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Coens to direct Cormac McCarthy's NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN starring Javier Bardem & Tommy Lee Jones!
Hey folks, Harry here... seems Hollywood is finally getting their shit together this year. We've started off most of January with enough news to fill in the blanks of a MAD LIB book for Elementary Children... Seems all it took was Genndy directing a DARK CRYSTAL sequel to suddenly breathe life into the old town! Seems the Disney-fied MIRAMAX and PARAMOUNT's evolving classics division plan to produce this latest outing of the greatest directing/writing team in the history of modern cinema... the Coen Brothers. The book is set back in 1980 in the West Texas no-man's land and involves a Vietnam vet that wanders into the remains of a badly executed exchange of illicit substances (think the President's snuff). There's also a pair of killers that are tracking him down all sinister like. The best thing so far, besides the source material and the Brothers Coen - is that the film will headline Javier Bardem and Tommy Lee Jones to start off this cast - I'm really hoping that John Turturro plays an evil Mexican assassin. I really really really want to see that. He'd be the best non-Mexican Mexican since Jack Palance in THE PROFESSIONALS and Wallace Berry in VIVA VILLA! I'm just saying! More goodness to look forward to!
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....can't wait!
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BEHOLD HIS MIGHTY MANOS!
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The list can't be that long, so somebody had to say it...
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Turturro must be in this...or at least SOMETHING the Coens direct in the near future. He's been out of their work too much. Same goes for Buscemi.
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well, as nice as it is to see ANY new Coen bros project, I'd rather see them doing something they've written themselves.
That's what made their movies unique, and that's why their last few movies are so bland compared to their earlier movies.
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Feb 02, 2006 5:21:54 AM CST
I'll wait till I see the Coens next offering before I get ex
by zikade zarathos
I didn't dislike their George Clooney/Zeta Jones ode to old Hollywood, but boy did I hate LADYKILLERS. I'll see anything they do, though.
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Feb 02, 2006 8:40:56 AM CST
i'd like to se John goodman do something in this as well...
by havocschultz
that pretty much sums it up...
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"Son, you got a panty on your head."
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would be hard to achieve in this book. think more blood simple than ladykillers. or even fargo. there's not a lot of humor in this book. which is already intensely cinematic. i'm psyched.
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When are the two best auteurs in American cinema going to get back to doing original material? Have they gotten bored? Lazy? Or just stopped writing scripts? I don't get it.
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He played the Mexico Bandito as Kojak ... not even an attempt at an accent.
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I want them to harken back to their pre-silly-Clooney movie days, when they wanted to smack u across the face with their greatness with stuff like Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink. No more fluff guys, get back into hard R mode.
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was The Man Who Wasn't There, the most underrated Coen Bros. flick ever. I don't mind their goofy stuff, in fact when it's done right, it's pure bliss. I, do agree with the above poster though. It's time they get back to the hard as nails crime flicks, and this one seems right up their alley! Great cast too. I'm always excited about a new Coen flick, but I can't say I've been overly excited with the past two outings. They were just o.k. films, with hints of brilliance. That's my two cents.
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"Hey Bart, we're gonna sneak into an R rated movie." this Coen outing looks promising.can't wait.
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Love the Cohen Brothers but severaly dissapointed with the last two films. Cruelty was incredibly irritating and Ladykillers was forgettable. On the other hand Stpehen King loves this book and I usually agreee with his taste so I welcome a new Cohen Bothts film. TMWWT was the last great Borths flick. Unless O Brother was after that then that was the last great Brths flick.
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Lovecraftian just gave me the idea. What if the Coens announced they were doing Cell next? or something in that genre, we haven't seen them tackle all-out horror yet. Judging by some sequences in Barton, Blood Simple and Miller's, they could easily make a kick ass creepy flick.
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But Cormac McCarthy is a freaking genius! Does anyone remember the rumors about Tommy Lee Jones playing The Judge in a Blood Meridian adaptation? What happened to that? The less said about that awful, boring version of "All the Pretty Horses", the better.
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I just don't think they could ever do the novel justice. It'd be like adapting Frank Miller's "Hard Boiled." You'd have to remove so much signature violence that the end product just wouldn't resonate like the source material.
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this is the book the coen brothers were born to adapt. It's a qiute , dark, exciting, somber story of violence and loss, as well as a meditation on time and age. Belive me, if they stick to the plot(and i don't see why they wouldn't) then they'll come up with nothing short of a masterpiece. This book, like all of McCarthy's work can be summed up in one word: devastating. It also contains one of the scariest, most intriguing villlians ever. Anyword on whether that's who Bardems playing, or if he's Moss, the vet who finds the money. Reading the book I always pictured Benicio Del Toro as the killer, but Bardem would be cool as shit (even though the neither of the "two" assassins are Mexican, or even hispanic, they just work for them).This is gonna be a classic.
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Now it is definitely next. And I'll admit it, it got on my list because it was in Stephen King's top 10 of '05. Don't blast me if the book didn't actually come out in '05, he admitted that these were his ten faves READ in '05.
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