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Post by HELENA MARIA on May 17, 2018 17:26:26 GMT
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Jan 10, 2019 17:33:26 GMT
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Post by Viced on Jan 10, 2019 17:41:11 GMT
This doesn't sound very good.
Logan Lerman is the co-lead (yikes) and the writer has no credits on IMDb (double yikes).
But I'll hope for the best.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jan 10, 2019 17:51:43 GMT
But will it have dopplegangers?
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 10, 2019 17:57:04 GMT
Well you can say about this I think it gets Pacino out of Axis Sally which is on his IMDB page and which I think he's not really attached to (yet at least) - similar subject matter and I think is a mistake if he does it.
David Weil has had this and another Blacklist script that Aronofsky wanted (still wants to do?) so he's sort of a hip screenwriter. This has been talked about a lot as a hot property, albeit without Pacino until now.
Cautiously optimistic.....I mean that's Scorsese, Tarantino in the can and coming, King Lear coming next, and also this........got to admire the energy he's got at least.
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 10, 2019 23:00:05 GMT
Jan '13 Ebert article , Pacino mentions Key & Peele (w Alan Arkin making what's now a pretty prophetic comment)....
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 10, 2019 23:17:21 GMT
Here's what Peele said about it a year ago when he joined :
This will probably be very popular. But for Pacino, idk. "Veteran Nazi hunter" is a role, in something like this, I'd rather see Cage take on. And I've been saying he needs to do TV now too. But Pacino? If it means he's outta Axis Sally, then please, I mean that project is a major, major head-scratcher and a terrible idea.
Deadline today said Alfonso Gomez-Rejon was in talks to direct. He's at least someone who more or less brings a degree of style, he won't be dull. Fun fact: he used to be Scorsese's personal assistant. When does this begin production though....?
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 10, 2019 23:55:55 GMT
I think the problem (for lack of a better word) with Cage may be that here the Pacino character will be written as a seemingly gentle Jewish Holocaust survivor (then why does he have a Southern accent Al! - kidding) - since it's the 1970s - and the group will be sort of influenced by the Mossad ala Spielberg's Munich and engage in similarly questionable stuff (Episode 2 - Lerman gets involved in the targeting/killing of a German woman whom he believes the group has identified incorrectly, Pacino yells at him!).
Pacino could play slightly younger than his age to have that work - an Elie Wiesel-type I suppose.
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Post by stephen on Jan 11, 2019 1:42:23 GMT
Here's what Peele said about it a year ago when he joined : This will probably be very popular. But for Pacino, idk. "Veteran Nazi hunter" is a role, in something like this, I'd rather see Cage take on. And I've been saying he needs to do TV now too. But Pacino? If it means he's outta Axis Sally, then please, I mean that project is a major, major head-scratcher and a terrible idea. Deadline today said Alfonso Gomez-Rejon was in talks to direct. He's at least someone who more or less brings a degree of style, he won't be dull. Fun fact: he used to be Scorsese's personal assistant. When does this begin production though....? If Panos Cosmatos decides to go through with his imagined Mandy sequel, we'd be getting Cage fighting Nazis in a bombed-out city. Everybody wins.
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 11, 2019 2:03:46 GMT
Few more things:
Is this the first series Pacino has been linked to? He's been rumored for several miniseries thru the years (Napoleon, Onassis, etc) but nothing long-form, unless I'm forgetting?
Premise sort of brought to mind The Americans (haven't seen) and The Strain (saw first season, eh).
Logan Lerman - yeah, he's pretty dull. Never seen anything I've liked. Somewhat similar, they should've got Alex Wolff...
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Post by Leo_The_Last on Jan 11, 2019 5:59:09 GMT
Good for Pacino, especially if he gets out of 'Axis Sally', which is... packaging a movie around an actress no one has ever heard of (she probably pays for the whole thing) with Pacino probably in a few court room scenes, but on every poster and in every trailer.... Don't do it!
This also reminds me of The Strain. Not that much seems to be known so far. Lerman, eh, could be worse, he's fine. But the whole Nazi angle, then an impressionable young guy and and old wise saintly one, and then those Nazi jerks... Sounds like it could become quite black & white, not much of moral shading etc. Which wouldn't be that interesting. More pulpy. Which, if done right, of course could turn out great.
And episodic TV? With Gomez-Rejon, what? Directing the pilot? I hope they make this more of a limited series, with one directorial vision behind it, à la True Detective etc. But it doesn't sound like it.
Great run for Pacino, career wise. But I was hoping he would do more high profile movie projects in the future, with exciting filmmakers. I hope this doesn't take too long to shoot for him, scheduling and so.
Looking forward to it. Will certainly be high profile stuff.
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 12, 2019 22:51:31 GMT
Today, a Location Manager was added to the crew on IMDb. Is this gonna start rolling before Summer?
And another very interesting thing, take a look at the "period pieces" of Pacino's career.......
There aren't many. Godfathers, Revolution, Dick Tracy, Two Bits, Merchant of Venice. You could include AiA and maybe YDKJ too. But now... if you include his development of Modigliani and Onassis, and Axis Sally (praying he doesn't do it), King Lear, The Irishman, the QT, and The Hunt. That's (all of his) seven upcoming projects! Kinda crazy to think about and an additional striking notch to his future slate.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 19, 2019 16:08:40 GMT
Apparently that "Sally Axis" trainwreck starts shooting in a few weeks (in Puerto Rico, where else to shoot a WWII project of course) and Pacino is still mentioned in the cast. If anyone finds confirmation of this you have to decide who you like more, Pacino or pacinoyes because, King Lear or not........... I will find him and kill him or at best let him keep his dignity and do it himself.
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 19, 2019 19:05:32 GMT
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Post by TerryMontana on Jan 19, 2019 22:29:30 GMT
Hello everyone. I am an old Imdb forum poster (using a slightly different username) and have recently discovered this site. Actually, I discovered it when I recalled many imdb discussions we had with Pacinoyes and decided to google him!!! So you could say I am a fan of Pacino AND Pacinoyes I also remember Mattsby from the old fora. So, I'll try to catch up here... I have a question: Why does everybody believe that this Axis Sally thing is definitely going to sack? I mean, it probably will but how can you tell for sure? It's a WW2 drama with a small Pacino role in it and unknown (to me) cast and crew. Is there anything more that I'm missing? Sure, it's not what I would like him to do after working with Scorsese and QT but... Anyway, as far as I know, by searching the web, Deadline reported he is attached to it and it starts shooting in about 3 days. I don't know if Deadline is a reliable source or not (I live in Europe) but I have to say I was surprised when I read (from Pacinoyes) that it might not be true. Thought it was officially confirmed and announced. Good to have found you again guys and please be patient with my bad English. Cheers
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 19, 2019 23:31:49 GMT
Hey welcome terry, nice to have you here and I remember you of course. I'm glad I have another fan, half the people here like me a lot, half of them hate me, three-quarters can't figure me out, half think I'm really funny and the other 90 percent think I have problems with math. I think Axis Sally seems very suspicious as a production - the project never existed and was suddenly announced - just 3 cast members still?, the lead actress is known (as in the Mattsby post) for buying her way into films, the scriptwriters unknown, the director is minor, the production company is grade Z level, it's a serious subject matter so the actress seems to have bought the lead (?). So, we'll have to see if it fits and starts shooting with him - I've never seen Pacino confirm this which wouldn't be a big deal, but this means he'd shoot 2 things before King Lear later this year which seems .............odd, unnecessary, stupid. Over the course of his career he's been attached to a lot of stuff that he never does, so we'll see how it goes.
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Post by TerryMontana on Jan 20, 2019 13:21:49 GMT
Your math kinda suck It's really weird that he's attached to do this AND the Hunt series. Lot of Nazi stuff.... I like the fact that he will be doing an ongoing tv series but to be honest, I don't know anything about the cast, the writers/directors or the production company (is it going to be produced directly by Amazon? ). Just like the Sally film. I know nothing about it also. Anyway, what I really care about is the Lear project. Any news on the shooting schedule? (Guess I should ask that in another thread... Still trying to learn the fora)
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 30, 2019 17:21:32 GMT
Pacino apparently starts shooting Axis Sally tomorrow. If you look at Meadow Williams Instagram account it basically looks like a hardcore porn site without the mysterious restraint and innocence.
This is a new low in a filmography that in the past decade has included Hangman, Misconduct, 88 Minutes. Wtf.
Can't wait to see DeNiro put a bullet in your head in The Irishman. Grrrrrrrrrr
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Post by TerryMontana on Jan 30, 2019 20:58:02 GMT
Oh man!! SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 6, 2019 22:32:35 GMT
Doesn't deserve its own thread so I'll continue the Axis Sally news here. Day 1 was yesterday a jail scene, Day 2 today a courtroom scene - both sets were built in Puerto Rico. So looks like they're doing Pacino's scenes first. Thomas Kretschmann (The Pianist) is in the cast. Oh, and the producer (the big dumb head in the last pic) cast his fiance Lala Kent as a prosecutor bc who better to play that role in the 1940s than a reality star? Pics below in spoilers bc they're BIG.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 6, 2019 22:39:19 GMT
Well, at least Thomas Kretschmann is in the cast. He's the male lead (the rapist) in The Stendahl Syndrome which is a film I always talk about and is the definition of a love it/hate it film - the last sort of great Argento (he replaced Julian Sands).
This is a 5 week shoot on a budget of 25 million - where is this money going Al? Sigh.....
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Post by TerryMontana on Feb 7, 2019 16:39:39 GMT
He's in it then, it's official Even his mustache is terrible!!!! As I said before, I know nobody from the cast and crew except Pacino, so I have to ask: You guys don't give any chances at all this is going to be a fine film after all????
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 7, 2019 17:50:49 GMT
He's in it then, it's official Even his mustache is terrible!!!! As I said before, I know nobody from the cast and crew except Pacino, so I have to ask: You guys don't give any chances at all this is going to be a fine film after all???? Well, first, this films 25 million budget probably has 10 million of that going into Pacino's pocket and that 10 million is somehow going into King Lear hopefully that would be good or maybe to his kids trust fund which is also nice. There's other parts of this that make "some" sense - starting at 67 years old, around 88 Minutes (2007) his career went off a cliff and that was partly because he lost a lot of money due to financial loses he suffered in real life. Secondly, he never, ever does great work for a non-major director. Sometimes he did very good work for them before 2007 (People I Know was one) or solid, interesting work for them even now (Pirates of Somalia) - but great work for a non-major director nowadays? Nah..... He has plenty of good work since 2007 but never for this producer, and this small time director and writers and this preposterous "not good enough for soap operas" cast around him. Al Pacino who I love and will argue as the greatest post-Brando American actor is today like Wayne Gretzky who I love and was the greatest hockey player: at the end of his career he can't score on his own and he can't get an assist if someone else can't finish the play. But if all the pieces are around him, like Gretzky, he's still a real threat. Those pieces are around him in The Irishman and OUATIH and hopefully King Lear........
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Post by TerryMontana on Feb 7, 2019 19:44:25 GMT
You could just say no OK, so this gonna suck big time. I knew about his financial problems but I don't think he just accepted to work on those horrible films just because he had lost a lot of money. I mean, he had been in awful movies before 2007, ie Two for the money, Gigli, People I know, City hall... I just think he is really terrible in picking parts and he just can't refuse a role. Something like "10 days of work, 10 million bucks for playing a lawyer in a WW2 drama... Sure, why not! How bad could that be..." I really believe this year will be pretty good for him. Working with Marty and QT... After that, I could accept another flop, I guess, and I'll be hoping for Lear. Plus he has done some good (or at least decent) work since 2007: His three TV works, his two Salome films, Danny Collins. I even liked Stand up guys and Ocean's 13 and was happy to see him among such great cast in both films. Hell, I even accepted the fact that Righteous kill and Misconduct sucked, just because he played against De Niro and Hopkins. The only thing I will never EVER forgive him for doing is Jack and Jill. Oh boy...
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 7, 2019 21:03:47 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/
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