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BREAKING: In what will be his first trip behind the camera since 1998′s Bulworth, Warren Beatty has committed to direct and star in an untitled comedy for Paramount Pictures. Paramount chairman and CEO Brad Grey has announced the deal for Beatty, who wrote the script and will also produce. Casting is underway right now. Beatty made both Heaven Can Wait and Reds for Paramount, collecting 21 Oscar noms between them. Beatty won Best Director for Reds. He also received the Irving Thalberg Award.
“Warren’s script is quintessential Beatty, elegantly written and wonderfully entertaining,” said Grey. “It is our privilege to have one of the great artists in the history of the film industry come home to Paramount.” The movie is expected to go into production later this year.
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He is one our greatest actors and should have won for bugsy.
A cause for rejoicing, even if for no other reason than his last film will no longer be Town and Country. Here is hoping that he can shed all vanity and not put eight pounds of gauze between the camera and him. Look to Paul Newman in Nobody’s Fool, Jack Nicholson in About Schmidt, Robert Duvall in The Apostle — great roles where the actors didn’t mind looking like who they are, men in their sixties and seventies.
Beatty is a smart man, a truly gifted director, and, as Bugsy and Bulworth both showed, an actor who strangely kept getting better and better in his fifties and sixties. Fingers are crossed for this one. (But what’s it about?)
So, Brad’s paying him back.
Yeah, Warren IS a talented director but as a man, he’s a coward.
“How many times can a man look away, and pretend he just doesn’t see?” – Bob Dylan
Apparently, for years and years and years.
Beatty is the Best of them all. U can quote me on that. And if U mess with him he’ll take U to the bank… the blood bank.
O.K. Warren, relax you got the job.
Warren is going to corner the market on Gauze and frosted camera filters . . . and just wait for him to ‘wash’ all his closeups through computer enhanced wrinkle removals. He doesn’t want to admit he’s an old man and looks the part. He would be perfect for making BUCKET LIST part II.
Dick Tracy 2!
+1 Dick Tracy was the Green Lantern of 1990.
Bring back Julie Christie for Shampoo 2!
I love Beatty and will be glad to see him working again.
I hope they build in a $20M contingency and not expect the film for 2-5 years. Beatty doesn’t do anything cheap or fast. He’s great but works only on Beatty-time. Good luck
I wonder how Brad Grey can keep Beatty on time and on budget? Guess Warren won’t be able to shoot 100 takes per scene on this film…or will he?
Beatty is a fine actor and director, so let’s hope he has mellowed a bit in the director’s chair.
He has the talent and script (per Brad Grey)….and, I am hoping it becomes one of Beatty’s best films.
In related news, Burt Reynolds will be joining the “Fast and Furious” franchise appearing as the Bandit in “F&F: Smokey-o Drift”.
That’s actually not a bad idea…
I met him at the Dick Tracy screening 2 weeks ago and told him to get back on the big screen, where he belongs. I hope he casts Liam Neeson as his rival and they trade kung-fu chops…
And maybe he’ll get Gene Hackman to play his brother…
he should play The Cowboy in Streisands new movie My Mothers Curse
I honestly think this news is fantastic!
As you look at the films currently in cinemas, with some ropey plots, weak jokes, one dimensional plotlines, dull actors and screenplays that have not been worked on and you wonder: how did the guys of yore such as Beatty et al produce such magnificent and thought provoking pieces that said something meaningful about society and we cannot?
I look forward with keen interest to seeing more of other generations showing us how it should be done.
Anne N.
If only Hackman would come out of retirement and do another great picture. The idea that Welcome To Mooseport looks like being the last Gene Hackman film is just too depressing.
A coward Ms. Busch? The director of “Reds” and “Bulworth” is no coward, IMO.
David, that’s make believe … in real life, the man doesn’t stand up for what he knows is right for fear of ruffling the feathers of the establishment.
Beatty is the Best…Reds is one of the greatest movies ever made.
I only wish his project about Howard Hughes came to fruition. I love The Aviator-but would have liked to have seen his take on the man. The most fun working on a film was on Bugsy. Down near the Salton Sea we built the Flamingo. The scene where Bugsy has his epihany about the casino I was 10 feet away from the car. The scene where he drags Annette on to the plane I was 10 feet away from her shoes. It was just fun…to see them and fun to watch him. I worked my butt off for the movie. I was a Location Manager on it. Being around him and Levinson making that great movie was the best experience I had doing what I did. The crew was great. And watching the romance of Mr and Mrs. Beatty rise up from the desert sand in a quite understated way was classic. No pictures on TMZ..no online internet dribble. Perfect. Good Luck Warren and thank you Paramount and Mr. Grey for giving one of the best directors ever a green light. Robbie Goldstein
All of his fans are in this comments board, because they certainly don’t make his movies into hits.
Accept it, Hollywood: no one gives a shit about Warren Beatty outside of your city limits.
He somehow charms guys over 50 into kissing his ass — giving him lifetime achievement awards, writing books about him (in 2010?) and funding his vanity projects.
Just retire, man, or better yet, park your ego and take a, gasp, supporting role in a movie.
I finally get to say this: “Heaven Can Wait” is the best picture he’s ever made!
Thank God Beatty will be directing this movie himself and not driving another director crazy. He was a colossal pain in the ass with his 40-90 takes per shot, and no one could ever get a straight answer out of this guy when you had a important question. Warren really is Hamlet – the Man Who Can’t Make Up His Mind. I pity his DP, his producers, and the studio execs who Beatty will be calling at 4am (just ask Jeffrey Katzenberg – I’ll bet he’s still having nightmares about DICK TRACY). ….And especially the editors! OMG are they in for it!!
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