Tag: Christopher McQuarrie
Nicholas Hoult is Jack in Bryan Singer’s Jack the Giant Killer
Nicholas Hoult is in negotiations to play the lead role in Bryan Singer‘s upcoming Jack the Giant Killer.
We already knew that Singer has been searching for a young actor to star in his fantasy epic for a while, and now, Hoult is in negotiations to take on the role of a young farmer who leads a party into the land of the giants in order to rescue a princess.
The script is written by Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects), Mark Bomback (Live Free or Die Hard) and Darren Lemke (Shrek Forever After) and, according to Deadline, Jack the Giant Killer is:
The Tourist Trailer #2
Check out a second trailer for Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck directed spy thriller The Tourist.
The Tourist revolves around Frank (Johnny Depp), an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise (Angelina Jolie) is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path. Against the breathtaking backdrop of Venice, Frank pursues a potential romance but soon finds himself the pursued as he and Elise are caught in a whirlwind of intrigue and danger.
The Tourist Poster
Here’s a poster for the upcoming Angelina Jolie-Johnny Depp romantic spy thriller, The Tourist.
The Tourist revolves around Frank (Depp), an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise (Jolie) is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path. Against the breathtaking backdrop of Venice, Frank pursues a potential romance but soon finds himself the pursued as he and Elise are caught in a whirlwind of intrigue and danger.
The Tourist Trailer Hits The Web!
Columbia Pictures has revealed the trailer for the upcoming drama-thriller The Tourist, starring Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Paul Bettany, Rufus Sewell, Timothy Dalton and Steven Berkoff.
Depp stars as an American tourist whose playful dalliance with a stranger leads to a web of intrigue, romance and danger in The Tourist. During an impromptu trip to Europe to mend a broken heart, Frank (Depp) unexpectedly finds himself in a flirtatious encounter with Elise (Angelina Jolie), an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path. Against the breathtaking backdrop of Paris and Venice, their whirlwind romance quickly evolves as they find themselves unwittingly thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse.
The Tourist Trailer Debuts This Wednesday
Moviegoers eager for their first look of The Tourist, the highly anticipated thriller starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie, will be able to catch the new theatrical trailer for the film, on the internet Wednesday, September 15th exclusively on Yahoo! The film will be released in theaters nationwide on December 10, 2010.
The trailer will debut exclusively on Yahoo! for two-hours from 9:00 am to 11:00 am (PDT). Following the exclusive online break, the trailer will be sent via satellite to media outlets worldwide. The trailer will debut in theaters beginning September 17th attached to The Town.
Angelina Jolie in Unforgiven Written by Christopher McQuarrie
She is currently busy with her upcoming Bosnian war love drama (that we already reported about), and she already has a new project waiting for her! Damn, it’s nice to be Angelina Jolie in a Hollywood nowadays!
Usual Suspects scribe Christopher McQuarrie is currently working on a draft of a remake of Unforgiven, with Angelina Jolie in mind for the lead role in a story that follows:
“…Ruth, who has spent half of her life imprisoned, and now faces the daunting prospect of rebuilding her life whilst being irresistibly drawn to the place that haunts her, Upper Hanging Stones Farm.
In spite of trying to focus on the future and her new boyfriend Brad, Ruth is unable to forget her past and the sister, Katie, who she was forced to leave behind. Outraged to hear that the woman who killed their father has been released, Kieran and Steve Whelan are eager to seek revenge. Believing that life should mean life, the two brothers decide to take the law into their own hands.
But just how far are they capable of going? Can they really do to her what she did to their father? As the details about Ruth’s past become known, maintaining a job, friendship and a relationship become increasingly arduous. Ruth soon realises that the ramifications of her release spread further than she could have imagined, with far reaching implications for everyone involved.”
Hugh Jackman Out of Avon Man, In for Wolverine 2
Hugh Jackman‘s new decision goes like this: Avon Man is OUT, Wolverine is IN!
Australian actor has backed out of a role of “an unemployed car dealer who swaps motors for cosmetics and becomes Avon’s top selling door-to-door representative” to prepare for the next Wolverine blockbuster. Well, that, kind of, makes sense, right?
But he’s still involved with the Avon Man project as a producer, an who knows, maybe this kind of role would have been something interesting for a guy like Jackman.
Christopher McQuarrie To Re-Write and Direct One Shot Adaptation
Christopher McQuarrie, well-known Oscar-winning writer of The Usual Suspects, has been hired to rework the Paramount thriller One Shot, with an eye to direct the whole thing as well.
His directorial debut was with the 2000 film, The Way of the Gun and he hasn’t directed any additional films since then, so we guess this could be just the perfect time…
The project is based on a series of novels written by Lee Child that center on Jack Reacher, a military police officer-turned-drifter.
The story of One Shot, the ninth book in the series, centers on “Jack Reacher, a military police officer-turned-drifter. He’s not looking for trouble. Sometimes trouble looks for Reacher.
A lone gunman hides in a parking garage and shoots into a crowd in a public plaza in a small Indiana city. Five random people die in a senseless massacre. The shooter leaves a perfect trail behind him and the police quickly track him down. But that’s where the real tale begins.”
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck to Direct Angelina Jolie in “The Tourist”
While it was rumored last week, IGN has now confirmed that Angelina Jolie will be replacing Charlize Theron and Variety now says that Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is tipped to direct Spyglass thriller “The Tourist” which is set to start production in February 2010.
“The Tourist” will be the first movie for von Donnersmarck since the German director’s 2006 breakout The Lives of Others, which won the Academy Award for foreign-language film.
