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Frank Langella is not a crook... again!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. The movie adaptation of the stage play FROST-NIXON is moving forward, with the original stars in the lead: Michael Sheen (BLOOD DIAMOND) as David Frost and Frank Langella as Richard Nixon.
There have been many rumors circulating as to who was going to fill the roles for the Ron Howard flick (screenplay by the originator of the play and recent writer of both THE QUEEN and LAST KING OF SCOTLAND, Peter Morgan), but in the end they decided if it wasn't broke don't fix it.
The flick takes place post Watergate and covers a series of interviews of Nixon conducted by British Journalist David Frost. Shooting begins this fall.
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I have no desire to see this ever
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Skeletor than Nixon. It is true.
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not hard.
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and poetry vomits forth each time he spreads them
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have no interest in seeing a Richard Nixon movie. Langella was a better Zorra than Banderas too. He kicked Khan's ass.
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Damn Monday morning typos
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Surely it's Michael Sheen (THE QUEEN), logically. Even Michael Sheen (UNDERWORLD) would have made some sense, this being AICN.
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...but Hopkins cast a pretty large shadow over the role.
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...over the character (weird to call someone who actually lived and was in the public eye for so long a character, but that's what Nixon's become). Hopkins actually made Nison sympathetic. Almost tragic. That ain't easy.
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Just saying that Frank Langella was awesome in Dave and that he should just remake that...with puppets. Everyone would be a puppet in the remake...except Frank. He would still be Frank...only taller. Not for nothing, but this will probably be a good flick also. Might not be as good a Nixon as Dan Hedeya in 'Dick' or Anthony Hopkins's Nixon in the movie 'Hoffa'.
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...in the Talk Backs.
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Hmmm ... Frank's too tall, and too intense in his facial expressions. They need a saddlebag-jowled, poker-faced actor to play Nixon. He's long since deceased, but I think Walter Matthau could've pulled it off.
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those are all the same Michael Sheen. I hope that was a joke...but just to be clear. Michael Sheen is one of those great chameleon actors and he's amazing. I don't know how he morphed himself into Lucian in Underworld, but I'm fucking glad he did, cause yum. But yeah..all the same guy.
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I just got what you were saying MGmgax. (slaps self) It's early and it's Monday. Yes, he was in Blood Diamond for all of what, a minute?? Yes, please give him his props and say Michael Sheen (The Queen)
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Remain closest in appearance to Nixon.
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Apr 30, 2007 11:48:41 AM CDT
Is Frank gonna twist Michael's head around backwards?
by grandmufftarkin
That would be a cool addition...
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to make this talk back more in line with AICN. Is to talk about how this should get a Sci-Fi style reimagining. Nicki Clyne, or Grace Park, or maybe that Cheerleader what-s-her-face as Frost and maybe a digital transformer as Nixon
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Is one of the great british character actors of our day. Give him 10 years and he'll be the next Gary Oldman.
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or Kevin Spacey probably would've been a better choice, but I'll take Dracula in the part (since he's actually in the play Frost/Nixon) over Warren (please stay away from movies) Beatty.
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Lane Smith was dead-on as Nixon in the TV movie where he played him, but that was too weird-- you need to be able to accept the character as a character at a certain point, not as a 90% lookalike which keeps drawing your attention to the 10% that's off. Besides the fact that Langella is apparently great in the role on stage, he has exactly the right scary authority to make you believe he was a president, and then to become his own character. (My question is, does the play include Nixon's jovial greeting to Frost before one of the interviews, "So, David, did you do any fornicating this weekend?" What a strange man...)
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I've heard pretty much nothing but great things about this play and about Langella and Sheen's performances. I had heard that Warren Beatty was in the running and I think that could have been really interesting as well. But that might just be me missing Warren. I've always been a big Langella fan but I think my favorite things I've seen him do have been on stage. His performance in "Fortune's FooL" a few years ago in New York was incredible. I saw him in "Starting Out in the Evening" at Sundance this year. Not a great film but he was very good in it. Looking forward to the play and the film of this.
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Robert Altman's "Secret Honor" with that great character actor Phillip Baker Hall as Nixon? He was supposed to be scary good....Still always a kick to catch Dracula when AMC reruns it. Great 70's hair on Frank......
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Best Nixon ever.
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No contest. Frank Langella is Bob Alexander from "Dave". Next.
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Saw this at the Donmar Warehouse in London and it was excellent. Langella and Sheen were fantastic. looking forward to seeing how it translates to the screen.
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everything he touches he has to try and make epic or oscar-worthy. LAME.
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ZZZzzzzzz
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Apr 30, 2007 10:03:04 PM CDT
Grammaton you're right, Langella did make a good Zorro.
by orbots commander
Even if his version was a made for TV movie and lifted the exact same Max Steiner score from the classic Tyrone Power Mark of Zorro.
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the French actor Alain Delon. They made a sphaggetti western Zorro way back and I remember catching it on TV a couple of times as a kid. Delon's Zorro was actually similar to Banderas' if I recall correctly.
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Amazing Tony Blair, note perfect Kenneth Williams, and I am sure his David Frost will give me a chubby...
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i have not увидено киноему so who is this nickson....is he гомосексуальнo}
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