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BREAKING: Charlie Kaufman is attaching Jack Black and Nicolas Cage and is talking to Steve Carell to star in Frank Or Francis, the next film Kaufman will direct. Kaufman’s projects are always shrouded in mystery (sometimes even after you’ve seen them), but they are always compelling and this one’s gearing up for a 2012 start. After writing scripts that included Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Kaufman made his helming debut on his script Synecdoche, New York.
Cage previously starred in the Kaufman-scripted Adaptation, the adaptation of Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief. Black, who most recently starred in the indie Bernie, sort of worked with Kaufman in that he did script work on Kung Fu Panda 2. and Carell (who’s about to open in Crazy, Stupid, Love) is working with Kaufman for the first time. UPDATE: I’m told that Carell and Kaufman actually worked together back in 1996 on The Dana Carvey Show, so everybody knows everybody. Kaufman, Black and Carell are repped by WME, Cage by CAA.
The pic is being mounted as an indie that’s our to financiers and will be produced by Anthony Bregman.
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Synecdoche, New York was the worst movie I have ever seen. And please no one say I didn’t get it.
I loved the living hell out of it. It terrified me and made me think and made me feel and made me laugh. It haunted me and haunts me to this day. It confirmed things that I’ve long felt in the back of my mind that I never wanted to admit were true about life in the long run.
You’re allowed to dislike it. But let’s be honest, there is no way it’s the worst movie you’ve ever seen.
you didn’t get it.
Even if you got it, you certainly don’t see enough movies.
It wasn’t the worst. It was ambitious but lost in translation to people outside of his own mind. I think he was trying to hard. When I left the theater I didn’t know what to think of it and it didn’t have a lasting effect on me like his last ones did. I think it’s because he didn’t have a director there to filter out his more insane ideas.
Yes, I was talking to someone after seeing it and wondered what Jonze or Gondry or someone similar could have done with it. Hopefully it got a lot out of his system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
Eh, you probably didn’t get it.
You didn’t get it. It was too advanced for your blockbuster-loving pea brain.
Your comment says more about you than mine says about me.
It isn’t that you didn’t get it, it’s that you have bad taste.
You didn’t geddit.
Can’t wait for Charlie’s new flick.
Psycho: The name’s Francis Soyer, but everybody calls me Psycho. Any of you guys call me Francis, and I’ll kill you.
Leon: Ooooooh.
Psycho: You just made the list, buddy. And I don’t like nobody touching my stuff. So just keep your meat-hooks off. If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I’ll kill you. Also, I don’t like nobody touching me. Now, any of you homos touch me, and I’ll kill you.
Sergeant Hulka: Lighten up, Francis.
ha mate, this is a funny statement.
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why so much arguing, get over it. s ny was awesome and ambitious. This is one of the great comedic pairings in some time. GO CHARLIE, MOST INVENTIVE SCRIBE IN THE BUSINESS
Dear Charlie Kaufman:
I love love love love love you… but please oh pleae go back to Spike Jonze or at least Michel Gondry (Though Human Nature….Meh) The movies that these guys directed were brilliant. Everything else is either just OK or not OK at all.
Adaptation Rocked… third act and all.
They rocked because they were based on Charlie Kaufman scripts. Neither one has made anything of value (though Gondry’s ‘Science of Sleep isn’t bad, even if it’s basically Kaufman-lite) without him.
how about they rocked because writer and director were a good fit?
Personally, I hated SNY
Michel Gondry’s “Be Kind Rewind” is smart, funny, and enjoyable. Sadly, Gondry & Kaufman apparently had a falling out right at the end of making “Eternal Sunshine” and won’t work together again.
*Jonze* and Kaufman remain on great terms, AFAIK.
I really liked “Synechdoche,” but it could have used a firmer hand on the script. Kaufman actually did a really good job with the directing, but he needed someone to rein him in a bit (I say that with all admiration, love, and as a writer who occasionally needs reining in myself.)
All of his scripts are pure genius. His directing sets the bar for “inspired”. This could top ‘em all!
SNY blew. A complete POS for the pretentious hipster I’m-smarter-than-you crowd.
Kaufman and Carell worked on the Dana Carvey Show together. So, yeah, they’ve worked together.
I’ll watch anything from Kaufman, he’s somebody that can do no wrong in my eyes. Also Steve Carell has been making some really good career choices lately (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Great Hope Springs, Dogs of Babel) and I’m really happy to see that, because that man really has some hidden talents that the world has to see yet (including singing). So an indie musical with Steve Carell and Kaufman directing? I’m in!