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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 23, 2019 22:01:44 GMT
Just great news all around lately - new Replacements music coming, I saw a good review today that mentioned Pacino in OUATIH (Rolling Stone - one sentence - just said he was a having ball, that'll do I guess, helps that filmography dontchaknow), Lear's not dead - fnck yeah! - and I saw something the other day where they're almost done filming on his TV show.
Since I assume he has to do interviews for The Irishman maybe he'll have some info on the film later this fall......I would love his take on the non-McKellen Lear portrayals too......McKellen I know he had admired in an earlier incarnation.
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 13, 2020 22:11:54 GMT
two things from today -
1) from a Pacino interview with The Times (UK) - can't access the article but I tricked Google a little; here's what he said before the interviewer cuts him off:
"My hope is that I'll get through this next phase of my life with all the stuff that's going on and look at Lear again — seriously thinking about making a film of it. I wouldn't do it on stage. It's not what I want to go on stage with, Lear, but in a film..."
2) a press release today for a production company called Tiny Apples headed by Julie Pacino (Al's oldest daughter) mentions that they are "set to co-executive produce King Lear" - and they are listed on Lear's IMDb page under associated production companies. Idk if Pacino has ever worked with his daughter in any way but it might add some extra meaning behind the pic and might hopefully get him to finally do it!!
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 18, 2020 22:18:08 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000fgf1It's just the first 11 minutes - a new interview promoting Hunters, but he mostly talks Shakespeare. He mentions Hamlet again and honestly don't know if he's joking - he should be talking Iago if not the big one. And he does give a little more here on Lear than usual - and you get a sense it's something he's been deeply thinking about and wrestling with and mentions Peter Brook's Lear pretty much as the peak adaptation he's sort of striving for, when he eventually goes for it.........
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 18, 2020 23:07:39 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000fgf1It's just the first 11 minutes - a new interview promoting Hunters, but he mostly talks Shakespeare. He mentions Hamlet again and honestly don't know if he's joking - he should be talking Iago if not the big one. And he does give a little more here on Lear than usual - and you get a sense it's something he's been deeply thinking about and wrestling with and mentions Peter Brook's Lear pretty much as the peak adaptation he's sort of striving for, when he eventually goes for it......... I think the Brook version is basically the definitive way to do Lear on film - both in how it's played by Scofield and also how Brook stages it. Very quiet and ominous and layered in the staging - if anything it feels like Bergman's Lear. It really shows you how actors change - there's a video on Youtube I think (may have been taken down now?) where he as a young actor is talking about Richard III and he says he hasn't seen Olivier's Richard - which is ridiculous and possibly a lie. You can also read him saying this in his Playboy '79 interview. Now I imagine he's seen every Lear production and taken notes on it........like I always say in a wild career, coming to a close that saw him miss out on Hamlet (opposite Streep!), the film version of American Buffalo, and the stage version of The Iceman Cometh (among others), not doing Lear would be a huge and an awful miss.
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 6, 2020 23:13:12 GMT
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Post by Mattsby on May 9, 2022 21:13:55 GMT
Something is brewing! I don't recognize the other actors, but there's Pacino's producer Barry to the right, and to the left director Michael Almereyda (Ethan Hawke's Hamlet, Experimenter, Tesla). I don't think he directs theater? Could it be.... a staged rehearsal for Pacino, to prepare for the movie..... or perhaps he said 'forget a big budget movie, let's just do it ' ....and got Almereyda to capture it in his thriftily crafted way. ???
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Post by Mattsby on May 9, 2022 21:18:26 GMT
Pretty sure Pacino's hat says LEAR on it. Wrap gift? What is thisssss*
*UPDATE: One of the actors posted on Instagram (not sure how to share the post but here's the text).
"This last week I had the honor of participating in a week long workshop he organized to develop the Shakespeare play King Lear. He had me play Kent which is the loyal soldier / servant / advisor to the King. I got to sit right next to him and play scenes as if he were my Royal liege. It was such an honor to watch him work and to see him come alive around other theatre artists. At his heart he is a true theatre actor. He had so many stories to tell about his work on the stage and how he feels most at home among theatre actors. You know they say you shouldn’t meet your heroes because you will be disappointed. In this case I was blown away at his humility, generosity, curiosity and love of the craft of story telling. I am so honored to have shared our love of Shakespeare for a week of experimentation and exploration."
Still a nice little update for us foolishly, breathlessly awaiting the movie. And after like twenty years....we may no longer have Michael Radford at the helm anymore.
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Post by pupdurcs on May 9, 2022 21:48:45 GMT
Looks like Pacino may be going down the Looking For Richard route with Lear, because I don't think he'd get a fully financed movie with a bunch of actors nobody is familiar with. Maybe he'll do bits and pieces of Lear as some sort of documentary about the play.
Otherwise, maybe he just puts out some cheaply staged filmed thing to get it off his bucket list. I feel if a properly mounted film production of King Lear starring Pacino had happened, we'd have heard about it in the trades and elsewhere.
Edit: So it's a workshop. Well, good on the guy for not giving up, but I don't see his film happening anytime soon if he's workshopping with unknown actors. And Michael Almereyda is a worrying potential director. His version of Hamlet with Ethan Hawke was terrible.
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Post by Mattsby on Apr 20, 2023 19:56:50 GMT
Per Variety, from a live event with Pacino last night in NYC.....
Well...... okay, how could they not have a script at this point! More importantly, new name alert: Bernard Rose. I'm a pretty big fan of Rose (Candyman, Immortal Beloved, Ivans xtc, Samurai Rebellion)....... Here's hoping....
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Post by cranly on Apr 21, 2023 20:46:24 GMT
Is the implication here that Rose is taking over as director for Radford? Radford usually writes all of his own stuff...
And here I had been getting used to the idea that Michael Almereyda was going to direct, after Pacino held that workshop version of the play with him last year.
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Post by Mattsby on Apr 21, 2023 21:11:29 GMT
Is the implication here that Rose is taking over as director for Radford? Radford usually writes all of his own stuff... And here I had been getting used to the idea that Michael Almereyda was going to direct, after Pacino held that workshop version of the play with him last year. I'm wondering Pacino's exact phrasing; Variety makes it sound a little vague by only referring to Rose as the writer. Radford seems gone, for sure... even the IMDb page, that's been up forever, has been scrubbed. I kinda liked Almereyda for it... especially off Pacino's relayed request that his Lear be similar in scale to Dreyer's Joan of Arc. Rose makes less sense, he's never adapted Shakespeare I don't think? But he lives near Pacino and they have friends (Danny Huston) very much in common (Huston is likely in the cast, as well). He often gets Philip Glass to compose his movies too, so that's another little hopeful element. Rose did a Q&A with Pacino a few weeks ago at a Revolution screening, so they've been keeping company lately. The general good news here is he's saying he's doing it. I love any little update but at some point.... y'know, he has to actually do it. C'mon, Al !
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Post by pacinoyes on May 29, 2023 5:31:58 GMT
Rose confirms - and this is current - that he wrote Lear after Al asked him to do it out of the blue - it is @1:49:10 - "we are very much working on that right now - it's an exciting thing" - doesn't say much or say he's directing it specfically....but confirms and smiles and shit..... This is a pretty cool interview mostly about Candyman, a little before the Lear thing he freaks out about Barry Lyndon not being shot by all candlelight which is pretty great and gets into "movie myths" .......talks a bit about Rock and Roll, horror films, his career, the Relax video that he directed by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Pandemic madness......interesting guy......
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Post by cranly on May 30, 2023 1:07:38 GMT
Bernard Rose confirmed that he's attached as director via his twitter account. Now I'm wondering if this will be one of Rose's more classical-style period films (Immortal Beloved, Anna Karenina, Samurai Marathon), or closer to his micro-budget contemporized digital riffs on Tolstoy (Ivansxtc, Boxing Day, etc.)...
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Post by Mattsby on Sept 7, 2023 1:50:29 GMT
Sorry no real update, but here's the writer-director today being confident enough to tease that it's happening... Btw: Rose has worked with Oldman, Alfred Molina, Jared Harris, among others, who I wouldn't at all mind seeing show up in the cast.
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Post by Mattsby on Sept 28, 2023 2:10:29 GMT
@jamieeros Last night I saw a thrilling, once-in-a-lifetime reading of RICHARD III led by Al Pacino, Keith David, Hamish Linklater and Lily Rabe in a tiny theater. Sept 21, 2023
This was one of at least five staged readings this month, a benefit for the Shakespeare Center of LA ...... Thought I'd share. I like the cast here and I like Pacino getting Bard-prepared for, uhhhh, y'know......
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 27, 2024 19:14:07 GMT
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Post by pupdurcs on Feb 27, 2024 19:27:40 GMT
Good for Pacino for finally getting this off the ground. And great for Chastain to repay Pacino for giving her an early career break, by lending her clout to this project ( which undoubtedly helped get the finance)
But Bernard Rose isn't ideal as writer/director. He hasn't made a good film in almost 30 years.
But fingers crossed that Pacino's passion for this project inspires some sort of creative renaissance for Rose.
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Post by franklin on Feb 27, 2024 19:27:57 GMT
Omg, is it finally happening??
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 27, 2024 20:07:05 GMT
The relationship between Chastain and Pacino is one of the sweetest things in the modern movies .........it's quite unique really
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 27, 2024 21:55:57 GMT
Assuming this is a faithful Lear and Pacino doesn't play Learonni or some weird shit it will be interesting to see how he compares with the great "filmed" Lears on film or TV: Olivier, Scofield, Hopkins, Holm, McKellen......Pacino of course played several "Lear-like" parts incluing the aged Michael Corleone who has a Cordelia moment of her own of course
The best Lear's I've seen in person was McKellen who played it differently than the filmed version of it - both quite brilliant........Hopkins is probably the closest to Pacino in that he has movie star mannerisms etc
Excited to see the rest of the cast .......it all comes down to who is the Fool after all.........
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