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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2008: #43 Body of Lies

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Body of Lies

#43. Body of Lies

Director: Ridley Scott
Writers: William Monahan (The Departed)
Producers: Donald De Line and Ridley Scott
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

The Gist: Formerly titled “Penetration”, written by William Monahan,
this is based on David Ignatius novel that sees Crowe play Ed Hoffman, the
manipulative CIA boss who teams with operative Roger Ferris (DiCaprio) to trap a
dangerous Al Qaeda leader by planting a false rumor that the bomber is in
cahoots with the Americans.

Fact: Alexander Witt who directed Resident Evil: Apocalypse was the DOP for this project.

See It: Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe in the same picture? Save me my movie ticket.

Release Date/Status?: Now in post prod – this is getting an October 10th wide release.

 
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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