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Coens And Clooney Together Again!! INTOLERABLE CRUELTY Ahead!!
Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.
I am literally dancing around my room, overjoyed. Michael Fleming, god bless you for bringing me the news that Joel and Ethan Coen are reteaming with George Clooney on the Universal film INTOLERABLE CRUELTY.
I love this script. It’s a dark twist on the romantic comedy genre about a divorce lawyer. Not just any divorce lawyer, mind you. This is the guy that men turn to when they MUST keep their money, when they refuse to give up even a penny to THAT BITCH they are divorcing. He’s a shark. He always makes his clients get a pre-nup signed before marriage, and his pre-nup is iron clad. No woman has ever beaten it.
After a particularly brutal divorce, a woman decides to get revenge. She targets the lawyer and decides she is going to (A) make him fall in love with her, (B) marry him without the pre-nup in place, and (C) ruin the sonofabitch and take everything he has.
With Clooney onboard and Julia Roberts rumored (she almost made this film with Richard Gere at one point before they decided on the more mild-mannered RUNAWAY BRIDE instead), this could be wicked, evil fun. I think I have to go dig my copy of the script out so I can re-read the thing. The Coen Bros. draft has always been something I dearly loved.
I’m just sorry TO THE WHITE SEA had to die in order for this to come together. In a perfect world, we’d see both.
"Moriarty" out.
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After Oh Brother, I knew that Clooney would work with them again. It is just the perfect actor/director combination. As for Julia Roberts, we'll see what the Coens can do with her. Maybe they could just put Francis in a red wig instead...
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Is it me, or does this sound like a great project for Cameron Diaz? I am actually a fan of Julia Roberts, but when I read early descriptions of this script, it seems tailor-made for Diaz's sense of comedy.
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i want to see salma hayek in this film.
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i want to see salma hayek in this film.
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As the "best friend" or "work buddy" - then it would star the very cream of Hollywood's over-exposed crop! I do like Clooney, but his one note is beginning to wear thin with me (hello "Ocean's 11" trailer), and Julia Roberts? Please, Bros. - don't do it - don't give in to that siren call. Find your next Marcia Gay Harden for this project. Julia doesn't have what you need, she's an empty shell, a shiny thing, a magazine cover. I'll never buy into the idea that Julia Roberts can best sharky George Clooney in a game of wits. You know who you need? You need Nicole Kidman. Kidman can get daaaarrrrk, man - she'd chew right through that script and she'd rock your dialogue. She and Clooney almost got together (still are?) on "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," but this is a better match. She'd leave George dizzy! You know I'm right! BraveCapt.
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This is a pretty lousy consolation prize for To The White Sea.
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When are the Brothers Coen going to work with Jon? He seems tailor made for their style of casting.
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I read that Billy Bob Thornton was considering playing Tarzan in a version of the story to be filmed by the Coen Bros. While not excited about Thornton as the Lord ofthe Jungle, I would dearly love to see the Coen's tackle Tarzan. It would probably the best Tarzan movie ever.
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This script has been around for years.
Remember back when Richard Gere and Julia Roberts were looking for another project to do post-Pretty Woman? Well, this is one of the scripts they were looking at, supposedly. Instead, they opted for the more commercially crowd pleasing, 'The Runaway Bride'. Yeah. So who says their still interested?
---IMDB lists the initial cast, after Roberts and Gere backed out, as Tea Leoni and Jeffery Wright.
Tea Leoni I could care less about (though she was good in D.O. Russell's Flirting with Disaster).
But....Jeffery Wright, with a Coen Bros. script?!
Jeffery Wright is, hands down, one of the best actors of his age working right now. Watch Shaft 2000 (in which he masterfully displays what I would term, 'ghetto camp'), then watch Basquiat (someone should have created an award for that one), he was even good as MLK in the well-intended, but too retrosepctively anachronistic, HBO movie 'Boycott'.
---Seeing Clooney play an unsympathetic character would be nice (but could he truly be believable?). How can the man be a regular with Soderbergh AND the Coens? A long way from Killer Tomatoes, indeed. -
My friend met Clooney in a bar a few weeks ago. The man is every bit the prince he seems. He talked to my friend frankly and enthusiastically for over 30 minutes about all kinds of future projects including dangerous mind and batman. They also bonded over a certain Texas strip club. He said the Coens were geniuses with a master plan not actually visible until the final product. No surprise he would work with them again. A big surprise the Coens would do this though. Must be more to it. I hope. They have never made a bad movie so I won't be shocked if this is great as usual. All part of that master plan I guess. Just hope its not like when Soderbergh lost his edge with Erin and (I don't care what you fuckers say) Traffic. Okay, Oceans looks great. And I can't believe anyone would accuse Brother of catering to a mass audience. It succeeded commercially because for once people saw quality instead crap.
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So Julia Roberts is going to play a scheming, coniving wench that rips a man's heart out and takes him for all he's worth? Oooh...there's a stretch. Woman has all the range of a Daisy air rifle.
__Fortunately this is all ballanced out by the tres cool Clooney. Much like their soon to be released first teaming in Ocean's 11, Clooney's presence makes it all worth while. I doubt that between him and the Coens' writing, we won't be disappointed. -
She's pretty good at simulating that Grace-Kelly-object-of-desire thing, plus she can be a convincing bitch. Kidman would be good if reined in sufficiently. Nix on Beckinsale (too girlish), Bullock (not alluring enough) and Diaz (doesn't have the depth). I wish they'd consider someone like Claudia Black or Minnie Driver -- now there are a couple of gorgeous potential ball-busters.
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Hey guys. I'm looking for feedback on a screenplay I wrote. Is anyone willing to help me out? Please?
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One of the best sripts I read this year...pity it drowned.
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Julia Roberts stars in crappy date movies. She would be so annoying in this. Julianne Moore is a real actress who has proven her chops and could pull this film off. If you are not a woman or think Julia Roberts is hot(which she isn't) you will not be able to get behind her charcter. You'll just sit there tolling your eyes everytime she sassily delivers another "vendictivebutgoodheartedbeendonewrong-bichy" line.
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Julia Roberts stars in crappy date movies. She would be so annoying in this. Julianne Moore is a real actress who has proven her chops and could pull this film off. If you are not a woman or think Julia Roberts is hot(which she isn't) you will not be able to get behind her charcter. You'll just sit there rolling your eyes everytime she sassily delivers another "vendictivebutgoodheartedbeendonewrong-bichy" line.
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You all know they will. All this speculation about who they'll pick is fair enough. I know that most will be well off the mark. Let's not forget that the Coen Brothers are truly talented film makers. Their films oozes substance and depth. to the guy who thought O Brother was crap.....you're a minority on this one I think. This wasn't a shot at something just for sure fire commercial success. It was a reinterpretation on "Ulysses Odessey" This makes references to the Cyclops and the Sirens I think. Still, it's your opinion. Not only will they get a talented actress for the part, I think they'll hold talent and suitability over commercial appeal any day of the week. Oh sure, I like Julia Roberts as much as the next guy, I even like the Salma Hayek suggestion or maybe even Cameron Diaz could do it too. At the end of the day, the Coens will make their choice and when you see the film you'll walk away and say that they were absolutely right.
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or Fincher, or Spielberg.
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Oct 13, 2001 1:40:34 AM CDT
Everyone probably has their own idea for the perfect woman in th
by 007-11
and i'm no different. I really like the idea of Nicole Kidman in this role. But if you really want a match for the modern day Cary Grant, someone that could really do you in, a stealthy, sexy, woman who cannot just beat George in a battle of whits but beat the shit out of him then I say look no further than Anjelina Jolie. Think about it. Oh yeah, Julia Roberts is no actress, she simply isn't nervous in front of a camera. To whoever wrote that line about less range than a Daisy air gun, you are one whitty bitch. I'm stealing that.
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Oct 13, 2001 1:46:32 AM CDT
Everyone probably has their own idea for the perfect woman in th
by 007-11
and i'm no different. I really like the idea of Nicole Kidman in this role. But if you really want a match for the modern day Cary Grant, someone that could really do you in, a stealthy, sexy, woman who cannot just beat George in a battle of whits but beat the shit out of him then I say look no further than Anjelina Jolie. Think about it. Oh yeah, Julia Roberts is no actress, she simply isn't nervous in front of a camera. To whoever wrote that line about less range than a Daisy air gun, you are one whitty bitch. I'm stealing that.
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