Posts Tagged ‘Megan-Fox’
We haven’t done much coverage on the film Passion Play, which stars Mickey Rourke and Megan Fox. The first big piece we ran on the film was prompted by Toby Kebbell dropping out and Bill Murray stepping into his role. Now we’ve got the first image from the movie, above, and a few quotes from Rourke about the production.
In true Rourke fashion, some of his comments are sure to piss a few people off. When an actor has worked with some of the people he has teamed with, saying that Megan Fox is “probably the best young actress I’ve ever worked with” is sure to get attention. Read on after the jump.
EW talked to the actor and ran the image you see above. Before I get to Rourke’s comments about Megan Fox, let’s cover what the film is about. We originally ran the following logline:
An angel under the thumb of a ruthless gangster is saved by a trumpet player down on his luck.
Fox is the angel, Rourke is the trumpet player and Murray is the gangster. I’m curious to what extent Fox’s character really is an angel. EW describes the film as being a “romance about a troubled trumpet player and a winged beauty who rescue each other from dire circumstances.” Rourke says, “she has wings, so she was sort of an oddity trapped in a carnival act. She’s been a prisoner her whole life, and she has no understanding of trust. She’s very vulnerable and delicate.”
The film is written and directed by Mitch Glazer, who wrote Scrooged and The Recruit. Rourke and Glazer went to high school together, and the director told Rourke about this story idea over a decade ago. So this one is a long time coming. Based on the description, I’m wildly curious to see the final product. EW says the film has just wrapped, so it’s possible we’ll see it this year if a buyer steps up.
So, about the more gossipy quotes from Rourke…basically he seems to dismiss the chops of Evan Rachel Wood and Marisa Tomei. I’m sure Darren Aronofsky would have something to say about the following quote. But maybe it’s just Rourke being Rourke. We love him because he’s nuts…right? As he says of his big comeback movie, “Well, The Wrestler was quite tough. There wasn’t much chemistry there. Uh, that’s a whole other conversation. With Megan and I, there’s a lot of chemistry and a lot of respect.”
What appears to be the first official image of Jonah Hex is now with us… and it looks quite a bit like a costume or makeup test. Amusingly, it shows off Hex’s mussed-up face rather well, but hides his eyes under his hat brim. This is not the standard tease for things like this. Check it out after the break.
Jonah Hex is the first live action film to be directed by Jimmy Hayward, a one time Pixar animator who was later responsible for Blue Sky’s Horton Hears a Who. It seems that he was virtually hand picked for the job by the star, Josh Brolin.Here’s the image, as seen at Omelete.
I’m thinking that the casual attitude and easy reveal of Hex’s scarred face is due to him being a largely unknown character. For one thing, who would already know he’s disfigured like this in the first place if part of his face was hidden? Who has even heard of Jonah Hex? This image establishes his look very clearly, pushing a selling point of this particular character to those audiences who are yet to meet him.
Here’s a teaser poster for the film, again showcasing the scarring but also featuring Megan Fox in extravagant frilliness as Leila. In Neveldine and Taylor’s original script she was introduced as being in her “early 30s, dark hair falling over dark eyes; a damaged beauty…wearing lace panties, nothing else.” I bet you can spot the two elements of that which will be different in the finished film from a mile a way.
Incidentally, just two lines down in the script it says:
JONAH is standing there, hat down over his eyes.
I guess that’s his thing, the moody beggar.
Jonah Hex is still a long way from hitting cinemas with its current release date chalked up as August 10th, 2010.
For a more brightly lit look at Hex, there are some old set pictures to peruse.
Michael Bay has been hanging around at the launch of a Victoria’s Secret Show, with the excuse that he directs their commercials, and discussing his supposed nemesis in lipgloss, Megan Fox. And what does he have to say about her?
I love her.
Er… okay, Mike. He did also discuss the role he’s creating for her in the third Transformers film. “She’s got a great part in Transformers 3” he promised. So he’s not going to kill her off? “No, no, no. She gets enough of that already”. Okay… whatever that means.
USA Today had Andrea Mandell on the scene, who got Bay to discuss the crazy hurtful things that Fox has said about him. Here’s their version of what he said:
She called me [after the Hitler comment] and goes, ‘It’s all bullshit, Mike.’ The press, they just like to prey, and stalk, and pounce and find a good little juicy thing. But she’s always wanted to do these crazy comments. That’s just her. She’s great.
How dare the press pounce on her cute little Hitler comment like that. There was nothing offensive about it at all, not to anybody.
Okay, the only news here, really is that Bay is promising a big role for Fox in the next Transformers film. I don’t believe him when he says she won’t be killed off because I don’t really believe when he says anything he seems to be lying so often, but he does seem to be operating from the assumption that she’ll figure in the film in some sort of substantial capacity.
Well, as substantial as anything has ever been in a Michael Bay picture.
I think Fox’s finest hour to date was quite easily Jennifer’s Body, which I liked a great deal, but she was carried right into that role on the crest of a zeitgeist wave. She was the “that type” we all knew at the time, and soon enough, there’ll be another “that type” come along, and hopefully one we can all like a little better.
Does anybody care if Fox is in the next battling bot-a-thon or not? Surely what appeal there is lies in the hydraulic characters, not the pneumatic ones?
Today is day one of Michael Bay’s hard graft on Transformers 3. He has, apparently overnight, flown to Rhode Island to talk to Hasbro about incorporating new characters into the film and is now working with Ehren Kruger on the screenplay. The final day of his travails will be on July 1st, 2011 which is now the date set for the film’s release - just like Paramount and Dreamworks had initially promised us back in March. But what does this mean for his ’smaller film’, Pain and Gain? And is Megan Fox coming back for more punishment?
According to a post that Bay himself made to his official forum, Megan Fox will indeed be coming back for more. Contractual obligation? Most likely. He’s keeping up the war of words, however:
Megan Fox, welcome back. I promise no alien robots will harm you in any way during the production of this motion picture. Please consult your Physician when working under my direction because some side effects can occur, such as mild dizziness, intense nausea, suicidal tendencies, depression, minor chest hair growth, random internal hemorrhaging and inability to sleep. As some directors may be hazardous to your health, please consult your Doctor to determine if this is right for you.
Great. That means we’ve literally got over two more years of this daft back and forth between them. Let’s just all agree to tune out now.
When the 2011 date had originally been touted, Bay seemed to balk and talked about shooting a smaller film before returning to his megabot behemoth of a franchise. That turned out to be Pain and Gain, a kidnapping and extortion thriller about a pair of idiot bodybuilders, which he now tells us will follow directly after Transformers 3. I Am Number 4 and Bad Boys 3 seem to have been set on the backburner for a while then, though I wouldn’t be surprised to see either of them derail Pain and Gain. Heck, I wouldn’t really be surprised to see Bay follow Transformers 3 directly with Transformers 4.
Thanks to Twitter user @ImmaculateCale for thinking to send me a heads up on this story. Give them a follow out of gratitude, why don’t you?
It’s a slow news day, so I thought I’d share this video which hit the web last week, but we never got around to posting. When National Lampoon’s Matt Zaller does junket interviews for Jennifer’s Body, star Megan Fox gets ignored and forced into putting a bag on her head.
Two years ago, screenwriter Diablo Cody made a huge splash with her big screen debut Juno, which was praised by critics, and was ultimately met with backlash by those who arrived on the backend of the hype. An Academy Award and two years later, Diablo is back in Toronto with something to prove. If you hate Cody, I doubt Jennifer’s Body will do much to change your mind. There are sure to be a lot of naysayers with a vocal agenda who will likely never give this film a real chance.
For me, Jennifer’s Body was a lot of fun. The movie feels more like the teen horror films that I grew up with in the 1980’s than the contemporary slashers produced by Platinum Dunes or Dimension Films. Actually, it plays more like a teen comedy than a horror film, and that’s not a bad thing. The laugh to jump ratio is probably 50:1.
If you’ve seen the trailers, than you know the story — Megan Fox stars as a high school girl who becomes possessed and begins eating her male classmates. Amanda Seyfried plays her attached-at-the-hip BFF, who must put an end to the carnage. The storyline doesn’t reinvent the wheel, nor does it try to. I’ve been using words like familiar and fun, but I’ve heard one other critic say “derivative.”
As expected, Diablo Cody’s word-work is the centerpiece of the film. Fox seems born to deliver Cody’s clever snappy dialogue, which is more Valley Girl than Juno sarcastic, laced with pop culture references ranging from Evil Dead, to Wikipedia, to Aquamarine. Trouble comes when Fox is forced to leave her comfort zone and show some actual emotion, which thankfully only occurs in one or two scenes.
Reitman regular JK Simmons has a supporting role as a teacher with one hand. And if you look quick, you might even see a cameo from screenwriter/producer Diablo Cody. And Adam Brody headlines an indie band who is trying to capitalize on a small town tragedy, which ends up being one of the best running jokes of the film.
The film almost feels like an indie which could have easily premiered in Sundance’s Park City at Midnight line-up sans the big name stars. Fox will likely make some huge bank of this film come DVD time, as this film couldn’t have cost a lot to produce.
Aside from black projectile vomit, most of the gore-infused action is kept off screen, side from a post-kill shot or two, and sometimes cleverly visualized (ie silhouette). It definitely feels light in this respect, especially compared to most R-rated horror films these days. Even the script is decidedly more graphic, describing a victim as looking like “lasagna with teeth,” an image that never visually comes across on screen.
But again, this film feels more like a comedy than it does a contemporary horror movie, and I’m sure those who might end up liking Jennifer’s Body, will appreciate the humor over the scares/gore.
/Film Rating: 7.5 out of 10
I thought we were done with the crazy Batman 3 rumors, but it seems like the recent release of the teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan’s next film, Inception, has excited the rumor mill.
First up is Ain’t It Cool News, risking it’s geek rep on a rumor that Christopher Nolan is planning to shoot the entire third chapter of his Batman series with full IMAX cameras (no, not the fake digital variety). While we don’t have any idea if this is true, the idea shouldn’t come as a huge surprise, as Nolan has said that he’s wanted to shoot an entire film using IMAX for years.
Before The Dark Knight, he even shot a couple test shots on The Prestige using the IMAX camera to get a sense of that the issues were going to be. And for The Dark Knight, Nolan originally planned to shoot five of the scenes in IMAX but he kept increasing the use of the cameras through out the production. But working with IMAX cameras aren’t easy. The cameras are much heavier, and normal camera equipment had to be modified to be able to handle the weight. Also, the cameras only allow for a maximum of two and a half minutes film load. Another big problem, made obvious by Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, is the amount of design and render time to get the visual effects to look as clear as the rest of the 70mm image. Here is a quote from Nolan from our roundtable interview at The Dark Knight junket:
We found ways and we planned ways of getting around for example, the short load-times which is you know, we would just swap one camera for another when it ran out of film and that kind of thing,” explained director Christopher Nolan. “Generally with action sequences which is mostly what we were shooting you really rarely roll for more than ten seconds for example so it tends not to really be a factor. Shooting a dialog scene with an IMAX camera would be a bigger challenge because of the noise of the camera and the short length of the loads and so forth but we got better and better at it, we had a terrific crew, a lot of our camera mounts and things were 35 millimeter they were ones they’re built to withstand enormous abuse, so they can take the weight of a much larger camera.
Dialogue scenes would definitely be the biggest concern, but I’m sure solutions have been explored since the production of The Dark Knight. Of course, this is all but a rumor. Everyone involved in the production has recently insisted that no deal has yet been signed for a third Batman film. But that might just be the company line, who knows?
The other big rumor to hit today comes from UK’s gossip newspaper The Sun, which claims that not only is a Dark Knight sequel being prepped, it will begin shooting next year for a 2011 release, and will star Megan Fox as Catwoman. The only strange part is that The Sun doesn’t use the typical rumor language of “my source tells me…” but instead reports it as fact: “MEGAN FOX has signed up to play Catwoman in the next Batman movie.” Okay, I might be able to buy the first part of that report, but Megan Fox as Catwoman? Does anyone actually believe that Christopher Nolan would cast Megan Fox in any of his movies? I’m sure that there is no truth to this rumor what-so-ever, and here is why.
Ellen Page and Marion Cotillard make up the female leads in his latest film Inception. Cotillard won an Oscar, and Page was nominated for one. Maggie Gyllnhaal might have been the weakest link in The Dark Knight’s main cast, but she’s critically acclaimed and has been nominated for two Golden Globes and two Independent Spirit Awards in the last six years. And The Prestige featured Scarlett Johansson in a time when she was nominated for four Golden Globes in the period of just over two years. Point is, I don’t believe that Nolan would even consider someone like Megan Fox, who is great to look at, but not much more.
And the fact that this rumor comes from an unreliable news source like The Sun, doesn’t help the argument. And we’re talking about an article that uses stupid puns (”I have a strong feline she is the purrfect choice for the part”) and is written by someone who goes on to offer his (or her?) assistance getting Fox into the super tight wardrobe (talk about professional journalism).
I don’t believe that Nolan has even signed on to Batman 3 at this point, nevermind picked characters or begun casting, so I doubt that any of this is true, at this point. But for fun, lets go over the scientifically accurate estimated odds that some of these crazy rumors could actually happen:
Estimated Chance of Megan Fox being in Batman 3: 2.5%
Estimated Chance of Batman 3 beginning production in 2010: 58.2%
If Nolan Makes Batman 3, Estimated Chance He Will Shoot Entirely Using IMAX Cameras: 68.3%
Update: And yes, for those of you who didn’t get it, this is a joke… there are no scientifically accurate estimated odds
Fox Catwoman photoshop via: badtaste
Every year thousands of High School kids are forced to confront a tremendous amount of peer pressure. Megan Fox has recorded this hilarious uncensored public service announcement to promote her upcoming horror film Jennifer’s Body. Watch it after the jump.
Thanks to Screenjunkies for sending this over.
When small-town high school hottie Jennifer (Megan Fox) is possessed by a hungry demon, guys who never stood a chance with her, take on new luster in the light of Jennifer’s insatiable appetite. From the Oscar-winning screenwriter of “Juno.” Jennifer’s Body hits theaters on September 18th, 2009.
