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Brazilian Actress Alice Braga Joins Sci-fi Elysium
The niece of Sonia Braga, Alice Braga is the next actor to sign up for active duty in Neill Blomkamp‘s forthcoming sci-fi film Elysium.
New The Rite Poster
Warner Bros has debuted a new poster for a movie called The Rite.
Directed by Mikael Hafstroem, who previously did the Stephen King adaptation 1408 and most recently did the period drama Shanghai, The Rite is a supernatural thriller that uncovers the devil’s reach to even one of the holiest places on Earth.
Alice Braga, Ciaran Hinds and Toby Jones Join The Rite
Ok, we already had a little chat about Mikael Hafstrom’s adaptation of Matt Baglio’s novel The Rite, so you all remember that legendary Anthony Hopkins will star in this upcoming New Line/Warner Bros. supernatural thriller, along with Colin O’Donoghue, right?
Ok then, now we are here to report that Alice Braga, Ciaran Hinds and Toby Jones have joined the cast as well…
This story based on true events and centers on a disillusioned American seminary student who attends exorcism school at the Vatican and ultimately finds his faith through encounters with demonic forces.
”Blindness” New Trailer and Character Posters
‘‘Blindness”, adapted from the 1995 novel by Nobel laureate José Saramago, is Fernando Meirelles‘ third film, after his heralded 2002 thriller “City of God” and 2005′s “The Constant Gardener“.”Blindness” movie, an apocalyptic nightmare, urban collapse, opened Cannes Film Festival 2008 and also was in Competition.
Although Saramago’s book was published more then 10 years ago, he declined to sell rights to the book for years. He resisted because it’s a violent book about social degradation and rape. Saramago didn’t want it given the typical Hollywood horror treatment.
Meirelles convinced Saramago only after his producer and screenwriter traveled to the Canary Islands and spent two days with the novelist discussing the potential of a new visual allegory about the fragility of civilization.
In an unnamed city of the near future, a terrifying epidemic of “white blindness”, the sufferers seeing only milky white light, spreads like wildfire.
As the shuffling inmates become used to their blindness, they experience a crisis, being and being perceived: they see no one and no one sees them. Do they exist? Did they exist before? Other inmates, however, see a new equality or democracy in blindness: young and old, ugly and beautiful, all are levelled.
And all the time Julianne Moore, exiled from the community of suffering, must endure a vision of horror from which everyone else is spared. She has characteristically strong performance as a lone figure who retains her eyesight, bearing sad but heroic witness to the horrors around her.
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Writer: Don McKellar
Starring: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Gael Garcia Bernal, Danny Glover, Alice Braga, Yusuke Iseya and Yoshino Kimura.
Release: September 19, 2008
watch the trailer after the jump
‘Blindness’ Premiere – Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes film festival opens tonight with ‘Blindness‘, an apocalyptic nightmare adapted from the 1995 novel by Nobel laureate José Saramago and directed by Fernando Meirelles. The film is superbly photographed by Cesar Charlone.
In an unnamed city of the near future, a terrifying epidemic of “white blindness” – the sufferers seeing only milky white light – spreads like wildfire. The infection’s ground zero is a Japanese businessman (Yusuke Iseya) who staggers sightlessly from his luxury automobile which is promptly stolen by an opportunist thief who also goes blind.
