You may have read any of my previous blogs about The Double and so know a bit about this film. Richard Ayoade (the brilliantly comedic star of The IT Crowd and director of the 2011 hit Submarine) directs this film which has some major faces of Hollywood in it; Jesse Eisenberg (Now You See Me, The Social Network, 30 Minutes or Less), Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland, Stoker, The Kids Are All Right), Chris O’Dowd (Friends With Kids, Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel, Bridesmaids), Wallace Shawn (Toy Story, The Princess Bride), Paddy Considine (The Bourne Ultimatum, Cinderella Man), Noah Taylor (Vanilla Sky, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), Yasmin Paige (Ballet Shoes) and Craig Roberts (Submarine, Jane Eyre) are all set to star!
The story sees Eisenberg’s character Simon as he looses his grasp on his life when his doppleganger (Eisenberg again) turns up and starts stealing everything and everyone he loves. Both Eisenberg and Wasikowska feature in these new character posters from Empire which you can enjoy be clicking next to cycle through.
Jamie Foxx (Oscar winner for Ray as well as being loved for Collateral, Django Unchained and Law Abiding Citizen) recently starred as the President in the recent action thriller White House Down. After that, he’s got a voice credit in the upcoming comedy animation Rio 2 (April 4th 2014) before he’s off to terrify Marvel fans as Electro in The Amazing Spiderman 2 (April 18th 2014) and then give us something to smile about in comedy Annie (December 19th 2014). His next potential role is in a Martin Luther King biopic though.
Oliver Stone (3 time Oscar winner of Platoon, JFK, Any Given Sunday and Wall Street fame) is set to direct the production which Paul Greengrass and Lee Daniels were linked to before. Dreamworks, who got the rights back in 2009, are going to produce the project. Screenwriter Kario Salem will be rewriting a draft script originally written by Ronald Harwood (known for smash hits like The Pianist and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and the successful Quartet and Australia).
We move on to Michael Bay, director of the Transformers trilogy, Armageddon, Pearl Harbour and many others, and his possible next project called Sabotage: A Genius Scientist, His Band of Young Commandos and the Mission to Kill Hitler’s Super Bomb. It’s nothing to do with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington, Olivia Williams and Terrence Howard’s crime thriller of name Sabotage but it tells a story similar to Anthony Mann’s 1965 thriller The Heroes of Telemark (however based upon the yet unreleased novel by Neal Bascomb) and sees a team of heroes going into 1940s Germany and destroying Hitler’s secret weapon.
The Double – October 12th at the London Film Festival
Martin Luther King – 2016?
Sabotage: A Genius Scientist, His Band of Young Commandos and the Mission to Kill Hitler’s Super Bomb – 2016 or 2017?
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