Some of that headache has been alleviated as Production Weekly reports that Elijah Wood, Adrien Brody, Cam Gigandet and Forest Whitaker are the first to join the project. The amusing question right now is: who are playing the fragile prisoners and the even more fragile prison guards?
With no run away, break out titles as in the previous years (Babel, Volver, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, NCFOM, Silent Light, The Class, Gomorrah, Synecdoche, New York, Waltz with Bashir) Cannes 2009 might not have been a bust, but it was disappointing to see so many mediocre films make it into the main comp.
Penned by unknown scribe Manish Pandey, the doc will span Senna’s years as a Formula One racing driver from 1984 to his untimely death at the age of 34 in a race a decade later, the documentary will explore the life and work of the triple world champion.
There is no way that NYC will go the route of Sao Paulo, so a grouping of NYC artists took back the walls, slabs of concrete and whatnot to remind us to be concerned, free-thinking individuals rather than consumerists.
"After stripping the franchise from the elements that anchored it down as in gadget-overload, tacky one-liners, facile bed-partners and over-zealous villains, the film feels further depleted to the point where Forster doesn’t even allow viewers to enjoy the film's biggest selling point: the action sequences."