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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.
3 New Clash Of The Titans Posters
Dec 11th
My hopes for this continue to rise, I really liked the first trailer (apart from the sh*tty tagline ‘Titans Will Clash’) and the posters released on Yahoo today measure extremely high on the badassness scale! This is shaping up to be the big blockbuster film I’m looking forward tothe most next year – along with Inception. I’m generally not a fan of remakes but for me the original hasn’t dated that well so I’m not mad at all with this one.
In the film, the ultimate struggle for power pits men against kings and kings against gods. But the war between the gods themselves could destroy the world. Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus (Worthington) is helpless to save his family from Hades (Fiennes), vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing left to lose, Perseus volunteers to lead a dangerous mission to defeat Hades before he can seize power from Zeus (Neeson) and unleash hell on Earth. Leading a daring band of warriors, Perseus sets off on a perilous journey deep into forbidden worlds. Battling unholy demons and fearsome beasts, he will only survive if he can accept his power as a god, defy his fate and create his own destiny.
