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Post by Mattsby on Jun 14, 2018 21:11:29 GMT
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Post by Viced on Jun 14, 2018 21:24:51 GMT
I'm seeing Willem Dafoe:  |
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Post by stephen on Jun 14, 2018 21:26:59 GMT
In. I'm in. Don't need to see anymore, but for shits and giggles...
Cage. CAGE. Werner, this is prime Cage material and you need to make. That. Shit. Happen.
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Post by Mattsby on Jun 14, 2018 21:27:01 GMT
Viced In that deadline article, did you snipe this.... that the writer here is "also currently writing Ferrari for Robert De Niro and Barry Levinson. "
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Post by Viced on Jun 14, 2018 21:30:06 GMT
Viced In that deadline article, did you snipe this.... that the writer here is "also currently writing Ferrari for Robert De Niro and Barry Levinson. " Holy shit.... hmmmmm.... must be HBO. I'm game. |
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Post by Mattsby on Jun 14, 2018 21:37:21 GMT
Cage. CAGE. Werner, this is prime Cage material and you need to make. That. Shit. Happen. YES. What worries me is if Cage simply doesn't wanna do a series. And funny enough, he's never really played a real-life person. Charlie Kaufman and Gary Faulkner were more like fictional variations. Herzog's worked with Dafoe, who could work. The creative team also worked with Penn and Ed Harris.... all solid options. |
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Post by stephen on Jun 14, 2018 21:41:08 GMT
Cage. CAGE. Werner, this is prime Cage material and you need to make. That. Shit. Happen. YES. What worries me is if Cage simply doesn't wanna do a series. And funny enough, he's never really played a real-life person. Charlie Kaufman and Gary Faulkner were more like fictional variations. Herzog's worked with Dafoe, who could work. The creative team also worked with Penn and Ed Harris.... all solid options. Not entirely true. He played Captain Charles McVay in that godawful Indianapolis movie and John McLoughlin in World Trade Center. Plus are you gonna sit there and tell me that Sailor Ripley isn't a real human bean? How naive you are. I'd love a Bad Lieutenant reunion with Cage, Shannon, Whigham, Dourif . . . that cast is stacked with all sorts of awesome "that guy!" actors. Dafoe, Penn and Harris are solid choices (and I am in love with the idea of Werner tapping into Ed Harris's wellspring of rage), but Cage/Herzog is the closest we can get to that old-school Kinski pairing of sheer unpredictable awesomeness. |
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Post by Mattsby on Jun 14, 2018 21:42:36 GMT
Viced In that deadline article, did you snipe this.... that the writer here is "also currently writing Ferrari for Robert De Niro and Barry Levinson. " Holy shit.... hmmmmm.... must be HBO. I'm game. De Niro in 2015 mentioned a Ferrari project with Clint Eastwood circling as director, and it was called a "priority" but there haven't been updates since this. First mention of Levinson, which definitely rings HBO. But..... there's the James Mangold pic Ford vs Ferrari shooting soon and Mann's pic with Hugh Jackman apparently shooting later this year. Might put the squeeze on this one. |
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Post by Mattsby on Jun 14, 2018 21:46:22 GMT
Not entirely true. He played Captain Charles McVay in that godawful Indianapolis movie and John McLoughlin in World Trade Center. Touche, didn't pick up on those. For a guy who welcomes the VOD platform like he does, and loves to work nonstop, you'd think a miniseries or something long form would appeal to him. And like you said him and Herzog are a perfect pair. Here's hopin' .... |
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Post by stephen on Jun 14, 2018 21:57:29 GMT
Not entirely true. He played Captain Charles McVay in that godawful Indianapolis movie and John McLoughlin in World Trade Center. Touche, didn't pick up on those. For a guy who welcomes the VOD platform like he does, and loves to work nonstop, you'd think a miniseries or something long form would appeal to him. And like you said him and Herzog are a perfect pair. Here's hopin' .... Indeed. Cage has always been a proponent of avant-garde methods of acting and presentation, so you'd think a TV series would be perfect for him . . . but I guess that his reputation brings a heckuva lot of baggage to it in terms of reliability, which I think is largely overblown. Whatever his personal issues with money and the like might be, Cage is still a professional and has always treated the craft with the highest respect. In any case, Herzog's been in a bit of a slump for me these last few years, but I know the man is capable of a few more grand slams, and television seems like a fantastic place for him to explore in a narrative sense. |
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jun 14, 2018 22:08:30 GMT
Unless they're making this a comedy, I don't see it working in the slightest.
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Post by Mattsby on Sept 11, 2018 17:56:52 GMT
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Post by Mattsby on Sept 4, 2019 1:48:02 GMT
Little update....
from Ashok Amritaj the producer's online bio...
AMC is also listed on its IMDb now too......
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Post by Mattsby on Jun 20, 2020 0:07:27 GMT
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Post by Mattsby on Jun 27, 2020 21:48:23 GMT
 free "screening" on MUBI, July 3rd with Herzog Q&A. also this is his first feature credit as cinematographer! |
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Post by jakesully on Jun 28, 2020 15:34:29 GMT
No new news from me but I did want to say he was great in that 1st jack Reacher film with Tom Cruise as "The Zec".
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Post by Mattsby on Jul 6, 2020 3:11:31 GMT
www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/werner-herzog-family-romance-llc-working-baby-yoda-1301774Another movie this year! Good interview. He also mentions the real company Family Romance has 1,400 employees which is crazy - I didn't get that impression from the film. So fascinating, he could've/should've made a deeper documentary on the company around his little feature. Family Romance LLC (2020) 7ish/10 - will probably be seen as a minor Herzog - low budget, shot guerrilla-style with a crew of about four (including his son). But the smallness of the movie, the amateur actors, and projected arc are outweighed by its flood of timely themes and detail - the pretend of social media, role-playing as therapy, authenticity as a thing of the past, more broadly what we seek and need in contemporary times (we can now "buy" attention), and the meta-performance - Yuichi Ishii the protagonist is the actual owner of Family Romance, playing out fictionalized scenes as a version of himself, and then role-playing within those scenes. This is overall very interesting and sensitively done by Herzog, who slides around cleverly - how we don't realize several people are hired participants. Even though this isn't a total documentary it does merge the doc with the mock - how he captures the busyness and oddities and rituals of Tokyo against the staged situations. Groups play-acting seppuku, photo-booths with face-altering options, robotic fish, cherry blossoms, etc. Across it all, a viral human loneliness, ponging between technology (would fit in a double bill with his Lo and Behold doc). One lady wins 180k in the lottery and can only think of spending the money on recreating the moment. There are some flaws, a really cheap looking dream sequence..... And the penultimate scene where the lead over-explains in blatantly written dialogue, it saps the ending scene, which comes close to perfection, of its mystery and meaning, a man with so many masks, thawing before returning to his own family?
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Post by Mattsby on Sept 14, 2020 17:08:55 GMT
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Post by Mattsby on Apr 23, 2021 22:37:50 GMT
Ariel Leon Isacovtich, a young Chilean producer was interviewed recently and said he's been working with Herzog on a few projects.... one currently filming about neurotechnology and neurolaw ... and another.... “A film to be shot in Sierra Leone, with actor Viggo Mortensen in the leading role, which is currently in the funding stage.”
Awesome pairing, idk what the project is - could it possibly be Fordlandia? - but I hope it happens! Herzog in February moderated a Q&A with Viggo for his movie Falling, so it seems they've certainly been in touch.
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Post by Mattsby on Apr 27, 2022 2:03:13 GMT
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