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This week’s Ketchup brings you more headlines from the world of film development news, covering movies based on true stories like Boston Strangler, I want to dance with someone, Oppenheimer, and The woman king.
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CILLIAN MURPHY CONFIRMED AS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN OPPENHEIMER
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Throughout Hollywood’s long history of making films about real characters, it is a lingering complaint that actors frequently does not look like the real characters that they represent. For Oppenheimer, on the life of the “father of the atomic bomb”, J. Robert Oppenheimer, director Christopher Nolan seems to dodge these criticisms by frequent collaborator casting Cillian Murphy, who played his scarecrow in Batman begins, as a titular scientist, and the resemblance is quite strange. Universal Pictures has programmed Oppenheimer for release on July 21, 2023, which puts it around the same late-July slot when a lot of The films of Christopher Nolan Have been released (Interstellar was on 07/21/2017, and The dark knight rises was 07/20/2012). Oppenheimer will begin filming in early 2022 on IMAX cameras and with a budget of over $ 100 million. In related news, the Peaky Blinders the movie, also starring Cillian Murphy, was confirmed this week start filming in 18 months (in 2023), after the sixth and final season of the series.
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1. KEIRA KNIGHTLEY PLAYS IN THE TRUE SERIAL KILLER STORY BOSTON FOREIGNER
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Although several others may have eclipsed his notoriety, the argument can be made that the murders of the early 1960s attributed to “The Boston Strangler” left an indelible mark on the 1960s, including the 1968 film. The Boston Strangler (86% Fresh), with Tony Curtis. Filmmaker Ridley Scott is expected produce a new movie called Boston Strangler via her Scott Free Productions for 20th Century Studios, and Keira Knightley is the film’s first announced star as Loretta McLaughlin, “the first reporter to relate the murders and break the story of the Strangler.” Writer / Director Matt Ruskin (Crown heights, Certified Fresh at 77%) will adapt the Boston Strangler script and direction when filming begins on location in Boston in December 2021. The role of Alberto DeSalvo, the Boston Strangler itself, has not yet been cast.
2. WHITNEY HOUSTON BIOPIC LAUNCHES THREE KEY RLES IN REAL LIFE
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The Whitney houston biopic I want to dance with someone (12/23/2022) is now filming in locations in Boston and New Jersey, but until this week, several key roles in Houston’s life haven’t been fulfilled (or at least, not announced). Let’s start with Robyn Crawford, Houston’s longtime assistant, who will be played by Nafessa Williams (Thunder on TV Black lighting), after the role’s lead actress, Moses Ingram, “recently split from the role.” From the same announcement, we also now know that Whitney’s parents, John and Cissy Houston, will be played by Clarke Peters (HBO’s Lester Freamon Thread) and Tamara Tunie (Dr Melinda Warner of TV’s Law & Order: Special Victims Assistance Unit). This news came out on Monday, then yesterday, we learned that Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown will be played by 15-year-old Brian Danielle Singleton, who played young Octavia Spencer in the superhero movie Thunder force. Comedian Eddie Murphy will also be a character in I want to dance with someone, and he will be played by Jimmie Fails, who co-starred and co-wrote The last black man in San Francisco (Certified 92% Fresh). These five actors join other previously announced actors Naomi Ackie (Whitney Houston), Ashton Sanders (Bobby Brown) and Stanley Tucci (Clive Davis).
3. SAM RAIMI PRODUCING A DYSTOPIAN THRILLER BOY KILLS THE WORLD
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Director Sam raimi is currently in post-production upon returning to Marvel as director of the sequel Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (03/25/2022), but that doesn’t prevent him from occasionally producing projects from other directors. Raimi’s production company is just one of the partners on a new dystopian thriller called Boy kill the world, which will soon begin location shooting in South Africa. Bill Skarsgard (Pennywise in THIS) will play the main character, Boy, “a deaf mute with a vibrant imagination” who escapes into the jungle when his family is murdered. Samara weaving (Ready or Not) will also co-star as an Assassin in Boy kill the world, which will be the first feature film by German filmmaker Moritz Mohr.
4. TILDA SWINTON AND GEORGE MACKAY LEAD POST-APOCALYPTIC MUSIC IN THE END
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Sometimes we are lucky enough to have bizarre but funny coincidences in the world of film news. For example, we just heard a great news about Christopher Nolan Oppenheimer, which of course centers on a scientist who feared the end of the world. That same week, we also learned that director Joshua Oppenheimer – no connection to J. Robert (we think) – preparing his next film, and it will be a post-apocalyptic musical about the last human family on Earth. Title The end, this will be Oppenheimer’s first narrative feature; he previously directed the Oscar nominated documentaries The act of killing (Certified 95% Fresh) and The gaze of silence (Certified Fresh at 96%). Tilda Swinton will star in The end with George MacKay (1918) and Stephen Graham (Al Capone in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire) as the last human family when filming begins in 2022.
5. THREE RISING STARS JOIN THE HISTORIC AFRICAN EPIC THE WOMAN KING
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We haven’t seen a lot of historical epics in recent years, but there was a time when they regularly racked up year-end awards and rave reviews. One notable project still underway despite this apparent downward trend, however, is The woman king, about Kingdom of Dahomey in the 18th and 19th centuries, which had an all-female military unit that may have inspired the Dora Milaje in Marvel’s Black Panther. It has been known for a while that the lead role will be played by Viola Davis, and recent weeks have also seen the announcement of other actors like Lashana Lynch (Captain Marvel) and John Boyega as King Ghazo. This week’s overall cast of the film was still filled by three “emerging phenomena” in Jayme Lawson (Bella Real in the next The batman), Hero Fiennnes Tiffin (Ralph Fiennes’ nephew) and Masali Baduza (BBC’s zeros and crosses). The woman king will be led by Gina Prince Bythewood (The old guard, The secret life of bees) for Sony / TriStar.
6. EMMA STONE PRODUCING HORROR A24 I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT OF THE TV
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There are two companies that are now arguably the most identified with horror – namely Blumhouse and A24 – and the types Horror stories produced by these two companies couldn’t be more different either. Blumhouse does “grand concept” horror like Get out, The purge, and The invisible Man, while A24 produces films that are either “indie” or “folk horror” (or both) like The witch, Hereditary, and Midsummer. Emma Stone’s fruit tree production company now collaborates with A24 on a new horror film titled I saw the TV shine about “two outcast teenagers who bond around their shared love of a scary TV show, but the line between TV and reality begins to blur after its mysterious cancellation.” I saw the TV shine will be the second feature film by writer / director Jane Schoenbrun, whose We all go to the World’s Fair (88% Fresh) debuted at the Sundance Film Festival this year.
7. GREEN BOOK DIRECTOR ADAPTING THE FRENCH FILM ON TIME TRAVEL
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To his credit, few people probably could have guessed that Pierre Farrelly, the director of Dumb and even dumber and The Three Stooges, would continue to lead a film that will win three Oscars, including Best Picture, but that’s exactly what it did with Green book (Certified 77% Fresh) in 2018. With that in mind, maybe it shouldn’t be all that surprising that Farrelly is negotiating to lead an English remake of the 2006 French time travel drama Will you be There. This film was about a 60 year old widower in 2006 who has the chance to travel 30 years back in an attempt to prevent the death of his wife in 1976. In the meantime, Farrelly is currently filming The greatest beer race of all time, based on the true story of a man who traveled to Vietnam in 1967 to visit his friends who were actively fighting in the Vietnam War.
8. JAKE GYLLENHAAL WILL BE THE VIRGIN OF THE ADAPTATION OF PROPHET OF DEAD POOL CO-CREATOR
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You can talk a lot about the comics of the late 1980s and early 1990s, but for the writers and artists who create comics, that all started to change in 1992 when a handful of the most popular young designers came together. are separated from DC and Marvel to form their own company, called Picture comics. One of those Image co-founders was Rob Liefeld, who during his time at Marvel co-created dead Pool. For several years now, Liefeld has been working on getting movie bids for his own creations, and it looks like one of them is finally going to start filming soon. Jake gyllenhaal is now signed to play in Prophet, based on the comic book of the same title by Liefeld, which will be directed by former Marvel Studios stunt coordinator-turned-director Sam hargrave (Extraction, 67% fresh). Gyllenhaal will play John Prophet, “a man conscripted by the Germans towards the end of World War II and subjected to scientific experiments which gave him superhuman strength” (essentially as Captain America, if he was a Nazi) who wakes up 20 years later in 1965. In the comics, John Prophet wears a purple and gold outfit with a haircut that must be seen to be understood, but the look of Jake Gyllenhaal’s movie will likely be different.
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