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Post by Mattsby on Feb 7, 2019 23:20:01 GMT
Cast taking shape now: With Logan Lerman set to star in Amazon’s upcoming series The Hunt and Al Pacino‘s deal all but done, producer Jordan Peele has turned his attention to casting the rest of the ensemble. To that end, sources tell Collider that Jerrika Hinton, Dylan Baker, Lena Olin, Greg Austin, Catherine Tate, Tiffany Boone, Saul Rubinek and Carol Kane are in various stages of negotiations to join the ’70s-set drama. collider.com/jordan-peele-the-hunt-supporting-cast/So Pacino isn't officially signed on yet? Deadline today said "Nearing a deal" still... Hmmm... Some interesting additions. Carol Kane particularly... someone who could be mentioned in the Movie/TV/Stage thread just for what she's been associated with, she's frequently worked in all three areas. Small roles in Carnal Knowledge, Last Detail, Dog Day Afternoon, Annie Hall - JEEEEZ. I haven't seen much of her prominent roles - pacinoyes does she have any major perfs, what're your favs from her?
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 8, 2019 0:09:06 GMT
Love Carol Kane in her BA Oscar nominated performance in Hester Street and her inspired TV work opposite Kaufman in Taxi. For a long time she's been a standout in episodic TV work - she's a sort of kooky comic presence but she can be a heartbreaker in dramas even now. Her and Pacino go back a long way (Dylan Baker seems to be a Pacino associate too but only I think appeared with him a little in The Humbling - so Kane, especially Baker, Rubinek and Olin (as a Nazi!) seem on point for the older cast to me; I don't know the young peeps much I'm afraid).
Pacino seems to be doing this : shooting Axis Sally briefly, then shooting this aggressively - it says it starts later this month (!) - then stopping to do promotion for QT/Scorsese (QT definitely since that's a July date), which would set him up for a Fall Lear and cast announcements there and I hope it happens and that it's big names and......... I hope it's for f'n Netflix or something and not for Emmett Furla.
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 8, 2019 2:53:42 GMT
Pacino seems to be doing this : shooting Axis Sally briefly, then shooting this aggressively - it says it starts later this month (!) - then stopping to do promotion for QT/Scorsese (QT definitely since that's a July date), which would set him up for a Fall Lear and cast announcements there and I hope it happens and that it's big names and......... I hope it's for f'n Netflix or something and not for Emmett Furla. That sounds about right - and we don't know who's financing Lear yet (it's apparently set), Netflix I do think would be ideal, in which case they probably won't be pre-selling foreign at the European market next week but if it's privately funded then I think they'll be there. It's high time for Barry Navidi to produce something! Excited for the QT/Scorsese exposure and press, the man can be very warm and very funny in interviews, like he was last March around the Quad retro.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2019 13:34:32 GMT
Mattsby pacinoyes - Hester Street is a fine portrait of a identity-based community in miniature with its tight 90 minute running time but even though it feels very small and streamlined it accomplishes so much. It's a charming portrait of emancipation, a sort of proto-women's liberation period tale totally in-sync with the volatile 1970s - a fable about Reinvention in America, if you will. And that velvety black and white cinematography is aces.
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 13, 2019 23:09:58 GMT
Pacino confirmed. Also - not on the Deadline article - So this, Axis Sally, The Irishman, the QT....... Nazis, Mobsters, and Manson, oh my!
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 14, 2019 10:19:31 GMT
I used to post this all the time on the old IMDB but it applies even more now since it's continuing with this string of roles.
Consider just some of the major Pacino film/TV roles post-1999: the Qt film, this TV series, Merchant of Venice, The Insider, Angels in America, YDK Jack, Phil Spector .......all of those roles are Jewish characters (except Kevorkian) and all of them on paper are "Dustin Hoffman roles" - and roles on paper he is better suited for than Pacino AND mostly roles for directors Hoffman had a previous working connection to as well (Nichols, Levinson, Mamet).
It is astonishing to me that when you look at these guys, that Pacino, on the cusp of 80 years old has 4 projects coming, Hoffman is likely retired at this point at 82, last film 2017 after years prior to that of nothing memorable, and is attached to no projects now, and missed out on ALL those roles above. At one time great rivals, we now don't really link them at all anymore.
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 14, 2019 20:13:20 GMT
Right now, Pacino's working more than De Niro, Nicholson, and Hoffman combined!
It's unfortunate about Hoffman - he was cast in The Sunlit Night (played at Sundance) but after the allegations he was replaced by David Paymer, I believe. Of course I hope he works again but, I've said this before, I don't think he'll get a better send-off than Meyerowitz.... that last line, looking at his character's boxed art work - "This is him."
Aside - the Pacino vs De Niro debate (a no-brainer, wink) will draw them even closer and heat up (no pun intended) with The Irishman, especially with acclaim / awards...
Back to The Hunt, in a few ways it's kinda the most unexpected project of his late career. He savors rehearsals and a close relationship with the writer and director, and now there's this giant spinning wheel. It'll be his longest project - after AiA which was 5 or 6 hrs? Not to mention the QT and The Irishman, they'll be right up there next to the Godfathers as his longest. But AiA was all under Mike Nichols.... Here there'll be revolving directors....maybe we'll get lucky and Agneiszka Holland will get in there.
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Post by TerryMontana on Feb 14, 2019 21:21:38 GMT
I remember some of Pacinoyes' posts back in the imdb days about the rivalry between Pacino and Hoffman. Honestly I never thought this thing was real. I mean, I know no roles that Hoffman wanted and finally Pacino was cast or the opposite, I know no statements they did for each other etc.
Anyway, Dusty is out mainly out because of these accusations. I'd prefer him to end his career with another 1 or 2 films (same for big Jack), even better than Meyerowitz but whatever.
It's true in the last 10-15 years he did nothing really memorable (although I really liked him in Last chance harvey and Stranger than fiction). Of course Luck had the potential to be something big but...
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 15, 2019 0:42:08 GMT
I remember some of Pacinoyes' posts back in the imdb days about the rivalry between Pacino and Hoffman. Honestly I never thought this thing was real. I mean, I know no roles that Hoffman wanted and finally Pacino was cast or the opposite, I know no statements they did for each other etc.
Anyway, Dusty is out mainly out because of these accusations. I'd prefer him to end his career with another 1 or 2 films (same for big Jack), even better than Meyerowitz but whatever. It's true in the last 10-15 years he did nothing really memorable (although I really liked him in Last chance harvey and Stranger than fiction). Of course Luck had the potential to be something big but... Pacino is very nice publicly towards Hoffman and gives him the credit (rightly) for paving the way for ethnic looking actors. Hoffman never as far as I know never said anything about Pacino. Privately they didn't like each other at all - you can find this best laid out in the great book on the early Al (back when he was you know, selective ) A Life On The Wire by Andrew Yule, which goes up to 1993 I think. Pauline Kael famously compared Pacino to Hoffman - saying "he turned into him in Serpico" causing Pacino to say "Is that before she had the shot glass removed from her throat?" They always overlapped for roles too. Pacino turned down Marathon Man, Hoffman was the 2nd choice for Dog Day Afternoon. Pacino's girlfriend Marthe Keller co-starred with Hoffman in Marathon Man and Pacino didn't like that at all, but he had passed on that film, so....... Pacino was considered for Kramer vs. Kramer, Hoffman the original choice for Sea Of Love. They did co-star a bit in Dick Tracy ......the rivalry even goes back to before films when they were part of the New York Theater scene and often called the best young actors in town (along with Frank Langella). In 1996 they basically became something closer to major enemies I'd say when Hoffman took American Buffalo - Pacino's greatest role - after Al didn't want to work with the director (Geesh what standards he once had!?!), Hoffman had played Merchant of Venice onstage (greatly) and wanted the film, it went to Pacino. They'll end their careers very far apart from each other in many odd ways - Pacino will do way more films, way more TV, way more stage work at one time all of those things seemed highly unlikely. At one time Hoffman seemed a no-brainer for the triple crown of acting, now, that's extremely unlikely and Pacino conceivably could actually win the triple crown twice - very odd and divergent paths to their careers after a certain point.
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Post by TerryMontana on Feb 15, 2019 19:45:24 GMT
In 1996 they basically became something closer to major enemies I'd say when Hoffman took American Buffalo - Pacino's greatest role - after Al didn't want to work with the director (Geesh what standards he once had!?!), Hoffman had played Merchant of Venice onstage (greatly) and wanted the film, it went to Pacino. Thanks for answering, Pacinoyes. Funny thing the one you mention about the director. I remember Al dropped out of Born on the 4th of July because "the original director dropped out", as he said. Well, that director was William Friedkin, with whom he had worked earlier in Cruising. A movie he never mentions and does not want it to be mentioned either, as he thinks it hurt him professionally (or something like that). Yet, he said he wanted to do Born on the 4th of July with him and dropped out when Friedkin did. Of course, many of this may not be true. But that's the way I have heard it.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 21, 2019 17:53:29 GMT
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 21, 2019 21:33:17 GMT
I think that site assumed it was the Pacino show but there's a Jason Blum produced movie also called The Hunt that's shooting in NOLA soon so it's probably that one! Those poor extras - "Where's AL?!" Here's a charity thing that went up a few days ago, seems legit, and they give us a shooting time frame: btwn April 1 - Aug 31. That seems more likely, but they're definitely deep into pre-production right now, with a bunch of crew listed on IMDb... www.charitybuzz.com/catalog_items/meet-al-pacino-tour-set-of-hunt-in-nyc-1717404
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Post by Mattsby on Mar 1, 2019 18:07:05 GMT
Josh Radnor joinsNot a fan of him really. Anyway, preliminary shoots start this week, official filming begins in like two weeks !
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Post by Mattsby on Mar 6, 2019 2:42:46 GMT
Background casting is ramping up... this one is interesting "NON UNION TO PORTRAY JEWISH MEN AND WOMEN CIRCA 1930S - WORKS 3/29 - PLEASE PUT YOUR NAME / POLISH WARSAW SCENE GHETTO SCENE IN SUBJECT LINE."
Figured they'd incorporate scenes or moments or something from the earlier period. But to what extent - say a memory from Pacino's character, if he's indeed playing a Holocaust survivor, or will there be more, a subplot of sorts, in which case what's the chances they resist de-aging him? The "present" in the show is 1977 - so if Pacino's playing 80, cut to 40 or so...
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 6, 2019 11:57:29 GMT
Background casting is ramping up... this one is interesting "NON UNION TO PORTRAY JEWISH MEN AND WOMEN CIRCA 1930S - WORKS 3/29 - PLEASE PUT YOUR NAME / POLISH WARSAW SCENE GHETTO SCENE IN SUBJECT LINE." Figured they'd incorporate scenes or moments or something from the earlier period. But to what extent - say a memory from Pacino's character, if he's indeed playing a Holocaust survivor, or will there be more, a subplot of sorts, in which case what's the chances they resist de-aging him? The "present" in the show is 1977 - so if Pacino's playing 80, cut to 40 or so... Some random thoughts ........ The supporting cast is so many that it seems the "hook" angle will actually be Pacino's character vs. Olin's - ie she's the Nicole Wallace to his Robert Goren (I can only hope!). I don't think they can afford to de-age him, so.............young Al casting call! This show gets better as long as they subvert these characters - Lerman, Radnor are almost too nice and Pacino is more doddering old coot at this stage (me too!) - this is a vigilante group - so they'd feel pressure on both sides and the cast list is wayyyyyyyyy more Hunters than Nazi's which means........well, to me it means there's gonna be gruesome deaths in the Hunters. If this really is an Al Pacino TV show (as opposed to a show he's just in) the possibility for guest spots would be pretty long I would think. Does anybody else find it funny that Pacino - at one time in his career (as Mattsby mentioned) - he sabotaged several productions in film and stage by his endless rehearsing and that putting time constraints on him .... I wonder how he thinks episodic TV works. Though I suppose the allure here is in the family aspect and how its like theater - if it works it's like an endless rehearsal in a way.
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Post by Mattsby on Mar 22, 2019 20:33:37 GMT
Pacinoyes was right, they seem to have casted an actor to play younger Al..... some guy named Zack Schor (pic in spoilers below - only big foul is the light eyes). I'd guess he listed himself on imdb in the episodes he'll feature, so 8eps / 10, so maybe a "flashback" storyline will carry thru the season.
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Post by Mattsby on Mar 22, 2019 20:42:49 GMT
Fun question - let's assume they hire five directors to do two eps each, who would you wanna see there?
I've already mentioned Agnieszka Holland, and Pacino hasn't worked in film/tv with a female director yet. It'd be cool too if he reteamed with James Foley. Some others who work mainly in TV now, Lodge Kerrigan, Carl Franklin....
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 22, 2019 22:07:30 GMT
Fun question - let's assume they hire five directors to do two eps each, who would you wanna see there? I've already mentioned Agnieszka Holland, and Pacino hasn't worked in film/tv with a female director yet. It'd be cool too if he reteamed with James Foley. Some others who work mainly in TV now, Lodge Kerrigan, Carl Franklin.... Oh good question! I am afraid this premise is leaning towards the A-Team/Hogan's Heroes - which would be a messssssssssssssssss - so they need to get this shooting pronto and stay on the dramatic side of the turf. Well in additions to your ones which would be aces ..........he has a series of Jewish directors in his film past Soderbergh (and by the way Al is quite wonderful in his Oceans 13 and for some reason he doesn't like it, another wtf-Pacino thing. Grrrrrrrrrr) David Mamet..........Barry Levinson too..........and a left field one who actually does episodic TV and they could actually afford to get........Nick Gomez. I loved Gomez for a time particularly his feature debut, the Mean Streets rip-off Laws Of Gravity. Lots of movies rip that classic off but very few are that well made and acted. He's a no BS TV director and he will take a tough script down a no-nonsense path which clearly I'm starting to worry about (see above).......
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Post by TerryMontana on Mar 22, 2019 22:42:27 GMT
I like Foley as a director (Holland, too) and they have worked together in the past so that would be something special. Fincher is another one who has done some TV work.
Actually, so many good directors have worked on television lately, I can't even begin to name them.
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Post by TerryMontana on Mar 22, 2019 22:47:17 GMT
Fun question - let's assume they hire five directors to do two eps each, who would you wanna see there? I've already mentioned Agnieszka Holland, and Pacino hasn't worked in film/tv with a female director yet. It'd be cool too if he reteamed with James Foley. Some others who work mainly in TV now, Lodge Kerrigan, Carl Franklin.... Oh good question! I am afraid this premise is leaning towards the A-Team/Hogan's Heroes - which would be a messssssssssssssssss But no Mr. T yet... Yeah, Soderbergh would be a nice choice, if he'd ever agree to direct just one or two episodes in a TV series.
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Post by Mattsby on Mar 29, 2019 16:49:38 GMT
Some guy Wayne Yip is directing ep 2 and 3. Haven't seen any of his work, I think he's most known for doing some of Doctor Who....
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Post by Viced on Mar 29, 2019 16:54:40 GMT
What's DGG up to? Worked with Pacino... worked with Amazon...
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Post by TerryMontana on Mar 29, 2019 17:31:59 GMT
Mattsby, do you know when this begins filming?? I think April but nothing more specific.
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Post by Mattsby on Mar 29, 2019 17:47:51 GMT
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Mar 29, 2019 17:51:14 GMT
I hope these cats know that The Warriors were framed.
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