Tom Hanks is re-teaming with his Cloud Atlas director to, disappointingly, not put on a bunch of stupid costumes this time. According to Variety, he'll star in Tom Tykwer's A Hologram for the King, an adaptation of last year's Dave Eggers novel set in a burgeoning Saudi Arabian city. Hanks will play Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman preparing a pitch for a king, worrying about debts and a lump on his neck, and doing a lot of waiting. Then Hanks and a holographic version of himself will together do the keyboard dance from Big, hopefully.
Another reminder to stay non-bedridden until at least after October 16th: a new behind-the-scenes featurette for one of this fall's most anticipated releases, Where the Wild Things Are. In it, author Maurice Sendak voices his enthusiastic approval for Spike Jonze's adaptation, and draws parallels between himself and the director--plus, there's new, awe-inspiring footage. My expectations are reaching a point that, to meet them, the actual film strip is probably going to have to give me a handjob in the theater.
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Not yet. Soon, though. Like in two weeks, claims an informant for CHUD, who says the trailer will screen before Monsters vs. Aliens. The source adds that it's a full length, 3-minute trailer set to Arcade Fire's "Wake Up", and it looks "beyond the most grandiose superlatives." Still having concerns about the creatures' huggability? DON'T. They reportedly look "very, very huggable." You will be so desperate to hug these things.
So that's good, right? Maybe the trailer will even finds its way onto internet, and we can watch it shirtless, together, as an online community.
Hey, 20-somethings: time to stop hogging all the lack of direction! Being in your early thirties is quirky and smothered in non-diegetic music too! Example: this trailer for Away We Go, directed by Sam Mendes, written by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, starring John Krasinki, Maya Rudolph, et al.
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Can you believe actors are still being used in movies? Despite startling advances in android artificial intelligence, holograms, and computer graphics, each year countless human thespians are paid a predetermined price to pretend they're someone else, all for our entertainment. The latest stars to find parts in such a production? John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph--perhaps better known as Jim from The Office and some terrible impression of a diva on SNL--have been cast in a new comedy by director Sam Mendes, with a script by author Dave Eggers and his wife Vendela Vida. This untitled picture is shaping up to be more than adequate, no?
Krasinski, Rudolph join Mendes comedy [Variety]
Some bad news is coming from the Where the Wild Things Are camp. Remember how you watched what ended up being early test footage, and you thought the cold, impenetrable slab you call a heart might just feel again? How the warmth and charm of the clip, combined with the talent of Spike Jonze, Dave Eggers, and the original book, had you, your group's official movie guy, telling all your friends that this was the one to look forward to in 2009 (and that you were still sorry for building up Cloverfield so much)? Maybe it was just me.
Anyway, according to CHUD, it might be totally scrapped:
I'm hearing that just such a massive reshoot is what is on the table right now. And it's not because of technical issues, unless you want to consider the lead kid actor and the script technical issues. Sources tell me that the suits at Legendary and Warner Bros are not happy with Max Records, the actor playing Max, the mischievous boy who is crowned King of the Wild Things. Worse than that, they don't like the film's tone and want to go back to the script drawing board, possibly losing the Spike Jonze/Dave Eggers script when they do it. Apparently the film is too weird and 'too scary,' and the character of Max is being seen as not likable.
Of course, it only makes sense. All indications were that this was going to be a fun, unique, slightly scary movie--following the path of Labyrinth, The Neverending Story, and other films that still hold up as great, memorable children's entertainment. Why let that out of the gate, especially when another $20 million could probably get a shirtless Will Ferrell playing all the monsters?
Thanks, Becky.
Where the WIld Things Are... Being Completely Reshot? [CHUD]
It's like my childhood giving me a fuzzy handshake, or maybe just the best episode of Sesame Street ever: a short clip from the Dave Eggers-written, Spike Jonze-directed (NPR surprisingly not involved) adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are, sure to bring about the kind of warm, smile-inducing nostalgia you wish you got from the Indiana Jones trailer.
Huge thanks to Steve for starting off my weekend with this.
Update: Once again functional here, though it's being called everything from test footage to an outright fraud. Regardless, it's pretty good.
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Even though it looks like Spike Jonze may have just added giant monsters to his "Island in the Sun" music video, this still from Where the Wild Things Are is blowing my mind. Look at those things! And Dave Eggers wrote it! This is either going to be really great or really obnoxiously pretentious. I'm desperately hoping for the prior.
First Where the Wild Things Are Images [CinemaBlend]
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