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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 29, 2021 17:28:22 GMT
Also John Sayles was working in a competing project then,
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Post by mllemass on Oct 29, 2021 19:15:09 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 29, 2021 19:53:39 GMT
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Post by Hannah Lee on Oct 29, 2021 20:49:52 GMT
Also John Sayles was Aldo working in a competing project then, Sayles does a lot of script work on various projects, I think sometimes without it widely known. He must be pretty involved if he mentioned it. It’s so strange to me how often films on the same topic, character come into production, release at the same time, even if they’ve taken wildly different routes in development on different timelines. Also, Sayles is one of my favorite directors, filmmakers… he really gets inside the humanity of the characters he presents (even when they aren’t human) I’d love for him to work with BC some day. I’ve been teeing up Campion’s films to watch/rewatch lately… I think I’m going to add a Sayles film or two into the mix, as it’s been a year or years since I’ve seen any of them.
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 29, 2021 21:35:05 GMT
I haven't watched a lot of John Sayles but yes, I really like his work. I think he is a very political filmmaker but mostly as someone who champions working class stories than someone interested on geopolitics.
It would had been interesting!
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 31, 2021 18:22:24 GMT
The “rival” project angle is predictable only a UK thing, cultbox.co.uk/news/benedict-cumberbatch-also-cast-as-litvinenko-for-hboI haven’t finished the book yet but it reads almost like a mafia story. Litvinenko seemed mostly a pawn in a political and business war between much more powerful players.The author is a journalist and he takes in consideration sometimes opposite views about the “characters” in the story so, for example, you have a version that he was a “smoth” kind of benign interrogator in Chechnya but also that he was a “torturer”. Anyway, that experience should had affected him in some way because he rebelled against the system after the war and later aligned with Chechens. In big part, helped by his relationship with a very prominent Russian tycoon called Berezovsky (he died in a very mysterious circumstance, by the way!). A very polemic man who confronted Putin. I have seen a few tweets in Russian disdainfully calling Litvinenko, the Berezovsky‘s man. There was undoubtedly a smear campaign against these men by Putin’s government but it’s also clear that they weren’t saints. It’s not a typical story of brave dissenters against corrupt dictators. It’s much more morally complex than that. So yeah, it seems they are very different projects. The other one seems to be about a woman searching for justice meanwhile the scope of this book seems much bigger and complex. The Berezovsky role should be attractive for a 60 years old actor to play.
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Post by onebluestocking on Nov 1, 2021 18:55:34 GMT
Weighing in late, to say that I'm really enjoying David Tennant in Good Omens. It's a demonic character, so still in the fantasy/sci fi genre, but he seems perfectly cast. I loved him in Broadchurch, too.
This project sounds interesting. As usual, it will sound superficially similar to other BC roles, but he will play the character totally differently. Remember when people thought Alan Turing would be like Sherlock?
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Post by sgev1977 on Nov 1, 2021 19:33:12 GMT
I didn’t liked Good Omens! Lol I watched it for BC and, of course, it was disappointing because he was barely there and I had to watch the whole boring silly thing to watch “his” episode! By the way, some Tennant (or Michael Sheen’s?) fans were angry when BC was announced by Neil Gaiman! I just remembered it! They thought Gaiman/BC wanted to stole some spotlight from the stars or something similar! I guess the “rivalry” of the fandoms is long but I tend to forget it! Lol The thing that bothered me was when some fans of the show accused BC’s fans of “ridiculously” fan casting BC and Tom Hiddleston in the main roles years before the series was made. I mean TH was totally a fan cast but the author of the book, the one who died not Gaiman, was the one who said he wanted BC for one of the roles!
If the script respects the book and logic says they should because it’s their source, the role is far from a “typical” BC’s role. He was a man from very humble origin, raised by a single mother who had to beg for free milk to feed him when he was a baby so not posh at all; he wasn’t very smart neither. His first wife described him as someone who could barely write or even properly speak; He was a spy but not a “classic” spy. Actually some critics say he wasn’t one even when he worked in the KGB because he never worked outside his country spying enemies. He mostly spied his own. His work was to being attentive and snitched on coworkers (and again according to the ex-wife even family, she claimed that he snitched on her after she casually said to him something political and she ended being interrogated by the KGB!) so not exactly Alan Turing/ Greville Wynne heroic spying!
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Post by sgev1977 on Nov 1, 2021 20:37:05 GMT
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Post by MagdaFR on Jan 7, 2022 4:20:19 GMT
What happened to this? The writer was going to be David Scarpa (who wrote scripts for Ridley Scott, the Napoleon movie included). There is nothing about it on his imdb page.
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