From darkhorizons, Stepping away from superheroes for his next project, Bryan Singer is set to return to the thriller genre with an original, multi-character ensemble thriller set during World War Two.The film finally re-teams Singer with his "The Usual Suspects" screenwriter Chris McQuarrie - the first collaboration since that acclaimed 1995 feature.On top of that the film also marks the second film to be greenlit by the new United Artists and its head runners Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner reports Variety.
Singer and McQuarrie will produce the project which they came up with together in recent months and took it to UA. Production on the untitled thriller begins this Summer.
Whilst it's thought that one side effect of the deal is that the project will delay Warner Bros.' plans for mounting a sequel to "Superman Returns", Superman Homepage says the film is still on track for a March 2008 start of shooting. It shouldn't have any effect on his plans to direct the series pilot for the US version of "Footballers' Wives".
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I forgot he made that horrible movie.
(Yes, folks, I hate The Usual Suspects. Who wants a piece of me?)
I don't like him any more. X-Men was a fluke. All those good actors...something happened that wasn't within old "Bad Hat Harry Productions" control.
Superman Returns was terrible. (Except for the airplane in the stadium and Parker Posey.)
Here's my version of the end of The Usual Suspects:
CHAZZ PALMENTARI looks at the broken teacup...the piece of lint etc. We zoom in meaningfully on his face. "THAT was Keiser Sousa! The guy who just left...what an unbelievable fake-out!"
CUT TO the outer police office. CHAZZ comes out of his office, not even hurrying, and addresses one of the dozens of cops:
CHAZZ: Hey, you guys? That guy I was just interrogating for five hours...who we just released?
RANDOM COP (bored): Yeah, Chazz?
CHAZZ: I just realized something. Could one of you go bring him back in, so we can arrest him for multiple homicides and conspiracy to commit fraud?
RANDOM COP (casually standing, reaching for his radio handset): No problem at all, Chazz! They left about two seconds ago, so they probably aren't even a block away yet...hand on. (into radio) Hey, McNulty? What are you, two blocks away? Cool. Could you bring that guy back? Chief wants to question him some m— What? He's already out of the car? Well, HE LIMPS, right? So he's probably only about fifty feet away...you want to go get him, man? Thanks.
CHAZZ: Thanks. For a second there I thought it was some kind of big deal but then I realized he's still a short distance away and we can easily bring him back and charge him, now that I've suddenly realized how brilliant and evil he is.
COP: Yeah, "brilliant" enough to walk in here and confess in a stupid oblique manner...and then leave really slowly, constrained as he is by his game leg.
CHAZZ: Indeed. (looking towards the front door, where the other cops are already bringing KEISER SOUSA back in, cuffed and shackled) Ah, here he is now. Thanks, guys...what a humdrum ending to this rather odd little saga.
FADE TO BLACK: THE END
You cranky bastard.
Well, I liked The Usual Suspects and both of his X-movies. And while Superman Returns wasn't exactly what I wanted, I think it's fairly solid.
I'm a total sucker for "set during World War Two." I'm sure I've written this somewhere else on the blog, but I wish there were more horror movies with that setting (besides that segment in Heavy Metal, which is the only one I can think of).
The Twilight Zone movie segment with Vic Morrow.
Excellent! But you see my frustration? Where's the whole movie like this? I think a squad of soldiers encountering a remote French village that's been taken over by zombies would be great.
I do indeed. By the way, octo, did you get my email viz. Blogger accounts and YouTube?
"Set during World War II" is fucking awesome; I agree. The man who really taught me that, on the IMAX screen no less, was Spielberg with the beginning of Private Ryan. When I saw those helmets in a modern widescreen movie with digital 6 track sound, and heard Vin Diesel say something about "the Germans" in the first seven minutes, I was like someone who'd been slipped a blotter tab.
i'd never seen a picture of singer before today. he's like a baby. this whole time i was thinking of someone a lot closer to brian cox.
HE IS a lot closer to Brian Cox!
But he's closest to Brandon Routh (or so the rumors say).
Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas any more.
Awesome! Love the new look.
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