Jared Leto and Salma Hayek's 'Lonely Hearts' Gets Release Date
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Leave it to Hollywood to change the basis of a storyline to glam things up a bit. Last year, Martha Fischer reviewed Lonely Hearts for the Tribeca Film Festival. The story is based on the Lonely Hearts Killers -- a murderous and far-from-glamorous duo/couple from the late 1940's. He was a balding, toupee-wearing man with a large scar on the top of his head, she was a 200+ pound woman who had spent her life lonely and ridiculed. That obviously doesn't make for sexy cinema, so the leads were cast with Jared Leto as Raymond Fernandez and Salma Hayek as Martha Beck.It's actually interesting that the story was so sauced up, since the screenwriter and director is Todd Robinson -- the grandson of Detective Elmer C. Robinson, who was one of the detectives in the case. I guess familial ties can't also ensure accuracy. Now the film, which follows predecessors like The Honeymoon Killers and Deep Crimson, has found itself a U.S. distributor in Roadside Attractions and Samuel Goldwyn films. Beyond Leto and Hayek, there's John Travolta without the Hogs as Detective Robinson, James Gandolfini as his partner, Charles Hildebrandt, Scott Caan as another detective and Laura Dern as a co-worker who is having an affair with Robinson. As Martha described in her review, the story focuses on both sides of the story -- the couple who kill and the police duo who hunt them down. You won't have to wait too long to see the film for yourself, as the plan is to release it next month, on April 13.
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3-05-2007 @ 4:54PM
Gio said...
"Leave it to Hollywood to change the basis of a storyline to glam things up a bit"
I have a feeling every movie we've seen, hated or loved has been altered in pre and post-production.
the idea is to see how it can best be sold to the general audience. It's just bussiness.
It's only a movie based on real events, and thus becomes reel events.
You want reality go check the news.
I've just read in this site that Harry Potter 4 got a third screening, wich means plot, character, lenth and overall editing will be done before summer release.
Sometimes alterations backfire, like when George Lucas removed the real Ahmed Best and replaced him with Jar Jar Binks, turning it into the tragedy we're all familiar with.Ouch!
"That obviously doesn't make for sexy cinema, so the leads were cast with Jared Leto as Raymond Fernandez and Salma Hayek as Martha Beck."
Good call. There's a better chance the movie will make its money back if they hire young, sexy, familiar faces.
I met Salma in New York a while ago and she was the sweetest woman to me. So I will see and recomend Lonely Hearts to everyone.
This movie has a great concept: a period piece (ala Godfather)which will get nostalgic to some of us. I miss these types of movies, and people welcome them from time to time. That's why not one but two L.A Confidentials are been made as we speak, or read.
It has a great cast, action, fashion, violence, and NUDITY from Salma- unless you want the 200-plus pound woman the movie is about.
200-plus, does that mean 289? Never mind.
Tonight I'm renting 'Frida' again and bringing out a box of Kleenex. (no, it's not a chick flic that makes you cry). Oh Saaaaalma, yeah baby!!!
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4-10-2007 @ 7:55PM
Nancy said...
don't know how the movies is as need password
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