Showing posts with label Cymbeline. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cymbeline. Show all posts
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"Cymbeline' Director Michael Almereyda talks about Dakota and the Movie
Shakespeare’s tragedy Cymbeline gets the modern treatment as a
biker gang versus dirty cop war set in Manhattan. Ed Harris is the
titular drug dealer who leads his soldiers into deadly territory facing off with the corrupt police
chief Caius Lucius (Vondie Curtis-Hall) and his band of men. Cymbeline’s
merciless fervour and explosive temper instil rightful fear in all who
might cross him, and he is backed by well-armed followers. Ethan Hawke
is the tricky Iachimo who recklessly complicates people’s lives, and
Penn Badgley and Dakota Johnson are Posthumus and Imogen, lovers on
opposite sides of the fence whose despair leads to an unexpected
outcome. Cymbeline is interpreted as an ultra-violent “fairy tale” by
filmmaker Michael Almereyda whose earlier modern riff on Shakespeare’s
Hamlet also starred Hawke. We spoke with Almereyda from New York.
I was thinking how incredibly violent the film is but it is taken from the play. We have not changed much in 400 years.Michael Almereyda: It’s
not unusual for Shakespeare’s stories to have physical violence and
emotional violence. It’s like a fairy tale – they tend to be violent but
are about redemption and the great spirit of forgiveness that ties it
together. I found it moving and the antidote to the violence. The evil
people collapse and die and the noble people survive and endure against
all odds and people reunite and reclaim their lives and there is
something moving about it. It mitigates violence.
Ethan Hawke seems to have a real capacity for delivering that beautiful language without forcing it.
Michael Almereyda: Between
Hamlet and the present moment he’s been very busy and he’s gone out of
his way to do Shakespeare onstage. He just played Hotspur in Henry IV
while he was prepping Macbeth and shooting Cymbeline. He has developed a
facility for Shakespeare. He played a double role in Winter’s Tale.
It’s a hard won facility but he is fluid and confident and he has
traveled a certain distance beyond for it. He was the first person I
cast.
Dakota Johnson is really impressive. She handled the language and stood up to those veterans well.
Michael Almereyda: It
was an instinct to cast her and that was before Fifty Shades of Gray.
I’d seen some of her other films and liked them. We sat down and talked
and I saw in her rawness and instinct. She wanted to do it and was
passionate. During filming she was cast for Fifty Shades and that was
the first time I’d ever had to deal with paparazzi on a set. She came
through. Fifty Shades was a juggernaut no matter what and I’m happy for
her and I look forward to seeing what she will do in the future.
Saturday, March 7, 2015
New Information about "Cymbeline" + New Still with Dakota
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Lionsgate’s Grindstone Entertainment has acquired North American rights to the modern-day movie adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “Cymbeline,” ahead of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
The film stars Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris, Milla Jovovich, John Leguizamo, Penn Badgley, Dakota Johnson and Anton Yelchin. The film will be distributed in the spring.
“Cymbeline” re-teams director Michael Almereyda with Hawke more than a decade after their collaboration on “Hamlet” in 2000.
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
NEW Poster of "Cymbeline"!
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ComingSoon.net has the exclusive first look at the poster for the film (called Anarchy for a short while), which you can view below.
Hawke co-stars with Ed Harris as two players caught up in the middle of a war between dirty cops and an outlaw biker gang which forces a drug kingpin (Harris) to desperate measures. The ensemble cast includes Milla Jovovich (“Resident Evil” films), John Leguizamo, Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades of Grey), Penn Badgley, Anton Yelchin, Bill Pullman and Delroy Lindo.
Lionsgate will release Cymbeline in select cities and on VOD on March 13, but it’s also playing as part of Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Film Comment Selects series on Tuesday, March 3.
The R-rated film is produced by Michael Benaroya, Anthony Katagas and Michael Almereyda, and executive produced by Ben Sachs, Clayton Young, Seth Renshaw, Barry Brooker and Stan Wertlieb. Almereyda wrote the script. Grindstone and Benaroya Pictures present a Keep Your Head/Benaroya Pictures production.

From Coming Soon:
Back in 2000, director Michael Almereyda teamed with Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke for a modern-day version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet set in New York City. Fifteen years later, the director and actor have reteamed for a similar update of a lesser-known Shakespeare play called Cymbeline.
ComingSoon.net has the exclusive first look at the poster for the film (called Anarchy for a short while), which you can view below.
Hawke co-stars with Ed Harris as two players caught up in the middle of a war between dirty cops and an outlaw biker gang which forces a drug kingpin (Harris) to desperate measures. The ensemble cast includes Milla Jovovich (“Resident Evil” films), John Leguizamo, Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades of Grey), Penn Badgley, Anton Yelchin, Bill Pullman and Delroy Lindo.
Lionsgate will release Cymbeline in select cities and on VOD on March 13, but it’s also playing as part of Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Film Comment Selects series on Tuesday, March 3.
The R-rated film is produced by Michael Benaroya, Anthony Katagas and Michael Almereyda, and executive produced by Ben Sachs, Clayton Young, Seth Renshaw, Barry Brooker and Stan Wertlieb. Almereyda wrote the script. Grindstone and Benaroya Pictures present a Keep Your Head/Benaroya Pictures production.
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