13 Trailer: Rourke, The Stath, Skarsgard, 50 Cent & Some UFC Guys

09.16.11 Written by Vince Mancini

13 is a remake of the 2005 Georgian movie (red menace not red necks) 13 Tzameti, which takes the novel step of  bringing in the original director (Géla Babluani) to do the English language version. Long story short, it’s about competitive Russian Roulette, and seems to have been cast like a younger, hipper Expendables. There’s Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, 50 Cent, UFC fighters Forrest Griffin and Don Frye (the Magnum PI of MMA), HBO dreamboats Alexander Skååårsgaåaååaaård and Michael Shannon, and Motherf*ckin’ Ray Winstone (his full name). But enough from me, let’s hear what The Stath has to say.

Oi, conts, it’s Da Stafe heah, isn’ Oy. As you kin see, Da Stafe stahs in dis new fiwm Firteen, which is about Russian Roullette or some bollocks. Sahdly, I don’ get ta kiw conts wiv a chair loike oy did in dat ovva movie. But it did give me do oppahtoonity ta weah a ravva fetching bowlah cap, innit. Whoy, Oy I fink Oy look propah sophistica’ed, don’ Oy, Tommy? Anyway, dis fiwm weren’t much of a stretch for da Stafe, because whoilst Da Stafe don’ normly play a lot of Russian Roullette, sometoimes Oy DO loike ta play a littew gaime Oy loike ta caw ‘Chatsworff roulette,’ where Da Stafe goes ta da focken Playboy Mansion, frows a point glahss inta da crowd, an’ den oy ‘as ta knob whicheva bird it ‘its, now ‘asn’t Oy. Sometoimes da birds come up and dey’s loike, “Oy, Stafe, whoy ‘as you ‘it me in da ‘ead wiff diss wew ‘eavy focken point glahss?” An’ den Oy is loike, “Wew, dahlin, if Da Stafe’s wew ‘eavy focken point glahss ‘adn’t ‘it yew in da skull, ‘ow would Da Stafe know dat you is da bird da Stafe is supposed to knob tonoight?’ An’ since dat is obviously a wew romantic fing ta say to a bird, aftah dat we usually knob in da back of moy sazz wagon. Moral a da story is, bein’ Da Stafe ain’t too focken bad, is it, Tommy.

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The Immortals looks tasteful, restrained

06.28.11 Written by Vince Mancini

The swimming elephant scene in The Fall is one of the coolest scenes I’ve ever seen, and now director Tarsem Singh is taking his knack for amazing visuals and preposterous costumes to mythical ancient Greece in The Immortals, starring Mickey Rourke and some other people. Basically, if you saw 300 and thought, “Neat, but could use more dramatic slo-mo,” or saw Clash of the Titans and thought, “Cool, but could it be more like 300?”  Then this is the movie for you.

“The Immortals is like 300 for people who like 300!” -Accurate Pete Hammond.

Note: Not to be confused with the actual sequel to 300.  I predict a gritty 300 in the style of 300.

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In Bruges director’s follow-up adds Farrell, Walken, Rourke, Rockwell

05.12.11 Written by Vince Mancini

File this one under “Guys I would kill to party with.”  So Martin McDonagh, writer/director of In Bruges, possibly the most unique action-comedy of the last ten years, is preparing his next film, Seven Psychopaths.  The Christ-like Megan Ellison is financing, and so far the cast includes Colin Farrell, Christopher Walken, Mickey Rourke, and Sam Rockwell (homeless Paul Rudd!).  No midgets have yet been cast, but if craft services provides the booze and pills, I’m sure one will just eventually show up.

Story follows a screenwriter (Farrell) struggling for inspiration for his script, “Seven Psychopaths,” who gets drawn into the dog kidnapping schemes of his oddball friends (Rockwell and Walken).  This take a turn for the worse when a gangster’s (Rourke) mutt goes missing. [Variety]

Hmm, well that sounds pretty good.  And by that I mean I wrote this after a noise like a whistling tea kettle escaped my diaphragm and I passed out in anticipatory ecstasy on a pile of cats.  Speaking of which, is it weird that I imagine Sam Rockwell constantly being awoken by stray animals?  He has a real a-goat-licked-my-forehead-this-morning vibe about him.

[Christopher Walken in 1955. Source]

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Mickey Rourke is still Hollywood’s awesomely inappropriate uncle

04.13.11 Written by Vince Mancini

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It would be hard for me to love Mickey Rourke more than I already do, because he’s like your awesomely inappropriate uncle.  Only everyone secretly loves him because the inappropriate things he says are usually true, and because beneath his clay-faced exterior, he has a heart of gold, as proven by his love of tiny dogs, cancer kids, and hookers.  He recently made such films as 13, about competitive Russian roulette, opposite 50 Cent and Jason Statham; and Passion Play, where he played a broken-down old trumpet player trying to protect a sideshow attraction with angel wings played by Megan Fox from gangster Bill Murray.  Combine terrible movies with awesome candidness, and you get this conversation, which Rourke recently had with NY Magazine at the Scre4m premiere:

Let’s start with horror movies: You a fan?
Depends.

On what?
If there’s nothing else to watch. I came here to see Harvey. I don’t know nothing about the movie.

What about 50 Cent? He’s hosting.
I haven’t seen him.

You guys are in a movie together, right?
A really bad movie, yeah.

What?! Is it out?
No, it’s so bad it can’t get out.

Tell me why you made it.
For the money.

But you think the movie’s bad.
Terrible.

Why?
You have to watch it.

What about your movie with Megan Fox and Bill Murray?
Terrible. Another terrible movie. But, you know, in your career and all the movies you make, you’re going to make dozens of terrible ones.

You called Megan Fox, like, one of the best actresses of all time.
That I worked with [smirk].

That movie’s getting limited release.
That’s because it’s not very good.

I know a good movie we can talk about: your rugby movie.
That’ll be a great movie. We start shooting February.

Call it sad if you want, but honesty is revolutionary in the entertainment business, and Mickey Rourke is a patriot.  Luckily he gets away with it because he’s a veteran, award-winning actor.  He has what I like to call “F*ck-You Gravitas.”

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Mickey Rourke Removing Front Teeth to Play Gay Rugby Player

01.05.11 Written by Vince Mancini

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A while back, I brought you the news that Mickey Rourke was interested in playing openly gay Welsh rugby player Gareth Thomas.  Now comes word from his agent that Rourke is so serious about it that he’s considering having his two front teeth removed.  Jesus, gay rugby sounds like a rough sport.

Wales on Sunday now says the Wrestler star is going to take out his teeth – as Thomas doesn’t have any front chompers – and wants to shoot the picture in Wales.
Thomas’ agent Emanuele Palladino told Wales on Sunday that Rourke wanted to be as faithful as possible.
He said, ‘Mickey wants to film everything in Wales, although it is early days.
‘He really wants to throw himself into Welsh and rugby and really learn as quickly as he can. He’ll learn Welsh I think, obviously where it is relevant as well.
‘He is going to get rid of his two front teeth and stuff – he will be taking them out.
‘Mickey intends to get as close to the character as he can, as he thinks it is a great story.’ [inmovies.ca]

Huh, I always thought Wales was closed on Sundays.  Anyway, the difficulty here isn’t so much that Mickey Rourke will have to remove his teeth or learn Welsh, it’s more that Gareth Thomas is a 36-year-old professional athlete and Mickey Rourke is a clayfaced, 58-year-old, tiny-dog-loving party animal.  Not that there’s anything wrong with that.  In fact, more that I think about it, Gareth Thomas should be doing a biopic about Mickey Rourke.

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