Another Lincoln-centric film, The Green Blade Rises, the directorial debut of Aj Edwards is already in the works.
Brit Marling (Another Earth) and Wes Bentley (The Hunger Games) have joined the cast of upcoming feature film about Honest Abe’s formative years – Bentley will play the President’s first teacher, while Marling will play Lincoln’s biological mother Nancy who passed away when he was nine.
They join Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds) and Jason Clarke (Public Enemies), who are already on-board as Lincoln’s step-mother and father.
Edwards worked with Terrence Malick as an editor on The New World, The Tree of Life, and To the Wonder, so it’s no wonder why Malick agreed to produce Edwards directorial debut with the original script he also wrote.
The role of a baby boy Abraham Lincoln has not yet been cast, but with filming to take place this fall, we’ll soon find out.
Brit Marling (Another Earth) and Wes Bentley (The Hunger Games) have joined the cast of upcoming feature film about Honest Abe’s formative years – Bentley will play the President’s first teacher, while Marling will play Lincoln’s biological mother Nancy who passed away when he was nine.
They join Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds) and Jason Clarke (Public Enemies), who are already on-board as Lincoln’s step-mother and father.
Edwards worked with Terrence Malick as an editor on The New World, The Tree of Life, and To the Wonder, so it’s no wonder why Malick agreed to produce Edwards directorial debut with the original script he also wrote.
The role of a baby boy Abraham Lincoln has not yet been cast, but with filming to take place this fall, we’ll soon find out.
- 9/29/2012
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Opens: Friday, July 25 (20th Century Fox)
Ten years after the first "X-Files" movie -- and six since the conclusion of the iconic TV series -- Fox's paranormal-investigation franchise returns to theaters. Unlike 1998's "The X-Files: Fight the Future," the new movie skirts the series' notably paranoid mythology to focus on a relatively standard criminal inquiry, albeit one informed by supernatural incidents. In both scope and execution though, "I Want to Believe" has more in common with its television origins than its motion picture predecessor.
Fox kept the film's plot under tight wraps and held down the production budget, hedging against the potential downside of reintroducing a lukewarm, though popular, franchise. Initial boxoffice should be fairly responsive as loyal "X-Files" fans fill theaters, but with little originality to offer the uninitiated, returns will likely taper off quickly, because the film hardly warrants repeat viewings.
"I Want to Believe" reintroduces the investigatory team of former FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) -- a vociferous adherent of alien abduction, government conspiracy and other fringe theories -- and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), a sober-minded physician specializing in forensics, who together pursued a series of mysterious X-Files cases for the bureau.
Six years have passed since Mulder and Scully left the agency. The pair now resides in an unanticipated state of domesticity, with Scully practicing pediatrics at a Catholic hospital while the discredited and reclusive Mulder pursues his obsession with paranormal media accounts.
The mystifying disappearance of an FBI agent in wintry West Virginia convinces Special Agent Dakota Whitney (Amanda Peet) to bring Mulder in from the cold to help evaluate claims made by Father Joseph Crissman (Billy Connolly). An avowed psychic and defrocked pedophile priest, Father Joe is having visions of the missing agent that led the FBI team to a man's severed arm buried under the snow that's somehow connected to the case.
After another local woman vanishes and more dismembered body parts surface, Whitney increasingly relies on Mulder to coax leads from Father Joe. Ever rational, Scully and Whitney's colleague, Agent Mosley Drummy (rapper Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner), scoff at the priest's alleged supernatural ability, as the principal characters progressively battle individual crises of faith.
Rather than a creepy supernatural thriller, "X-Files" creator Chris Carter, who directed "I Want to Believe" from a script co-written with producer Frank Spotnitz, spins a second-rate "Silence of the Lambs"-type serial killer mystery. Despite a few evocative early scenes, adequate atmospherics are noticeably lacking until the final reels, when the plot has already descended into implausibility. Overall, the film plays like an improbably skewed but comparatively routine criminal procedural that would have served the original show well as an extended season opener or sweeps-week contender.
Although Duchovny and Anderson display some muted chemistry, it isn't enough to fully ignite the narrative. Connolly cleverly capitalizes on his role as the erratic priest, though the other performances are almost consistently dour. Carter's unimaginative visual style, mired in literalism, can't much buoy the movie either. The other technical contributions are workmanlike, with only Mark Snow's score evoking an appropriately eerie mood.
Production: Twentieth Century Fox presents a Ten Thirteen production
Cast: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Peet, Billy Connolly, Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner, Callum Keith Rennie, Adam Godley, Nicki Aycox.
Director: Chris Carter
Screenwriters: Frank Spotnitz & Chris Carter
Producers: Frank Spotnitz, Chris Carter
Executive producer: Brent O'Connor
Director of photography: Bill Roe
Production designer: Mark Freeborn
Music: Mark Snow
Costume designer: Lisa Tomczeszyn
Editor: Richard A. Harris
Rated PG-13, 104 minutes.
Ten years after the first "X-Files" movie -- and six since the conclusion of the iconic TV series -- Fox's paranormal-investigation franchise returns to theaters. Unlike 1998's "The X-Files: Fight the Future," the new movie skirts the series' notably paranoid mythology to focus on a relatively standard criminal inquiry, albeit one informed by supernatural incidents. In both scope and execution though, "I Want to Believe" has more in common with its television origins than its motion picture predecessor.
Fox kept the film's plot under tight wraps and held down the production budget, hedging against the potential downside of reintroducing a lukewarm, though popular, franchise. Initial boxoffice should be fairly responsive as loyal "X-Files" fans fill theaters, but with little originality to offer the uninitiated, returns will likely taper off quickly, because the film hardly warrants repeat viewings.
"I Want to Believe" reintroduces the investigatory team of former FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) -- a vociferous adherent of alien abduction, government conspiracy and other fringe theories -- and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), a sober-minded physician specializing in forensics, who together pursued a series of mysterious X-Files cases for the bureau.
Six years have passed since Mulder and Scully left the agency. The pair now resides in an unanticipated state of domesticity, with Scully practicing pediatrics at a Catholic hospital while the discredited and reclusive Mulder pursues his obsession with paranormal media accounts.
The mystifying disappearance of an FBI agent in wintry West Virginia convinces Special Agent Dakota Whitney (Amanda Peet) to bring Mulder in from the cold to help evaluate claims made by Father Joseph Crissman (Billy Connolly). An avowed psychic and defrocked pedophile priest, Father Joe is having visions of the missing agent that led the FBI team to a man's severed arm buried under the snow that's somehow connected to the case.
After another local woman vanishes and more dismembered body parts surface, Whitney increasingly relies on Mulder to coax leads from Father Joe. Ever rational, Scully and Whitney's colleague, Agent Mosley Drummy (rapper Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner), scoff at the priest's alleged supernatural ability, as the principal characters progressively battle individual crises of faith.
Rather than a creepy supernatural thriller, "X-Files" creator Chris Carter, who directed "I Want to Believe" from a script co-written with producer Frank Spotnitz, spins a second-rate "Silence of the Lambs"-type serial killer mystery. Despite a few evocative early scenes, adequate atmospherics are noticeably lacking until the final reels, when the plot has already descended into implausibility. Overall, the film plays like an improbably skewed but comparatively routine criminal procedural that would have served the original show well as an extended season opener or sweeps-week contender.
Although Duchovny and Anderson display some muted chemistry, it isn't enough to fully ignite the narrative. Connolly cleverly capitalizes on his role as the erratic priest, though the other performances are almost consistently dour. Carter's unimaginative visual style, mired in literalism, can't much buoy the movie either. The other technical contributions are workmanlike, with only Mark Snow's score evoking an appropriately eerie mood.
Production: Twentieth Century Fox presents a Ten Thirteen production
Cast: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Peet, Billy Connolly, Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner, Callum Keith Rennie, Adam Godley, Nicki Aycox.
Director: Chris Carter
Screenwriters: Frank Spotnitz & Chris Carter
Producers: Frank Spotnitz, Chris Carter
Executive producer: Brent O'Connor
Director of photography: Bill Roe
Production designer: Mark Freeborn
Music: Mark Snow
Costume designer: Lisa Tomczeszyn
Editor: Richard A. Harris
Rated PG-13, 104 minutes.
- 7/24/2008
- by By Justin Lowe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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