Eva Green Will Clone the New Doctor Who
Fresh off of 007 intrigue and boarding schools, the electrically blue-eyed Eva Green is heading to the future, and it sure ain't shiny and happy. Variety reports that she's going to star in a new futuristic drama called Womb -- Hungarian director Benedek Fliegauf's first English-language film. The feature will follow Green as a grieving widow who decides to clone her late husband (Matt Smith, David Tennant's replacement on Doctor Who). Oh, the terrible rationale of our beloved characters on the big screen...
The whole idea of cloning a loved one is a messy -- the fact that they wouldn't grow up just like the original, they'd be a heck of a lot younger, and could very well grow up to fall for someone else. It's also a setup for all sorts of sexual dysfunction -- how does lust fit in if you have a clone of your husband still in adolescence?
Considering how well Green pulled off incest in The Dreamers, this shouldn't be too challenging for her. And talk about a ridiculously lucky new actor -- Smith got to sleep with Billie Piper's Call Girl in 2007, and now he's got a futuristic feature and the heart-breaking Eva Green ... talk about getting the best of the romantic gene pool.
Would you ever clone a loved one?
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2-10-2009 @ 7:54PM
Batzarro said...
Wait...Incest is still taboo? You'd think in this here modern world of "don't judge me" this, "tolerance that" and "freedom to love" etcetera that it shouldn't be an issue?
Irregardless, really, cloning loved ones can't end right. Will you raise a loved one into adulthood, only for him/er/it to leave you? Essentially having a child with a predestined life...that's kinda cruel as well.
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2-10-2009 @ 8:41PM
Raven said...
Not cool, Cinematical. I read the title of the post and got super-excited, thinking that Eva Green was going to be the Doctor's new companion.
Oh well, this is still a pretty interesting concept, so I'll be anxious to see how it turns out. And yeah, I agree with Batzarro - cloning a loved one would just be creating more pain for everyone involved. First, you'd have to deal with the agony of losing the person in the first place. Second, unless you never tell them that they're a clone, they'll spend the rest of their lives essentially living out someone else's life, and never really learning what they're truly capable of.
Either way, things would only end up in tears.
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2-11-2009 @ 9:40AM
Astin said...
Assuming these are the kind of clones that start off as babies and grow up, and not the 6th Day kind that are ready in a week and with the same age, memories, and personality as the original.
If it's the former, then there's only one solution. Clone both your loved one AND yourself. Then manipulate their lives so they have no choice but to fall in love. Actually... that could make an interesting movie itself.
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