Names Flock to Slipstream
Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Independent, Casting, Noir, Newsstand, Cinematical Indie
We reported a few months ago on Anthony Hopkins' painfully personal, ambitious-sounding Slipstream, which he wrote, stars in, directs, and also composed the music for. The movie, which is being made with a small-ish indie budget, is a noir-comedy "about a man, who's caught in a slipstream of time falling back on itself and he remembers his own future," and stems from Hopkins' own "wild thoughts about God, life and death." Hey, I said it was personal. Already in the ensemble cast with Hopkins are Gena Rowlands and superstar thespian Christian Slater, and that duo has recently been joined by a massive flood of actors, all of whom are apparently eager to work on the weirdest-sounding (apart, maybe, from The Science of Sleep) project of the last year or so. According to today's Hollywood Reporter, all of the following are now caught (ah ha ha) in Slipstream: John Turturro, Camryn Manheim, Jeffrey Tambor, S. Epatha Merkerson, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Lawford and Michael Clark Duncan. Whew.
Production began this week in LA; no word yet on a possible release date.
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6-14-2006 @ 5:23PM
Sam Van Eerden said...
Okay, no one is going to argue that Sir Anthony isn't one of the best actors of all time. He probably even writes and directs a pretty good script. Still....COMPOSING the soundtrack??
Now...I run a soundtrack blog, therefore, I follow the art of film music quite closely, and there is a trend of actors/directors that have also opted to compose their movie's music. Clint Eastwood did it with "Mystic River" and "Million Dollar Baby" .... and the result was a horrid mishap!!
Sin City's Robert R. Directed, Produced, and Co-wrote the soundtracks to Sin City and Spy Kids. The former was loved and hated (depending on who you asked), and the latter was generally approved of.
Still, Mr. Hopkins is probably too much a purist to produce a quality soundtrack. Sorry.
-Sam Van Eerden
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6-14-2006 @ 8:16PM
SCOTT said...
SOUNDS KIND OF LIKE THE PLOT FROM SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE TO ME. CAN'T ANYBODY DO ANYTHING NEW?
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