Coen Brothers Making Fargo TV Series
The Coen Brothers are officially adapting their Oscar winning 1996 classic Fargo into a 10 part TV series for FX. The series will shoot in Canada, featuring new characters and scenarios, but network boss John Landgarf assures fans it will remain “remarkably true to the film”.
Longtime Coen brothers collaborate Billy Bob-Thornton will take the lead in the series as Lorn Malvo,
“a roothless manipulative man who meets a small town insurance salesman and sets him on a path of destruction”.
The original film won Oscar glory for star Francis McDormand and a best original screenplay honor for Joel and Ethan Coen. Aside from consistently being voted one of the finest pieces modern of American cinema the film also gained notoriety for falsely claiming to be based on a true story, despite being a work of pure fiction.
Explaining the infamously misleading claim in 1998, Joel Coen admitted:
“We thought that if we did something where we told the audience up front was a true story, that they’d allow you to do things they wouldn’t normally allow you to do, if they thought it was fiction.”
The Coen brothers next big screen project will be new film Inside Llewyn Davis, released before they make their small screen debut.
Warner Bros Want Ryan Gosling for Batman
Warner Bros is beginning their hunt for a new Batman in earnest, having apparently assembled a wish list of hunky a-list actors.
Rugged man candy Joe Manganiello, Josh Brolin, Richard Armitage, Matthew Goode and Max Martini are all said to be in Warner’s contemplation. While of course, perpetually brooding superstar Ryan Gosling is also rumoured to be very high on the studios wish list.
As the search for a new caped crusader intensifies it has also been revealed that the new Superman film will apparently avoid re-telling Batman’s overly familiar origin story. Safely assuming that after seven feature films of varying quality, audiences already know who this Batman guys is.
David S. Goyer has already started work on a script ahead of an ambitious release date in 2015.
Universal Plans Another Bourne Sequel
Universal have hired Invictus screenwriter Anthony Peckham to provide a script for the next installment in the ongoing Bourne franchise. Jeremy Remmer will return for a sequel to The Bourne Legacy, although it still looks like Matt Damon won’t be tempted into reprising the titular role of Jason Bourne.
Universal had harbored fairly public hopes that Damon would consider returning, but the star was candidly unimpressed by The Bourne Legacy, presumably leaving it to Remmer’s character Aaron Cross to carry the story forward for at least another film.
It’s also unclear whether or not director Tony Gilroy will remain in charge behind the camera. Gillroy provided the screenplays for the past four films in the series, so it remains to be seen whether the studios move to hire a new screenwriter could be followed by a new director too.
Peter Capaldi Is New 12th Doctor Who
The BBC finally announced the identity of the 12th actor to play Doctor Who during an agonizingly long live show tonight. As widely predicted veteran actor Peter Capaldi had landed the part. Capaldi, best know as the foul mouthed spin doctor Malcom Tucker on The Thick of It previously guest starred on an episode of the show, but will now take over from departing Star Matt Smith as the conic Time Lord Hero.
Matt Smith will exit the world’s longest running science fiction show during this years Christmas special, shortly after enjoying being part of the 50th anniversary episode. Let us know what you think about the news in the comments and as a bonus check out enjoy an interview below with the new Doctor at last years British Independent Film Awards:
Aaron Taylor-Johnson talks Avengers Quicksilver
Aaron Taylor-Johnson is currently in talks to play Quicksilver in Avengers sequel Avengers Age of Ultron. But he’s already been chatting to Empire Magazine about the potential superhero role.
“He has real anger frustration – I like that. I always thought it’d be quite funny if you saw him eating loads and people asked him why and he’d explain it’s because he’s burning so much energy all the time. Or ideas that you’d see him come back round – but he’s already nipped out and got his lunch somewhere else. He just got bored – his attention span is so fucking quick.”
As for what kind of performance fans could expect for the generally reserved actor, Taylor Johnson confirmed he feels inspired by the notoriously flamboyant actors he’d worked with on the Kick-Ass franchise:
“That’s what we’re in talks about really, right now – how I could become that character and not feel forced. I might not look right with white hair, and the accent may be wrong… it just doesn’t work like that. Unless you’re Jim Carrey or Nic Cage and go ‘This is the character’, people go ‘OK, OK. When people haven’t been shown your range like that, then they’re a bit more skeptical – they may not want you to push the boundaries in that way. But that’s what I’m interested in as an actor.”
As for where he’d look for inspiration for a potentially boundary pushing performance Taylor-Johnson explained:
“There’s years – over 50 years – of backstory on him [Quicksilver] all there to use, and I like doing that. Him and his sister [Scarlet Witch] have been abandoned by their parents and their father, and they grew up in Eastern Europe defending and looking out for themselves and each other. His sister really is his guidance – emotionally she’s the one who looks after him, and vice versa. He’s very overprotective physically – he doesn’t want anyone touching her.”