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Trailer for Jodie Foster's 'The Brave One' Online

by Jessica Barnes Jun 1st 2007 // 1:31PM

Filed under: Drama », Thrillers », Mystery & Suspense », Warner Brothers »

To be honest, I don't quite know what to think of the new trailer for The Brave One. Directed by Neil Jordan, the film stars Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, and Naveen Andrews, an actor who has been popping up all over the place lately. The story centers on Foster's character, who after the loss of a loved one, goes on a somewhat "Bronsonesque" revenge spree. If you like to remain unspoiled about these kinds of things you might want to skip the trailer for now; I took the plunge and now I think I know way too much about the movie already. Not to mention an ending that almost manages to unravel any mood that the trailer managed to set.

Luckily most of the cast is already busy with their next projects; Foster has already lined up a Leni Riefenstahl bio-pic, and the slightly less heavy film Nim's Island with Abigail Breslen (Little Miss Sunshine). Howard of course, is working on Iron Man with Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow, but The Brave One works as a nice dramatic counterpoint to the hi-profile comic book movie. Jordan is set to direct the adaptation of the fantasy novel Heart Shaped Box as well as the horror flick Killing on Carnival Row. The Brave One is just one part of Warner Bros.' slate of dramas set for this fall, including In The Valley of Elah and Michael Clayton with George Clooney. WB should had taken a cue from Clooney's film on how to make a good suspense trailer -- the operative word being suspense.

[via firstshowing.net]

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King's Kid Gets Movie Deal

by Martha Fischer Apr 6th 2006 // 7:08PM

Filed under: Thrillers », Deals », Warner Brothers », Newsstand »

I went to college with Stephen King's kid. I didn't know him at all, but everyone on campus adored the fact that his parents had named him Joe. Joe King. Get it? Oh, the clever. It's sort of a cruel joke, but also an awesome bit of human-borne wit from a man who will always be associated with horror. I was disappointed, then, to read in Variety this morning that Joe is calling himself "Joe Hill" (that's a picture of the real one up there) these days. I mean, it's good because he's getting gigs on his own merit, but all the pleasure that was once availble in his name is now gone. Sad.

Anyway, the reason Variety was writing about King Hill this morning is that the film rights to Heart Shaped Box, his not-yet-published first novel (it's due out some time next year), have been purchased by Warner Brothers, who will be getting the story to a screenwriter soon. (Just so you know, according to Warner's reps, they had no idea that "Joe Hill" was related to anyone famous when they read and pursued his work. The book just ruled.) In keeping with the desires of its author's blood, the story is a scary-sounding thriller about "a singer obsessed with the occult who buys a ghost on eBay in the form of a man's burial suit, [and is] ... ultimately forced to confront both the ghost and the demons of his own past." Do you think it's the ghost of Kurt Cobain? That'd be a surprising wrinkle.

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