Tag: Coen brothers
Garrett Hedlund Joins Coen Brothers’ INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
Here’s a little casting update for the upcoming Joel and Ethan Coen‘s project Inside Llewyn Davis.
According to the latest reports, Tron: Legacy star Garrett Hedlund is in talks to join previously announced Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman and Jeanine Serralles who are all on board for this musical drama.
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS Adds Jeanine Serralles
Stage thesp Jeanine Serralles has been reportedly cast in Ethan and Joel Coen‘s forthcoming music drama Inside Llewyn Davis, which is set in the middle of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene.
Inside Llewyin Davis is loosely based on Bob Dylan’s friend Dave Van Ronk, the struggling musician from Queens who can’t seem to make ends meet, despite the fact that he’s a talented guitarist as well as singer.
Justin Timberlake Offered Lead Role in Coens INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
Coen Bros. have offered Justin Timberlake (not Bieber) a lead role in their next movie, folk music bio-pic that will be called Inside Llewyn Davis.
When you think about the fact that Inside Llewyn Davis is about the 60s folk scene in Greenwich Village and it is important that your lead can sing and act, this actually makes sense. The question is whether or not Timberlake will be up to the challenge. Taking the lead in a movie from the Coen brothers is a little bigger challenge than was The Social Network.
The Coen Brothers’ New Script Based On the Life of Folk Artist Dave Van Ronk?
When I first heard that something like this is (possibly) coming, I was like – ok, but why?
I mean, I do know that we can expect the unexpected from the Coen brothers, but folk music themed movie? That’s a real surprise! So, check it out.
According to the latest reports, Joel and Ethan Coen are making a movie about the Greenwhich Village folk scene, a movie that will be loosely based on singer Dave van Ronk!
At this moment, thanks to 24Frames we know that the script for the upcoming Coen’s project will be “loosely based” on van Dave van Ronk’s life as an influential musician and left-wing activist, and may even draw from Van Ronk’s posthumous memoir entitled The Mayor of MacDougal Street.
Van Ronk is considered the patriarch of New York City’s burgeoning coffee house scene in the mid-20th Century. He died in 2002, ushering and cultivating many popular acts such as Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell.
Alan Rickman and Tom Courtenay Join Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz for Gambit
Gambit remake is coming and as usual, we’re here for a little update!
Today we learned that Alan Rickman and Tom Courtenay have joined the cast of the project which is based on the 1966 British caper comedy that starred Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine.
Michael Hoffman is in charge to direct the whole thing and as we previously reported, the Coen Brothers are on board as scribes.
Academy Award Winner Colin Firth (The King’s Speech) and Cameron Diaz are already on board to star in this story that will center on Harry Deane (Firth), a London art curator who enlists a Texas Rodeo Queen (Diaz) in a scheme to con the richest man in England.
The Coen Brothers to Write a Full-on Horror Movie?
Joel and Ethan Coen have some interesting plans for the future.
Ok, we all know that every single genre they decide to work on turns out to be great, but now it looks that they’re are planning a full fledged horror movie!(?)
So, horror fans have a reason to be more than satisfied, because the Coen brothers revealed some interesting details in in interview with Empire:
“Funny you should ask, yes, we’re working on a couple of scripts now, one of which it would be fair to call a full-on horror movie. Frances McDormand is the monster,” said Ethan Coen when asked if he’d consider ever doing a full-on horror, as opposed to merely dabbling in the likes of Blood Simple.
Coen Brothers’ True Grit Opens Berlin Film Festival 2011
The Berlin International Film Festival, or if you prefer – the Berlinale, is one of the world’s leading film festivals, and something that’s definitely worth our attention.
And if you thought we were going to miss this spectacle – you were wrong, because we’re also curious to find out who will return home with the Golden and Silver Bears statues!
The 2011 Berlin film festival opens tonight with the Coen brothers‘ Western remake True Grit, so let’s get started.
We all know, this remake of a 1969 classic Western, is already a nominee in even 10 categories, including best picture for the upcoming Oscar. And, by the way the filmmaking team Joel and Ethan Cohen also earned Oscar nods as best director.
True Grit Review
There was a time when Joel and Ethan Coen, so rightfully highly regarded for their original screenplays and films, found their impeccable track record muddied by a brief rash of remakes and story adaptations. While this one-two punch of “Intolerable Cruelty” and “The Ladykillers” did them no favors roughly a decade ago, the triumph of their 2006 Cormac McCarthy adaptation and Oscar winner “No Country for Old Men” seemed to clarify that the primary fault of the former films may’ve been that they aren’t Westerns. (Yes, I’m one of those who consider “No Country…” a Western, if only perhaps a fringe one. Let’s go with “neo-western/noir”.) Taking any such lesson as that to heart, the Coen brothers are back, this time with an even higher-profile Western adaptation, “True Grit”…read more [TwichFilm]
True Grit Cast Interviews: Punishment Comes One Way Or Another
Hi! True Grit opened nationwide yesterday!
In Fandango (A.Trey) exclusive interview with Jeff Bridges (role of R. Cogburn) he spoke about what Ethan Coen said to him,
“No, we’re not making that movie (a 1969 film adaptation starring John Wayne and directed by H. Hathaway, one and only film for which John Wayne won an Oscar). We’re making the book”
C. Portis’ novel (1968) is narrated in the first person by Mattie Ross (stars Hailee Steinfeld , just turned 14, it’s her major motion picture debut), churchgoing spinster renowned by a rare independence and strength of mind. She teams up with Cogburn to avenge the death of her father at the hands of Tom Chaney who is played by Josh Brolin.
