Hoffman Is A Most Wanted Man
In the Anton Corbijn Le Carre pic
Last June, word broke that The American director Anton Corbijn was planning an adaptation of John Le Carre’s novel A Most Wanted Man. Now he’s found a star: Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Hoffman’s close to a deal to co-star in the film, which tracks a Chechen/Russian Muslim named Issa who arrives in Hamburg and gets caught up in the war on terror. Hoffman will be playing the rogue chief of a German spy unit who tries to track down the man’s whereabouts and untangle the mystery surrounding him.
Edge Of Darkness co-writer Andrew Bovell is the man behind the script, which is based on Le Carre’s 2008 book. Le Carre, who spent time in Hamburg during his stint as a British agent, partly took the story from the life experiences of Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen living legally in German who was arrested in Pakistan in 2001 and packed off to Guantanamo Bay before winning release in 2006.
The various producers on the movie will be hunting for sales on the film at the European Film Market in Berlin. There’s no sign yet when it might start shooting, but Hoffman’s involvement is a good sign that it’ll go ahead this year.
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Hoffman Is A Most Wanted Man
Imagine Finds The Tale Of The Body Thief
The vampire Lestat could be back…
It’s been a few years since we’ve seen Anne Rice’s most famous bloodsucker, Lestat, on the big screen. But he could be about to make a comeback as Imagine Entertainment have teamed up with producers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman to option Rice’s fourth Vampire Chronicles book, The Tale Of The Body Thief.
Lee Patterson, who came to Hollywood’s attention with his screenplay Snatched, has been hired to write the adaptation. Body Thief finds Lestat depressed and lonely. Looking for a little change, he agrees to transfer souls for a day with a human psychic who promptly does a runner with his body. Trapped in human form, the vampire must reach out to some friends to help him track the man down and reclaim his body. Suffice to say that, despite the premise, the focus will be on horror and drama, not wacky shenanigans. So don’t go expecting scenes of whoever plays Lestat running down a street screaming, “Give me my body back!” as he sees the thief about to enter an ice cream shop for a marathon dessert session.
Lestat, of course, was the romantic, dangerous bloodsucker long before the current crop of sparkly, moody types came along. He was played back in 1994’s Interview With The Vampire by Tom Cruise and resurrected by Stuart Townsend for the decidedly dodgier Queen Of The Damned in 2002.
Body Thief is at a very early stage, so there’s no word on who might play the lead this time around – assuming the script makes it through development at all.
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New Amazing Spider-Man Trailer Arrives
‘I’ve got to stop him…’
Empire was one of the hosts at last night‘s international Amazing Spider-Man event, where fresh footage was revealed alongside a brand-new trailer for Marc Webb‘s web spectacular. And now, here it is online, and it’s looking good.
More wisecracks, more flashbacks, and some jaw-dropping action sequences make up its two-and-a-half minutes, and it should silence the critics who thought the previous Amazing Spider-Man trailer felt a little too much like a computer game.
As well as all that, there’s much more detail to be gleaned of Rhys Ifans’ Lizard, as well as Peter‘s police adversary (and in-law), George Stacy (Denis Leary).
There’s also a lovely moment where you can see the mechanical web shooters being assembled, and an enlightening snippet of Peter coming up with the formula that creates The Lizard in the first place.
So, what are you waiting for?