Newman isn't concerned at all about not having a big name take the lead. “I’ve never in my life seen an actress walk on a stage and convey the duality of vulnerability with overheated sexuality, which is what Janis was all about,” Newman said about Arianda. And stepping things up even further, Arianda will be singing all the songs in the flick herself.

polkablues:
The big question is, will they have song rights, or are they going the Jackie Jormp-Jomp route with it?

wilderesque:
Nina Arianda set to star, says Deadline.


--- Quote from: polkablues on July 09, 2012, 06:37:27 PM ---The big question is, will they have song rights, or are they going the Jackie Jormp-Jomp route with it?

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--- Quote from: Deadline ---Joplin will be made for a budget under $20 million, with production to start early next year, said producer Peter Newman, who with his partners have spent the last 12 years trying to put an indie film together with rights that include exclusive use of 21 of Joplin’s best-known songs. He said Arianda will sing Joplin’s tunes in the film, and that she has the chops to do justice to Joplin’s signature gritty sound.

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ElPandaRoyal:
I saw MMMM this week and liked it very much. What's so interesting about it is the way he plays with both his character's perception of reality and our perception of the movie. You know it's great filmmaking when someone uses simple edits and framing to make the viewer uncomfortable. "Wait! It's a different scene. Someone's behind her. Is it her sister? Is it one of the cult people?" And such a great ending. I was afraid of watching this earlier because even though I liked the trailers and what I'd read about it, for some reason I thought it was going to be like The Tracey Fragments or something. Artsy fartsy crap with a great performance by a young actress. But it was so much more. And it actually had something to say, even with such an enigmatic character. Mr. Durkin, you had my curiosity, now you have my attention (I know, I'm quoting a damn trailer... too much time frying my brain waiting for video to render  :yabbse-undecided:)

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