Chances are when Martin Scorsese (“The Departed”) and Leonardo DiCaprio (“The Great Gatsby”) team up you’re in store for a great film. Here’s the trailer for “The Wolf of Wall Street” based on the memoir by Jordan Belfort featuring music from Kanye West.
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This film looks better and better with every piece of news. Vera Farmiga (“The Departed”, “Up In The Air”) has joined the cast of “The Judge”. She’ll star alongside Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall, Vincent D’onofrio and Billy Bob Thorton.
The story, from Cinemablend.com: revolves around a big-city lawyer (Downey Jr.) who returns home after spending years away to attend his mother’s funeral, but is shocked to learn that his father (Duvall), the local judge, is suspected of murdering her.
This sounds like a lot of fun.
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Yep. According to Mark Wahlberg himself, he was almost in “Star Trek”. Who would he have played? In an interview, he said J.J. Abrams asked him to play Captain Kirk’s father, a role that went to Chris Hemsworth. Though he was only in the film at the start, it was a very memorable role, one that, along with ‘Thor”, helped kick start Hemsworth’s career.
Wahlberg said he couldn’t understand “the words of the dialogue or anything”.
I’m kind of glad he turned the role down. I love Wahlberg, but in roles like he had in “The Departed”, not for more emotional stuff.
Speaking of ST, “Star Trek Into Darkness” comes out this year and stars Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch, Simon Pegg, Karl Urban and more.
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Screenwriter William Monahan wrote one of my favorite films bar none, “The Departed”. He also wrote “Sin City: A Dame to Kill For” and the upcoming “Oblivion”. Now he’s getting a chance to write and direct “Mojave”, a thriller which, from FirstShowing.net:
“The story involves a man who escapes into the desert and finds a “doppelganger-like antagonist” and gets caught in an intense whirlwind of violence and crime. In our modern culture the phrase “doppelganger” is used to mean “lookalike,” but its folklore origins often associate it as being a paranormal double of someone else”
Jason Clarke (“Zero Dark Thirty”) and Oscar Isaac (“The Bourne Legacy”) will play the leads.
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Jack Nicholson has taken three roles since 2003. Those have been in “The Departed”, “The Bucket List” and “How Do You Know”. But, reports are that he is being pursued to join “The Judge”, in which he plays Robert Downey Jr.’s father. In the film, Downey Jr. plays an attorney who comes home after his mother’s death. His father, who has Alzheimer’s is accused of murder. Sounds like a potentially interesting film.
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Martin Scorsese (“Hugo”, “The Departed”) is next working on his highly anticipated “The Wolf of Wall Street” starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Kyle Chandler and more. But, his “Sinatra” film, based on legendary singer and Oscar winning actor Frank Sinatra, has brought on Billy Ray (“The Hunger Games”) to work on the script.
This project was announced years ago, but I’m glad he still has plans to bring this to the screen.
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Ray Winstone (“The Departed”) is in talks to play the villain in “Noah” from director Darren Aronofsky. The movie also stars Russell Crowe, Douglas Booth and Logan Lerman with Emma Watson in talks to join as well. This is supposedly a close adaptation of Noah and the flood from the Bible.
So, correct me if I’m wrong, but if this is a close adaptation…why should a villain be cast? I mean, I’m no expert, but I believe there wasn’t a real “villain” in that particular part was there?
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“The Wolf of Wall Street” is shaping up to be another great film by director Martin Scorsese (“Hugo”, “The Departed”). The film already has Jonah Hill and Leonardo DiCaprio. Now, Kyle Chandler, best known as Eric Taylor on TV’s “Friday Night Lights” is joining the cast.
Chandler is one of my my favorite actors. He’s under appreciated and needs a starring role of his own. However, this could help propel him if he knocks it out of the park like he usually does.
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Legendary director Martin Scorsese has had one of the most illustrious careers in film history. From “Taxi Driver” to “The Departed” Scorsese has been consistently one of the surest bets to make a great film in Hollywood. Last year, he released “Hugo” his first film in 3D. Now, in an interview, Scorsese said he will be doing 3D again, maybe exclusively.
“Absolutely, it’s the future,” Scorsese told a gathering of cinema holders.
That’s quite the endorsement. Not since James Cameron and “Avatar” have I seen a film that used 3D better than “Hugo” did. But, to hear this is a little surprising. I still don’t think 3D is the future. But, with so many theaters converting, it might be forced upon us.
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It’s been arguably the greatest actor-director team up of the 21st century so far. Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese have teamed up on some of the best films of the past couple decades including “The Departed”, “The Aviator” and “Gangs of New York”. You can add “The Wolf of Wall Street” to that list. Scheduled to begin production in August and adapted from the book of the same name, this is all of a sudden shaping out to be one of my most anticipated movies.
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