Awright, listen up ya queahs, Shuttah Island has a new trailah. I don’t gotta tell you dat I gawt a majah fackin hahd on for this movie ’cause it’s from Mahtin Scoah Seas, the fackin’ guy who directed The Fackin’ Depahted, an it’s fackin’ set in fackin’ Bawston again. GO SAWX! This one’s gawt Leanahdo Di Caprio, Special K, Ruffo, and that othah queah from the Watchmen — that movie was wicked queah. It’s like, if I wanted to stayuh at fackin’ blue cawcks fa two houahs, I’d take Tawmy an’ Caspah an’ Squeezebawx down to da fackin’ hahbah an go skinny dippin’ in fackin’ wintah. Am I fackin’ right oar am I fackin’ right?
Martin Scorsese’s latest, Shutter Island (trailer below), was set for release October 2nd, but Paramount has decided to move it to February 19th, taking it out of contention for the 2009 Oscars (and a February release won’t help their chances in 2010 either). Via Nikke Finke:
An insider tells me. “It tested in the high 80s/low 90s and Scorsese even brought it down to 2 hours.” So what’s the problem? I hear that Paramount told the filmmakers it doesn’t have the financing in 2009 to spend the $50M to $60M necessary to market a big awards pic like this. [...] I’m also told that, among the many reasons for the move, Leo [DiCaprio] wasn’t going to be available to promote the pic internationally. So the studio settled on the release date of February 19th because “that’s when Silence Of The Lambs came out” back in 1991 and it won the Oscar.
Now Paramount can throw their full weight behind their other two big Oscar contenders, GI Joe and Transformers 2.
This is the first poster for Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island… Hee hee! I’m totally joking! This is the real poster. Aren’t I zany? I just couldn’t resist. Because people often light matches when someone farts, you see.
It stars Leonardo DiCaprio. The poster seems to say, “This guy. Walks. Through the raindrops.”
Just the thought of Martin Scorsese directing an adaptation of a Dennis Lehane novel (The Wire, Gone Baby Gone, Mystic River) gives me a wicked fackin nerd bonuh (because Dennis Lehane is from Boston, you see). Shutter Island (first ever trailer below) stars Leo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Emily Mortimer, Special K Kingsley, and Michelle Williams.
The plot is Wicker Man-esque in that DiCaprio plays a U.S. Marshall investigating the escape of a murderess from a remote mental institution for the criminally insane on Shutter Island. And since it’s set in the 50s, the lobotimize-you-for-PMS era of psychiatry, he’s sure to find more than just an escaped crazy bitch. And since it’s Dennis Lehane, someone involved is sure to get molested, or is running from their past when they got molested, or desperately wants to start molesting. Just speculating here, but probably Leo’s character’s motivation is probably to find and molest the man who molested him.
(You might not have to keep chugging water all night if you didn’t wear a wool-lined overcoat indoors, genius)
Let’s get one thing clear, I’m reporting this because I admire the balls it takes to print it, not because it’s the least bit true. That said, Jamie Foxx is reportedly a “potential contender” for the lead role in Martin Scorsese’s Sinatra. You know, the biopic about ‘Old Blue Eyes.’
Foxx, who won a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the 2004 film Ray, reportedly considered to be “perfect” for the role. If he is chosen for the part, it will be one of the most prominent examples of “colour-blind” casting in Hollywood history.
Also in the running are George Clooney, Leonardo di Caprio, Harry Connick Jnr and Justin Timberlake. [And anyone else whose name is a popular search term! -Ed.]
An unnamed source [Fibby McLiemouth, perhaps?] told the Daily Express: “Cool is colour-blind. Jamie would seem to be born to the role [...in opposite land.]. Magnificent singing voice, totally convincing acting ability, like Frank himself, born the wrong side of the tracks, rags to riches, makes it big against the odds, has his brushes with authority. The guy’s a gift.” [Telegraph]
Another similarity is that Jamie Foxx is often called ‘Old Brown Eye’ (because he’s an asshole, you see). But yeah, they should definitely make Sinatra a black guy. Italians are notoriously good sports about this kind of stuff.
