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Post by disarm79 on Jul 10, 2011 12:25:20 GMT -5
It better be for real this time! I really want this movie to be made.
I think I've asked this before....but....am I the only one who has a little crush on Domhnall? He reminds me of Faramir from LOTR, haha!
Thanks Zombie for finding this.
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Post by Mokey on Jul 11, 2011 1:31:33 GMT -5
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Post by impeachy on Jul 11, 2011 6:40:08 GMT -5
Yay! I'm so happy with the good news. I'm really looking forward to this. Brendan Gleeson is so cool. I love it whenever he and Cillian have scenes together in a movie. This is going to be so cool. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.  |
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Post by 28days on Jan 5, 2012 7:29:12 GMT -5
Anyone read the book? I heard Cillian is going to be playing Orlick. The character is a young writer. Don't know how true that is. It's a complicated set up. Can only imagine how it will be brought to screen.
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Post by applepretzel on Jan 5, 2012 10:27:16 GMT -5
I didn't read the book but I listened to the radio play. From that, it seems like there's a bunch of characters that Cillian could play, but I never imagined him as Orlick...
This is one project that I REALLY hope gets off the ground soon though. It has a lot of potential, imo.
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Post by 28days on Jan 5, 2012 12:18:29 GMT -5
I didn't read the book but I listened to the radio play. From that, it seems like there's a bunch of characters that Cillian could play, but I never imagined him as Orlick... This is one project that I REALLY hope gets off the ground soon though. It has a lot of potential, imo. I've read two articles that referred to him as Orlick but again, not sure how true it is. Surely it's all speculation at this point. I can see it, actually, but then I can see him as a lot of the characters, as you said. It's been going on since 07 now. Hope they get their act together soon with funding, casting, etc. Hopefully it won't be one of those that I've overhyped in my head and it ends up being a total letdown. |
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Post by razzthekid on Jan 5, 2012 13:00:02 GMT -5
I tried to read the book once before but it just seemed way too confusing. I know it's regarded as an Irish classic and i really want to read it but i just felt, as i was reading it, that i needed to have read a load of other books already that are referenced within ASTB! Anyway i'll definitely get it read by the time the movie comes out, whether i follow it all or not is irrelevent!  I really can't wait for it to come out though, should be really interesting. |
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Post by 28days on Jan 5, 2012 13:56:58 GMT -5
That's why I think it'll be difficult to put on screen. It IS confusing and some audience are not really up to that kind of intellectual experience. To dumb it down would lose some of the quaintness of the book but it is quite a challenging read.
Then again, I suppose the likes of Babel have done the 'three or four stories in one' thing, meeting somewhere in the middle. I've heard it's got a very low budget as well so it may well be that they've not got a lot to work with.
I suppose once there's something more solid there'll be some kind of information given but as it is, we've been hearing about this for almost five years now and still there's nothing set in stone.
I'm sad about Wayfaring Strangers as well. Not too bothered about Hippie Hippie Shake and I would've liked to have seen Dali and I, but this one is in my head because it's alleged to contain pretty much all of my Irish favourites. Would hate it to fall through again.
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Post by Pisces on Jan 5, 2012 18:09:14 GMT -5
I've always been ambivalent about this one. It seems that everyone who has read the book says something similar: that it would be very difficult to transition this to the screen. That's not to say that it's impossible or shouldn't be attempted. But I'm a little distrustful of Cillian being in a movie that might require the viewer to read not one but several books in order to understand what's going on, lol. I'm up for anything intellectual, and I like my movies clever and quirky... but I think films also need to be comprehensible on their own merit. IMO. I would probably see it anyway, because Cillian is in it, but I want to be able to fully immerse myself in his movies and not feel distracted that I'm constantly missing something crucial. |
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Post by 28days on Jan 6, 2012 7:04:30 GMT -5
That's the thing with film adaptations; they generally make it 'universally friendly' - i.e. they change details or omit certain things so that anyone can watch it from scratch. There have been many films made of complex novels that have worked out well. Time Traveller's Wife is one example that failed miserably.
They've made a version of Belle Du Seigneur, a 900 plus page epic about a Jewish officer and his love affair witha a married Protestant woman and I wonder how on Earth they're going to get that to screen. Especially looking at the cast. The 'leading female' isn't an actress but a model, for one thing.
Reading the ASTB book, though, I never felt that there were other books that I HAD to have read for this one to make sense, I just felt that it required a lot of concentration. I don't really go to films to switch off. I go to to feel immersed. Not everybody is like that.
To be perfectly honest, I am skeptical about it ever being made. It's been 'promised' for so long now that it doesn't seem like it'll ever get started.
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Post by antuan on Jan 17, 2012 14:23:32 GMT -5
Gangster face awesome actor. |
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Post by 28days on Jan 17, 2012 17:24:54 GMT -5
Gangster face?
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Post by polaris on Feb 12, 2012 22:36:34 GMT -5
Meanwhile, the long awaited film version of the Irish masterpiece At Swim Two Birds is taking up all of Gleeson’s time as both director and producer. But is it any closer to shooting? “Well, fingers crossed, we’re trying to stitch it in this year. All things are going well but we’re not quite there yet. We’re hoping to be there in the next month or two to where we put a start date on it,” Gleeson says. The cast, if the film gets green lit, reads like a who’s who of Irish acting royalty, including Michael Fassbender, Cillian Murphy, Colin Farrell and Jonathan Rhys Meyers for a start. “This has been going for a while now. I’m trying not to get too hyped up about anything. I’m waiting for the apple to fall essentially. Fingers crossed and it’s all in place. Hopefully we’ll get the go-ahead.” www.irishcentral.com/ent/Watching-the-Detectives---exclusive-interview-with-Brendan-Gleeson-star-of-Safe-House---VIDEO-139044729.html |
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Post by leyla11 on Feb 27, 2012 2:33:47 GMT -5
I hope they eventually find funding because this is one of the most interesting projects of 2012. The cast list only is a dream come true and the whole movie is a labour of love. We need more of these small projects. Hope they manage to do it.
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