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Director Joel Schumacher (St. Elmo’s Fire, Flatliners, The Lost Boys and A Time To Kill) is back at it with Twelve, an adaptation of Nick McDonell’s novel. Gossip Girl’s Chace Crawford plays a drug dealer whose success comes at high price. The film’s released by Hannover House on August 6.
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Pretty people doing drugs. Have at it, kids.
50cent just can’t act. He sounds like a cardboard cutout.
Although he might be better than Chace.
We actually read 50 Cent for a role, expecting to hate him. And the guy has great, authentic screen presence. He just doesn’t enunciate very well, but it looks like he’s been working on it. I’m as big of a skeptic of the rapper-turned-actor category as anyone, but the dude is authentically talented.
I like Fifty as an actor. Don’t know about his range – but I agree about his presence. And desire – Have you seen photos of him after he dropped @ 50 lbs for Things Fall Apart? Will be interesting to see how he is in that.
And I remember seeing this one incredible guest actor on House, went to look him up, and it was Mos Def. I know he’s done a lot of acting in projects I haven’t seen, but that man can definitely make his mark in acting as well as music.
I have never felt older — is everyone in this movie 12 years old? Is that where the title comes from? I’m glad Joel’s making films again but the “youth appeal” is so blatant in this trailer that the pic looks to lack verisimilitude — I know, I know — “old word.”
For such a familiar word, you sure seemed to struggle to fit it in!
I agree. I watched it and thought “are these people all 12″. I’m 40 but date a 23 year old and she looks much older than these kids. This movie looks terrible and will never find an audience. Rich, skinny, attractive kids strung out on drugs…that appeals to who?
Yikes!
Saw it at Sundance. Not that great. Sutherland’s narration bothered me the most. It was out of place.
many people walked out of this movie at sundance.
is this REALLY a “hot trailer”???
What? No 3D?
This movie got the worst reviews in the history of the Sundance Film Festival. How can it possibly be considered a “HOT” trailer? Someone needs to explain.
What baffles me is how Schumacher is still working. This guy hasn’t made a good movie since 1990.
I hope you’re not suggesting that his last good movie was FLATLINERS! I’ve read the original script to FLATLINERS and then saw the incomprehensible mess he and Julia Roberts made of it a year later. Then he bragged about how he changed it in Starlog magazine, if I remember correctly. Totally destroyed a brilliant script.
I spoke with him once during an internship. His admitted he was pretty much a talentless (albeit hardworking) hack who was incredibly lucky to get to make movies, going on to apologize for ruining the Batman franchise. He was very gracious and friendly and you could see his old friends in the room who had invited him to speak to their interns were thrilled to see him. I had the audacity to ask him how he landed a certain highly coveted gig and he explained (without being insulted) that he made a lot of friends and a lot of money in the 80′s and people were still thrilled to work with him in any capacity. The guy will work for the rest of his life because people really like him.
looks like an edgy episode of “Gossip Girl”.
Agreed. How about re-titling this: GOSSIP GIRL: The POS Movie.
yes, exactly Morgan !
This generation’s “Less Than Zero.” It looks like something on the CW after 10:00 pm.
Seriously, if you’re old enough to remember Schumacher’s stamp on the “Batman” franchise from the late ’80s, you can appreciate the fact that they should have taken away his DGA card back then.
Chace Crawford as a drug dealer? LMFAO.
White Mike! This was one of my favorite books in high school and will adapt into a great film.
No matter how you grizzly the fate of these spoiled young things, for many kids, they’ll be role models. Because the people behind this film know full well how addictive it will be, let’s wish for overdoses for everyone involved in this piece of turgid rimfloater, please. THIS is exactly why Hollywood is loathed by half of America. I hate it when they have a point.
Nothing Schumacher does will ever be “hot.”
I miss the old days when adults used to play kids in movies.
Schumacher = Barfmaker
…From the director that brought you “nipples on the bat suit”
Sex, Drugs, Parties, should do very well with the older teen crowd.
Congrats to the producers. Ted Field has been pushing this forward ever since the book came out.
One of the most factually inaccurate books about the NYC UES scene now made into an even less believable trailer. Too funny. But hey at least Joel got Liam McMullan a cameo in it so let’s keep it downtown and real. Where my Vitamin Water at 50!?
AH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!
This looks like a shitty AFI thesis film. Really? “You want to be famous. Is that what you want?”
And, wait a minute, a pretty white girl offering sex to a black man for drugs! Oh, the horror! The scandal! The, uh, the controversialness of it all!!
“hot trailer” Mike? Really? So, in other words you are buddies with Joel obviously. Seriously doubt Hanover House can put out a “hot trailer”, but thanks for the heads up.
Great Book. Terrible film.
Why does Hollywood allow Schumacher to keep making movies?
Please send him back to director jail and throw away the key.
u obviously haven’t watched Tigerland. Emma Roberts is great in this. Saw at sundance.
Saw the film at Sundance and instantly recognized the vintage division that Schumacher’s youth-appeal films always generate. The generation of that moment “totally gets” and completely loves the film, but older audiences simply don’t understand. Exact same response from “old” reviewers happened for St. Elmo’s Fire, Lost Boys, Flatliners, etc… Press from Hannover House indicates that the trailer was cut by Cimarron Media, under the supervision of Matthew Cohen (former Miramax), Nancy Goliger (former Paramount) and Tom Ortenberg (former Lionsgate), so Hannover House has definitely surrounded the film with proven professionals.
Agreed. The rise in popularity of “high society” seems genuine, but I of course will never understand it.
Directors, Producers, Studio Execs., Casting Directors whomever else has a say in casting a film, PLEASE stop hiring rappers in films. They can’t act!!! They 100% take you out of the film experience with their awful acting. There are plenty of trained young actors that can bring so much more to these roles even though they are stereotypical, but at least trained actors are believable and committed. If you have to hire a rapper to bring some sort of name recognition to your film PLEASE hire them a worthy acting coach before shooting.
50 cent has had acting lessons along with experience and is probably the best rapper/actor you’re going to find.
not to mention he has experience with this type of role from a real world perspective/experience as well.
hopefully the kids like this movie as it’s not particularly for the older crowd as far as i know.
Why just pick on rappers in your vitriolic screed? Given the celluloid “success” of Jennifer Lopez or Hannah Montana or Jonah Hill you could make the same mind-numbingly stupid sweeping statement about ALL singers or ALL comedians… Dumb, dumb, dummy!
What you SHOULD have said is why can’t Hollywood be more selective in which music artists or comedians they anoint. THAT would be more on point, because Eminem does OK on the big screen and, as a previous poster wrote, 50 Cent did awesomely when the poster’s Hollywood company brought him in for screen testing.
Where I think Hollywood fumbles is casting characters over and over in the same damn and dumb roles with little to no box office success. Case in point: actor Michael Cera. I wonder how that guy, likable as is his off-screen, keeps getting work?
That’s the $64,000 question.
same goes for eli roth!