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EuropeFilm Weekly podcast: Jason Solomons meets Mark Strong and Paddy Considine
If I were a British film-maker and someone gave me a few quid to make a movie, I'd cast two British actors as my leads: Mark Strong and Paddy Considine. They're both always brilliant in whatever film they're in, powerful character actors who hold the screen and who can switch the mood from dark to light and back again in an instant. Well, I'm not making a film this week, but the very least I can do is have them both on Film Weekly for you. Mark Strong, after years of fine work in films from Fever Pitch to Syriana and RocknRolla, is finally mixing it with the big boys in Hollywood. He's in Ridley Scott's whizz-bang Middle East actioner Body of Lies, opposite Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio. Mark takes a break from filming Guy Ritchie's new Sherlock Holmes movie, with Robert Downey Jr, to talk to us about wigs, baddies and being patient. Paddy Considine is perhaps best-known for his collaborations with Shane Meadows, as the menace in Dead Man's Shoes or A Room for Romeo Brass. He also created memorable characters in Pawel Pawlikowski's The Last Resort and My Summer of Love before taking his skills to Hollywood for Jim Sheridan's In America, Ron Howard's Cinderella Man and Paul Greengrass's The Bourne Ultimatum. Paddy's back on home turf for his directorial debut Dog Altogether, a moody, blistering short film featuring the mercurial presence of Scottish actor Peter Mullan. Ahead of a career retrospective at Bristol's Encounters Short Film and Animation festival (Nov 18-23), Paddy talks frankly and exclusively to Film Weekly about his work, past and future, and why it's not always up to his own exacting standards. Also on this week's show, Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw and I see if the week's films meet our own exacting standards. German blockbuster The Baader-Meinhof Complex, Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno and debt documentary I.O.U.S.A are all up for discussion in our unmissable review section. Let us know your thoughts, as ever. Have you got a favourite Paddy Considine moment? Have you worked with Mark Strong (he's been in everything, after all)? And if you've seen any of them yet, what did you think of any of the movies we've reviewed?
Published: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:27:26 GMT - Source: Guardian.Co.Uk - Read the articleLiteratureDo Top Hats Dream of Electric Trains?
"Monopoly: The Movie"? Ridley Scott may direct, "with an eye toward giving it a futuristic sheen along the lines of his iconic 'Blade Runner.'" Alex Balk wonders: "Do Top Hats Dream Of Electric Trains?" PENNYBAGS: [Slowly, deliberately] I?ve seen things you people wouldn?t believe. Boots mortgaging property to tiny dogs. Apartments torched on Baltic Avenue just for the insurance money. I watched someone roll triple sixes and land on Free Parking where a Get Out Of Jail Free card had been tossed into the kitty. All those moments will be lost in time, like a bank error in your favor. Time to die. [As the rain continues to fall, he drops his head and silently expires.]...
Published: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:45:59 GMT - Source: Boingboing.Net - Read the articleLiteratureRidley Scott to adapt Haldeman's Forever War
Ridley Scott has acquired the film-rights to Joe Haldeman's magnificent, Hugo-award-winning classic science fiction novel, The Forever War. This is one of the great anti-war novels of all time. As I wrote about it in 2003, "I picked up a copy of Joe Haldeman's classic novel The Forever War last night as a gift for a friend, but I'm going to keep it. I got to re-reading it last night (for the first time in nearly 20 years) and couldn't put it down. Haldeman wrote this novel after returning from his tour of duty in Vietnam, and the book made the rounds, getting turned down by publisher after publisher, by editors who recognized the book's merit but questioned the political savvy of publishing a war-novel. Eventually, Joe rewrote one section of the book, softening it, and finally, the book saw print, becoming an instant classic. The new, author's preferred edition restores the original text, and is absolutely timely and engrossing." Fox 2000 has acquired rights to Joe Haldeman?s 1974 novel "The Forever War," and Ridley Scott is planning to make it into his first science fiction film since he delivered back-to-back classics with "Blade Runner" and "Alien." Scott intended to follow those films with "The Forever War," but rights complications delayed his plans for more than two decades. The film will be produced by Scott Free. Vince Gerardis and Ralph Vicinanza will exec produce. Their company, Created By, reps Haldeman and spent the last decade trying to get back the rights. "I first pursued ?Forever War? 25 years ago, and the book has only grown more timely and relevant since," Scott told Daily Variety. "It?s a science-fiction epic, a bit of ?The Odyssey? by way of ?Blade Runner,? built upon a brilliant, disorienting premise." Ridley Scott takes on 'Forever War', The Forever War on Amazon (Thanks, Mitch!)...
Published: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:51:03 GMT - Source: Boingboing.Net - Read the article
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