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The BEING JOHN MALKOVICH/ADAPTATION Team Of Charlie Kaufman And Spike Jonze Returns!!
Director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, the fellows behind 1999's “Being John Malkovich” and 2002's "Adaptation" are finally reteaming for a third big-screen project.
Deadline describes it:
… a satire about how world leaders gather to figure out all the seismic events that will take place in the worlds, from oil prices to wars that will be waged.
The worlds! I can’t get enough of Kaufman’s comic genius and the fact that he’s reteaming with the director of arguably his best work is fabulous news indeed.
Kaufman’s other prior credits include “Get A Life,” “Human Nature,” “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and “Synecdoche, New York.”
Jonze’s other prior credits include “Jackass” and “Where The Wild Things Are.”
Find all of Dealine’s exclusive on the matter here.
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FIRST!!
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he was also very good in that movie about the diamond thief!
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Please, sir, I'd like some more of dat!
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I'll be there.
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March 1, 2011, 5:27 p.m. CST
Wasn't the rumor years ago they were going to make a horror or thriller?
by D.Vader
This sounds like it could be a thriller. Of global proportions. *snicker*
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March 1, 2011, 5:33 p.m. CST
I'm expecting brilliance from this collaboration.
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
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March 1, 2011, 5:36 p.m. CST
ugh, sounds like this is going to be a lefty-lib wankfest
by Andy Pandy
count me out
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Didn't Clive Barker write a story about this years ago? Something about world leaders making decisons by watching frogs race or jump over each other or something. I read it a long time ago and don't remember the details.
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the Clive Barker short story with the racing frogs. Edit to say well done mrbagwell!
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Big fan. Consider me excited.
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Kaufman and Jonze have my trust and money, no trailer or hype needed, ass in seat opening day.
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March 1, 2011, 6:43 p.m. CST
d.vader, I think the horror movie evolved into SYNECDOCHE, NY
by CountryBoy
Seriously -- if I remember correctly, Kaufman said they were trying to think of the most horrific things they could, and they thought just getting old, facing sickness and loneliness and death, was it. As they focused on that, the story shifted into what became SYNECDOCHE, NY.
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You are correct sir. From a review: "About fifteen minutes into Synecdoche, New York I realized that this movie is the horror project. It’s not a traditional horror movie by any means, opting instead to show us the literal horrors of everyday life that we all experience."
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I've never had an ill opinion of anything Charlie Kauffman has ever written. I even liked the much reviled Human Nature, both in spite and because of its over the top audacity. I love how Tim Robbins narrates from beyond the grave and Miranda Otto's French accent. Blast it all, that movie was funny, damn it!<br /> <br /> We're facing the depletion of our resources and economic collapse in our lifetimes. I hope this is a movie that has insightful things to say about those topics. It sounds like it could be Jonze/Kauffman's "Dr. Strangelove".
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That movie WAS pretty creepy...
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Pregnant with conspiracy-style undertones. Beep! Beep!
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thats hot. my first thoughts were strangelove 2 as well krod
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Because she seems to be going after my heart. She is putting up dream projects left and right. I hope to God some of them make money. Between this and the PTA's Scientology project, I can't wait to see what she funds next.
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John Qusack
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BEST. TEAM. EVER.
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Adaptation is one of the best films of the 2000s. I can't fucking wait to see Kaufman and Jonze working together again.
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March 1, 2011, 10:26 p.m. CST
My favorite so far is Kaufman directing a Kaufman screenplay
by bottombrick
But still very psyched, always down for more Kaufman.
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March 1, 2011, 10:54 p.m. CST
I just watched Being John Malkovich for the first time the other night
by SithMenace
While I was watching it I didn't think I liked it, but I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since I shut it off.
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Screenwriters in general were given the love and respect that Kaufman gets. The auteur theory is nonsense.
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*fingers crossed*
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But not all evil, I guess.
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March 1, 2011, 11:16 p.m. CST
They should make a surreal film starring Charlie Sheen as himself
by Bobo_Vision
Reunited after Being John Malkovich.
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I'm way down, this sounds genius!!!
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I LOVE the charge from the conservative that making fun of the idea that there is some kind of vast governmental conspiracy out to screw us is the exclusive domain of the Liberal. That's a pretty great delineation line to draw between the two ideologies and their respective levels of reason and intelligence.
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Cannot wait to see what these two have in store for us next.
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But the best Kaufman film is "Synedoche, New York". The Best Jonze film is "Where the Wild Things Are". So as good as they have been together, they have been better apart. That said. This sounds rich in potential. Can't wait for it.
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Kaufman is brilliant. He writes movies that seem like they're really meant to be movies and can only be fully formed through the artistry of motion pictures. "Adaptation" is truly a modern masterpiece and it amazes me to think this movie, with so many layers to it even the one word title has multiple meanings, lost the Adapted Screenplay Oscar to "The Pianist." Needless to say, I am quite excited about this very cool news.
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pot with these guys.
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I don't believe Jonze ever attended college, let alone with Kaufman. Nice try, though.
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...news of that lady producing Paul Thomas Anderson's "the master" movie. top 3 films I'm anticipating TDKR The master This
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Love Kaufman's work, even Synedoche. Can't wait...
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Adaptation and Being John Malkovich are just plain brilliant. Hope these guys can complete the trifecta with another work of awesomeness!
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Waste of time? Jonze's Wild Things was probably one of the most dead-on amazing films about childhood and the experiences of being a young boy trying to figure out where he fits and dealing with complex emotions. Instant classic.
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Uh yea totally sounds like it. Anyway, cool news indeed.
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about something. ANYTHING. It's in their blood (and punditry).
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so these guys are making a film about the bilderberg meetings. hopefully they point out the fact this truly happens, because i for one, am sick of wars, and i am sick of elitism, and i am sick of ethnocentrism.
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I really, really wanted to love Where the Wild Things Are, and maybe I just went in with too many expectations, but I think it should really win the award for "Most Depressing Children's Movie Ever." OK, so it's not a children's movie, it's a film about the pain of childhood. Whatever. So go see masterpieces like "Ivan's Childhood" or "Come and See" if joyless children-in-a-fallen-world-of-pain movies are your thing. I guess what I hated most about it was that it just didn't feel at all like the book, and the second Max (who was also too old), runs away from home instead of his bedroom turning a forest, the movie lost me. I'm sorry, but that scene is the key and most magical image of the book, which has endured with me since childhood. This, the absence of that crazy long-necked serpent creature as Max sails in, that it was filmed in a burnt out forest instead of a jungle, etc., all just felt like very weird and kind of bitter omissions to me. Also, I certainly don't remember the Wild Things spending sooooo much time kvetching about their chronic manic depression. More like, "Where the Borderline Personality Disorders Are." God! I hate this movie. Still, Spike Jonze is a genius and is more than entitled to an interesting failure or two. His collaborations with Kaufman are legendary, and have produced two of the very best films I've ever seen. I also really loved "Synecdoche, New York," but I wouldn't have minded at all if Jonze had directed that one, as well, because it almost felt like the culmination of a trilogy. This one sounds like it could be great, so here's hoping that Spike can finally put Sophia Coppola (and her blatantly mean-spirited and narcissistic betrayal and trashing of him in her smells-like-filthy-laundry "Lost in Translation") behind him and make another masterpiece with Kaufman. And, yes, that would be awesome if Charlie Sheen reappeared as "himself."
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When, god, will we be able to edit these posts?!
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I thought the idea of the Quantum (Bilderberg) Group holding its meeting during an opera via Bluetooth was a brilliant gimmick, but then again, I actually dug that movie...
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your not alone, me too. Gagging for the next Bond...
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