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Post by pacinoyes on May 6, 2020 9:41:26 GMT
Well this is .............um...........unexpected............ if true..... variety.com/2020/film/news/cate-blanchett-borderlands-movie-lilith-1234581917/ It’s game on for Cate Blanchett. Sources tell Variety the Oscar-winning actress is in talks to star as Lilith in Lionsgate’s “Borderlands,” an adaptation of the popular video game. Lionsgate had no comment.
Eli Roth is directing with Avi and Ari Arad producing through Arad Prods along with Erik Feig, who is also producing via his Picturestart banner. Craig Mazin, who won an Emmy for writing “Chernobyl,” has written the latest screenplay draft.
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Post by TerryMontana on May 6, 2020 10:47:22 GMT
I can't say I totally trust Arad as a producer and I totally hate Roth's directing efforts. As for the vg, I know nothing about it.
Plus, I had no faith in Mazin but he proved me wrong with the Chernobyl series.
So... in Blanchett we trust...
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Post by Martin Stett on May 6, 2020 11:13:11 GMT
I'm unfamiliar with the video game, but this doesn't really surprise me? She's no snob, and has proven willing to star in whatever popular property is out there. Thor Ragnarok, Ocean's 8, How to Train Your Dragon, Cinderella, Indiana Jones... I don't see anything to shock me here.
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Post by stephen on May 6, 2020 12:35:44 GMT
The video game is balls-to-the-wall fun, but I have no fucking clue how it could work as a film, and Eli Roth is not the person I'd trust to tackle it.
Still, Craig Mazin gives me some hope.
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Post by pupdurcs on May 6, 2020 16:23:36 GMT
Why has Blanchett's film career become so chronically uninteresting? Seriously, TWO Eli Roth films in the space of three years....
Starting to see why her move to Television was a neccessity
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Post by pupdurcs on May 6, 2020 16:48:27 GMT
I'm unfamiliar with the video game, but this doesn't really surprise me? She's no snob, and has proven willing to star in whatever popular property is out there. Thor Ragnarok, Ocean's 8, How to Train Your Dragon, Cinderella, Indiana Jones... I don't see anything to shock me here. I think she just used to cleverly mix it up a lot better. Now it's just one disposable film and performance after another. I don't think she's had a truly great film performance since Carol, which was 5 years ago.
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Post by stephen on May 6, 2020 16:53:41 GMT
I'm unfamiliar with the video game, but this doesn't really surprise me? She's no snob, and has proven willing to star in whatever popular property is out there. Thor Ragnarok, Ocean's 8, How to Train Your Dragon, Cinderella, Indiana Jones... I don't see anything to shock me here. I think she just used to cleverly mix it up a lot better. Now it's just one disposable film and performance after another. I don't think she's had a truly great film performance since Carol, which was 5 years ago. She got a Tony nomination in 2017, was the headlining villain in a Marvel film that got the best reviews of a Thor film by far, starred in a very successful spinoff of a popular franchise in 2018, and got a Golden Globe nomination just last year. I mean, sure, it's not exactly her mid-aughts streak, but any other actress in her age group and people would think she'd be doing well for herself.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 6, 2020 17:03:15 GMT
I think she just used to cleverly mix it up a lot better. Now it's just one disposable film and performance after another. I don't think she's had a truly great film performance since Carol, which was 5 years ago. She got a Tony nomination in 2017, was the headlining villain in a Marvel film that got the best reviews of a Thor film by far, starred in a very successful spinoff of a popular franchise in 2018, and got a Golden Globe nomination just last year. I mean, sure, it's not exactly her mid-aughts streak, but any other actress in her age group and people would think she'd be doing well for herself. Not to beat this into the ground (that's what I do in the Television thread ) but she's giving a GOAT-level performance in Mrs. America - when more people see it, I expect a lot of jaws will be dropped tbh. It's not just "great" it's Great (capital G).
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Post by pupdurcs on May 6, 2020 17:05:08 GMT
I think she just used to cleverly mix it up a lot better. Now it's just one disposable film and performance after another. I don't think she's had a truly great film performance since Carol, which was 5 years ago. She got a Tony nomination in 2017, was the headlining villain in a Marvel film that got the best reviews of a Thor film by far, starred in a very successful spinoff of a popular franchise in 2018, and got a Golden Globe nomination just last year. I mean, sure, it's not exactly her mid-aughts streak, but any other actress in her age group and people would think she'd be doing well for herself. Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp got Golden Globe nominations for The Tourist. Like that movie, Where'd You Go, Bernadette was a poorly reviewed stinker (where even Blanchett got mixed notices) that the HFPA threw a bone because they like stars to turn up in sparkly gowns. Had SAG nominated that performance, there'd be some more obvious legitimacy to it turning up in awards season out of nowhere, but that nod felt more like Golden Globes starfucking to someone very much in the club. Thor: Ragnorok was terrific, and she was good in it. But one surprisingly good blockbuster in 5 years doesn't really negate my point. The Tony nod is a good look, but I was talking about how basic her film career seems to have become. It's not like she's suddenly become a bad film actress, but she just seems to be treading water in movies and her choices are reflecting that.
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Post by jakesully on May 6, 2020 17:40:23 GMT
Eli Roth is literally the worst director working today imo. He is an overly privileged chump that happens to be friends with Tarantino. smh at this
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Post by theycallmemrfish on May 6, 2020 18:40:26 GMT
HAHAHAHA. This whole time, I was reading it as ERIC Roth (who would also be ill-suited for this particular project, but still a damn fine writer) and was just thinking, "wow everyone here must hate The Insider and Munich..."
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Post by cheesecake on May 9, 2020 5:13:59 GMT
Blanchett is a cool choice but I'm confuzzled by what this adaptation is even going to look like.
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Post by iheartamyadams on May 13, 2020 17:44:32 GMT
Lol it’s almost as if Blanchett read these threads before making her next moves. I don’t even like her, but this thread and the one on AW didn’t age well at all.
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Post by wattsnew on May 14, 2020 21:34:10 GMT
Why has Blanchett's film career become so chronically uninteresting? Seriously, TWO Eli Roth films in the space of three years.... Starting to see why her move to Television was a neccessity This post aged terribly, and it was only a week ago LOL.
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Post by pupdurcs on May 14, 2020 21:59:55 GMT
Why has Blanchett's film career become so chronically uninteresting? Seriously, TWO Eli Roth films in the space of three years.... Starting to see why her move to Television was a neccessity This post aged terribly, and it was only a week ago LOL. Not really. Her film career and performance output has been pretty uninteresting the last 5 years. Nothing will change that. She's attaching herself to decent sounding projects this last week (compared to the Eli Roth stuff anyway), but nothing I find particularly fascinating. I'll give them a chance when they come out. I find James Gray to be one of the most overrated and kinda boring auteurs in Hollywood, and Adam Mckay is high up there with him on the list of overpraised "prestige" directors. Both their previous films Ad Astra and Vice are not what I would consider "good", so why would I care that Blanchett is taking a bunch of supporting roles in films from directors I find tremendously overrated? The only thing she's got coming up I'm remotely excited about is Nightmare Alley (and her role is supposed to be quite small) . Guilliermo Del Toro is always interesting. The rest....whatever, neither her roles by the sounds of things, nor the filmmakers involved are anything I'd get excited over. Blanchett has a lot of work to do for me to think her film career is interesting again. I know you keep LOUDLY claiming "Blanchett has the best career of her age group etc etc" because I've said that repeatedly about Nicole Kidman, and that bothers you a lot (alongside the fact that Naomi Watts career has become a disaterous cautionary tale in the last decade), but don't shoot the messenger. I just call it as I see it. Trying to send subliminals to me won't change anything.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 29, 2020 10:27:41 GMT
This is an official go now.....she has so many things going on that if a disaster seems imminent - well it's probably this one - Variety's summary of her work doesn't even include TV's Stateless (in just a few months on Netflix) or Nightmare Alley (wtf) ......and misses the Oscar nod for Carol below .........great reporting work there Variety Blanchett currently stars in “Mrs. America,” which she also executive produces, and will star in James Gray’s upcoming “Armageddon Time” and Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up.” She’s won Academy Awards for her performances in “The Aviator” and “Blue Jasmine,” and was nominated for “Elizabeth,” “Elizabeth: The Golden Age,” “Notes on a Scandal” and “I’m Not There.” variety.com/2020/film/news/cate-blanchett-borderlands-eli-roth-1234618913/
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Post by stephen on Jan 26, 2021 20:46:50 GMT
Kevin Hart's apparently signed on to play Roland, baffling the fuck out of me.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jan 26, 2021 20:52:49 GMT
Kevin Hart's apparently signed on to play Roland, baffling the fuck out of me. Okay have these people even played Borderlands????
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Post by stephen on Jan 26, 2021 20:57:47 GMT
Kevin Hart's apparently signed on to play Roland, baffling the fuck out of me. Okay have these people even played Borderlands???? I dunno, have you even played Alien: Isolation??? But yeah, this whole project makes no goddamn sense.
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 26, 2021 20:57:48 GMT
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Post by pupdurcs on Jan 26, 2021 23:35:17 GMT
Kevin Hart's apparently signed on to play Roland, baffling the fuck out of me. Whut
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Post by speeders on Jan 26, 2021 23:51:35 GMT
Blanchett really bailed on her Lucille Ball passion project to do this? I'm not a particularly big fan of hers but I'm baffled by this choice.
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Post by stabcaesar on Jan 27, 2021 3:34:09 GMT
Not really. Her film career and performance output has been pretty uninteresting the last 5 years. Nothing will change that. She's attaching herself to decent sounding projects this last week (compared to the Eli Roth stuff anyway), but nothing I find particularly fascinating. I'll give them a chance when they come out. I find James Gray to be one of the most overrated and kinda boring auteurs in Hollywood, and Adam Mckay is high up there with him on the list of overpraised "prestige" directors. Both their previous films Ad Astra and Vice are not what I would consider "good", so why would I care that Blanchett is taking a bunch of supporting roles in films from directors I find tremendously overrated? The only thing she's got coming up I'm remotely excited about is Nightmare Alley (and her role is supposed to be quite small) . Guilliermo Del Toro is always interesting. The rest....whatever, neither her roles by the sounds of things, nor the filmmakers involved are anything I'd get excited over. Blanchett has a lot of work to do for me to think her film career is interesting again. I know you keep LOUDLY claiming "Blanchett has the best career of her age group etc etc" because I've said that repeatedly about Nicole Kidman, and that bothers you a lot (alongside the fact that Naomi Watts career has become a disaterous cautionary tale in the last decade), but don't shoot the messenger. I just call it as I see it. Trying to send subliminals to me won't change anything. Tbh I feel like Nightmare Alley could easily miss like Crimson Peak did.
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Post by Drish on Jan 27, 2021 4:54:01 GMT
Come on guys, Watts' 2010s career hasn't been THAT disastrous. Twin Peaks the Return, Birdman alone are better than anything Blanchett and dare I say Kidman has done over the last decade (although Blanchett in Mrs America and Kidman in BLL >>>>). And she's awesome in both. She just hasn't been lucky with her roles in past few years but maybe this is just a die-hard fan talking! I so wish she gets cast in Lynch's next.
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Post by stabcaesar on Jan 27, 2021 5:05:31 GMT
Come on guys, Watts' 2010s career hasn't been THAT disastrous. Twin Peaks the Return, Birdman alone are better than anything Blanchett and dare I say Kidman has done over the last decade (although Blanchett in Mrs America and Kidman in BLL >>>>). And she's awesome in both. She just hasn't been lucky with her roles in past few years but maybe this is just a die-hard fan talking! I so wish she gets cast in Lynch's next. I feel like people say Watts' career has been bad is not so much that she hasn't been in anything good, but that she's been attached to many stinkers.
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