Michael Mann | sida 6

Lite updates på nyhetsfronten då. Först är det folket på [url=http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=news&id=12756:21ulmyao]CHUD[/url:21ulmyao] som fick lite info från Will Smith om Empire:

[quote:21ulmyao]Q: Will, you've mentioned Michael Mann a few times. It was recently announced that you might be collaborating with him again on Empire, where it sounds like you might be playing a Rupert Murdoch kind of media mogul or Charles Foster Kane maybe. I'm wondering if you could talk about what that's going to be. They didn't give away too many details in Variety.

Will Smith: There's not a lot of details yet. It's just something we've been considering. It's an idea. Richard III is the model that we're working off of in that media world, but it's just ideas right now. There's not a lot to talk about right now.

But my cinematic education really reached a critical mass in working with Michael Mann. Something happened, something clicked... and I feel like over the next ten years, I will make the best movies of my career. I feel like an athlete, and I just caught my prime. I'm in the best physical condition of my life; I'm mentally prepared, and love what I do. I feel like this is truly the time for me to make my artistic sprint in my career. [/quote:21ulmyao]

Empire verkar alltså dröja ett tag men trevligt nog så dök följande upp på [url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3ida2e9d7e0740c3cf171ea0096dd7ba8d:21ulmyao]The Hollywood Reporter[/url:21ulmyao] idag:

[quote:21ulmyao]Johnny Depp doesn't shy away from blood in the upcoming "Sweeney Todd," for which he's being touted as a major Oscar contender, and he might again find himself awash in blood if he opts to join up with producer-director Michael Mann for a film about the Depression-era crime wave.

Mann has long been interested in mounting a screen adaptation of Brian Burrough's nonfiction book "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34" for Universal; at one point, Leonardo DiCaprio was attached to the project, but DiCaprio is headed into Martin Scorsese's "Shutter Island."

But Mann -- who has considered taking the helm of Columbia's spy thriller "Edwin A. Salt" but has not committed to that project because he believes it needs a rewrite -- has an open slot.

As for Depp, he was to have starred in Warner/Initial Entertainment's "Shantaram" followed by Warner Independent's "The Rum Diaries," but both of those projects were postponed last month, leaving the star with an opening in his schedule.

So Depp and Mann are sitting down this week to discuss the possibility of joining forces; Depp is said to be eyeing the role of bank robber John Dillinger. Along with Mann, Kevin Misher is on board as producer; Robert De Niro and his partner Jane Rosenthal, who originally optioned the book, have been involved as exec producers; and the studio is looking at a March start in Chicago if all the elements come together.[/quote:21ulmyao]

Mycket mycket intressant. Ett sammarbete med Depp skulle vara fantastiskt kul att se. Och själva ämnet låter inte helt dumt det heller. Om de nu kommer överens så verkar ju detta bli hans nästa film. Sen får man ju se hur det går med Frankie Machine också...

Ja, nu är det ju klart att Public Enemies blir hans nästa film (kolla den nystartade tråden på Kommande Filmer) men idag hittade jag också en ny reklamfilm regisserad av Mann:

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOw8-R2CsC4:2p1sxs1n]Water - Rolex[/url:2p1sxs1n]

Som den fanboy jag är blir jag upphetsad bara av den här korta reklamfilmen. Jag kommer aldrig tröttna på Manns stil.

Det är bara att hålla tummarna stenhårt... Kommer nu hålla ett vakande öga över detta projekt fram tills den färdiga produkten som med alla sannolikhet kommer bli alldeles alldeles underbar :)
Hoppas de visar hela hans liv, och inte bara fokuserar på inbördeskriget. Då skulle vi få med Invasionen av Normandie och de bitarna också.
Vilken härlig nyhet såhär på en måndag :) Fantastiskt!