{"id":1939,"date":"2006-11-01T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/11\/newsbites-horsemen-franklyn-casino\/"},"modified":"2006-11-01T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T16:05:00","slug":"newsbites-horsemen-franklyn-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/11\/newsbites-horsemen-franklyn-casino.html","title":{"rendered":"Newsbites: Horsemen! Franklyn! Casino!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Time for a few more quickies.<\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/a> Variety<\/a><\/i> reports that Dennis Quaid<\/a> and Ziyi Zhang will star in The Horsemen<\/i> for director Jonas \u00c5kerlund<\/a>, from a script by David Callaham<\/a>, whose only credit to date is for Doom<\/a><\/i> (2005):<\/p>\n

Quaid will play a bitter detective grieving over his wife\u2019s recent death. While investigating a case, he discovers a shocking connection between himself and the suspects in a serial killing spree linked to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

2.<\/a> Variety<\/a><\/i> reports that Ewan McGregor will star in the futuristic British flick Franklyn<\/i> for director Gerald McMorrow<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Pic is a split narrative set simultaneously in contemporary London and in a future metropolis ruled by religious fervor. It\u2019s the story of four lost souls, divided by two parallel worlds, on course for an explosive collision when a single bullet will decide all their fates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Production Weekly<\/a> adds:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the story of four lost souls, \u2013 Esser, Milo, Emillia, and Preest \u2013 divided by two parallel worlds, on course for a cataclysmic collision when a single bullet will decide all their fates.<\/p>\n

Preest is a masked vigilante detective, searching for his nemesis on the streets of Meanwhile City; a monolithic fantasy metropolis ruthlessly governed by faith and religious fervor. Esser is a broken man, searching for his wayward son amongst the rough streets of London\u2019s homeless. Milo is a heartbroken thirty-something desperately trying to find a way back to purity of first love. Emilia is a beautiful art student, her suicidal art projects are becoming increasing more complex and deadly. Reality hasn\u2019t got a prayer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For some reason this film reminds me of Rex Mundi<\/a><\/i>, although that film will be set in the past, rather than the future.<\/p>\n

3.<\/a> My hopes for Casino Royale<\/a><\/i> \u2014 specifically, my hope that it will give us the harder-edged James Bond that Ian Fleming created half-a-century ago \u2014 just went up. The second-to-last track on the soundtrack album \u2014 whether the 25-track version<\/a> listed at IGN.com or the 11-track version<\/a> listed at Amazon.com \u2014 gets its title from the last words spoken by Bond in the original novel<\/a>. And these are not words that I can imagine George Lazenby<\/a>, Roger Moore, or even Pierce Brosnan uttering (though I could certainly imagine Sean Connery or Timothy Dalton speaking this line).<\/p>\n

4.<\/a> National Treasure<\/a><\/i> (2004; my review<\/a>) was good dumb fun \u2014 and while it may have been a rip-off of The Da Vinci Code<\/a><\/i> on some level, it turned out to be a lot more fun than Ron Howard\u2019s movie version of that book. Now, ComingSoon.net<\/a> passes on this tidbit from MTV<\/a> about the sequel, which starts shooting in January:<\/p>\n

Discussing the flick\u2019s script, Bruckheimer revealed, \u201cIt\u2019s another little treasure hunt, and this time it involves [Abe] Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth and 18 pages which are actually missing from [Lincoln\u2019s] diary.\u201d Teasing the plot further, Bruckheimer posed the central question of the sequel. \u201cWhat was in those 18 pages?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

5.<\/a> Hoodwinked<\/a><\/i> has now grossed over $100 million<\/a> worldwide \u2014 with slightly less than half of that amount coming from overseas \u2014 and this makes director Cory Edwards<\/a> very, very happy.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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