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- Chris Evans to star in screen version of Stephen King nightmare
- Antonio Banderas to endure Chilean miners' ordeal in 'The 33'
- Keanu Reeves makes director debut in modern Kung Fu film
| Chris Evans to star in screen version of Stephen King nightmare Posted: 21 May 2013 02:44 AM PDT The man who played Captain America is going to replace Justin Long, who was initially tapped for the part, in a film adaptation of Stephen King's short story The Ten O'Clock People, reports Deadline.com. Chris Evans is in the running to play a man trying hard to quit smoking. Smoking only on his 10am cigarette break causes a strange chemical imbalance in his body, with the supernatural effect of enabling him to see that powerful members of our society are in fact inhuman monsters. Tom Holland, a specialist in the horror genre and in adapting Stephen King for the screen, will direct this independent feature. Set in Boston, Massachusetts, The Ten O'Clock People was first published in 1993 in King's short story collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes. (Relaxnews) |
| Antonio Banderas to endure Chilean miners' ordeal in 'The 33' Posted: 21 May 2013 02:34 AM PDT Martin Sheen and Rodrigo Santoro will be co-starring in a feature film recounting one of the most harrowing events of 2010, reports Variety magazine. Antonio Banderas will star as the charismatic miner known as "Super Mario" in The 33, a movie about the Copiapó copper/gold mine cave-in, in which 33 Chilean miners were trapped deep underground and eventually rescued after 69 days. This feature will be shot in Chile this fall by American-Mexican filmmaker Patricia Riggen, who made a name for herself in 2007 with La Misma Luna (Under The Same Moon). The 33 is currently on offer at the 66th Cannes Film Festival's Marché du Film. Mike Medavoy, coproducer of Shutter Island and Black Swan, is helming the project along with Ed McGurn and Good Universe. (Relaxnews) |
| Keanu Reeves makes director debut in modern Kung Fu film Posted: 21 May 2013 01:26 AM PDT CANNES (Reuters) - He's played a science-fiction hero, policeman and even Hamlet. But now actor Keanu Reeves is taking on a new role - as director of a contemporary martial arts movie aimed at both Chinese and Western audiences. Reeves (pic) has stepped behind the camera to make his directorial debut with Man Of Tai Chi, a trilingual film loosely based on the life of a stuntman, Tiger Chen, whom he befriended while working on the sci-fi The Matrix trilogy. At the Cannes film festival to promote his new movie, due out later this year, Reeves said he knew he had always wanted to try directing and spent five years developing the script. "It was also tied to getting older," Reeves, 48, who was long one of Hollywood's most glamorous action stars, told Reuters Television in an interview at a hotel on Cannes palm-lined waterfront. He said the main character of the film, in which he also acts, is a stuntman and martial arts expert, struggling to maintain his traditional values and beliefs against the pressures of modern society. This character is played by Chen. Reeves plays the villain who lures him into underground fighting and the promises of money, glamour and power. The film, made in English, Cantonese and Mandarin and filmed in China and Hong Kong, is meant to appeal to both the huge market in China, where Reeves won fans with Matrix and for having a Chinese great-grandparent, and in Western countries. Man Of Tai Chi was co-produced by the China Film Group, Wanda Media, Village Roadshow Pictures Asia and Universal Pictures and will be distributed internationally by Universal, owned by Comcast through its subsidiary NBCUniversal. Clips from the movie suggested there would be big fight sequences and high-speed car chases along Chinese highways, as could be expected from the star of the 1994 thriller Speed. "I loved the responsibility of telling a story," said the Canadian-born Reeves. "I hope I get the chance to do it again." |
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