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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance Remake is Moving Forward
22 May 2013 3:31 AM, PDT | WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news »
Big-time *sshole Spike Lee is currently working on "Oldboy," a remake of Park Chan-wook's movie, which is part of a "Vengeance Trilogy" that also includes "Sympathy for Mr Vengeance" and "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance." Three years ago, Warner Bros acquired rights to "Mr. Vengeance" and hired Brian Tucker (Broken City) to write the script. Since then, progress has been slow. But now comes word that producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has boarded the project with plans of making it a priority. In "Mr. Vengeance," the women two different men love most are murdered, and the men set out on violent quests to punish those responsible. Trouble is, they themselves are the ones responsible and only one of them will have vengeance. Meanwhile, seven months ago, Charlize Theron signed on to produce and star in a remake of "Lady Vengeance." William Monahan (The Departed) is writing the script and will possibly direct. »
Casting Net: Emily Blunt in talks to join 'Into the Woods'; Plus, Bruce Willis, more
17 May 2013 5:18 PM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
• Emily Blunt (Looper) is reportedly in talks to join the ever-growing ensemble cast of Disney’s Into the Woods to play the role of the Baker’s (James Corden) wife. The main cast also currently includes Meryl Streep (The Witch) and Johnny Depp (The Wolf). Chris Pine and Jake Gyllenhaal are both in talks for two prince roles. Blunt recently appeared with Colin Firth in Arthur Newman and can be seen next with Tom Cruise in Doug Liman’s All You Need Is Kill (out June 4). [Variety]
• Blunt’s Looper co-star Bruce Willis is in negotiations to play a hitman racing »
- Lindsey Bahr
Garrett Hedlund Replaces Jason Clarke In William Monahan's 'Mojave'; Terry Gilliam Has Small Role In The New Wachowski Movie
16 May 2013 2:39 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Even without being massively fond of many of the films produced from his screenplays (not least his pretty bad directorial debut "London Boulevard"), we're fond of William Monahan and his salty dialogue, best embodied in his Oscar-winning script for "The Departed," and we're always hopeful that he'll come up with the goods. So despite our feelings about "London Boulevard," we're hopeful for his follow-up "Mojave," not least because of the cast he's assembling. When first announced, the La-set crime picture had Oscar Isaac and Jason Clarke on board, but given how busy the latter's becoming, with roles in "Dawn Of The Planet of the Apes" and "Candy Store" lined up, it's not surprising to learn that he's dropped out of the project. The good news it that they've found a fine replacement, with "Tron: Legacy" and "On The Road" star Garrett Hedlund stepping in. Hedlund will play a tortured artist »
- Edward Davis
'Tron: Legacy' Star Garrett Hedlund to Join Oscar Isaac in William Monahan's 'Mojave' Movie
16 May 2013 9:32 AM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Garrett Hedlund is set to join his "Inside Llewyn Davis" co-star Oscar Isaac in William Monahan's original thriller "Mojave," which Atlas Independent is producing with the filmmaker's Henceforth Pictures banner. Hedlund replaces Jason Clarke in the two-hander, which follows a near-suicidal artist (Hedlund) who escapes into the desert to take an existential crisis head-on, only to encounter a doppelganger-like antagonist in the form of a brilliant, homicidal drifter (Isaac). In addition to writing and directing, Monahan also will produce, alongside William Green of Atlas Independent, whose Andy Horwitz will exec-produce with Justine »
- Jeff Sneider
This Book Trailer Is Better Than Most Movie Trailers
25 April 2013 3:00 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
"A Delicate Truth," the new book from "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" author John le Carré, hit shelves today in the UK and got one hell of a film-quality book trailer to celebrate the occasion. Also, Deadline reported today "Departed" scribe William Monahan has already been hired to adapt it into a screenplay. You can check out the trailer after the jump. "A Delicate Truth" hits U.S. bookstores on May 7.
Also, see Tom Cruise as a tall man in today's Dailies!
» The trailer for John le Carré's new book "A Delicate Truth." [Amazon]
» Pictures of Tom Cruise being tall. [College Humor]
» MTV will produce a pilot for a "Scream" television series. [Indiewire]
» New poster for "Pacific Rim" [ComingSoon]
» Trailer for "The East" [iTunes]
» "Pain & Gain" with puppets, obviously! [Super Punch]
Welcome to the Dailies, where the MTV Movies team runs down all the film and television news, odds and ends that are fit to print! From awesome »
- Kevin P. Sullivan
William Monahan To Adapt A Delicate Truth
25 April 2013 12:06 PM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
Oscar-winning The Departed screenwriter William Monahan is in final talks to script a big screen adaptation of new John le Carre spy novel A Delicate Truth. The project is being produced by The Ink Factory and developed with BBC Films. The story focuses on the execution and aftermath of a counter-terrorist operation. Many of le Carré’s works have been adapted to the screen including The Tailor Of Panama,The Constant Gardner and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy that all hit theaters in 2000s, with both A Most Wanted Man and Our Kind of Traitor in post-production, while Smiley’s People is still at the development stage with the...
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- Nick Martin
The Departed Scribe To Adapt John Le Carre's New Novel A Delicate Truth
25 April 2013 12:03 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Next month will see the release of British author John le Carré's latest spy novel, A Delicate Truth, and already this book is set to join the ranks of le Carré's adapted works, like The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, The Constant Gardener, and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Deadline reports The Ink Factory, the production company behind the recently-wrapped adaptation of le Carré's A Most Wanted Man, has acquired the rights to A Delicate Truth, and is close to finding a screenwriter to adapt it. William Monahan is reportedly close to signing on to the job. Considering he's best known for adapting the Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs into an Academy Award-winning screenplay for the Martin Scorsese-helmed crime-drama The Departed, Monahan seems an excellent pick for this particular project. A Delicate Truth begins in 2008, and follows a counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, that aims to capture »
Oscar Winner William Monahan In Talks to Adapt John Le Carre Novel 'A Delicate Truth'
25 April 2013 8:56 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
London – Oscar-winning screenwriter William Monahan is in advanced talks to write a big screen adaptation of new John le Carre spy novel A Delicate Truth. On the day of the book's publication, British production banner The Ink Factory said it is in talks with Monahan for the movie, which it will produce. The project is being developed with BBC Films, the broadcaster's standalone filmmaking unit. Monahan won an academy award for best adapted screenplay in 2007 for The Departed. The Ink Factory and Somesuch & Co have also joined forces to produce a teaser trailer for the book.
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- Stuart Kemp
William Monahan in Talks to Adapt John le Carré Novel A Delicate Truth
25 April 2013 7:59 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
William Monahan is adding yet another project to his slate. The Oscar-winning The Departed scribe is currently prepping his next directorial outing Mojave, starring Jason Clarke and Oscar Isaac, but Deadline now reports that he’s also been tapped to pen the screenplay for the next John le Carré adaptation. Monahan is in advanced talks to adapt the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy author’s upcoming novel A Delicate Truth, which tells the story of a spy who is trying to uncover the truth behind a counter-terrorist operation that presumably went according to plan. BBC Films is developing the adaptation, but there’s no timetable for when the pic might get in front of cameras. In addition to Mojave and A Delicate Truth, Monahan is also penning a remake of Park Chan-wook’s Sympathy for Lady Vengeance for Charlize Theron to star and he also penned the remake of The Gambler, »
- Adam Chitwood
'The Departed' Writer William Monahan To Pen Adaptation Of John Le Carré's 'A Delicate Truth'
25 April 2013 7:40 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
It has been a pretty good decade or so for John le Carré fans looking for the spymaster's works on the big screen. The 2000s have seen "The Tailor Of Panama," "The Constant Gardner" and "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" hit theaters, with both "A Most Wanted Man" and "Our Kind Of Traitor" in post, while "Smiley's People" continues in development. And now, yet another work by the author is making its way to the multiplex. "The Departed" scribe William Monahan has been tapped to adapt le Carré's upcoming novel, "A Delicate Truth." Set to hit bookstores in a couple of weeks, the story centers on the execution and aftermath of a counter-terrorist operation. Here's the book synopsis from Amazon: A Delicate Truth opens in 2008. A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Monahan To Tell Le Carre's "Truth"
25 April 2013 5:23 AM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Oscar-winning scribe William Monahan is in advanced talks to pen a film adaptation of John le Carré's new spy novel "A Delicate Truth" for The Ink Factory and BBC Films.
The story begins with a counter-terror operation to capture a jihadist arms-buyer being planned in Gibraltar.
Three years later, a foreign office secretary is summoned to the manor house of a retired British diplomat where he must choose between his conscience and duty to his Service.
The film joins numerous le Carre adaptations in the works following the success of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" in 2011. Others on the way include Anton Corbijn's "A Most Wanted Man" and Justin Kurzel's "Our Kind of Traitor".
Source: Screen Daily »
- Garth Franklin
William Monahan To Tell A Delicate Truth
25 April 2013 2:41 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
If you've got a book property that needs adapting, you could do an awful lot worse than hiring The Departed scribe William Monahan to do it for you. And that's exactly what The Ink Factory are in the process of doing, with the Oscar-winning screenwriter in talks to adapt John le Carré's new novel, A Delicate Truth.A thriller with political resonance, A Delicate Truth sees a special forces mission in Gibraltar spinning tragically out of control and embroiling political idealist Toby Bell in the kind of nefarious conspiracy the writer makes so believable.It isn't the only Carré-on The Ink Factory is involved in. The London and La-based production house also has Anton Corbijn's A Most Wanted Man heading to the screen - another le Carré potboiler that sends Philip Seymour Hoffman into a world of money laundering and international terrorism. Away from espionage, there's also a »
William Monahan may adapt A Delicate Truth
25 April 2013 2:05 AM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
John Le Carré's A Delicate Truth novel could be adapted by talented William Monahan. The Ink Factory is apparently in advanced talks with the writer of The Departed, Kingdom of Heaven, Edge of Darkness and the upcoming Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. The story follows a man trying to uncover a conspiracy concerning a counter-terror operation and sources say that this is being developed with BBC Films. The book actually finds releases release today, April 25th. Deadline's managed to find a trailer which teases the book. Thanks for that. There's no doubt that Monahan fits this project perfectly. Now off to casting, who will fit into what? »
Oblivion (2013)
24 April 2013 8:59 AM, PDT | Planet Fury | See recent Planet Fury news »
Directed by: Joseph Kosinski
Written by: Joseph Kosinski, William Monahan, Karl Gajdusek, Michael Arndt
Featuring: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Melissa Leo
Containing manic energy is a skill. Suppressing it is hazardous. When Tom Cruise was bouncing off walls and generally making himself into a punch line cliché, you could still sense the charisma that made him a star. In Joseph Kosinski's sci-fi epic Oblivion, Cruise smirks and struts his way through a post-apocalyptic earth like he's on downers and barely registers a heartbeat.
After Earth was ravaged by Scavengers (or Scavs) by destroying our moon, the human race fled to space station called the Tet and started a colony on Titan. Now it's 2077 and the only humans left on Earth are Jack Harper (Tom Cruise), a tech support to huge machines siphoning our water to bring to Titan, and Victoria (Andrea Riseborough), a communications officer who keeps things running, »
- Alexandra West
In Theaters This Weekend: Oblivion - Enough Said
18 April 2013 10:37 PM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
Universal Pictures' Oblivion is the only wide opener this weekend, pairing Tron Legacy's Joseph Kosinski with Tom Cruise, ready for a hefty debut weekend at the box office. The film debuts in 3,782 theaters. Despite some experts saying this one can do at least $30 million, the film should easily post more than that anticipated total, despite opening out of the tentpole session. Also in the cast of the film which is directed by Kosinski, who also wrote the script with William Monahan, are Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Melissa Leo. The film produced by Barry Levine, Jeffrey Silver and Kosinski, is definitely a movie to be seen on IMAX due to its eye-catching effects and total grand scale. »
In Theaters This Weekend: Oblivion - Enough Said
18 April 2013 10:37 PM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
Universal Pictures' Oblivion is the only wide opener this weekend, pairing Tron Legacy's Joseph Kosinski with Tom Cruise, ready for a hefty debut weekend at the box office. The film debuts in 3,782 theaters. Despite some experts saying this one can do at least $30 million, the film should easily post more than that anticipated total, despite opening out of the tentpole session. Also in the cast of the film which is directed by Kosinski, who also wrote the script with William Monahan, are Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Melissa Leo. The film produced by Barry Levine, Jeffrey Silver and Kosinski, is definitely a movie to be seen on IMAX due to its eye-catching effects and total grand scale. »
Oblivion Review
17 April 2013 10:01 PM, PDT | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion may be familiar science fiction, but that in no way prevents it from being top-notch science fiction. It engages the senses, creates a powerful sense of spectacle, features a brilliantly designed and fully realized futuristic setting, and is, most importantly, extremely thoughtful and entirely earnest in its creation of character and presentation of theme. None of it is groundbreaking – unless this is your first sci-fi film, you have seen this narrative and thematic territory covered before, sometimes better, sometimes worse – but if the filmmaking is passionate and the execution effective, I will never knock a film for being derivative. So it goes for Oblivion. Originality matters little when the experience is this rich and rewarding.
The film is Kosinski’s second, and proves that the clear potential he showed in Tron: Legacy, his debut, was no mere fluke. Visually, Legacy was imaginative and awe-inspiring, an absolute »
- Jonathan R. Lack
Oblivion Review: The Best-Looking Bad Movie Ever?
10 April 2013 4:06 PM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
It’s difficult to grasp the fact that Tron: Legacy is the debut feature of any director; though the film was oft-lambasted for its slack character development and cold delivery, it was an aesthetic tour de force, and suggested that helmer Joseph Koskinski might just have a bright future ahead of him with a strong script.
That future doesn’t begin to come to fruition with his sophomore feature, however; this sci-fi farce is an exceptional achievement in terms of what it does for the eyes and ears, but the script – written by Kosinksi in league with Little Miss Sunshine’s Michael Arndt and The Departed’s William Monahan – vacilates between woefully derivative and clunkily convoluted without a clear through-point or even a basic sense of pace. Simply put, Oblivion is one of the best-looking bad films ever made.
In this story, Earth is a ravaged »
- Shaun Munro
3 New Featurettes for Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion with Tom Cruise – ‘The World of Oblivion’
10 April 2013 9:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Joseph Kosinski returns behind the camera this month to bring us Oblivion, his anticipated sci-fi/action blockbuster with Tom Cruise front and centre in the lead.
Marking only his second feature as a director, Oblivion has a lot of potential for so many reasons, and it’s finally arrived on our shores here in the UK today. After catching a rather awesome IMAX poster for the movie last week, the studio have now released three great new featurettes, taking us behind the scenes of the blockbuster.
On a spectacular future Earth that has evolved beyond recognition, one man’s confrontation with the past will lead him on a journey of redemption and discovery as he battles to save mankind.
Jack Harper (Cruise) is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, »
- Kenji Lloyd
Review: Oblivion
10 April 2013 3:57 AM, PDT | Shadowlocked | See recent Shadowlocked news »
Sixty years after an alien invasion of Earth, the planet has triumphed but been gutted, with survivors preparing to colonise Titan and scouts like ex-Marine (Jack Harper, aka Tom Cruise) checking the scorched surface for remaining resources - and enemies. After encountering a mysterious woman (the graceful Olga Kurylenko), who he's seen in his dreams, Jack collides with an insurgency led by Morgan Freeman and learns there's more to the end of the world than he realised.
Its plot may have been leaden and its dialogue risible, but few could deny the aesthetic thrill of Joe Kosinski's Tron: Legacy, given an electronic (not biodigital, whatever Jeff Bridges might say) pulse by Daft Punk's momentous soundtrack. And it's those aspects that make Oblivion enjoyable, if not outstanding.
Unfortunately, Oblivion also shares the weakest quality of Kosinski's Tron sequel - its inability to engross or emotionally involve. A post-apocalyptic vista can look sad and magnificent, »
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