An archive of blog entries about films and film production.
I did Equus for my English Literature GCSE. I’ve seen the play. I’ve watched the movie with Peter Firth and Richard Burton. I’d have to say, if Daniel Radcliffe wants to avoid typecasting, Equus is the way forward. I’m not sure he’ll ever get another role again, but that’s his choice…
Variety reports that a new adaptation of Witchblade is in the works. Am I the only one who thinks this is a bad idea? I’m not worried about the usual things. I’m worried it’ll be as bad as the original. Besides, there’s already been a TV adaptation that would be a far, far better source for a movie script.
Some of the books of Earthsea are to become animé. If you ever saw the execrable Legend of Earthsea, you’ll be greeting this news either with delight (that it isn’t the Sci-Fi channel making this) or trepidation (fearing that it will be as bad).
What isn’t clear from reports is which books are being dramatised. The Sci-Fi article says the movie will be based on the third and four books, which are The Farthest Shore and Tehanu respectively. Yet the movie will be called Gedo Senki, which means ‘Tales From Earthsea’. Tales from Earthsea is the fifth book and is a collection of short stories. And even worse, the SciFi article also says the film will be about “the journey of a wizard named Ged and Prince Arrenis”. There’s not actually a character called Arrenis, only Arren and that’s the third book again.
No surprise: Layer Cake is doing good trade in the DVD market in the US after doing bad box office. Who’d have thought the one recent movie starring the next James Bond would begin to do well once distributors started publicising that fact?
Surprise: The article in Slate pointing out this phenomenon singularly fails to implicate James Bond in this and instead tries to put it down to the movie itself.
Bigger surprise: Apparently, Americans can’t cope with cockney accents and can only deal with approximately one-third of the dialogue.
Seriously? Weird. It’s not that hard. One of the easier British accents out there. Try Glaswegian if you want a hard accent: cockney’s a doddle. Not that the faux London accents on display in Layer Cake were anything to really test your ability to understand British accents. They were actors, darling, not proper salt-of-the-earth Londoners, love.
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