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Post by stephen on Apr 4, 2023 13:48:39 GMT
Based on the acclaimed trilogy by crime lit legend Don Winslow, Butler is also coming on as a producer.
This is an intriguing move because Winslow is a quality author, but I'll reserve my excitement until we know who's writing and directing. But this has potential.
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Post by stephen on Apr 16, 2024 18:19:34 GMT
Mr. Celine Song's first Oscar nomination?
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Post by franklin on Apr 16, 2024 20:16:24 GMT
Who will direct it??
Ridley Scott?
Micheal Mann?
Other suggestions?
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Post by quetee on Apr 16, 2024 22:45:35 GMT
He's making interesting choices.
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Post by stephen on Apr 16, 2024 23:28:46 GMT
Who will direct it?? Ridley Scott? Micheal Mann? Other suggestions? Actually, considering her husband is scripting it, I want to see a Celine Song mob movie. We know what we'd get from Scott and Mann; let me see something completely out of left field. |
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Post by mhynson27 on Apr 16, 2024 23:48:40 GMT
Mr. Celine Song's first Oscar nomination? Honestly, he could very well get it for Challengers. |
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Post by pupdurcs on Apr 17, 2024 0:18:07 GMT
Who will direct it?? Ridley Scott? Micheal Mann? Other suggestions? Actually, considering her husband is scripting it, I want to see a Celine Song mob movie. We know what we'd get from Scott and Mann; let me see something completely out of left field. on paper sounds like it could be a epic crime/mob movie, the likes of which we haven't seen in a long while. I don't think you want to pick directors for which this would be an experiment, or a genre they are cutting their teeth with ( look how terribly Gangster Squad turned out, with that great cast. Much of that was down to picking a director who was trying out the genre for the first time). It's logical to go with guys who have done the genre before and pulled it off to significant acclaim and commercial success like Mann & Scott. If you want to do a new mob movie that can enter the pantheon, the usual suspects are the safest bet (too bad Scorsese probably is off the table). It'd be incredible to have a new Hollywood mob movie enter the pantheon. If you can't get any of the old sure things, I'd try to find someone younger or newer who has directed at least one crime film to significant acclaim. Like Nick Rowland, who directed Calm With Horses ( only issue with him is he's very untested at the higher budget commercial level) . Matt Reeves would be fantastic, as The Batman is basically a grounded crime/mob movie in superhero clothing. Live By Night was not good, but The Town was, so I'd consider Ben Affleck as well. My personal pick would be Reeves. |
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Post by stephen on Apr 17, 2024 0:39:09 GMT
Actually, considering her husband is scripting it, I want to see a Celine Song mob movie. We know what we'd get from Scott and Mann; let me see something completely out of left field. on paper sounds like it could be a epic crime/mob movie, the likes of which we haven't seen in a long while. I don't think you want to pick directors for which this would be an experiment, or a genre they are cutting their teeth with ( look how terribly Gangster Squad turned out, with that great cast. Much of that was down to picking a director who was trying out the genre for the first time). It's logical to go with guys who have done the genre before and pulled it off to significant acclaim and commercial success like Mann & Scott. If you want to do a new mob movie that can enter the pantheon, the usual suspects are the safest bet (too bad Scorsese probably is off the table). It'd be incredible to have a new Hollywood mob movie enter the pantheon. If you can't get any of the old sure things, I'd try to find someone younger or newer who has directed at least one crime film to significant acclaim. Like Nick Rowland, who directed Calm With Horses ( only issue with him is he's very untested at the higher budget commercial level) . Matt Reeves would be fantastic, as The Batman is basically a grounded crime/mob movie in superhero clothing. Live By Night was not good, but The Town was, so I'd consider Ben Affleck as well. My personal pick would be Reeves. Meh, I think if you don't take a risk in this business with art, you find yourself in a creatively bankrupt industry. Rowland and Reeves and Affleck and Michael R. Roskam are names I considered but I feel like I know what kind of movie those guys would make because, well, they've made them already. But it doesn't require a particularly masculine sensibility to do it; Kathryn Bigelow would nail this material to the fucking wall with one hand behind her back (and now she's apparently free of any engagements thanks to Netflix). But I look at someone like Song, coming out of the gate hot on her debut with such adept skill that you'd think she had a dozen movies under her belt already, as someone who could have a lot of untapped potential, and she likely knows the novel if her husband is working on the script and he's bouncing ideas off of her. |
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Post by Billy_Costigan on Apr 17, 2024 15:45:45 GMT
Love Winslow. I'll check out the book soon.
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