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The Venom trailer isn't all that great, but I'll be seeing it on the big screen just for him.
Again!
Good for us. He makes good films, behind and in front of the camera. I enjoyed Hacksaw Ridge and Blood Father.
It's a movie ticket subscription service. Since Aug of 2017, it allowed subscribers to see one film per day for a monthly fee of $9.95. Needless to say, the company quickly began to lose money and they have continually been changing the terms of the deal to stay afloat.
I didn't take advantage of the service as much as many others have, but it certainly was still worth it. I've seen about 20 films with the MoviePass over the past 11 months, many others seen well over 100!
I'm not sure if I will cancel my subscription or ride it out a bit longer to see how things unfold. I've already paid my dues for August, so I'll at least try to milk the service as much as I can before the next billing cycle.
Sounds like an interesting subscription service idea, but it's understandable that it might be a difficult service to keep going. I don't go to the movies often, so I wouldn't know - but how many people go to the cinema that often?
That looks nothing like Al Capone. Not even close. I'm afraid Hardy is starting to become a parody of himself: he'll play Capone as a slurring, mumbling, thuggish simpleton akin to The Drop and what he seems to be doing again in Venom.
And given the variety of Hardy´s roles I find it premature to assume how he will go about this one. Or are you also assuming that the front line of the wig will be as visible in the movie as it is on all set fotos released so far?
And no matter which direction they are going in, they want to catch the truth or essence of the man. That's the whole point of filmmaking and making a bio-pic. What they've presented thus far (from the script to the photos), is a vaudeville-like villain, and not the frightening, manipulative, most powerful man of his era.
There's a reason-- after all of Capone's sins-- they could only get him on tax evasion. He was quite a special type of criminal.
This script, and the film that's already in the can (with no release date as of yet), will only show the stereotypical-thug.
Rebecca Ferguson has joined the cast of the upcoming Men in Black spin-off, alongside Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson and Liam Neeson.
And the description I read about the film sounds more like a drama than a bio-pic.
He's one of the more watchable actors of his generation as far as I'm concerned, and I've been quite impressed by him in most of the films I've seen him in, irrespective of the actual quality of those films.
I'll surely check out this Capone thing too, but may wait for a blu ray release. I'm not all that familiar with his biography apart from the obvious, so I'm sure it will be interesting to me irrespective of any factual inaccuracies.
-- Ferguson, Thompson and Neeson in one film? Wow. This will be the first MiB I actually see then.
It was a reaction on my part @boldfinger, when i first commented on the picture. That was all. And yes, they’re going for a “dramatic” flavour interspersing his declining years (he suffered from neurosyphilis and cocaine addiction), with flashbacks to his past
WOW! Can't remember the last time I saw a cast as great as this!
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Ray Winstone though; hard to look at him the same way after having watched this from The Trip :))
https://deadline.com/2018/08/stan-ollie-london-film-festival-first-look-johnc-reilly-steve-coogan-1202439418/
Thats how you capture an essence of the character and translate it onto actors who play the role. I'm looking forward to this one!
https://www.slashfilm.com/die-hard-year-one-details/
But I´m always happy if Steve Coogan is busy, I´m a big admirer and think he should get more interesting roles. He was amazing in The Alibi.
First clip of Peter Berg's Mile 22, starring Mark Wahlberg, Iko Uwais and John Malkovitch:
I love the Untouchables as kind of a comic-book noir depiction of the time (plus love Connery as an "Irish" cop), but DeNiro played the thug. And if the pics of Hardy (after all, a picture says a thousand words), and script is anything to go by, he will also be playing a malicious thug.
The thing about Capone is he was very soft-spoken, looked like a cuddly teddy bear, even acted like one; he opened a soup kitchen that fed many out of work men, women and children.
He took kids to baseball games.
You could invite him over to supper.
He was lovable Uncle Al to his nieces and nephews.
And that's what made him terrifying-- 'cause if he thought you were off-side, he would crush your skull with a baseball bat (yes, that was one thing the Untouchables got right (although it was in an off-the-beaten-path roadhouse that he did this, and; it was against TWO men who had betrayed him)).
There was a genuine side to him and he HATED his scars-- he went so far to put make-up over them to try and conceal them. And when anyone asked about them, he said he got them in the war.
Does this guy look like he could hurt a fly??:
jovial Al:
https://www.thoughtco.com/al-capone-1779788
a cuddly mugshot:
https://www.history.com/topics/prohibition/pictures/al-capone-and-prohibition/mugshot-of-gangster-al-capone
and this is when he was quite ill with neurosyphillis (which Hardy will also be portraying):
https://www.fbi.gov/image-repository/capone-mug-shot-1939.jpg/view
Perhaps it is the way of Hollywood scripts to drift away so far from real history with all its re-writes, or I could also imagine that sometimes a studio has a script in the drawer, thinks it lacks something, and then decides to give the protagonist the name of some historical figure with the intention (justified or not) to make the protagonist more interesting. And rushed scriptwriting could also come in of course ;-).
That was cool! Can´t wait for the film.