Coriolanus

[The Wild Harp]

zum foto:
ja, der ist am checken und nebenbei tippt er schon mal ihre telefonnummer in sein handy (siehe hand in manteltasche) so dass mutti mit grünem hefter nicht gleich mitkriegt was vor sich geht.

[Dolarhyde]

er hätte auch auf den stein drunter unterschreiben können oder wem will er vorgaukeln, dass er so groß ist?

[The Wild Harp]

Wahrscheinlich will er die kleinen Serbinnen beeindrucken. Wir haben ihn ja längst durchschaut.

[Dolarhyde]

womoglich steht er noch auf 'ner bierkiste, der trickser

[The Wild Harp]

Im newfiennes hat jemand einen Bericht über den Film gepostet. Ein Bild von Ralph ist auch dabei, das sieht aber eher unvorteilhaft aus. Der Lichteinfall ist so seltsam, dass er total faltig aussieht.

http://www.blic.co.yu/culture.php?id=2903

[Dolarhyde]

naja, er ist ja auch kein junges reh mehr

[The Wild Harp]

naja, er ist ja auch kein junges reh mehr

...eher ein Hirsch in Dauer-Brunftzeit.

[Dolarhyde]

das röhren hört man bis nach deutschland

btw... wir sind mal wieder OT ... Total OT ... Absolut OT

[The Wild Harp]

btw... wir sind mal wieder OT ... Total OT ... Absolut OT

Aber wenigstens reden wir über sein Sexleben und nicht über Back- oder Kochrezepte.

[Dolarhyde]

jetzt gehts wieder on topic weiter
ich finde das plakat geil. *haben wollen*

[The Wild Harp]

Das ist ja hammergeil. Ist das schon für seinen Film? Sieht nach moderner Version aus (i.e. Maschinengewehr)...aber ich glaube, das hatte er auch schon angekündigt.

[Dolarhyde]

A contemporary version of Shakespeare's dangerous political thriller.

The citizens of Rome are hungry. Coriolanus, the hero of Rome, a great soldier and a man of inflexible self-belief despises the people. His extreme views ignite a mass riot. Rome is bloody.

Manipulated and out-manoeuvred by politicians and even his own mother Volumnia, Coriolanus is banished from Rome. He offers his life or his services to his sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius. Coriolanus and Aufidius march on Rome intending to destroy the city. Volumnia appeals to her son. He tries to reject her but eventually breaks. Aufidius, feeling bitterly betrayed, brutally murders Coriolanus.

ja, wird in unserer zeit spielen. bin eigentlich ganz froh, dass es kein sandalenfilm wird. das poster ist eins von den wenigen ralph-filmplakaten, die ich äufhängen würde. gottseidank keine winslet od. knightley drauf.

es kann natürlich sein, dass es nur ein vorläufiges poster ist, und dass wenn der film gedreht ist ein neues erstellt wird.

[Dolarhyde]

Ralph Fiennes revs up thrilling Corialanus with Icon

Ralph Fiennes spoke exclusively to ScreenDaily yesterday (May 16) about his directorial debut Corialanus.

The project is set to start shooting early next year in Belgrade. And he is determined not to make a stale cinematic version of Shakespeare. “People who have read the script think it’s a page-turner,” he said. “I want it to be an edge-of-the-seat film.”

Fiennes will also star in the film playing Corialanus, Vanessa Redgrave has signed on to play his mother Volumnia and rising star Jessica Chastain (The Debt, Tree Of Life) his wife Virgilia. William Hurt will also star.

Icon Entertainment International has take on sales for the film and has already closed a French deal with Diaphana. Odeon has taken Greek rights and Lusomundo has for Portugal.

John Logan, the US writer of Gladiator, The Last Samurai and The Aviator, has written the script for Coriolanus which Fiennes first played on stage in London in 2000. “I became obsessed with the play and couldn’t lose the idea from my mind of it being a film. If you are rigorous in adapting it, it ends up like a political thriller.”

Logan, Fiennes said, has “aggressively edited” the original text and fortified the “high tension story” revolving around the family dynamic at its core and the subject of inter-state conflict. Fiennes and Logan have moved the setting from ancient Rome to “a power state today”. Belgrade, he adds, is perfect for his anywhere location with its blend of neo-classical and contemporary architecture. “Belgrade also has something bruised about it which is appropriate for this story,” he says.

Fiennes references Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet (1996) as setting the bar for making Shakespeare accessible to contemporary audiences. “I don’t want it to be in that Shakespeare voice that puts you off,” he says. “Audiences want to hear Shaksepeare and they understand more than they think they are going to. The second film I ever saw was Olivier’s Henry V when I was nine years old and I loved it.”

He also says that he is referencing Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle Of Algiers for its neo-realist portrait of a city in conflict.

Fiennes says he will work closely with his DP Barry Ackroyd, a Ken Loach regular who also shot United 93 and Fiennes-starrer The Hurt Locker. “He has a brilliant eye for composition but also a very simple style that works for Ken Loach,” he says.

As for directing, he says he is naturally nervous. “I’ve become more and more clear that it is what I want to do,” he says and cites the different styles of film-makers he has worked with including Anthony Minghella, Robert Redford, Steven Spielberg, Istvan Szabo, Stephen Daldry and David Cronenberg.

“I wouldn’t know how to be baroque with a camera,” he says. “I want honest camerawork to reflect the scene that is going on. I loved how Istvan Szabo shot which was very simply capturing the actors.”

Icon came on board when Bill Pohlad’s River Road Entertainment dropped out last year, but Fiennes says that River Road played a “huge part in the development process.” Pohlad also recommended that Fiennes meet with Chastain who starred in River Road’s Tree Of Life for director Terrence Malick.

Yesterday in Cannes, he presented a “mood reel” to buyers which included footage of sample scenes which he and Redgrave have shot to show how their mother-son relationship will play.

He says that he and Ackroyd have collected hundreds of images from current conflicts which will act as visual references for the film. “The story is about the eternal war that never stops,” he says. “It could be Israel and Palestine or Russia and Chechnya.”

Producers on the film are Julia Taylor-Stanley of Artemis Films and Gabrielle Tana of Magnolia Mae Films.
Quelle: www.screendaily.com

[The Wild Harp]

As for directing, he says he is naturally nervous. “I’ve become more and more clear that it is what I want to do,” he says

Hoffentlich will er nicht nur noch hinter der Kamera stehen.

[Dolarhyde]

nee, dass glaube ich nicht. ralph will sich auch weiterhin vor der kamera ausziehen.