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Fox Searchlight has set a March 1, 2013 platform release for Stoker, from Oldboy director Park Chan-wook. Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode and Nicole Kidman star in the thriller about about a teen who is mourning the death of her father and must deal with an evil mom and an eccentric uncle who shows up unexpectedly. Here’s the pic’s first trailer, in which Kidman looks to be having a blast as the baddie in a movie of baddies:
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YES. This looks like it did good things with that fantastic script.
Another movie with great actors being felled by amatuerish dialogue. They all sound like committed, but maybe not super bright ESL students. An English-speaking director might have been able to spot this and remedy it, but certainly the producers could have chimed in. Is the whole script this bald and stilted?
Yeah, a producer — or how about an actor? Kidman has to know dialogue like “I can’t wait to watch life tear you apart” is not strengthened by prefacing it with “personally speaking.”
I saw Hirchbiegel’s original cut of INVASION and then watched the Wachowski’s rewritten version. Clearly, Kidman isn’t interested in protesting bad dialogue, not even when it’s replacing already-shot good dialogue.
Was thinking the exact same thing. It was distracting.
Seems like the director was aware of and embraced this, given the way the actors are delivering them. I thought it worked – it’s adds an element of creepiness / possessed nature.
What’s wrong with heightened dialogue?
Well, it is a subjective thing, but I would call “I can’t wait to watch life tear you apart” heightened dialogue and “Personally speaking, I can’t wait to watch life tear you apart” as stilted and bad heightened dialogue.
This looks seriously twisted. I’m in.
I wonder if this is autobiographical?
Cause that is one twisted dude.
This trailer is rampant with spoilers.
Wentworth’s script rocked!!
I’m stoked!
What happened to Kidman. She’s turning into the cold shrew she always plays.
Is this an Australian film? All the actors are Australian, except Goode who is British.
The campy dialogue does give it a creepy edge ala David Lynch.
Campy dialogue worked in this case.
another stinker for Nicole. why can’t she get it right?
Park Chan-wook is an amazing director, hopefully the language barrier doesn’t hurt the film … which is usually does.
Just another Hamlet rip-off.
Love these Cliff Notes trailers. Now I don’t have to pay to see the film!
I kept waiting for DRACULA to appear … isn’t this a retelling of Bram Stoker’s?
Hello! Wentworth Miller wrote the script. Blame him!