We told ourselves we're going to stop re-reporting every damn trade story under the sun because half of them just don't interest us. We've gotten into the bad habit -- as have others -- of just regurgitating whatever Variety and THR report and again, most of the projects we couldn't care less for, but it was just too hard to resist the urge to make this graphic.
So the gist is Jake Gyllenhaal and Jim Carrey are teaming-up for a contemporary film realization of the musical "Damn Yankees."
Meh, we suppose it's "movies and music" and while we do like some film musicals and many of them are very underrated or just dismissed by the ignorant, but these two actors are basically Hollywood lead. Gyllenhaal turns in a good performance every two-three years, but he does a lot of chum. And Carrey, well, we don't need to tell you about him now do we? We're honestly not familiar with "Damn Yankees" either, but on the surface it doesn't sound like our sort of thing. But, 'Yankees' is about a baseball player who makes a Faustian pack with the devil to ensure his team will always be winners. Carrey naturally will play the devil and Gyllenhaal naturally play the bland, every-man ballplayer. [Variety]
The only real thing interesting about this article is that is says Jim Sheridan's "Brothers" which Gyllenhaal starred in last year is complete. Now when the hell is it coming out? It's seemingly been in limbo for a while now.
There's also going to be an "Addams Family" on Broadway about the creepy "Munsters"-like family. It has a date now scheduled for April 2010. We don't care about that either. [Vulture]
2/27/2009
Let's Get Musical: Jim Carrey And Jake Gyllenhaal Sing 'Damn Yankees'
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No you didn't say you don't know "correction" you've never seen the 1958 warner brothers classic staring Ray Walston, as the "The Devil" - Gwen Verdon as the seductress "Lola" and Tab Hunter as "Joe hardy".
Ray defined the Devil perfectly, I only wish I had seen the stage play, you've got to rent a copy to judge if a remake will be as good as the original. And if I my suggest the following two films:
(1) The Bad Seed - the child is buck wild and Leroy is a trip
(2) Lord Of The Flies 1963 version, get the Criterion DVD you'll thank me.
oh and one last film that just came to mind, also on Criterion DVD
"The Wages of Fear - Criterion Collection (1955)"
Sit back and enjoy what film making today strives to be, as it once was, memorable
Carrey and Gyllenhaal ought to be fine, but unless they find someone great to play Lola (and off the top of my head I can't think of anyone who could be Gwen Verdon's equal) the rest won't mean a thing.
Isn't it a shame to realize that Hugh Jackman's overeager proclamation that "The Musical is back!!!!" at the Oscars is coming true?
And The Addams Family could be cool if it's taken more from the original comic strips instead of the show or movies. Hell, even the show's got some kitsch that could be mined just right. That said, it'll probably be awful. Who am I kidding?
A lot of the first Addams Family movie was taken from the comic...it could have been good, it just had a retarded plot.
This film sounds absolutely stupid. I have no interest whatsoever in seeing it, snob or no snob...
As far as "Brothers" goes, i've read you write a couple times about the film being in "limbo" or some such.
It isn't.
The film tested EXTREMELY well with test audiences. So much so that producer Mike DeLuca and director Jim Sheridan thought the film was Oscar worthy.
The film was first supposed to be released on December 3rd, but neither Gyllenhaal nor Portman were available for the marketing of it. Jake especially was still filming the $150 million+ Disney film Prince of Persia and absolutely couldn't break away from that to do a two or three week promotion tour.
Thus, DeLuca decided to hold off on releasing it for that reason. The film is done, and has been done since December, and is now rumored to be premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Then Toronto in September. Then wide release in late September or early October.
The producers want to go for Oscars. That's it. That's the story here.
The film will be released by MGM in the US, by Alliance in England, Canada and Australia. I'm not sure who is releasing it elsewhere.
Everything is good.
Apparently Jake and Natalie are really good in this, according to those early test screenings, getting perfect, or near perfect, scores. Very strong chemistry between the two apparently. Tobey got a bit of a mixed reaction. I guess he didn't do psycho well enough, or maybe it was just the nature of his character.
Either way, I think this film may surprise people. The only thing that may hurt it is the fact that it's pretty much a straight remake from the original Danish version. There are very few differences from the first film. Critics may cry, "redundancy."
Although I'm sure they're very glad right now they stuck with the Afghanistan war and didn't make it about Iraq --- as they were originally going to.
This is one instance where the writers strike helped a film about to go into production in the fall/winter of 2007.
There just wasn't an opportunity to mess it up.
a baby named jesus: sounds great, email me.
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