Reverse is a soft, history overwhelmingly safe and innocent little about this critical moment between childhood and adolescence. It follows a boy and a girl, each about 13 years, grew up in the 1960s.
Even if they have been neighbors for years, they realize they know nothing of each other, simply because they have never taken the time to ask, which adds to their already mixed romantic feelings. The recurring theme throughout the film is that perception evokes different truths and truths are much more difficult to decipher when youare a child.
The film is directed and co-author: Rob Reiner, working on a novel by Wendelin Van Draanen. Reiner as a director is accustomed to this time. His Stand by Me (1986), based on the novel by Stephen King, took place in 1959 and focuses on four young boys searching for the body.
This film is darker and more dramatic shades and flipped though not as emotionally compelling or serious the subject is also lighter. The key to the success of the film is the way Reiner makes the story of his people, and not its validity.
He could have easily succumbed to the temptation of showing all the characteristics that place in 1960 – sets, costumes, soundtrack – but he uses these factors, only the state of mind and mood, while the characters in the story-driven.
The boys and girls over at MarketSaw have an insider deep within the walls of WETA it would seem. If you’re new to movies, WETA is the digital effects house kick-started by Peter Jackson that handled the Lord of the Rings trilogy and pretty much every awesome effect since then that wasn’t done by LucasFilm. Rumor is the WETA Workshop is getting ready to explore (working title) District 10, the sequel movie and relocation camp of District 9. All we really think we know right now is that Peter Jackson will produce and Neil Blomkamp will be back in the director’s chair come October. Now, considering that this is still April, we can probably assume that District 10 is only in some level of scripting. Pre-production usually doesn’t kick in this far out (six months) unless you’re making something huge. Likely an early draft of the script or a detailed outline has been approved and a start date set. Over the next few months the script will undoubtedly be rewritten, or written. When District 9 first blew us away, talk of a sequel began immediately thanks to Blomkamp’s expressed desire to make on. My opinion then, as now, is that if the original producer (Jackson), the original writer (Blomkamp), the original director (Blomkamp again!), and the original star (Copley) want to make a sequel, then hell yeah let’s do it.
Universal Pictures has released the official synopsis and released date for their upcoming prequel to John Carpenter’s 1980s classic horror/sci-fi actioner “The Thing”. Talk about a genre-bender. The film lands in the frozen tundras of cinema April 29, 2011.
Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. The shape-shifting creature, accidentally unleashed at this marooned colony, has the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living being. It can look just like you or me, but inside, it remains inhuman. In the thriller The Thing, paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers as they’re infected, one by one, by a mystery from another planet.
Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has traveled to the desolate region for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up.
When a simple experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew’s pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish.
Warner Brothers has announced a release date for "Sherlock Holmes 2" and has confirmed that DC Comics superhero favorite "The Flash" is close to getting the green light. The news came during a slide show presentation by Warners chairman and CEO Barry Meyer who was in New York yesterday for Time Warner's investor day, according to The Hollyood Reporter.
The sequel to Warners' hit "Sherlock Holmes" re-imagining will hit theaters on December 16, 2011, capping of a year during which the studio expects to unveil some two dozen features. Other major releases are expected to include "Red Riding Hood" on April 22, 2011, "The Hangover 2" on May 26th that year, the 3D superhero film "Green Lantern" on June 17th, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II" (also 3D) on July 15th, the New Line/Walden Media "Journey to the Center of the Earth 2" (also 3D) on September 23rd, "Happy Feet 2" (also 3D, you may be noticing a trend) on November 18th and "New Year's Eve" on December 9th.
Meyer noted that the "Harry Potter" series is the most successful franchise in motion picture history, and will most likely have exceeded $7.5 billion in worldwide boxoffice once the final installment ends its theatrical run. 2011 will be the last year with a "Potter" release.
Meyer told investors that Warner Brothers' management is preparing for life after Harry, and that its stable of DC comic book characters are key factors in the studio's future. The third Christopher Nolan-helmed "Batman" movie is scheduled for a July 2012 release, and the studio is planning on a 2012 holiday season release for a new "Superman" movie.
Nicolas Cage is crawling on the ground. There are three RED 3D cameras covering the scene and he’s crawling towards the one in the middle while Billy Burke – who is dressed like a rock star with black nail polish – is screaming at him. I’m standing with the crew and a few other online reporters and we’re watching take after take of Cage crawling while director Patrick Lussier (My Bloody Valentine 3D) is trying to get the shot. Finally, Lussier is happy and the crew moves the camera for another set up of the same scene.
But let me back up as second.
Back in early May, I got to visit the set of Drive Angry3D while the production was filming in Shreveport, Louisiana. While the movie doesn’t get released until February 11, 2011, Summit is going to be promoting the film this week at Comic-Con and they’ve decided to let us post all our on set interviews and our set report now. So hit the jump for why you should be excited for Drive Angry and you can also check out some concept art from the film.
Before we go any further, while Summit Entertainment has lifted the embargo for everything I saw on the set of Drive Angry, since the movie doesn’t get released until February of 2011, I’ve decided to write a different kind of set report.
While I usually do a full recap of what I saw and learned while on set, I’ve decided to save that one till closer to release. Instead, I’ve put together why I’m excited for Drive Angry3D, some things you should know about the film, and a few choice quotes from some of the interviews on set.
I think this is the better thing to do, and I also think after you read what I’ve put together you’ll be very interested in the panel Summit is doing at Comic-Con later this week, and you’ll be a lot more excited about the movie. Also, this way I’ll have more to write about Drive Angry closer to release rather than just linking back to an article from 7 months ago…
Finally, even though my set report is a bit different, I’m still posting all the interviews now and all the links are at the bottom of this article. Here’s what I learned on set and some choice quotes:
They’re filming in 3D…this is NOT a post converter film!
It’s going to be a Hard R. And I mean HARD R
Nic Cage plays someone who has returned from Hell to get revenge on the people that killed his daughter and kidnapped her baby
William Fichtner plays an agent from Hell after him
Billy Burke plays the leader of a cult
Amber Heard plays a woman named Piper who Cage meets along the way and she teams up with him
They are using some bad ass late 60’s and early 70’s cars like a ‘68 Mustang and a Dodge Charger and a Chevelle in the film
Director Patrick Lussier and screenwriter Todd Farmer compared Drive Angry to a 1970’s road movie
De Luca said the movie is about 40% driving and of that 40%…about 30-40% features action including shootouts and chases
The third act features a very long action scene
Something that really excited me was when producer Mike De Luca talked about the car chases. He said:
“We didn’t want to reinvent the wheel, but we wanted to be the anti-CGI enhanced car chase movie. So a little bit of what Tarantino tried to do with Death Proof. We went in that direction.”
Unlike some films that suffer from heavy studio notes and a lack of creative freedom, screenwriter Todd Farmer told us that has not been the case on Drive Angry:
“It was fast mainly because of De Luca. We came in with De Luca. Nic I think had a deal with Millennium and so we ended up with Millennium quickly and they said, ‘Go make the movie that you want to make. Basically, here are the ground rules; stay within the budget, stay within the time and go make your movie.’”
Nic Cage said during his interview that one of the reasons he wanted to make the film was when they gave him the script and he saw:
“They were going to shoot my eye out with a gun and I thought, ‘yeah I’m going to make that movie.’”
Cage also said:
“There’s so many different sides to this one because it is a car movie but it also has the action of an old Charles Bronson movie and then you add the supernatural component to it and on top of that you have 3D, so it’s not like anything else that I’ve done before or really seen before.”
Producer Mike De Luca said:
“Even though Drive Angry is set in modern times, it’s being shot like a ‘70s movie to the extent that we let scenes play out. It’s not quick-cutting. Quick-cutting is the enemy of 3-D. But our movie is being put together like a Friedkin movie from the ‘70s, or like something that lets a scene play, so it actually works for us. Cause you wanna avoid anything too “cutsy” with 3-D.
As a big fan of My Bloody Valentine 3D, we asked director Patrick Lussier how does the gore in Drive Angry compare with Valentine:
“It’s a little different. There is some extreme stuff in it. It’s a very different kind of story so it’s not about ripping people’s jaws off and things like that. It’s not a horror movie. It’s much more of an action thriller. So by virtue of that there are extreme violence things. A lot of them though is gun violence and things like that. There’s a lot more of that kind of thing than some of the mayhem we got up to in Valentine.
Final Thoughts and Concept Art
So if you’re a fan of 70’s car chase films, real 3D, and a ton of blood and guts, you’re going to love Drive Angry 3D. Also, I was a huge fan of My Bloody Valentine, and I think director Patrick Lussier is going to deliver another really fun movie. Finally, they’re filming in 3D and they’re taking advantage of it…meaning blood and guts are going to fly at the camera and they’re not going to apologize for it. I am super excited.
