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Charlie Kaufman's SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK gets some top talent!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with some promising news for us Charlie Kaufman fans out there. He's sinking into the director's chair for the first time with his script SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK, about a theater director who decides to put on a play in a gigantic warehouse with an immaculate recreation of a city in New York for its stage.
So far, Philip Seymour Hoffman is in talks to play the theater director, Catherine Keener is in talks to play his first wife, Michelle Williams for his second wife, Samantha Morton as his "sometimes lover," and Tilda Swinton for Keener's best friend and mentor to her and Hoffman's daughter.
New Kaufman is always of interest and that is now compounded with the fact that he's directing his own material for the first time. Spike Jonze is producing. The cast is great, Kaufman is great, so that means the movie will be great, right? Let's hope so!!!
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Only in a Charlie Kaufman film would this make sense.
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"Spike Jonze is producing. The cast is great, Kaufman is great, so that means the movie will be great, right?"
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Sounds excellent. Keener (one of my favourite actresses) and Swinton are Kaufman veterans and Hoffman will no doubt be a great Kaufman hero. Can'T wait for this and will see it opening day. Being John Malkovich is probably my favourite movie of all time, with "Adaptation" not far behind. Shame Jonze isn't directing though.
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I don't think she's Hoffman's daughter. It reads to me as "Swinton plays the mentor to Keener's and Hoffman's daughter". Presumably the daughter is not yet cast.
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Thanks. I read it the same way Wondermutt did, but I think you're right.
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The script is even better.
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More Kaufman means more great, and I'm looking forward to seeing if he can direct as well as he writes.
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i'm kidding, this sounds really cool
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i'm kidding, this sounds really cool
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..., or Kirstie Alley for that matter.
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She does good work.
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i.e the five celebrities you want to sleep with... Minus Hoffman, of course, and adding Swinton twice.
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then I sure as hell will: I'd rather see Kirstie Allie's newly thinned out taint. why not?
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John Malkavich told me.
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Keener and Hoffman's daughter...Not the daughter herself.
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What't the BEEF sir?!?!?
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Seriously, he knocked this one out of the park. He is a good actor in general, which people tend to forget because he starred in so many shitty Bruckheimer turds. Guess GHOST RIDER won't improve his reputation either.
But for every CON AIR, I give you LEAVING LAS VEGAS, for every NATIONAL TREASURE, there is WILD AT HEART. -
bring it on godammit!
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only one. Great! bring it on - looking forward to this.
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Hmm...have faith in Kaufman to do something interesting, but the skeleton of the thing sounds really familiar, as in, it sounds like a thinly re-made Fellini's "8 1/2." We'll see.
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or something.
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Mmmmm....books.
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I like this casting. Looks good all around.
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can't wait for this one. and Quint, it's "theatre" not "theater" here.
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