New Images from Argo, Frankenweenie, The Impossible, Jack the Giant Killer and Lincoln!
To get your New Year started off right, we have a bunch of great new stills to share from movies you’ll be hearing more about in the coming months.
In no particular order:
This is the first official still from Ben Affleck’s Argo. Affleck both directs and stars in this period film set in the mid 70’s that revolves around the CIA’s risky plan to free six Americans who have taken refuge in the Canadian embassy in Tehran just as the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point. The cast also includes Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, Kyle Chandler and John Goodman. It’s set for a September 14 release in the US, 5 October in the UK. Affleck’s previous two directorial efforts (Gone Baby Gone, The Town) have both found their way onto my dvd shelf, the latter one of my favorite films of 2010. Argo is definitely on my must-see list for 2012.
Here’s a look at Joseph Gordon-Levitt on the set of Steven Spielberg’s 2012 Christmas release, Lincoln. This one does not hunt vampires, he merely guides the nation through the Civil War. Daniel Day-Lewis stars as the 16th President, Gordon-Levitt plays one of his sons, Robert Todd Lincoln. (As a student of American History and a Civil War buff in particular, I am so EXCITED for this one! The cast is amazing, including Jared Harris, Michael Stuhlbarg, David Straithairn, Tommy Lee Jones, John Hawkes, Walton Goggins, David Oyelowo and Sally Field, [as Mary Todd Lincoln. While DDL is age appropriate, my first thought is she’s a bit long in the tooth for this role. I could be wrong.] to name but a FEW.) It’s based on a book by Doris Kearns Goodwin (“Team of Rivals”) with a script by John Logan and Tony Kushner. I’ll wager this will be a MAJOR awards contender next year.
Jack the Giant Killer is a “modern day fairy tale in which the long-standing peace between men and giants is threatened, as a young farmer leads an expedition into the giants' kingdom in hopes of rescuing a kidnapped princess”. Here’s the first official image, of Nicholas Hoult as Jack in mid-climb of the ‘Magic Beanstalk’. The film, directed by Bryan Singer and costarring the likes of Ewan McGregor, Ian McShane, Stanley Tucci, Bill Nighy, Eddie Marsan and Ben Daniels (YAY! I’ve missed him since he left “Law & Order: UK”), is set for a June 15 release.
Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie is a remake of his own short from 1986, in which young Victor conducts a science experiment to bring his beloved dog Sparky back to life, only to face unintended, sometimes monstrous, consequences. The original has been expanded for a feature length format so look for the neighborhood kids to get into the act with their own pets. Sounds like Mary Shelly meets Stephen King filtered through the mind of Tim Burton. Frankenweenie, featuring the voices of Winona Ryder, Martin Short, Martin Landau and Catherine O’Hara, gets an appropriate October 5 release.
Here’s a look at a film we haven’t talked about before. The Impossible, which stars Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts, is based on the true story “of a family caught, with tens of thousands of strangers, in the mayhem of one of the worst natural catastrophes of our time”, namely the tsunami that struck Thailand on December 26, 2004. The film marks the English-language debut of Juan Antonio Bayona(The Orphanage). (Ironically, there is a first trailer out there if you want to view it, but it’s dubbed in Spanish. I thought I’d wait for the English version before posting it.) I suspect we’ll talk a lot more about The Impossible before its release. Right now it only has a firm date of October 12 in Spain.
Enjoy the pics! Happy New Year!
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