Taylor Zakhar Perez said he was thinking about Pride and Prejudice, 10 Things I Hate About You and more classic romances when filming his big romantic scene in Prime Video’s hit Red, White & Royal Blue. Perez plays Alex, the son of the President (Uma Thurman) who falls in love with British Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine). Alex confesses his love to Henry after walking in the rain to get to Henry’s castle.
“It did feel very Mr. Darcy,” Zakhar Perez said on a panel at Deadline’s Contenders Television. “It felt a little Ryan Gosling in The Notebook, 10 Things I Hate About You in that realm of films. Those are things you watch growing up and you’re like I want to make that feeling for this film.”
As for Alex’s political speeches, Zakhar Perez said he studied former President Barack Obama’s delivery as a reference.
“It did feel very Mr. Darcy,” Zakhar Perez said on a panel at Deadline’s Contenders Television. “It felt a little Ryan Gosling in The Notebook, 10 Things I Hate About You in that realm of films. Those are things you watch growing up and you’re like I want to make that feeling for this film.”
As for Alex’s political speeches, Zakhar Perez said he studied former President Barack Obama’s delivery as a reference.
- 4/14/2024
- by Fred Topel
- Deadline Film + TV
TheatreWorks, the nationally acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley, presents the regional premiere of Somewhere, a captivating new play told in exuberant dance as well as drama by playwright Matthew Lopez The Whipping Man, and featuring Tony Award winner Priscilla Lopez Broadway's A Chorus Line. This compelling tale of a 1960s Puerto Rican family dreaming and dancing its way toward show business will be helmed by director Giovanna Sardelli. Somewhere plays now through February 10, 2013 press opening January 19 at TheatreWorks at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production in the photos below...
- 1/17/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
TheatreWorks, the nationally acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley, presents the regional premiere of Somewhere, a captivating new play told in exuberant dance as well as drama by playwright Matthew Lopez The Whipping Man, and featuring Tony Award winner Priscilla Lopez Broadway's A Chorus Line. This compelling tale of a 1960s Puerto Rican family dreaming and dancing its way toward show business will be helmed by director Giovanna Sardelli. Somewhere plays tonight, January 16 - February 10, 2013 press opening January 19 at TheatreWorks at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production in the photos below...
- 1/16/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
TheatreWorks, the nationally acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley, presents the regional premiere of Somewhere, a captivating new play told in exuberant dance as well as drama by playwright Matthew Lopez The Whipping Man, and featuring Tony Award winner Priscilla Lopez Broadway's A Chorus Line. This compelling tale of a 1960s Puerto Rican family dreaming and dancing its way toward show business will be helmed by director Giovanna Sardelli. Somewhere plays January 16 - February 10, 2013 press opening January 19 at TheatreWorks at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production in the photos below...
- 1/9/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Three and a half years after the project was first announced, Universal's Asteroids have still yet to start hitting anything. Back in 2009 we said that we felt sorry for Matthew Lopez, tasked with crafting a narrative from what's a very primitive and basic videogame premise. And this morning our concern is for someone new: Jez Butterworth is the latest writer to take a shot at Asteroids' screenplay.Asteroids is a rickety, vector-based Atari arcade classic in which a lone spaceship has to defend the planet Earth from big space rocks. Clearly then, there's the scope for some sort of large-scale disaster movie along Armageddon lines, perhaps with a tad more sci-fi, putting some sort of rugged hero (The Rock, obviously) in some sort of ship, going off-world to protect us.Or it could be like Dark Star, with a small band of bored and paranoid space truckers indifferently blowing shit...
- 11/16/2012
- EmpireOnline
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far… ok, it was only back in 2009, but that seems like an eternity in internet time. That summer, Universal Pictures won a four-studio bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic Atari video game Asteroids. At the time, Matthew Lopez (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) was brought on to write the script for the feature adaptation, which is to be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Man on a Ledge).
Now, THR reports that Universal has hired screenwriter Evan Spiliotopoulos (Snow White and the Huntsman, Charles Fort) to work on the script for the project, which is now said to be about two estranged brothers that must team up to save Earth from an alien race.
[The Shakedown]
So, two estranged brothers… does that mean there will be two triangles?
Asteroids is tentatively slated to hit theaters (not...
Now, THR reports that Universal has hired screenwriter Evan Spiliotopoulos (Snow White and the Huntsman, Charles Fort) to work on the script for the project, which is now said to be about two estranged brothers that must team up to save Earth from an alien race.
[The Shakedown]
So, two estranged brothers… does that mean there will be two triangles?
Asteroids is tentatively slated to hit theaters (not...
- 11/14/2011
- by Jason Moore
- ScifiMafia
Two years ago, we brought you the news when Universal Pictures won a four studio bidding war for the rights to the classic Atari video game Asteroids. At that time, Matthew Lopez (The Race to Witch Mountain) was set to write the script, and Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers: Dark of the Moon) was set to produce the film.
In June we brought you an update on the project, because Universal Pictures was courting disaster director du jour, Roland Emmerich (Anonymous) to helm the film. Just two weeks after that was reported, Sony Pictures acquired the distribution rights to Roland Emmerich‘s sci-fi project, entitled Singularity, and the studio also scheduled a May 17th, 2013 release date for the film.
Now, during an interview with the good folks over at Collider, Emmerich had this to say about the possibility of directing the Asteroids adaptation:
“Nope. I was very honored that they wanted...
In June we brought you an update on the project, because Universal Pictures was courting disaster director du jour, Roland Emmerich (Anonymous) to helm the film. Just two weeks after that was reported, Sony Pictures acquired the distribution rights to Roland Emmerich‘s sci-fi project, entitled Singularity, and the studio also scheduled a May 17th, 2013 release date for the film.
Now, during an interview with the good folks over at Collider, Emmerich had this to say about the possibility of directing the Asteroids adaptation:
“Nope. I was very honored that they wanted...
- 9/20/2011
- by Jason Moore
- ScifiMafia
David Henry Hwang
About five years ago, Chay Yew, a playwright and the artistic director of the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, was approached by schools for copies of Asian American plays that could be taught and performed. Except Yew couldn’t find a recent compilation of Asian American plays. So when Theatre Communications Group (Tcg) approached him about editing a new anthology, he agreed, and the result is “Version 3.0,” released by Tcg yesterday.
“What was important was to platform...
About five years ago, Chay Yew, a playwright and the artistic director of the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, was approached by schools for copies of Asian American plays that could be taught and performed. Except Yew couldn’t find a recent compilation of Asian American plays. So when Theatre Communications Group (Tcg) approached him about editing a new anthology, he agreed, and the result is “Version 3.0,” released by Tcg yesterday.
“What was important was to platform...
- 8/2/2011
- by Barbara Chai
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Two years ago, we brought you the news when Universal Pictures won a four studio bidding war for the rights to the classic Atari video game Asteroids. At that time, Matthew Lopez (The Race to Witch Mountain) was set to write the script, and Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers: Dark of the Moon) was set to produce the film.
Now, NY Mag reports that Mr. Disasterpalooza himself, director Roland Emmerich (Anonymous) is being courted by Universal to helm the film. Back in 2009, we brought you an interview with Emmerich, where he stated that his most recent disaster film, 2012 would be his final disaster movie. Of course our next question would be “does taking on Asteroids mean he’s going back on his word”, and the answer to that is reportedly not, because Asteroids is set after the destruction of Earth.
Asteroids is said to be something of a bizarro world replacement...
Now, NY Mag reports that Mr. Disasterpalooza himself, director Roland Emmerich (Anonymous) is being courted by Universal to helm the film. Back in 2009, we brought you an interview with Emmerich, where he stated that his most recent disaster film, 2012 would be his final disaster movie. Of course our next question would be “does taking on Asteroids mean he’s going back on his word”, and the answer to that is reportedly not, because Asteroids is set after the destruction of Earth.
Asteroids is said to be something of a bizarro world replacement...
- 6/13/2011
- by Jason Moore
- ScifiMafia
Independence Day director Roland Emmerich is in negotiations to helm a movie adaptation of the iconic Atari game Asteroids. The script, by Race to Witch Mountain writer Matthew Lopez, is set after asteroids have wiped out most of the human population, as survivors share space colonies with aliens. Conflict begins after the humans discover the aliens may have been responsible for the destruction of the earth, according to Vulture. (more)...
- 6/9/2011
- by By Zakia Uddin
- Digital Spy
You are Universal. You won a bidding war a couple of years ago to turn Atari’s classic video game Asteroids into a film. You hired Race to Witch Mountain screenwriter Matthew Lopez to turn the basic concept into a script. But now you need a director. In the immortal, halting words of Janine Melnitz, who are you going to call? Why, Roland Emmerich, of course!Yes, the master of disaster, the man who never met a landmark he didn’t want to knock over/incinerate/exploderise/swamp is top of the studio’s list to tackle the Asteroids movie.But while Emmerich was once best known for the likes of Independence Day, Godzilla and, most recently, 2012, he’s seemingly sworn off the epic Earth destructo-fests in favour of developing other work, such as his incoming Shakespeare conspiracy drama, Anonymous. Here’s the likely loophole – according to Vulture, Lopez’ script...
- 6/9/2011
- EmpireOnline
"Most of my career has been spent doing things I haven't done before," says the affable, but slightly reserved André Braugher. "I've done horror, sci-fi, spy, thriller, a lot of history, and now finally a comedy. I've got some cop shows and doctor shows. The only thing I don't have is a 'Star Trek,' series and I don't have a lawyer show."Best known as the tough detective Frank Pembleton on the gritty crime drama "Homicide: Life on the Street" and currently the somewhat beleaguered Owen Thoreau Jr. on TNT's dryly amusing "Men of a Certain Age," Braugher also has extensive theater credits—including "Henry V," "Hamlet," "Measure for Measure," and "Coriolanus." He can now be seen Off-Broadway, at the Manhattan Theatre Club, in Matthew Lopez's "The Whipping Man," directed by Doug Hughes. Set in Richmond in 1865, "The Whipping Man" is a three-character play, recounting the evolving...
- 1/25/2011
- backstage.com
Producers announced today that Emmy award-winner Andre Braugher will appear in Manhattan Theatre Club's New York premiere of "The Whipping Man." Directed by Tony award-winner Doug Hughes, the production will begin previews on Jan. 13 and open officially on Feb. 1 at the New York City Center's Stage 1. Braugher has won two Emmy awards for outstanding lead actor in a drama. He received his sixth career Emmy nod for his work in "Men of a Certain Age," which will return for a second season in December. Written by Matthew Lopez, "The Whipping Man" is a post-Civil War historical drama portraying the connections between a soldier and two former slaves. Additional casting and information to be announced.
- 11/2/2010
- backstage.com
Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) are pleased to announce the New York premiere of Matthew Lopez's The Whipping Man, directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes (The Royal Family, Doubt). The limited engagement will begin previews at Mtc's New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street) on Thursday, January 13, 2011 in preparation for a Tuesday, February 1, 2011 opening night.
- 7/27/2010
- BroadwayWorld.com
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