The rather gorgeous Eva Green and Ewan McGregor are set to star in David Mackenzie’s “Last Word,” which is an apocalyptic-sounding story about two people who fall in love as the world begins to fall apart. Mackenzie and McGregor last worked together on the 2003 drama “Young Adam.” “Last Word,” is just the working title for now. As much as some people hate it, Green’s debut in “The Dreamers” is excellent and it’s one of our favorite films of this decade.
Remember when some of us worried about the way Dimension Films was selling John Hillcoat’s “The Road,” choosing to insert scenes of apocalyptic destruction that had nothing to do with the film into the trailers? Hillcoat worried too. “Well, yeah — there was controversy. From me as well.” he told Movieline at TIFF. “Their argument was to give them a little more context, and try to show the more genre elements to that audience. And then, in time, with other stuff — there are going to be a few more teaser trailers to come — they were going to refer more to the book. So it’s those two [approaches], and I can understand that from a marketing point of view.”
The L.A Times has an interesting read about Sonny Gerasimowicz, the former-graffiti artist turned ad agency creative, hired by Spike Jonze to draw mock-ups and bring the creatures to life in “Where The Wild Things Are,” despite his inexperience. It sounds like a difficult gig. “I would give [Jim Henson Co.’s Creature Shop people] aesthetic direction, ‘What if we kind of did this a little bit?’ And they’d be, like, ‘That’s a cool thought.’ But they would keep moving with what they were doing,” he said.
Robert Redford will be shooting his next picture, the post-Civil War film, “The Conspirator” in Savannah, Georgia. The picture will start shooting in the fall. James McAvoy is being eyed for the lead (more details here).
So much for our theory about ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean 4’s sub-title “On Stranger Tides” not being related to the pirate novel of the same name by Tim Powers. Asked whether whether these title similarities were coincidence or not, Powers’ literary agent said, “I can tell you it is not a coincidence.”