Imperial Life in the Emerald City Tagged Articles at Cinematical

There's two more casting nibbles to go, again, courtesy of Variety:

• First up -- Magda's back! It seems that Lynn Cohen is the latest cast member to join D.J. Caruso's next Shia LaBeouf film, Eagle Eye. She will play Shia's landlady. This is old hat for Cohen. You might remember that she played Magda on Sex and the City -- the religious housekeeper who tried to set Miranda on the path toward familial happiness and ended up becoming an extra member of the family herself. On the cinematic side of things, she's also appeared in films like The Hottest State and I Shot Andy Warhol, and as iconic historical figures like Golda Meir in Munich and Leni Riefenstahl in The Last Days of Leni Riefenstahl. Next up, of course, is Sex and the City: The Movie.
• Finally, we've got Antoni Corone. He's often some arm of the law and civilized society -- he's played a corrections officer, a sergeant, a green beret, a cop, security, a detective, a police chief, FBI, and even more over the last twenty years. Continuing with tradition, he's nabbed himself a gig in Paul Greengrass' Imperial Life in the Emerald City -- the Matt Damon movie about a Washington Post journalist's war chronicle. He will play a colonel in Baghdad's Green Zone, which has already begun production in Spain. You can check out previous reports on the film here and here.
  

Matt Damon may have said no to the fourth installment of the Bourne legacy (good for you Matt, no need to beat a dead horse!), but he has definitely said yes to working with director Paul Greengrass again on an entirely different endeavor. This time, Damon and Greengrass will create a film based off of the book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (which we first told you about here), written by Rajiv Chandrasekaran. The film will drop the last part of the previous title but will deal solidly with the very political subject matter.

It doesn't seem unusual at all lately for either artist to choose work that has close ties to what's going on with the world at large. Politics, war and corruption in all the world's 'systems' has been a common thread for both -- Damon's portrayal as an undercover criminal FBI agent in The Departed gave me a new level of appreciation for his work. Greengrass is responsible for bringing us last year's fresh and catastrophically brilliant United 93. Whether the world was ready to see it or not Greengrass didn't hesitate to capture his perception of the real-life events and project them on the screen for the world to see.

Imperial Life in the Emerald City deals with the actual happenings inside Iraq's now insurgency ridden infrastructure. The book discusses and presents reasons for the prolonged troops in Iraq and instability and negligence with rebuilding a thriving government. Greengrass will adapt the screenplay himself, dealing unapologetically with the (unfortunately) non fiction material -- making a terribly interesting picture at the very least and perhaps another gifted and strangely familiar role for Matt Damon.