Jul 10 2009 'Maverick' Duo Reteaming for Sexual Innuendo-Titled Film
Once again flexing the muscle she used in Little Man Tate, Home for the Holidays, and an episode of Tales from the Darkside, Jodie Foster will be directing The Beaver, the much-hyped, high-concept script about a man who wears a beaver puppet for comfort, with Mel Gibson starring. From Variety:
Mel Gibson will star in "The Beaver" for director Jodie Foster.The script, written by Kyle Killen, topped the Blacklist in December.
Gibson will play a depressed man who finds solace in wearing a beaver hand-puppet. On top of helming, Foster will play the role of the man’s wife.
Jodie Foster and Mel Gibson together in a movie and it's not for the Maverick sequel that was virtually promised to the legions of fans at the conclusion of the first film? Mom, Dad: don't go out for dinner together if you aren't getting re-married. It gives us kids false hopes.
Dec 26 2007 'Nim's Island' Poster Accurately Portrays Film's Psychoses
It appears Abigail Breslin has grown to the size of a building in order to avoid the dangers of sharks and cartoon pirates. Gerard Butler remains a homeless Indiana Jones while Jodie Foster seems to be halfway through a transformation into Reese Witherspoon, and she's holding a shoe? In the background, a volcano spews an eruption of dreams.
Thankfully, last week's trailer explained all of this apparent madness: everyone in this film is at varying degrees of crazy.
Nim's Island One-Sheet [IESB]
Dec 19 2007 'Nim's Island' Trailer is Chock-Full of Psychoses
A summary of the new Jodie Foster/Abigail Breslin/Gerard Butler family adventure, Nim's Island, as provided by Yahoo:
Anything can happen on Nim's Island, a magical place ruled by a young girl's imagination. It is an existence that mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover - the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim's father goes missing from their island, a twist of fate brings her together with Alexandra. Now they must draw courage from their fictional hero, Alex Rover, and find strength in one another to conquer Nim's Island.
Things omitted from this relatively banal description of Nim's Island:
- When it says Nim's Island is "a magical place ruled by a young girl's imagination," they don't mean figuratively. It appears that Nim is a god-like character whose will becomes reality. Either that, or she suffers from paranoid hallucinations, which would actually be an apt parallel, since...
- Jodie Foster's character clearly suffers from intense schizophrenia, social anxiety disorder, mysophobia, and possibly epilepsy. The film seems to use both her vivid hallucinations and uncontrollable seizures as comedic quirks. (Hah! She's talking to her visual realization of a fictional character while in the presence of others! Haha! Now she's convulsing too much to comfortably leave her home!)
I could go on--maybe touching on the (possibly delusional) presence of pirates and Arabian warriors, and the topical airport security jokes--but I think the overabundance of mental disorders is already enough to change this from a passable family fantasy to a mandatory Psych 101 field trip.
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Nov 9 2007 First Look at 'Nim's Island', Gerard Butler's Halloween Costume
It's over a week late, but we finally got some exclusive shots of Gerard Butler's inspired, if not convoluted, Halloween costume! This year the 300 star went as a hobo dressed as Indiana Jones protecting his wallet from a tanning bed. And I have to say, he effing nailed it.
Confusingly, USA Today has run the same picture as a promotional photo for Nim's Island, in which Butler plays both marine biologist father and imaginary adventuring hero to young Abigail Breslin. After the father goes missing, Nim (Breslin) starts emailing the adventurer, who is actually a reclusive author played by Jodie Foster, for help in finding him. Add a pegasus and this movie has everything a little girl could want.
First look: All is idyllic on 'Nim's Island' [USA Today]
Jun 27 2007 The Brave One Poster
In The Brave One, Jodie Foster plays a woman whose fiancé and safety are taken from her after a brutal attack, turning her to a life of vigilante justice. So why is Macaulay Culkin on the poster?
