After Batman 3, Christopher Nolan Wants to Make His Howard Hughes Biopic

After shooting The Dark Knight Rises, we’re told Christopher Nolan plans to return to reality — even if it’s one stranger than fiction. Insiders with knowledge of his plans tell Vulture exclusively that Nolan next wants to direct a long-shelved Howard Hughes biopic he’d abandoned when it became clear that Martin Scorsese would beat him to the screen with The Aviator in 2004.

But while Scorsese’s film is understood to have been heavily based on Charles Higham’s biography Howard Hughes: The Secret Life and centered largely on the early years of Hughes' life up to 1947, we hear Nolan’s movie is based on Michael Drosnin’s Citizen Hughes: The Power, the Money and the Madness (first published in 1985), and would focus on the freakier decades of Hughes remarkably secretive and OCD-addled life.

Drosnin is a former Washington Post and Wall Street Journal reporter who’s best known for writing the bestseller The Bible Code, but his Citizen Hughes leans extensively on some astonishing primary sourcing: Over three thousand pages of Hughes’s own handwritten memoranda, which leaked after the billionaire's office was burglarized in 1975.

As such, we’re told Nolan’s Hughes movie will covers many later events and quirks on which Scorsese’s movie punted: We'll meet the Howard Hughes who spent much of 1948 sitting naked in a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel with only a pink dinner napkin covering his genitals as he screened movies from his studio, RKO Pictures, and ran up an $11 million tab; the Hughes who — obsessed with food safety — once bought every franchise restaurant chain in his home state of Texas, and who was similarly so concerned about air quality that he installed an aircraft filtration system in his 1954 Chrysler New Yorker, taking up its entire trunk; the Howard Hughes who had his hair cut and nails trimmed only once a year, and who was seemingly as addicted to Baskin Robbins Banana Ripple ice cream as he was to regular codeine injections; the Hughes who at the end of his life considered only Mormons trustworthy enough to be let into his inner circle.

Our spies tell us Nolan wants to shoot his Hughes movie late in 2012, then release it in 2014 — by which time 10 years will have elapsed since Scorsese’s Aviator, a span Nolan seems to think sufficient enough for it not to invite immediate comparison.

No word on where Nolan’s Citizen Hughes will be set up — or if it will even be called that — but we can’t imagine that after two Batman movies and Inception at Warner Bros., it won’t be green-lighted in beautiful downtown Burbank.

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/20 ... iopic.html

X-Men First Class trailer - (I know ernie linked to it in general earlier):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrbHykKUfTM

I'm liking the look of this.

The New SCREAM 4 Poster Is Kinda Cool!!



Couldn't give a stuff about the films, but that's well done

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Scorsese and DiCaprio To Work Together Again for THE WOLF OF WALL STREET! Plus SILENCE!

Nordling here.

So far, the partnership of Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio has done well for both of them, even going so far as to get Scorsese that elusive Oscar for THE DEPARTED (that he should have gotten for RAGING BULL, but who's counting). If it hasn't hit the great highs of the Scorsese/De Niro partnership yet, well, there's still time and I think they work well with each other, giving us some damn good movies - the aforementioned DEPARTED, GANGS OF NEW YORK, THE AVIATOR, and last year's SHUTTER ISLAND. Now it looks like they are going to get together once again for THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, based on the non-fiction book by Jordan Belfort, according to Vulture. The book is a documentation of Belfort's rise as a stockbroker in the 1990s who committed securities fraud and money laundering, who as the book's cover says, "partied like a rock star, lived like a king, and barely survived my rise and fall as an American Entrepreneurial Icon." The story was the inspiration for BOILER ROOM, so you could see how Scorsese and DiCaprio would be interested in making it. It sounds like the Wall Street version of GOODFELLAS.

They will be independently funding the project, with Terrence Winter (BOARDWALK EMPIRE) executive producing, with Winter writing the script as well. But first, Scorsese will be shooting SILENCE, a film he's been wanting to make since the 1990s, and honestly that film sounds amazing as well. SILENCE, based on the novel by Shusaku Endo, is about Jesuit missionaries sent to 17th century Japan, and Scorsese has been circling the project since 1998. Scorsese going to get his Kurosawa on? I'm all for it. At one point Benicio Del Toro and Daniel Day-Lewis were both attached, but it's unclear if they are still involved with the project. It seems that Del Toro is still attached, but Day-Lewis is going to be filming LINCOLN with Steven Spielberg, and he normally only signs with one project at a time. I'm sure he'd love to work with Scorsese again, though.

Scorsese seems to have gotten his second wind, turning out consistently interesting films and doing amazing work. I'm very curious to see what Scorsese does with 3D in HUGO CABRET, and with these two projects it doesn't look like the master filmmaker is slowing down anytime soon, which can only be good for us.

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Live Action Akira - Harry Potter Writer Preps Neo Tokyo For Explosion

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/48546

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Louis Leterrier, Alex Kurtzman, And Boborci Team For Illusionist Heist Thriller

Merrick here...

Louis Leterrier (the CLASH OF THE TITANS remake, THE INCREDIBLE HULK movie) will direct NOW YOU SEE ME - written by Boaz Yakin (PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME) and Edward Ricourt.

Playlist says...

...the film follows a crack FBI squad in a game of cat-and-mouse against a super-team of the world’s greatest illusionists, who pull off a series of daring bank heists during their performances and showers the profits on to their audiences.

I wanna be in one of those audiences.

The picture will be produced by the seemingly indomitable Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci for Summit (the company that brought us the THE TWILIGHT SAGA).

(Fcuk, sounds brilliant )

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Raimi's OZ Finds Its Wicked Witch Of The West!!

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/48549

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Michel Gondry gets Phillip K. Dick's UBIK

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/48526

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MEN IN BLACK III's Shooting Hiatus Extended!!

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/48518

Sounds like it's going well

This is the only item that's been of real interest for some time in terms of upcoming films. Gondry is a very imaginative director and hopefully this will give him a chance to repeat the success of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I can't remember the story that well but there might be a little of the Inception flavour in there.



Just get on with Hellboy 3 and stop wasting time.

New TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON Daytona 500 Ad!

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/48569

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How about a trailer for HESHER!

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/48570

Hmmm...
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Christopher McQuarrie to write Live Action STARBLAZERS movie! MAYBE NOT! Could be LUCASFILM!!!

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/48578

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New CARS 2 Daytona 500 Trailer!

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/48576

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Vanishing On 7th Street - Official Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFbBIUcklt8

I stopped the trailer once I had a good idea if I'd like it or not, seems good

Robert Downey Jr. could be joining Paul Thomas Anderson project Inherent Vice

http://www.totalfilm.com/news/robert-do ... erent-vice

Could this be the PTA film not to fall asleep to?

Rutger Hauer joins Dario Argento’s Dracula 3D

Will play Van Helsing

Dario Argento’s upcoming Dracula 3D just got an injection of cool thanks to legendary actor Rutger Hauer.

The star of upcoming Hobo With A Shotgun, as well as cinematic classics Blade Runner and Batman Begins, has apparently been cast as vampire hunter Van Helsing in the horror production.

With shooting expected to kick off in May, Hauer is the first name to join the cast. We’re sure now that gore maestro Argento’s gotten a culty name attached, he’ll find it easier to grab even more cool cast members.

Despite Argento’s more recent work failing to hit the heights of his earlier Suspiria and Deep Red, it’ll definitely be interesting to see if he can make a comeback with Dracula. If anything it should be a bloody affair.

Hauer can currently be seen in The Rite, which opens in the UK this Friday.

Source: Twitch

http://www.totalfilm.com/news/rutger-ha ... dracula-3d

Hmm, not sure I'd call Begins a classic, but still...

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201102/the-day-the-movies-died-mark-harris



More at the link...

^ Very interesting (and somewhat depressing) article.

Capone talks MOVIE 43, THE THREE STOOGES, and HALL PASS with director Peter Farrelly and writer Pete Jones!!!

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/48608

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Paul Greengrass Goes To MEMPHIS!

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/48617

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The guy that is making this is making SUPERMAN? New SUCKERPUNCH Music Trailer is awesome!

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/48601

A New Trailer For Duncan Jones' SOURCE CODE!!

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/48625

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Wolfgang Petersen To Start An OLD MAN'S WAR!

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/48623

Nicholas Hoult takes a liking to Warm Bodies

A zombie with a twist

http://www.totalfilm.com/news/nicholas- ... arm-bodies

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Tintin movie scribe talks "reverent" adaptation

Exclusive: Joe Cornish on the film’s tone

http://www.totalfilm.com/news/tintin-mo ... big-screen