International “Igor” Poster
A new poster for animated movie “Igor” has appeared online.
“Igor,” voiced by John Cusack, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Sean Hayes, Eddie Izzard, Jay Leno and Molly Shannon.
Cusack will voice the title character of Igor, a gifted scientist who is born with a hunch on his back and is forced to serve a cruel scientist named Dr. Glickenstein. Sean Hayes will play Brian the Brain, a brain in a jar who is one of Igor’s sidekicks and inventions.
The new film is directed by Anthony Leondis, (Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch). “Igor” is set for a September 19th release date.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan Moves to “Shanghai”
Former “Grey’s Anatomy” star Jeffrey Dean Morgan is to star opposite John Cusack and Ken Watanabe in the thriller “Shanghai”.The Hollywood Reporter says that Morgan will play Connor, an American murdered in Japanese-occupied Shanghai before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Cusack will play a friend who sets out to investigate and finds himself embroiled in a cover-up.
The film is currently in production in Thailand with ‘1408′ director Mikael Hafstrom directing.
Danny Glover, Thandie Newton and Oliver Platt to Join “2012″
Three more actors are coming aboard Roland Emmerich’s next apocalypse project. Danny Glover, Thandie Newton and Oliver Platt are in discussions to join Columbia Pictures‘ epic disaster project, 2012.
The film centers on a global cataclysm and tells the heroic struggle of the survivors.
Glover will play the president, with Newton as his daughter. Oliver Platt will star as the president’s chief of staff. John Cusack and Chiwetel Ejiofor already are on board.
Emmerich is directing a script he penned with his 10,000 B.C. co-writer Harald Kloser.
The studio is planning a July 10, 2009, release, with filming set to begin in July.
‘Igor’ Teaser Trailer and New Photo
The official trailer and new photo for the upcoming animated film “Igor” has been released, featuring voices by John Cusack, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Sean Hayes, Eddie Izzard, Jay Leno and Molly Shannon.
Cusack will voice the title character of Igor, a gifted scientist who is born with a hunch on his back and is forced to serve a cruel scientist named Dr. Glickenstein. Sean Hayes will play Brian the Brain, a brain in a jar who is one of Igor’s sidekicks and inventions.
The new film is directed by Anthony Leondis, (Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch). “Igor” is set for a September 19th release date.
Cusack Aims To Offend With War Satire Film ‘War, Inc’
John Cusack is outraged over the Iraq war, so the U.S. actor channeled his anger into a low-budget political satire — complete with a chorus line of scantily clad female amputees - that he hopes will offend.
Inspired by anger about the war and questions about the political power held by global corporations, “War, Inc” is set in Turaqistan, a fictional nation occupied by a private U.S. company called Tamerlane and run by a former American vice president.
Cusack helped write the screenplay and also stars with Sir Ben Kingsley, Marisa Tomei and Hilary Duff in the film, which premiered this week at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival alongside several more serious documentaries on Iraq and other conflicts.
“I think the movie should be kind of offensive,” Cusack told Reuters about the film, which will be released in New York and Los Angeles theaters on May 23. “I’m shocked at how much good reaction we’re getting.”“Sometimes with a serious, somber movie, even though they’re great and well intentioned, it just doesn’t allow you to be outraged because you just get depressed,” he said. “This allows you to actually feel like, ‘Let’s do something subversive.”
In the movie, Cusack plays a hit man hired by Tamerlane to assassinate a Middle Eastern oil minister who plans to lay an oil pipeline through Turaqistan, thwarting the company’s plan for sole proprietorship of the country.
“‘War, Inc’ was just a reaction to the war and all the insanity behind using the 9/11 attacks to make an imperial land grab in the Middle East,” he said. “We really wanted to channel our outrage a little bit into something creative.”
Cusack said he was also inspired by the late director Robert Altman, who made a satirical movie about U.S. medical personnel during the Korean War, based on the book “MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors.”
‘Igor’ Poster !
“Igor,” voiced by John Cusack, is an animated comedy which brings a new twist to the classic monster genre.
“Igor” tells the story of a mad scientist’s hunchbacked lab assistant who has big dreams of becoming a scientist in his own right and winning the coveted first place award at the annual Evil Science Fair.
“Igor” arrives in theaters on September 19.
China Vetos $50m Hollywood Epic Over Opium Scenes
With the US and China at loggerheads over the arrest of four Chinese nationals on suspicion of espionage and Steven Spielberg’s decision to withdraw as an artistic advisor to this summer’s Olympic Games, it seems only fitting that the ongoing battle between Hollywood and China’s film authorities should remain as eventful as ever.Chinese authorities have threatened to derail Mikael Hafstrom’s upcoming Chinese shoot of the $50m (£24m) period epic Shanghai, set to star John Cusack and Gong Li.While specifics were unclear, it is understood that Hollywood’s latest China crisis has erupted over scenes in the script that depict opium use among Chinese.
Eager to portray their people in the best possible light in the year of the Olympics, officials at China’s Film Bureau have demanded changes to the story.
Hafstrom has been in pre-production in China since September ahead of the scheduled March 10 start date and might need to begin scouting for alternative locations if a revised script doesn’t meet with approval.
