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Two Clips and Seven Photos from Fernando Meirelles’ 360 Movie
Today we have two clips and seven photos from Fernando Mierelles psychosexual drama 360, starring Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins and Ben Foster.
City of God Director Fernando Meirelles to Helm Aristotle Onassis Biopic
Fernando Meirelles (The Constant Gardener) is rejoining with his City of God penner Bráulio Mantovani on a biopic of Aristotle Onassis called, enough, Onassis. Vulture reports that it’s set up at France’s Pathe, and that Meirelles is said to have described the upcoming feature as:
a sort of Godfather, with Onassis at the center.”
The film, which is in early stages at this point, is based on Nemesis: The truth Story of…, Peter Evans’s biography of Aristotle Onassis, Ari that uncovers the shocking height of the Kennedy-Onassis-Kennedy love triangle: Onassis was at the heart of the conspiracy to slay Bobby Kennedy!
Jude Law Joins Fernando Meirelles’ 360
It’s official now! Jude Law has joined the cast of the Fernando Meirelles‘ upcoming project that we previously described as “psycho-sexual drama” titled 360.
By now, you already know that the cast includes quite interesting names – Anthony Hopkins, Rachel Weisz, Maria Flor, Karl Markovic and Ben Foster. So, it sounds promising…
The film is scheduled to go into production this March from a script by Peter Morgan.
The story examines sexual morals within and between social classes, using various pairs of characters who have sexual encounters in and outside of their social classes.
The movie is based on the 1900 play Reigen that inspired French drama La Ronde and has provided the dramatic structure for scores of plays and films.
Fernando Meirelles’ 360 News
Psycho-sexual drama that we already wrote about is definitely something worth keeping an eye on.
And here’s why! First of all, director Fernando Meirelles is in charge for this project, titled 360.
Then, we have lovely Rachel Weisz already on board, Anthony Hopkins has signed on to star in a movie as well, while Frances McDormand is also in talks to join the cast. Great, or what?
Eminem was rumoured to be making a return to cinema with a role in the sex-themed drama but he has not signed up for a serious acting turn in the movie, confirms his representative.
360 is based on a play by the Austrian playwright Arthur Shnitzler, who wrote some very provocative plays for his time. 1900 play Reigen inspired French drama “La Ronde” and has provided the dramatic structure for scores of plays and films.
Rachel Weisz in Fernando Meirelles’ 360
The project, 360, is already being described as the “psycho-sexual drama” and Oscar-winning Rachel Weisz is attached to star in it.
Sounds good? Yes, we agree!
That’s why we’re here today to report that she is re-teaming with her The Constant Gardener director Fernando Meirelles, for his upcoming project titled 360.
The story is about airs of characters and their sexual encounters, while “the movie is based on the 1900 play Reigen that inspired French drama “La Ronde” and has provided the dramatic structure for scores of plays and films.”
Blindness – First 5 Minutes
There’s a lot of buzz about this movie these days. We just wrote about the “Blindness” movie problems.
But now take a look at first five minutes of “Blindness” directed by Fernando Meirelles and starring Julianne Moore, Gael Garcia Bernal and Mark Ruffalo.
“Blindness” Is Outrageous And Offensive / Fernando Meirelles About His Movie
“Usually when I make a film, I can get started by going to Google, doing research,” Fernando Meirelles said about his new movie “Blindness,” opening October 3, 2008.
“But this is a film based on nothing. It’s all invented, a generic city with characters who have no names and no past, who get a disease that doesn’t exist. After I got involved in the film, I realized, wow, this is like a trap.”
Blindness International Trailer
New international trailer for the upcoming “Blindness,” – apocalyptic nightmare adapted from the 1995 novel by Nobel laureate José Saramago and directed by Fernando Meirelles – has been released, showing some never-before-seen scenes from the movie.
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.
The man finds himself in the offices of an eye doctor (Mark Ruffalo) who is also treating a high-class prostitute (Alice Braga) in the business of servicing clients in a hotel, with the help of a discreet barman (Gael García Bernal). All go blind and from this nexus, the disease spreads.
”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
