-Joey's Two Cents: I'm very excited for this one...thoughts?
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Showing posts with label Bryan Cranston. Show all posts
Bryan Cranston is the latest actor cast by Ben Affleck in Argo...
...his much anticipated next directorial outing. Here's the story from The Hollywood Reporter:Bryan Cranston is in negotiations to join the cast of Argo , Ben Affleck’s drama revolving the 1979 Tehran hostage crisis.
Affleck, Alan Arkin and John Goodman as starring in the political thriller ensembler, which is being produced by George Clooney andGrant Heslov. David Klawans is also producing.
Chris Terrio wrote the script based on a Wired article titled “How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran.” It told the true story of how the CIA, with help from Hollywood, used a fake movie project to smuggle six U.S. diplomats out of Tehran during the 1979 hostage crisis. Argo was the name of the fake movie.
Affleck is playing Tony Mendez, a CIA technical operations officer that led the operation. Arkin will portray Hollywood producer Lester Siegel while Goodman will play Academy Award winning special effects master John Chambers who helped with the CIA’s cover story.
Cranston will play CIA agent Jack O'Donnell, a man who used to be President Eisenhower's bodyguard and is now Affleck’s boss.
Cranston, the star of AMC’s Breaking Bad, is repped by UTA.
-Joey's Two Cents: More strong casting for this film...thoughts?
What's the early buzz on Drive after its first Cannes screening?
Well, /Film has the first reactions, and they're pretty positive:The first Cannes
Check out a few reactions after the break.
A few initial Tweets, which might be chalked up to post-screening festival highs, hit right after the film was out. Let’s kick things off right. Guy Lodge from In Contention says: “DRIVE (A-) I won’t lie to you: I pretty much want to have sex with this movie. Hot, clipped, nasty, beautiful. Best thing in Competition.”
An additional Twitter sampling offers:
Eric Kohn: Walking out of DRIVE, feeling kinda wobbly. In a good way.
FirstShowing: “Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive – Totally frickin’ awesome. Violent, but badass, great soundtrack. Ryan Gosling
Rope of Silicon: “‘Drive’ was a great way to end my time here in Cannes, really enjoyed and fans of Refn are in for a treat.”
IonCinema: “Cannes 2011: Refn’s DRIVE. More focus on the driving gloves than the cars. This one has got a mean streak and softer side: cult classic.”
Mike D’Angelo (Onion AV Club): “Let’s see if I can be the first person in your feed to say: DRIVE, holy shit.” and “Let’s see if I can be the first person in @albertbrooks ‘s feed to say: Dude, HOLY SHIT.”
But ‘holy shit’ can mean a lot of things. Not long afterward, Mr. D’Angelo got down to a slightly more measured take, which still makes the film sound like a success:
Drive (Winding Refn): 76. Patchy and shallow, but the highs are just insanely high. Half a dozen of the year’s best scenes. Genre bliss… And it’s not THE DRIVER II, either. Surprisingly little auto action. It should really be called LOOK given how predicated it is on faces…
And Jeff Wells chimed in with,
“Drive” isn’t as good as ” Thief,” but it’s respectably and sometimes very thrillingly in the same ballpark. Spare, hard, very high octane… All stand back & admire Albert Brooks for his older, smart-mouthed tough guy with a toupee in “Drive”…yay, Albert!… Ryan Gosling’s hard-guy, Steve McQueen character in “Drive,” but what there is he plays the he’ll put of. His first action film…wham!
Chase from Gordon and the Whale sounded one of the sour notes I’ve seen so far: “DRIVE made me really, really sad; I wanted to like it so much.”
-Joey's Two Cents: I've felt like this might be a dark horse for some awards citations since before the fest started, so perhaps I was on to something...thoughts?