The Ladykillers

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modage

#15
October 17, 2003, 11:25:19 AM



Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.

Ghostboy

#16
October 17, 2003, 12:40:49 PM
Tom Hanks has never looked cooler.

mutinyco

#17
October 17, 2003, 12:49:41 PM
What's cool is that he let the Coens dress him like that...
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pinkerton310

#18
October 19, 2003, 02:19:53 PM
Always anxious for another Coen Bros. film. For you Alias fans, Greg Grunberg (Agent Weiss) will be co-starring in The Ladykillers.
They say we all lose 21 grams at the exact moment of our death... everyone. The weight of a stack of nickels. The weight of a chocolate bar. The weight of a hummingbird...

kotte

#19
October 19, 2003, 02:30:41 PM
Fucking awesome...been waiting for pictures...

ono

#20
October 19, 2003, 05:20:10 PM
This film looks awesome just from these pics.  Makes me want to hunt down the original film.  I'm still irked that the Coen's seem to be doing such mediocre Hollywood stuff (Intolerable Cruelty) and remakes, instead of creating original work they are capable of.

kotte

#21
October 19, 2003, 05:51:23 PM
Quote from: OnomatopoeiaThis film looks awesome just from these pics.  Makes me want to hunt down the original film.  I'm still irked that the Coen's seem to be doing such mediocre Hollywood stuff (Intolerable Cruelty) and remakes, instead of creating original work they are capable of.

I think it's a combination of things. Money and maybe actually interested in the material. I also think it's a different process remaking, adapting and rewriting others material.

Ghostboy

#22
October 19, 2003, 06:29:52 PM
I'm still convinced (hoping/praying) that they're just doing a few profitable studio pics so that Fox will finally give them the extra 20 million they needed to make To The White Sea, which will be absolutely brilliant and unlike anything they've ever done before.

Although Intolerable Cruelty isn't turning out to be that profitable. But The Ladykillers will be, because of Hanks.

cine

#23
October 20, 2003, 03:53:15 PM
Quote from: OnomatopoeiaMakes me want to hunt down the original film.  

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SoNowThen

#24
October 20, 2003, 03:58:26 PM
those picks look classic!!! first time I'm excited about a Hanks picture since Big.
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When those who hated capital and consumption (and Jews) in the 20th century murdered some hundred million people, and the poster children for the struggle against international capitalism and America are now fanatical Islamic terrorists, this puts recent enthusiasts in an awkward position. Most of them are too dense and shameless to appreciate it, and far too many are taken in by the moralistic and paternalistic rhetoric of the Left.

pinkerton310

#25
October 20, 2003, 06:48:45 PM
Since Big? What about Forrest Gump, Castaway, or Road to Perdition? The trailers alone made me rush out to see them.  :shock:
They say we all lose 21 grams at the exact moment of our death... everyone. The weight of a stack of nickels. The weight of a chocolate bar. The weight of a hummingbird...

Gamblour.

#26
October 20, 2003, 07:21:18 PM
Quote from: GhostboyI'm still convinced (hoping/praying) that they're just doing a few profitable studio pics so that Fox will finally give them the extra 20 million they needed to make To The White Sea, which will be absolutely brilliant and unlike anything they've ever done before.

Although Intolerable Cruelty isn't turning out to be that profitable. But The Ladykillers will be, because of Hanks.


To The White Sea...what's this about? I haven't heard about this before. Possible redirects?
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kotte

#27
October 20, 2003, 07:26:08 PM
Quote from: GamblorTo The White Sea...what's this about? I haven't heard about this before. Possible redirects?

A WWII film starring Brad Pitt not saying a word in it. Too fucking bad it didn't get made. Hope you're right Ghostboy.

MacGuffin

#28
October 20, 2003, 07:37:06 PM
Quote from: GamblorTo The White Sea...what's this about? I haven't heard about this before. Possible redirects?

Based upon the 1993 novel of the same title by James Dickey (1923-1997), a poet who said he only wrote novels to pay bills. This was only his third (and last) novel, after Deliverance in 1970 and Alnilam in 1987.

Premise: An American WWII tail gunner, Muldrow (Pitt), stranded when he parachutes from his burning B-29 over Tokyo, must use the violent skills he learned as an Alaskan hunter to journey north through Japan to the island of Hokkaido, and from there, perhaps, home to Alaska.

In development since 1993, this project started at Universal, but was put in turnaround; it was then positioned at 20th Century Fox for two years, but Variety reported that budget concerns over the Japan filming have caused negotiations to fail, with both the Coens and Brad Pitt dropping out altogether.

Screenwriter: David Webb Peoples (Unforgiven, Soldier) and Janet Peoples (writing team of 12 Monkeys, Stompanato); rewrite by Ethan and Joel Coen.

Script review here.
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kotte

#29
October 20, 2003, 07:41:29 PM
A slithly better explanation than mine :)
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