Does fiction actually inspire reality or should it be the opposite? While movies and videogames are frequently accused of being responsible for some current events (most discussions focus on violence issues), this twist of fate could definitely reopen the debate. Indeed, a few weeks ago in France, a cash escort made it out with his van that was holding some 11 million euros! The incident struck a chord with this week’s release of Armored from Nimród Antal (Vacancy), which relates how cash escorts…disappear with a van worth of 10 million dollar. What a coincidence! Anyway, Armored presents a very interesting cast: Matt Dillon, Jean Reno, Laurence Fishburne, Skeet Ulrich, Amaury Nolasco, Milo Ventimiglia, Fred Ward… all share the bill in this tough and exploding feature! That being said, the French escort guy seems to have been even cleverer, as he happened to be on his own to succeed his robbery!
In the manner of Philip K. Dick, one of Hollywood’s inexhaustible science fiction inspiration, or Stephen King and the countless movie and TV adaptations based on his novels, Cormack Mc Carty is part too of these contemporary writers, which are regularly adapted to cinema. After The Gardener’s Son, All the Pretty Horses and No Country for Old Men, it is now time for his latest 2006 novel, The Road, for which he got a prestigious Pulitzer award, to be adapted to cinema with Viggo Mortensen (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, A History of Violence…), Charlize Theron (Monster and Hancock) and directed by John Hillcoat…
Tim Burton’s latest visually crazy project, Alice in Wonderland’s, is slowly making its way to the big screens. The unveiled posters or the trailers available online hardly have anything to do with fantasyfans’ craze for the next feature of Jack Skellington’s Daddy (to whom we owe so many other cinema masterpieces). Indeed, Burton’s know-how and his previous enchanting movies together with a solid cast (which by the way sounds vaguely familiar: Bonham Carter Helena, Depp Johnny, Christopher Lee…) are well enough to make spectators’ mouths water. Due in March 2010 in the US, the first part from the adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s novel will be realised in live 3D, whereas the second part –starting when beautiful Alice steps into the fabulous world that awaits for her- is made using motion capture technique… God knows what Burtonly surprises we should be expecting too!
19-year-old Alice returns to the whimsical world she first encountered as a young girl, reuniting with her childhood friends: the White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Dormouse, the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, and of course, the Mad Hatter.
Groupies of cinema’s latest American lover boy, Robert Pattinson, have been recently over thrilled. Indeed last Wednesday, thousands of teens were about to discover New Moon, second episode from the Twilight Saga. Realised by Crhis Weitz (responsible for the rather limited The Golden Compass) and staring the same group of actors as before (Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner…), the scenario is actually a direct continuation. Based on The Twilight saga initially written by Stephenie Meyer, it’s a safe bet that this love-mishmash between a human, a vampire and a werewolf will be a box office hit. The saga’s third and final episode, Hesitation, is expected in June 2010.
Bella Swan is still very much in love with vampire, Edward Cullen. The rest of the vampire coven who call themselves the Cullens, especially Alice, decide to throw Bella a private party for her eighteenth birthday. Things go wrong when Bella slices her finger and thirst overcomes the vampires. As a result of the danger Bella was put through, the Cullen family decide to leave Forks, Washington. At first Bella exempts herself from all social activities, until she realizes she can coexist with childhood friend, Jacob Black. As usual for Bella, things aren’t what they seem. Something is happening to Jacob that he can’t explain to Bella, and their friendship starts to deteriorate. But when someone from Bella’s past comes back to haunt her, everything will change again.
