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Mickey Rourke Interview For Tarsem Singh’s ‘Immortals’
Nov 10th
Visionary director Tarsem Singh (The Cell, The Fall) and producers Gianni Nunnari (300), Mark Canton (300) and Ryan Kavanaugh (The Fighter) unleash an epic tale of treachery, vengeance and destiny in ‘Immortals,’ a stylish and spectacular 3-D adventure. As a power-mad king razes ancient Greece in search of a legendary weapon, a heroic young villager rises up against him in a thrilling quest as timeless as it is powerful. The brutal and bloodthirsty King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) and his murderous Heraklion army are rampaging across Greece in search of the long lost Bow of Epirus. With the invincible Bow, the king will be able to overthrow the Gods of Olympus and become the undisputed master of his world. With ruthless efficiency, Hyperion and his legions destroy everything in their wake, and it seems nothing will stop the evil king’s mission. As village after village is obliterated, a stonemason named Theseus (Henry Cavill) vows to avenge the death of his mother in one of Hyperion’s raids. When Theseus meets the Sybelline Oracle, Phaedra (Freida Pinto), her disturbing visions of the young man’s future convince her that he is the key to stopping the destruction. With her help, Theseus assembles a small band of followers and embraces his destiny in a final desperate battle for the future of humanity. ‘Immortals’ is set for release November 11th 2011.
What was it about ‘Immortals’ and Tarsem Singh that interested you?
Mickey Rourke: The main reason I took the movie was to work with Tarsem. I saw his commercial reel and I saw the interesting Nike reel he did where he had the faces on all the athletes, the masks. He brought some drawings of the different characters as well. I thought this guy is very prepared, you know? And I like working with guys who do a very long pre-production because they know exactly what they want. And because he comes out of commercials, he has such a fabulous look, the way he lights everything. He can take this material to another level. I don’t necessarily know if I would have done this movie if it wasn’t Tarsem involved.
What’s nice about Tarsem is to hear about someone who’s so technical, and then when I get on the floor, before I go over to cut somebody’s head off, Tarsem would say, “Well, could you step over there and pick up that flower petal, or could you stop there and rub that apple before you cut his head off.” He’d give little adjustments to choices I made, and it would become better because of these little tweaks he gave me. That’s what acting is all about, it’s a collaborative effort to find the most interesting choices and make it entertaining. Also not so it’s just, “That’s the evil guy, that’s the good guy.”
Luke Evans Interview For Tarsem Singh’s ‘Immortals’
Nov 2nd
Visionary director Tarsem Singh (The Cell, The Fall) and producers Gianni Nunnari (300), Mark Canton (300) and Ryan Kavanaugh (The Fighter) unleash an epic tale of treachery, vengeance and destiny in ‘Immortals,’ a stylish and spectacular 3-D adventure. As a power-mad king razes ancient Greece in search of a legendary weapon, a heroic young villager rises up against him in a thrilling quest as timeless as it is powerful. The brutal and bloodthirsty King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) and his murderous Heraklion army are rampaging across Greece in search of the long lost Bow of Epirus. With the invincible Bow, the king will be able to overthrow the Gods of Olympus and become the undisputed master of his world. With ruthless efficiency, Hyperion and his legions destroy everything in their wake, and it seems nothing will stop the evil king’s mission. As village after village is obliterated, a stonemason named Theseus (Henry Cavill) vows to avenge the death of his mother in one of Hyperion’s raids. When Theseus meets the Sybelline Oracle, Phaedra (Freida Pinto), her disturbing visions of the young man’s future convince her that he is the key to stopping the destruction. With her help, Theseus assembles a small band of followers and embraces his destiny in a final desperate battle for the future of humanity. ‘Immortals’ is set for release November 11th 2011.
What was the appeal of this role and ‘Immortals’?
Luke Evans: For me it was a big challenge to take on the role of Zeus, especially with Tarsem’s idea of where he wanted Zeus to come from. He didn’t want him to be this traditional Zeus as the older man, the Laurence Olivier, Liam Neeson angle….he wanted him to look young, even though he was old. That presented a lot of challenges for myself, that was basically what drew me to the script, it drew me to the project. Also to work with Tarsem Singh, I respect his work, I’ve followed his films, he has an amazing catalogue of films. To work with someone like Tarsem you know you’re going to have a very unique experience. Tarsem has energy in full measure, and it never really goes below 100%. When you come on set with him, you basically feel that you either have to match it, or go away and have a word with yourself, and come back and match it. You feel that you’re short-changing him otherwise because of the fact he comes with so much passion. He’s developed such a beautiful world that we ended up working on, that you want to just have integrity for what he’s done. It’s a blast working with him, and also he’s a lovely guy. We hung out with him when he wasn’t on set, on his days off. It was great.
Freida Pinto & Kellan Lutz Interview For ‘Immortals’
Nov 1st
Visionary director Tarsem Singh (The Cell, The Fall) and producers Gianni Nunnari (300), Mark Canton (300) and Ryan Kavanaugh (The Fighter) unleash an epic tale of treachery, vengeance and destiny in ‘Immortals,’ a stylish and spectacular 3-D adventure. As a power-mad king razes ancient Greece in search of a legendary weapon, a heroic young villager rises up against him in a thrilling quest as timeless as it is powerful. The brutal and bloodthirsty King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) and his murderous Heraklion army are rampaging across Greece in search of the long lost Bow of Epirus. With the invincible Bow, the king will be able to overthrow the Gods of Olympus and become the undisputed master of his world. With ruthless efficiency, Hyperion and his legions destroy everything in their wake, and it seems nothing will stop the evil king’s mission. As village after village is obliterated, a stonemason named Theseus (Henry Cavill) vows to avenge the death of his mother in one of Hyperion’s raids. When Theseus meets the Sybelline Oracle, Phaedra (Freida Pinto), her disturbing visions of the young man’s future convince her that he is the key to stopping the destruction. With her help, Theseus assembles a small band of followers and embraces his destiny in a final desperate battle for the future of humanity. ‘Immortals’ is set for release November 11th 2011. Look out for a more in-depth interview with Freida Pinto, Kellan Lutz and the rest of the cast closer to the films release date.
What was it about ‘Immortals’ that interested you, this new take on Greek mythology?
Freida Pinto: Tarsem Singh, the way he visually brought out the nuances in ‘The Fall,’ the way it appealed to all five senses. I knew that ‘Immortals’ was going to be done in a very similar way. For me Tarsem’s vision was really determined before the film was made, so even though they had a script – he was a writer for the visual part of it, and knowing that he made films like ‘The Fall’ and ‘The Cell,’ and had directed R.E.M’s ‘Losing My Religion,’ you see all these amazing things in terms of the others that he’d shown in the past, I just knew that it was going to be different than what I had done in the past, the three other films that I had done before.
I guess it was the way he sold the movie at the first meeting that I had with him, how he envisioned my character and the film to be. And what I think is amazing is that he decided to play it not like the typical Greek epic, because I think we’ve seen that, that’s been done many times before. This was his take, it was his vision, and the studio was going to let him do it. You just feel comfortable knowing that you will have certain things that you can contribute, and he will be open to taking suggestions, because it really doesn’t depend on a book or something that someone else has written about the character. So that was nice, the openness was really great.
Henry Cavill Interview For Tarsem Singh’s ‘Immortals’
Oct 30th
Visionary director Tarsem Singh (The Cell, The Fall) and producers Gianni Nunnari (300), Mark Canton (300) and Ryan Kavanaugh (The Fighter) unleash an epic tale of treachery, vengeance and destiny in ‘Immortals,’ a stylish and spectacular 3-D adventure. As a power-mad king razes ancient Greece in search of a legendary weapon, a heroic young villager rises up against him in a thrilling quest as timeless as it is powerful. The brutal and bloodthirsty King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) and his murderous Heraklion army are rampaging across Greece in search of the long lost Bow of Epirus. With the invincible Bow, the king will be able to overthrow the Gods of Olympus and become the undisputed master of his world. With ruthless efficiency, Hyperion and his legions destroy everything in their wake, and it seems nothing will stop the evil king’s mission. As village after village is obliterated, a stonemason named Theseus (Henry Cavill) vows to avenge the death of his mother in one of Hyperion’s raids. When Theseus meets the Sybelline Oracle, Phaedra (Freida Pinto), her disturbing visions of the young man’s future convince her that he is the key to stopping the destruction. With her help, Theseus assembles a small band of followers and embraces his destiny in a final desperate battle for the future of humanity. ‘Immortals’ is set for release November 11th 2011. Look out for a more in-depth interview with Henry Cavill and the rest of the cast closer to the films release date.
What was the appeal of this project?
Henry Cavill: Tarsem Singh, the way he described each individual piece, just his vision for the movie. Also, when you’re growing up as a boy, the idea of playing a sword-wielding hero, and beating up the bad guys is always a fun thing, and you get to play it in the big leagues, and for real, and get the real costumes on, and have all the special effects. But ultimately it was down to director Tarsem Singh. Reading the script, it had a few kinks in it initially, but Tarsem’s vision was the one thing that sold me on it, and his passion for it. Even if Tarsem came to me with a piece of wood and pretended it was a script and said, ‘No really, I’m really passionate about this,’ he would be able to sell me on it, and it would be an amazing piece of wood (laughs).
First Clip From Tarsem Singh’s ‘Immortals’ – Starring Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke & Freida Pinto
Oct 25th
Relativity Media has debuted this first clip from Tarsem Singh’s awesome looking mythical adventure flick ‘Immortals.’ With both ‘Clash Of The Titans’ and ‘Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief,’ the Greek God’s must have been twisting their surly beards in disgust with 2010′s cinematic offerings based around Greek mythology. From the looks of it ‘Immortals’ seems to be profoundly better than those two films. ‘Immortals’ is set for release November 11th, 2011. The film stars Henry Cavill, Freida Pinto, Mickey Rourke, John Hurt, Isabel Lucas, Kellan Lutz, Robert Maillet, Luke Evans and Corey Sevier.
Visionary director Tarsem Singh (The Cell, The Fall) and producers Gianni Nunnari (300), Mark Canton (300) and Ryan Kavanaugh (The Fighter) unleash an epic tale of treachery, vengeance and destiny in Immortals, a stylish and spectacular 3-D adventure. As a power-mad king razes ancient Greece in search of a legendary weapon, a heroic young villager rises up against him in a thrilling quest as timeless as it is powerful. The brutal and bloodthirsty King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) and his murderous Heraklion army are rampaging across Greece in search of the long lost Bow of Epirus. With the invincible Bow, the king will be able to overthrow the Gods of Olympus and become the undisputed master of his world. With ruthless efficiency, Hyperion and his legions destroy everything in their wake, and it seems nothing will stop the evil king’s mission. As village after village is obliterated, a stonemason named Theseus (Henry Cavill) vows to avenge the death of his mother in one of Hyperion’s raids. When Theseus meets the Sybelline Oracle, Phaedra (Freida Pinto), her disturbing visions of the young man’s future convince her that he is the key to stopping the destruction. With her help, Theseus assembles a small band of followers and embraces his destiny in a final desperate battle for the future of humanity.
New ‘Immortals’ Featurette Taking a Look At Henry Cavill’s Character Theseus
Oct 13th
This new featurette has been released online for Tarsem Singh’s awesome looking mythical adventure flick ‘Immortals,’ taking an in-depth look at the film’s lead character Theseus (Henry Cavill). With both ‘Clash Of The Titans’ and ‘Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief,’ the Greek God’s must have been twisting their surly beards in disgust with 2010′s cinematic offerings based around Greek mythology. From the looks of it ‘Immortals’ seems to be profoundly better than those two flicks. ‘Immortals’ is set for release November 11th, 2011. The film stars Henry Cavill, Freida Pinto, Mickey Rourke, John Hurt, Isabel Lucas, Kellan Lutz, Robert Maillet, Luke Evans and Corey Sevier.
Visionary director Tarsem Singh (The Cell, The Fall) and producers Gianni Nunnari (300), Mark Canton (300) and Ryan Kavanaugh (The Fighter) unleash an epic tale of treachery, vengeance and destiny in Immortals, a stylish and spectacular 3-D adventure. As a power-mad king razes ancient Greece in search of a legendary weapon, a heroic young villager rises up against him in a thrilling quest as timeless as it is powerful. The brutal and bloodthirsty King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) and his murderous Heraklion army are rampaging across Greece in search of the long lost Bow of Epirus. With the invincible Bow, the king will be able to overthrow the Gods of Olympus and become the undisputed master of his world. With ruthless efficiency, Hyperion and his legions destroy everything in their wake, and it seems nothing will stop the evil king’s mission. As village after village is obliterated, a stonemason named Theseus (Henry Cavill) vows to avenge the death of his mother in one of Hyperion’s raids. When Theseus meets the Sybelline Oracle, Phaedra (Freida Pinto), her disturbing visions of the young man’s future convince her that he is the key to stopping the destruction. With her help, Theseus assembles a small band of followers and embraces his destiny in a final desperate battle for the future of humanity.