Actor Jamie Bell and alien Tilda Swinton are in talks to join Chris Evans in Snow Piercer, the indie drama set to be Korean director Bong Joon-ho's English-language debut. As the title implies, the film is set in a snowy wasteland where, I don't know, I guess icicles might pierce you, sometimes going straight into your eye and into your brain and then you die. At least that's what I've heard from other kids. Evans, Bell, and Swinton would be playing train travelers struggling to get along over a long journey by rail.
This will be writer-director Bong Joon-ho first time working with a full cast of proper Hollywood stars, but if you've seen his The Host, Mother, or Memories of a Murder, you won't be worried for him, because those films are pretty great. And with Oldboy's Park Chan-wook producing, Snow Piercer pretty much cannot fail. As far as hugely powerhouse Asian team-ups go, this is right up there with the WWF's Orient Express.
Bruce Willis is back in his Breakfast of Champions toupée, Ed Norton is in a scout uniform, Jason Schwartzman is in a mustache, Bill Murray is drunk and shirtless and armed, and every shot and prop has been carefully selected for maximum affecting, nostalgic tweeness when placed atop a song you'll have to look up and download later. That is to say, there's now a trailer for Wes Anderson's long-awaited Moonrise Kingdom. Yay!
If you're a fan of Wes Anderson's extreme Wes Andersoniness and have been pained for a fix since Mr. Fox's tail-less form walked out of our lives, this should hit the spot. If you're not a Wes Anderson-ite, here's a video of a denim-swathed Michael Bay talking about a big metal box of giant robot movies he's selling for $150 MSRP. Your choice.
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With yesterday's trailer for The Odd Life of Timothy Green bringing with it the most saccharine depiction possible of raising a son, here's a salty snack for balance: the French We Need To Talk About Kevin trailer. While Timothy Green's titular offspring was an idealized dream son literally born of mud, magic, and jotted-down wishes, Kevin's kid (Kevin, presumably) is a real piece of shit sociopath born of two of the most drastic-looking people to ever stretch the possibilities of what a human being may look like--namely, John C. Reilly and Tilda Swinton.
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Sofia Coppola was nearly wooed over to the Twilight franchise, but it looks like Jim Jarmusch will instead be the indie auteur who first makes us all ask "why the fuck are they doing a vampire movie?" According to ScreenDaily, the art house director is working on what he calls a "crypto-vampire love story" that will star Tilda Swinton, Michael Fassbender, and Mia Wasikowska as (crypto-)vampires and feature John Hurt in an undetermined role. With Transylvania still considered out of fashion for the modern undead, Jarmusch will reportedly be setting his film "against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangiers"--a description that probably just gave the Michigan tourism bureau a fun new spin for their next campaign. "Romantic desolation" sounds so much more inviting than "soul-crushing bleakness (RoboCop statue coming soon)."
Who's going to be deadpanning in Wes Anderson's next film? Let me tell you who. Showing the impressive "not all that commercially successful yet still able to draw whatever acting talent he wants" auteur ferocity of a modern-day Woody Allen, the director has so far managed to get Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, and, obviously, The Great Bill Murray to join his latest, Moon Rise Kingdom.
Deadline has some more pertinent information for you:
Moon Rise Kingdom is set in the 60s. Two young adults fall in love and run away. Leaders in their New England town are sticking the idea that they've disappeared and go in search of them. Norton will play a scout leader who brings his charges on a search. Willis is in talks to play the town sheriff who’s also looking, and who is having an affair with the missing girl’s mother, the role McDormand is in talks to play. Murray, a regular in Anderson films, will play the girl's father, who has his own issues.
Shooting is expected to begin late next spring, so, depending on how central Murray's role is, we may have to push back Ghostbusters 3's fictional start date to another made-up time.
"The Voyage of the Dawn Treader"? I guess these kids are going on some sort of voyage involving the Dawn Treader now. And Liam Neeson the Lion is there again. And probably some Christian overtones. I have no idea; I thought we were done with these.
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On his final day as host of The Tonight Show, departing hero Conan O'Brien mentioned that if HBO decides to make a The Late Shift 2, he'd like fellow red-head Tilda Swinton to play his part. So, logically, when Movieline caught up with the translucent-skinned actress at Sundance, they decided to ask her how she'd feel about playing the tall-haired comedian:
“I’ve heard about Conan!” Swinton said excitedly when I broached the subject. “I’m so thrilled.”
So would she be willing to take on the challenge of playing him? After all, Swinton has bent genders onscreen before, as anyone who’s seen her 1992 film Orlando would know.
“I would just be only too happy,” she beamed. “Yes, yes, yes, absolutely.”
Sounds good. But who's going to play Kimmel so that he can play Jay?
Nothing like a new Jim Jarmusch movie to make a Friday feel like a Saturday, you know? Just that he usually makes good films, and The Limits of Control, with a guitar string-based killer and Bill Murray, looks like it will be good too. This trailer is our second Saturday:
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Want to see Brad Pitt act like a dolt and George Clooney act like a womanizer (more than usual)? Believe me, you do, so watch these new Burn After Reading character featurettes. The variety and complexity of Pitt's dimwit expressions are guaranteed to impress.
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Burn After Reading is one of the few upcoming films I'm able to look forward to without too much apprehension. The Coen Brothers have taken the screwball-crime-comedy genre that they made so beloved with Raising Arizona and The Big Lebowski and added the natural human desire to see Brad Pitt get punched in the face. How could it miss? So enjoy this new international trailer that, although not as revealing or red-bandy as the domestic version, should still elicit a few enthusiastic fist pumps.
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Who would have thought you could combine the talents of George Clooney and Brad Pitt yet not focus on how suave and charming they are? The Coen Brothers, that's who. And they've added John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, and J.K. Simmons into the dark spy-comedy Burn After Reading. After watching the trailer, knowing that I have to wait until September to see the full product, I'm going to hate toiling through summer more than the elderly. Note: the trailer is R-rated for language and the feeling of intense pleasure it gives you that is normally reserved for adults. Watch it below the cut or by clicking around iTunes.
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Over at First Showing, the first production stills from the Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading have popped up. Of course, being that it's a new dark comedy from the Coens, I'm ridiculously enthusiastic about these images, but I can't help but feel there's a bit too much winking at the audience going on with Brad Pitt's oafish gym employee character. Brad Pitt is a huge star, and People Magazine told me he's the sexiest man alive during certain years, but now he has ridiculous bleached tips and works at a gym!? That's crazy! Though, at the same time, if Brad Pitt weren't a huge star and occasionally the sexiest man alive, he probably would have bleached tips and work at a gym. So maybe this is just great casting.
More shots--including George Clooney hamming up post-coital regret in country-style patriotic bedding--here.
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