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Post by morton on Jan 16, 2020 3:19:16 GMT
This could be really big. Fox Searchlight + followup for McDonagh right after TBOEM + probable large male cast(?).
Haven't read the book, so I don't know who would be good choices to be cast, and I can't find anything on Wiki just Amazon's summary which wasn't very helpful.
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Post by Savager on Jan 16, 2020 3:27:28 GMT
Brendan Gleeson & Ralph Fiennes reunion?
Rockwell is probably in too.
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 16, 2020 3:41:44 GMT
Odd choice of project, I'd rather he adapt his own (great) work. We're gonna be over-Poped! Seems there are about five or more major roles here for older actors - who'll be cast? The production company recently worked with Tom Courtenay, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy..... but then there's this about McDonagh from a '98 LA Times article....
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Post by futuretrunks on Jan 16, 2020 4:24:40 GMT
After Sorrentino's HBO thing that just recommenced and The Two Popes you choose to do a pope thing?
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Post by stephen on Jan 16, 2020 4:29:32 GMT
Honestly, a black comedy about cardinals voting for a new pope sounds right up McDonagh's alley.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 16, 2020 9:21:19 GMT
Hmmmmmmm........Gleeson is seemingly in Macbeth so I'm not sure he'd be in but maybe.......would love to see him cast some great international actors and not merely UK ones necessarily...... Italian acting grand master Sergio Castellitto would be right up his alley:
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Post by jimmalone on Jan 16, 2020 10:21:30 GMT
Finally! Was already waiting that he chooses a new film project. Didn't read Conclave, but Harris' books are mostly quite rich in content and most of the time very fitting to make a good film out of them. Also they leave usually enough room to make changes - if McDonagh wants this and Harris agrees.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jan 16, 2020 17:39:05 GMT
Bring back Farrell!
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 16, 2020 17:46:51 GMT
Two international actors I used to mix up - both might work here: Rade Šerbedžija and Tchéky Karyo
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Post by ibbi on Jan 16, 2020 18:06:42 GMT
Fingers crossed adapting someone elses work will make him less useless than he was the last time round. Probably not, but I can't quite get over how quickly this dude has sunk into inanity since heading to the big screen, and there has to be hope. That fire bombing scene in that previous piece of shit still makes me laugh every time I think about it.
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Post by RiverleavesElmius on Jan 16, 2020 19:43:19 GMT
Fingers crossed adapting someone elses work will make him less useless than he was the last time round. Probably not, but I can't quite get over how quickly this dude has sunk into inanity since heading to the big screen, and there has to be hope. That fire bombing scene in that previous piece of shit still makes me laugh every time I think about it. Stop it! TBOEM was superb!
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 8, 2023 17:47:08 GMT
This is underway now with Edward Berger (All Quiet On The Western Front) at the helm, starring... Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow, Stanley Tucci, Isabella Rossellini, and [ pacinoyes called it!] Sergio Castellitto !!
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Post by thomasjerome on Mar 9, 2024 16:11:16 GMT
This is a promising date. If it brings any of Fiennes, Lithgow or Tucci back to the Oscar race, I'll be happy.
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 9, 2024 16:58:27 GMT
This is a promising date. If it brings any of Fiennes, Lithgow or Tucci back to the Oscar race, I'll be happy.
Fiennes AND Castellitto is a potentially awesome fireworks show if they interact..........they are both master actors........Castellitto is - at times - in his long career a kind of sly magician.....love him
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Post by JangoB on Jul 16, 2024 13:12:13 GMT
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Post by JangoB on Jul 18, 2024 15:52:10 GMT
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Post by finniussnrub on Jul 18, 2024 16:11:30 GMT
Looks like it could be well received, but still doesn't come off as a major awards player in terms of the typical academy taste.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 18, 2024 16:11:56 GMT
You never know because this plot is fictionalized loosely based on the real-life Sindona Affair I guess (the same covered in The Godfather Part 3) and that's amazingly overheated to say the least but there are literally multiple potential Oscar nominees here - (overdue) Fiennes, Rosselini, Tucci, the GREAT Sergio Castellitto and possible Triple Crown Winner John Lithgow
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Post by stephen on Jul 18, 2024 16:16:54 GMT
Tinker Tailor Soldier Pope.
It looks good but I gotta say, this would be even more amazing if it were a Death of Stalin satire.
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Post by finniussnrub on Jul 18, 2024 16:19:31 GMT
You never know because this plot is fictionalized loosely based on the real-life Sindona Affair I guess (the same covered in The Godfather Part 3) and that's amazingly overheated to say the least but there are literally multiple potential Oscar nominees here - (overdue) Fiennes, Rosselini, Tucci, the GREAT Sergio Castellitto and possible Triple Crown Winner John Lithgow Juicy material no doubt, just rather commenting on the approach which seems like a potboiler thriller, which the academy usually doesn't go for. I'd say Silence of the Lambs was the last time, which was seen as a great elevation of that type of thriller. Maybe this will be as well, but I think it will need to be more than just *good*.
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Post by Archie on Jul 18, 2024 16:22:56 GMT
Aw man, this is serious? I was hoping it would be satire. Completely lost all interest. This is some Dan Brown shit.
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Post by mhynson27 on Jul 19, 2024 0:00:42 GMT
Aw man, this is serious? I was hoping it would be satire. Completely lost all interest. This is some Dan Brown shit. sterlingarcher86
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Post by mhynson27 on Jul 19, 2024 0:01:37 GMT
You never know because this plot is fictionalized loosely based on the real-life Sindona Affair I guess (the same covered in The Godfather Part 3) and that's amazingly overheated to say the least but there are literally multiple potential Oscar nominees here - (overdue) Fiennes, Rosselini, Tucci, the GREAT Sergio Castellitto and possible Triple Crown Winner John Lithgow Juicy material no doubt, just rather commenting on the approach which seems like a potboiler thriller, which the academy usually doesn't go for. I'd say Silence of the Lambs was the last time, which was seen as a great elevation of that type of thriller. Maybe this will be as well, but I think it will need to be more than just *good*. Parasite?!
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Post by finniussnrub on Jul 19, 2024 0:05:47 GMT
Juicy material no doubt, just rather commenting on the approach which seems like a potboiler thriller, which the academy usually doesn't go for. I'd say Silence of the Lambs was the last time, which was seen as a great elevation of that type of thriller. Maybe this will be as well, but I think it will need to be more than just *good*. Parasite?! No, because its class theme, that is very immediate on the surface, already elevated it to be prestige timber.
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Post by sterlingarcher86 on Jul 19, 2024 1:40:16 GMT
Guys of course they are going to make it look as commercial and exciting as possible. What do you think the purpose of a trailer is?
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