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Stills from Michael Mann's film about notorious gangster John Dillinger, Public Enemies, featuring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Billy Crudup, Channing Tatum, David Wenham, Giovanni Ribisi, Leelee Sobieski, and Stephen Dorff. [imdb]
Featurette for Stephen Daldry's drama The Reader starring Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Alexandra Maria Lara, and Bruno Ganz. [imdb]
Director Iain Softley (The Skeleton Key) talks about his new film, an adaptation of Cornelia Funke's Inkheart, starring Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, and Andy Serkis. There are also some film clips at MSN.uk. [imdb]
Trailer and clips for The Unborn, a horror thriller from David S. Goyer. Monster fodder Cast includes Odette Yustman, Gary Oldman, Cam Gigandet, Meagan Good, Idris Elba, James Remar and Carla Gugino. [imdb]
Christina Cox (Blood Ties), Laura Harris (Dead Like Me), Eyal Podell (The Young and the Restless), and Zahf Paroo (Three Moons Over Milford) have been cast in Defying Gravity, a sci-fi drama pilot from Fox/BBC about eight astronauts from five countries who embark on a 6-year mission. They join Rob Livingston and German actress Florentine Lahme. (DigitalSpy) [imdb]
Keanu Reeves speaks to MTV about a live-action Cowboy Bebop, in which he'll play Spike Spiegel (*sobs*):
The flick is currently being put together by Erwin Stoff, a producer who has spent the last two decades working almost exclusively on Reeves projects, and recently set the film up at 20th Century Fox. “We’ve got the rights, we’ve got a writer,” Keanu explained. “He’s putting together a scene outline.”
Reeves revealed that this outline for the flick is currently focusing on the origins of the fictional “Bebop” drug developed by the military, which provides its users with a brief surge of superhuman reflexes and awareness. “We’re taking the Red Eye [story], the beginning part of the series,” he explained, “and then we’ll deal with the end of the series. We’re trying to figure out [the time frame]. We’re looking at the story right now.”
Since the beloved 26-episode show (as well as the feature film) didn’t necessarily maintain a linear style of storytelling, Reeves said that somewhere between the Red Eye origins and the “Bebop” conclusion, they’ll be picking out various highlights for their own use.
“Yeah, it’s so episodic and so disconnected. We’re trying to figure out what pieces to put together to tell one story,” he explained. “Because it’s such a short form, to make a 2 hour version [will be tough]. And it’s got so much of an origin-story obligation; you’ve got to get people up to speed, but you don’t want to do much of that. There are a lot of things to take into consideration, but we think we can do something good.”