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Daniel Craig & Rooney Mara Empire Magazine Cover For ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’
Sep 26th
Empire have released this cover for their upcoming November issue, in the process giving us a new look at Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara for David Fincher’s ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.’ In the film Rooney Mara stars as Lisbeth Salander, the young heroine who investigates the Vanger family with journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig). Robin Wright, Stellan Skarsgård, Christopher Plummer, Joely Richardson, Steven Berkoff, David Dencik, Yorick van Wageningen, Bengt C.W. Carlsson, Mathilda von Essen and Goran Visnjic also star. ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ is based on the first novel in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy, which altogether have sold over 50 million copies in 46 countries and become a worldwide phenomenon. The screenplay is by Steven Zaillian, while Trent Reznor is on score duty, making this the second feature collaboration between Reznor and director David Fincher after ‘The Social Network’ – which earned Reznor an Academy Award. ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ is to be released in cinemas December 21st. Check out what Rooney Mara had to say about Lisbeth Salander:
“There were discussions early on where people were like, ‘She’s a superhero!’ And you go, ‘No, she’s not. Superheroes live in a world of good and evil, and she’s far more complex than a superhero. She’s been compromised. She’s been subjugated. She’s been marginalised. She’s been swept into the gutter and she’s had a part in it. She dresses like trash because she’s someone who has been betraued and hurt so badly, by forces beyond her control, that she’s just decided to be refuse. She can sit anywhere she wants on the bus, because nobody wants to deal with her.”
First Two Posters For Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn’
May 16th
Empire Online and Ain’t It Cool News have got their mitts on the debut posters for ‘The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn.’ The film has a powerhouse team behind it – direction by Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson on production duties, plus a script co-written by Steven Moffat (Doctor Who, Sherlock), Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) and Joe Cornish (Attack The Block). Look out for this in cinemas December 23th in the US, and October 26th in the UK. The trailer is scheduled to be unleashed online tomorrow!
Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures Present a 3D Motion Capture Film “The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn” directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Steven Moffat and Edgar Wright & Joe Cornish. Starring Jamie Bell (“Billy Elliot,” “Defiance”) as Tintin, the intrepid young reporter whose relentless pursuit of a good story thrusts him into a world of high adventure, and Daniel Craig (“Quantum of Solace,” “Defiance”) as the nefarious Red Rackham.
Three Hi-Res Images From Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
Dec 30th
These three high resolution images from ‘The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn’ have finally been liberated online after they were featured in Empire Magazine a few months back. The film has a powerhouse team behind it – direction by Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson on producing duties and a script co-written by Steven Moffat, the legend that is Edgar Wright, and Joe Cornish. I’m stoked! Look out for this is cinemas December 23th 2011.
“With live action you’re going to have actors pretending to be Captain Haddock and Tintin,” says Peter Jackson. “You’d be casting people to look like them. It’s not really going to feel like the Tintin Hergé drew. It’s going to be somewhat different. With CGI we can bring Hergé’s world to life, keep the stylised caricatured faces, keep everything looking like Hergé’s artwork, but make it photo-real.”
The film also stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as Thompson and Thomson respectively (“When people first heard that bit of casting they thought that we’d gone barking mad,” says Jackson. Adds Spielberg, “The Thompson Twins can’t be clones of each other. Nick and Simon provided all the differences we needed to foil for each other. They have a wonderful moment in the movie where they start to have an argument about whose sidekick is whose.”) and Daniel Craig as Red Rackham. It also features Cary Elwes, Toby Jones, Mackenzie Crook and Daniel Mays.
Three More Images From Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
Nov 7th
NOSTALGIAGASM ALERT: Three more images have been released for ‘The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn’ in conjunction with Empire magazine’s new cover story on the film. The film has a powerhouse team behind it with direction by Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson on producing duties and featuring a script co-written by Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright, and Joe Cornish. I’m stoked! Look out for this is cinemas October 26th 2011.
“With live action you’re going to have actors pretending to be Captain Haddock and Tintin,” says Peter Jackson. “You’d be casting people to look like them. It’s not really going to feel like the Tintin Hergé drew. It’s going to be somewhat different. With CGI we can bring Hergé’s world to life, keep the stylised caricatured faces, keep everything looking like Hergé’s artwork, but make it photo-real.”
The film also stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as Thompson and Thomson respectively (“When people first heard that bit of casting they thought that we’d gone barking mad,” says Jackson. Adds Spielberg, “The Thompson Twins can’t be clones of each other. Nick and Simon provided all the differences we needed to foil for each other. They have a wonderful moment in the movie where they start to have an argument about whose sidekick is whose.”) and Daniel Craig as Red Rackham. It also features Cary Elwes, Toby Jones, Mackenzie Crook and Daniel Mays.
Brad Pitt Talk’s About Terrence Malick’s Tree Of Life
Apr 14th
Empire recently talked to Brad Pitt about his new film with Terrence Malick – The Tree Of Life. He doesn’t give much away, but to date it’s about as much info as we’ve been given. I’m a HUGE (notice the caps-lock) fan of Terrence Malick, his films are always thought provoking, profound and visually stunning, something I fully expect from this. I’ve come to the conclusion that Terrence Malick has flying ninja monkey’s stationed around the world, who’s sole purpose in life is to keep his work secretive. Even considering how little I know about this film, along with Inception it is my most anticipated film of the year. Hopefully tomorrow this will be announced in the Cannes Film Festival line-up.
When we asked him if this was a science fiction film (yes, even that is in doubt), Pitt replied, “Well, in a way. It’s this little tiny story of a kid growing up in the 50s with a mother who’s grace incarnate and a father who’s oppressive in nature. So he is negotiating his way through it, defining who he’s gonna be when he grows up. And that is juxtaposed with a little, tiny micro-story of the cosmos, from the beginning of the cosmos to the death of the cosmos. So that’s where the sci-fi – or the sci-fact – comes in.”
Pitt also confirmed that Heath Ledger was originally set for a role in the film. “He was gonna do it at one point, and then he was puling out for one reason or another, and we were involved ["we" meaning Pitt's production company Plan B], so I just stepped in.”
New Kick Ass Empire Magazine Fold Out Cover
Jan 27th
In general I’m not too big on magazine’s, online has completely taken over in my opinion. It’s more up to date, doesn’t have as many restrictions and generally has more character. That being said I’m a massive fan of Empire Magazine, here’s there new fold out Kick-Ass cover.
Inside, we have interviews with all the cast and crew, including Nicolas Cage on the influence of Adam West’s Batman (“That’s Big Daddy’s Jungian muse, to help him accomplish the things he accomplishes”) and Matthew Vaughn on why he originally had Zac Efron in mind for the Red Mist role now occupied by Christopher Mintz-Plasse. “We initially met Chris Mintz-Plasse for Dave, because we were thinking about making Dave (Kick-Ass) a really, really geeky kid. And we thought it would be interesting if Red Mist was the much cooler guy.”