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Stoker (2013)
11 April 2013 8:53 AM, PDT | Planet Fury | See recent Planet Fury news »
Directed by: Chan-Wook Park
Written by: Wentworth Miller
Featuring: Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode
Stoker is, quite possibly, my favorite film of 2013.
Okay, I know this is a bit early in the year to make such a claim, but the fact that I'm willing to bet nothing will surpass it – except maybe for Von Trier's Nymphomaniac which is rumored to premiere in Cannes because, you know, Von Trier, plus it sounds like the film is right up my alley – should hint at how much I liked Stoker.
With his first English language film, Chan-Wook Park chose to venture into the sinister territories previously explored with Thirst (2009) by crafting a dark family thriller with just a hint of the supernatural. Despite Park's departure from the stylized ultra-violence of his famous revenge trilogy – Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), Oldboy (2003) and Lady Vengeance (2005) – fans will be happy to discover a newer, more mature »
- MaudeM
Wentworth Miller Attempting To “Scare Me”
29 March 2013 5:56 PM, PDT | FamousMonsters of Filmland | See recent Famous Monsters of Filmland news »
Last week, it was announced that Relativity Media acquired Scare Me, a film adaptation based on the Richard Parker novel of the same name. They’ve tasked Wentworth Miller, the star of Prison Break as well as the writer behind Stoker, to write the script. The book is described as similar to SE7EN. Here’s the book description, from Styd:
“When did you last google yourself?”
Wealthy businessman, Will Frost, gets woken in the middle of the night by an anonymous caller, asking him exactly this.
When Will goes online, he finds a website has been set up in his name, showing photographs of the inside of his home, along with photographs of six houses he’s never seen before.
In the first of these strange houses, a gruesome murder has already taken place.
Will is then told that his own family is in mortal danger.
The only way »
- Andy Greene
'Prison Break's Wentworth Miller to make thriller movie 'Scare Me'
25 March 2013 4:53 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Wentworth Miller has signed up to adapt psychological thriller Scare Me.
The Prison Break actor will write the script for a film version of Richard Parker's upcoming second novel, reports Deadline.
Relativity Media acquired the rights to Parker's novel, which follows a businessman who receives a phone call asking him: "When did you last Google yourself?"
After searching himself, he finds a website with photographs from inside his own house, along with six other homes he has never seen before. In one house a murder has taken place.
The book will be released on April 30, and is the follow-up to Parker's thriller Stop Me in 2010.
Miller made his screenwriting debut with Chan-wook Park's thriller Stoker, starring Mia Wasikowska.
His screenplay for thriller The Disappointments Room was picked up by Voltage Pictures and Killer Films back in April 2012.
Watch Mia Wasikowska chat to Digital Spy about Stoker below: »
Adaptations: Mike White Gets ‘Good Luck Of Right Now,’ Wentworth Miller Hired For A 'Se7en'-Esque 'Scare Me'
24 March 2013 9:49 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
A little bit of "writers hired to adapt things" news this Sunday afternoon. DreamWorks has hired Mike White (“School of Rock,” the recently cancelled “Enlightened”) to adapt the latest novel from Matthew Quick, author of “Silver Linings Playbook.” Quick’s “The Good Luck of Right Now” will be published Spring 2014 and is about a man who takes care of his mother with dementia and falls for a librarian who believes she and her brother were once abducted by aliens. Like 'Slp,' it is also set in Philadelphia. Quirky enough for you? Wentworth Miller (“Prison Break” actor, “Stoker” screenwriter) is set to adapt Richard Parker’s upcoming psychological thriller novel “Scare Me.” Parker’s novel will be released late next month and is said to be “in the vein of 'Se7en' ” as a “tale of modern urban terror, for anyone who’s ever worried that someone might one day »
- Diana Drumm
Link Be a Lady Tonight
24 March 2013 5:12 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Film.com Excellent piece on the online coverage of Lynne Ramsay's no-show on Jane Got a Gun. There's just so much default anti-woman rhetoric online. Crazy that this rarely ever improves.
Slant Magazine Our friend Kurt recently visited Las Vegas and its glorious gawdy movie memories came with
Av Club Might HBO let people buy HBO Go without a cable subscription? That's such a good idea. A ton of people I know have dropped cable (too expensive) altogether since they use their computers more than their TVs. I would if I could, too.
Film.com strong list of 50 best opening sequences in movies ever. Love the inclusion of Cabaret, La Dolce Vita, and Manhattan. Bonus points: you don't have to click 50 times or even 5 to see the whole list.
MovieLine the opening credits of Oz: The Great and Powerful. I knew these would show up soon. Best part of the movie, »
- NATHANIEL R
Novels "Seeker," "Scare Me" Get Adapted
22 March 2013 9:31 PM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Sony Pictures has acquired the rights to Arwen Elys Dayton’s upcoming young adult novel "Seeker" at the Mark Gordon Company.
The first of an intended trilogy, the story focuses on a young girl put through years of brutal training who discovers too late that she will be using her new found knowledge and training to become an assassin.
In other novel acquisition news, Relativity Media has acquired Richard Parker's psychological thriller novel "Scare Me" and has hired "Prison Break" actor and "Stoker" writer Wentworth Miller to pen the script.
Source: THR & Deadline »
- Garth Franklin
Movie Review: 'Stoker'
22 March 2013 7:40 PM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
Starring Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode
Directed by Chan-wook Park
Rated R
I’ll be honest with you, I don’t know what to think of Stoker. And as I start writing this review, I don’t know if I should give it One Abiding Dude or Four Abiding Dudes. Is the movie shot in a way that is wholly unique to its director Chan-wook Park? Yes. Does the story grab your attention with an interesting and somewhat creepy premise? Yes. Is the movie anti-climatic? Yes. Does that work against the movie? You better believe it does.
If you’re not familiar with the name Chan-wook Park, then maybe you’re familiar with some of his earlier work: Oldboy, Thirst and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance? If you haven’t seen any of those movies I highly recommend them (especially Oldboy which has one of the best, most effed »
- Craig Dietz
Wentworth Miller to Adapt Scare Me for Relativity Media
22 March 2013 6:57 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Stoker screenwriter and former Prison Break star Wentworth Miller has signed on to adapt the upcoming Richard Parker novel Scare Me for Relativity Media. Here is the official description of the book, which will be published this April.
"When did you last google yourself?"
Wealthy businessman, Will Frost, gets woken in the middle of the night by an anonymous caller, asking him exactly this.
When Will goes online, he finds a website has been set up in his name, showing photographs of the inside of his home, along with photographs of six houses he's never seen before.
In the first of these strange houses, a gruesome murder has already taken place.
Will is then told that his own family is in mortal danger.
The only way he can keep them safe is to visit each of the houses on the website in person - before the police discover what has happened there. »
- MovieWeb
Stoker Scribe Wentworth Miller To Adapt Richard Parker's Scare Me
22 March 2013 5:28 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Wentworth Miller is primarily known for his work as an actor, namely for his role on the Fox series Prison Break, but this year he has started to show his versatility - specifically as a writer. The Sundance Film Festival in January premiered his first ever produced screenplay, Stoker, which earned a great deal of acclaim, and now it seems he's parlayed that success into another screenwriting gig. Deadline has learned that Miller has been set to adapt the thriller Scare Me, based on the upcoming novel by Richard Parker (not to be confused with Spider-Man's dad or the tiger from Life of Pi). According to the publisher's website, the story follows a wealthy businessman named Will Frost who is awoken one night by a mysterious phone call asking him. "When did you last Google yourself?" When he performs the search, he discovers a website featuring photographs from inside his »
Stoker Scribe Wentworth Miller To Adapt Richard Paker's Scare Me
22 March 2013 5:28 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Wentworth Miller is primarily known for his work as an actor, namely for his role on the Fox series Prison Break, but this year he has started to show his versatility - specifically as a writer. The Sundance Film Festival in January premiered his first ever produced screenplay, Stoker, which earned a great deal of acclaim, and now it seems he's parlayed that success into another screenwriting gig. Deadline has learned that Miller has been set to adapt the thriller Scare Me, based on the upcoming novel by Richard Parker (not to be confused with Spider-Man's dad or the tiger from Life of Pi). According to the publisher's website, the story follows a wealthy businessman named Will Frost who is awoken one night by a mysterious phone call asking him. "When did you last Google yourself?" When he performs the search, he discovers a website featuring photographs from inside his »
Wentworth Miller Tries to Scare Me
22 March 2013 2:55 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Hot horror scribe Wentworth Miller has been tapped to bring another novel to the big screen. One that's guaranteed to Scare Me. Well, maybe not me. I'm far too jaded, but it will scare somebody damn it!
Deadline reports that Relativity Media has acquired Richard Parker's Scare Me, a psychological thriller novel, and is setting Miller (Stoker, "Prison Break") to write the script.
Book Synopsis
Wealthy businessman, Will Frost, gets woken in the middle of the night by an anonymous caller, asking him exactly this. When Will goes online, he finds a website has been set up in his name, showing photographs of the inside of his home, along with photographs of six houses he’s never seen before.
In the first of these strange houses, a gruesome murder has already taken place. Will is then told that his own family is in mortal danger. The only way he »
- Uncle Creepy
Relativity Media Acquires ‘Scare Me,’ Sets Wentworth Miller To Adapt Novel
22 March 2013 1:20 PM, PDT | Deadline New York | See recent Deadline New York news »
Exclusive: Relativity Media has acquired Scare Me, a psychological thriller novel, and is setting Wentworth Miller to write the script. Miller is the actor who starred in the Fox series Prison Break who made his screenwriting debut on Stoker, the Chan-wook Park-directed thriller for Fox Searchlight and Indian Paintbrush. It was brought in by Relativity Media production president Robbie Brenner. The book is in the vein of Se7en, and it will be published in the spring by Angry Robot. Gotham Group brokered the book deal and reps Wentworth along with ICM Partners and attorney Harris Hartman. »
- MIKE FLEMING JR
Wenworth Miller to Adapt Scare Me
22 March 2013 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
Following the critical acclaim of his Stoker , screenwriter Wentworth Miller is set to adapt Richard Parker's upcoming novel Scare Me for Relativity Media, says a story today at Deadline . The book, set to be published in late April, is officially described as follows: .When did you last google yourself?. Wealthy businessman, Will Frost, gets woken in the middle of the night by an anonymous caller, asking him exactly this. When Will goes online, he finds a website has been set up in his name, showing photographs of the inside of his home, along with photographs of six houses he.s never seen before. In the first of these strange houses, a gruesome murder has already taken place. Will is then told that his own family is in mortal danger. The only way he can keep »
Where 25 Movie Stars Went to College
18 March 2013 9:00 AM, PDT | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
Not all movie stars are created equal. Some are tall. Some are short. Some spend their free time on philanthropy. Some spend their free time in jail. And some secretly gave children up for adoption. Wait; that's actually Tina Fey's character in "Admission" — not to be confused with the real Tina Fey, who (at the time of this posting) has not put any of her offspring up for adoption.
But since we're on the subject of this new comedy, in which Fey plays a Princeton admissions officer, we thought it high time to hit the books (well, the Internet) and find out which stars were at the head of their classes and which stars never matriculated. Yeah, we looked that word up.
1. Tina Fey — Graduate
Tina Fey received a BA in drama from the University of Virginia.
2. John Krasinski — Graduate
John Krasinski graduated from Brown University as a playwright. »
- Elizabeth Durand
‘Stoker’ and the reoccurring case of the disappointing third act
17 March 2013 2:07 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Chan-wook Park’s Stoker is a Gothic fairytale, a family drama and a beautifully twisted, pitch black coming of age story, all at once. This slow-burning psychological thriller isn’t afraid to cross into uncomfortable places, often edging close to taboo territory. Park wants his audience to twitch in their seats and the master director is able to accomplish this with the greatest of ease. Along with first time screenwriter Wentworth Miller, Park weaves a coming-of-age tale through a tangled, murderous family plot, loaded with sexual subtext and upper-class entitlement. People disappear, a landscape of family secrets is revealed, and Park teases the audience into anticipating the worst. With Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Shadow of a Doubt serving as a template, Stoker’s first two acts are without a doubt impeccably crafted. The problem comes in the third act. Its script doesn’t quite carry the dramatic heft of his earlier work, »
- Ricky
Wamg Interview: Park Chan-wook – Director of Stoker
16 March 2013 1:27 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Park Chan-wook is a South Korean film director, screenwriter, producer, and former film critic. The director of Thirst and Oldboy is one of the most acclaimed and popular filmmakers in his native country and is a cult figure among fans of offbeat foreign films. Now Park Chan-wook has brought his novel sensibilities to Hollywood, where he’s made his first English-langiuage film, the bloody soap opera Stokrt starring Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, and Nicole Kidman.
Read my We Are Movie Geeks review of Stoker Here
http://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2013/03/stoker-the-review/
Representing We Are Movie Geeks, I recently participated, along with several other film journalists, in a conference call interview with Park Chan-wook.
Question: Your film Stoker is being compared to being on par with the masterful director, Alfred Hitchcock. How does the comparison make you feel? And of his work, has any of it influenced you in your career and on the set of Stoker? »
- Tom Stockman
Movie Review: Stoker – A Beautiful, Bloody and Disturbing Loss of Innocence
16 March 2013 9:16 AM, PDT | BuzzFocus.com | See recent BuzzFocus.com news »
Director Park Chan-Wook (Oldboy, Lady Vengeance) returns to his signature of revenge-themed stories with Stoker, a brilliant spring time distraction in the horror genre that is splendidly eerie as much as it is exquisite in its visual composition. It is more like a Hitchcock film than the paint-by-numbers fright film of the week that have polluted theaters on what seems like a weekly basis. It is also the first English speaking film for the South Korean filmmaker, who admits it was a difficult challenge working on a Hollywood studio film, but the Wentworth Miller’s story was sparse with dialogue and that allowed him to bring his distinct brand of filmmaking that made it undoubtedly his.
The star of Stoker is Mia Wasikowska (Jane Eyre), who plays India, a drab and droll teenager, who is mourning the loss of her father (Dermot Mulroney) after a tragic car accident took him away. »
- Ernie Estrella
Stoker – The Review
15 March 2013 5:04 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
The bloody soap opera Stoker is Park Chan-wook’s first Hollywood movie, and if you’re unfamiliar with the Korean director’s work, you’re in for a real kick. Park’s vampire opus Thirst and his acclaimed Oldboy established the director’s cult status among fans of offbeat foreign crime films and while no one eats a live octopus in Stoker, he’s brought his novel style to this psychosexual thriller about the dysfunctional Stoker family. After her father (Dermot Mulroney) dies on her 18th birthday, India Stoker’s (Mia Wasikowska) long-lost Uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode) comes to visit. He’s welcomed into the family’s sprawling Connecticut mansion by India’s beautiful, unstable mother Evie (Nicole Kidman), but India’s not quite as quick to embrace this relative that she never knew she had. Charlie’s wholesome facade hides sinister intentions and India recognizes something’s not quite »
- Tom Stockman
Stoker | Review
15 March 2013 10:10 AM, PDT | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »
When Park Chan-wook, Kim Ji-wood, and Bong Joon-ho decided to all transition from the South Korean market to Hollywood this year, one thing was well understood: American cinema was in for a cocktail of tension–with a twist. Now, Park Chan-wook delivers the unique Stoker, reminding American audiences that genre films don’t necessitate sacrifices in style, taste, or craft. Famous for gritty films with sexual overtones and gleeful violence like Thirst and Oldboy, Park Chan-wook’s draws a solid if unremarkable script from Wentworth Miller into enthralling, magical life. Stoker is not wrought with gore or splashing blood, it does not contain explicit sexual violence, or torture, but it is definitively scathing and simultaneously beautiful, lightly thumbing pressure points without ever striking hard enough to knock the audience out. The thriller follows India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska), a peculiar girl with questionable supernatural abilities, capable of hearing at impossible distances, »
- Jessica Delfanti
Interview: ‘Stoker’ Roundtable Interview with Chan-Wook Park
14 March 2013 3:10 PM, PDT | Destroy the Brain | See recent Destroy the Brain news »
Stoker is Chan-wook Park’s American film debut. Destroy the Brain was fortunate enough to sit in on a roundtable interview with the director and his translator. Stoker stars Mia Wasikowska, Dermot Mulroney, Nicole Kidman and Matthew Goode. If you are in St. Louis, Stoker will be opening on March 15th at the Landmark Tivoli Theater.
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[Editor's Note: Since this one of the first times we are publishing a roundtable interview, we have included all the questions asked with ours, the last question, highlighted. I have reworded all responses to make them sound like Mr. Park personally answered them instead of through his translator.]
Your film Stoker is being compared to being on par with the masterful director Alfred Hitchcock. How does the comparison make you feel and of his work, has any of any of it influenced you in your career and on the set of Stoker?
The film that made me decide to become a filmmaker in the first place is the film Vertigo. Vertigo, to me, is synonymous with Hitchcock. For me, Vertigo is Hitchcock’s representative work. When I first started out studying film, I drew a great influence from Hitchcock. Of course, »
- Andy Triefenbach
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