The incredible story of genius Alan Turing finally comes to public light with The Imitation Game, a revelatory representation of an essential chapter in World War II that was lost for horrific reasons. Benedict Cumberbatch leads the film as Turing with a fine performance, and stars opposite Keira Knightley playing a female companion of Turing, alongside talents like Matthew Goode and Mark Strong. The film is adapted from the Andrew Hodges book “Alan Turing: The Enigma” by Graham Moore, and directed by Morten Tyldum.
Moore is a debut screenwriter with Chicago roots, and received acclaim for his novel “The Sherlockian,” released in 2010. He is lined up next to adapt Erik Larson’s “Devil in the White City” into the highly-anticipated vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio.
Tyldum is a Norwegian director on the rise, who caught the attention of viewers with his bonkers adaptation of Jo Nesbø’s Headhunters, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Aksel Hennie.
Moore is a debut screenwriter with Chicago roots, and received acclaim for his novel “The Sherlockian,” released in 2010. He is lined up next to adapt Erik Larson’s “Devil in the White City” into the highly-anticipated vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio.
Tyldum is a Norwegian director on the rise, who caught the attention of viewers with his bonkers adaptation of Jo Nesbø’s Headhunters, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Aksel Hennie.
- 12/9/2014
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
We chat to The Imitation Game and Headhunters director Morten Tyldum about working with Benedict Cumberbatch and more...
Norwegian director Morten Tyldum's previous film Headhunters was a precisely-sharpened stiletto of a thriller. Based on a novel by Jo Nesbo, it was ostensibly about an art thief whose desire to maintain a lavish lifestyle got him into deep, murderous trouble. But beneath the surface, it was about a deeply insecure man who believed that maintaining the appearance of being rich and successful was the only thing that would keep his statuesque wife from leaving him.
Violent, blackly funny and directed with real pace by Tyldum, Headhunters brought the filmmaker to global attention. Tyldum's latest film is a very different one: it's the fascinating, sad story of Alan Turing, the mathematician whose pioneering work greatly affected the outcome of World War II. Cumberbatch is typically effective in the lead role as Turing,...
Norwegian director Morten Tyldum's previous film Headhunters was a precisely-sharpened stiletto of a thriller. Based on a novel by Jo Nesbo, it was ostensibly about an art thief whose desire to maintain a lavish lifestyle got him into deep, murderous trouble. But beneath the surface, it was about a deeply insecure man who believed that maintaining the appearance of being rich and successful was the only thing that would keep his statuesque wife from leaving him.
Violent, blackly funny and directed with real pace by Tyldum, Headhunters brought the filmmaker to global attention. Tyldum's latest film is a very different one: it's the fascinating, sad story of Alan Turing, the mathematician whose pioneering work greatly affected the outcome of World War II. Cumberbatch is typically effective in the lead role as Turing,...
- 10/31/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Top Five
Paramount Pictures has reportedly emerged as frontrunner to acquire the Chris Rock-directed "Top Five". The film, which just premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, sparked a furious bidding war with the worldwide rights tipped to go for a whopping $12.5 million. That's a big jump up from the biggest deal of last year at the fest, the Keira Knightley film "Begin Again," which went for $7 million.
Rock, Rosario Dawson, Smoove, Gabrielle Union, Tracy Morgan, Cedric The Entertainer, Kevin Hart, Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, Whoopi Goldberg and Jay Pharoah star in the film about a former stand up comedian turned film star about to be hit by a major change in his life. [Source: Deadline]
Chris Evans
Chris Evans has reconfirmed to Variety that the only films he plans to act in after his Marvel contract is up are films he intended to direct. As for that potential retirement from the role of Captain America,...
Paramount Pictures has reportedly emerged as frontrunner to acquire the Chris Rock-directed "Top Five". The film, which just premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, sparked a furious bidding war with the worldwide rights tipped to go for a whopping $12.5 million. That's a big jump up from the biggest deal of last year at the fest, the Keira Knightley film "Begin Again," which went for $7 million.
Rock, Rosario Dawson, Smoove, Gabrielle Union, Tracy Morgan, Cedric The Entertainer, Kevin Hart, Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, Whoopi Goldberg and Jay Pharoah star in the film about a former stand up comedian turned film star about to be hit by a major change in his life. [Source: Deadline]
Chris Evans
Chris Evans has reconfirmed to Variety that the only films he plans to act in after his Marvel contract is up are films he intended to direct. As for that potential retirement from the role of Captain America,...
- 9/8/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Wild Director Jean-Marc Vallee on Directing Reese Witherspoon, Oscar Buzz and Feeling Like a Kid "With a Camera" The Dallas Buyers Club director returns to the fest with his adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s 2012 memoir about an 1,100-mile journey of self-discovery. Read the story here. Hot 'Imitation Game' Director Boards Conspiracy Pic Pattern Recognition The project is based on a novel by best-selling cyberpunk author William Gibson. Read the story here. Bill Murray to Participate in Bill Murray Day The Toronto Film Festival is dedicating Sept. 5 to the Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day star. Read the story
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- 9/5/2014
- by THR staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As his latest film, the Benedict Cumberbatch-starring Alan Turing tale The Imitation Game, starts to generate serious buzz and continues its festival run, director Morten Tyldum is looking for a new challenge. He’s found it with the adaptation of William Gibson’s book Pattern Recognition.Gibson’s best-selling 2003 tome is set the year before and follows Cayce Pollard, a 32 year-old marketing consultant who has a psychological sensitivity to corporate symbols. The action takes place in London, Tokyo, and Moscow as Cayce judges the effectiveness of a proposed corporate symbol and is hired to seek the creators of film clips anonymously posted to the internet – which leads her to uncover a much deeper conspiracy.Anthony Peckham is writing the current draft of the script for a project that has been in development since 2004, when Peter Weir jumped aboard to co-wrote the first take for Warners alongside David Arata and D.B. Weiss.
- 9/4/2014
- EmpireOnline
Upstream Color
Written by Shane Carruth
Directed by Shane Carruth
2013, USA
In William Gibson’s 2003 novel Pattern Recognition a mysteriously binary filmmaker slowly and anonymously drip feeds footage of his homebrew masterpiece to an eagerly seduced audience of intellectually curious, avant-garde aligned internet film fanatics. Christened as a ‘garage Kubrick’ by the fictional on-line community this was prescience as normal from Gibson, as a year later filmmaker Shane Carruth released his paradoxical puzzler Primer, a film he had written, directed, edited, acted, produced and scored for an infinitesimally small sum, mostly capturing his doppelgänger debut on the off-cuts and donations from industrial and corporate sources. An instant cult classic the films time travel programming and unconventional disregard for plot progressions has fostered a deluge of debate on its contortions and purpose, with every year seeing the electronic publication of a new workflow to interrogate its syncretic structure, each of which...
Written by Shane Carruth
Directed by Shane Carruth
2013, USA
In William Gibson’s 2003 novel Pattern Recognition a mysteriously binary filmmaker slowly and anonymously drip feeds footage of his homebrew masterpiece to an eagerly seduced audience of intellectually curious, avant-garde aligned internet film fanatics. Christened as a ‘garage Kubrick’ by the fictional on-line community this was prescience as normal from Gibson, as a year later filmmaker Shane Carruth released his paradoxical puzzler Primer, a film he had written, directed, edited, acted, produced and scored for an infinitesimally small sum, mostly capturing his doppelgänger debut on the off-cuts and donations from industrial and corporate sources. An instant cult classic the films time travel programming and unconventional disregard for plot progressions has fostered a deluge of debate on its contortions and purpose, with every year seeing the electronic publication of a new workflow to interrogate its syncretic structure, each of which...
- 5/1/2013
- by John
- SoundOnSight
At any given moment in the nebulous world of big studio film production there are as many phantoms floating around as there are solid movies made. Regardless of whether these loosely connected collections of ideas, scripts, and attached names ever find a home and a green light, these potential projects permeate production offices, studio meetings, agents’ agendas as well as blogs and news sites just like this.
Of these phantoms, those that draw the most passionate feedback, whether they spark hope for the possibility of seeing a childhood memory brought to life on the big screen or threaten to rip apart the internet under the weight of fans’ collective rage, are those that are adapted from works of science fiction and fantasy. These adaptations continue to be the go to projects of many producers due to the burgeoning success of the genres in film and television (thanks to the floodgate...
Of these phantoms, those that draw the most passionate feedback, whether they spark hope for the possibility of seeing a childhood memory brought to life on the big screen or threaten to rip apart the internet under the weight of fans’ collective rage, are those that are adapted from works of science fiction and fantasy. These adaptations continue to be the go to projects of many producers due to the burgeoning success of the genres in film and television (thanks to the floodgate...
- 3/8/2012
- by Joseph Kratzer
- Obsessed with Film
Michael O’Shea William Gibson
Influential science-fiction author William Gibson is something of an intellectual renaissance man. He’s often cited as the father of cyberpunk, or for coining the term “cyberspace,” but his new collection of non-fiction essays, “Distrust That Particular Flavor,” shows he can wax eloquent on everything from the Internet to Japanese people’s “obsessive desires,” to a perfectly tailored pair of jeans (worn by musician Skip Spence).
It is the first time his non-fiction has been collected in one volume,...
Influential science-fiction author William Gibson is something of an intellectual renaissance man. He’s often cited as the father of cyberpunk, or for coining the term “cyberspace,” but his new collection of non-fiction essays, “Distrust That Particular Flavor,” shows he can wax eloquent on everything from the Internet to Japanese people’s “obsessive desires,” to a perfectly tailored pair of jeans (worn by musician Skip Spence).
It is the first time his non-fiction has been collected in one volume,...
- 1/15/2012
- by Barbara Chai
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
As a teenager, I learned about computer geeks through Jonathan Brandis’ role on SeaQuest Dsv. Blue-eyed, blond-haired, and metrosexual, he was a marketable hacker created by network television in response to the growing presence of the internet in the mid-90s. Lucas Wolenczak’s mainstreaming of cyberpunk resembles the slickness of our modern, advertisement-laden World Wide Web. Furthermore, Jonathan’s attractiveness makes the viewer sympathetic to Lucas on a journey that leads to supporting corporate and military structures.
Brandis admitted to being “the farthest thing from a computer genius”; he doesn’t resemble his cyberpunk predecessors. For instance, Case—the drug-addicted hacker from William Gibson’s 1984 novel, Neuromancer—is often told he “looks bad.” Lucas utilizes hair gel, sports an earring in the season two premiere, and often wears the most memorable piece of nineties fashion: the flannel shirt. During a romantic encounter, a female hacker said she “expected brilliance,...
Brandis admitted to being “the farthest thing from a computer genius”; he doesn’t resemble his cyberpunk predecessors. For instance, Case—the drug-addicted hacker from William Gibson’s 1984 novel, Neuromancer—is often told he “looks bad.” Lucas utilizes hair gel, sports an earring in the season two premiere, and often wears the most memorable piece of nineties fashion: the flannel shirt. During a romantic encounter, a female hacker said she “expected brilliance,...
- 10/30/2011
- by Marjorie Anne
- doorQ.com
It’s an odd coincidence that commenter Lasargenta mentioned William Gibson’s novel Pattern Recognition recently, because it’s one that’s been in my short pile of books to write about for a while. Or maybe it’s not so odd. Because there may be a pattern to be recognized in how all this came about. I bought the book in the gift shop at the Tate Modern the last time I was in London, in February 2009. Now I’m here again, and was complaining about jetlag when Lasargenta pointed us toward one amazing bit in which Gibson describes jetlag like this: Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm. It is that flat and spectral non-hour, awash in limbic tides, brainstem stirring fitfully, flashing inappropriate reptilian demands for sex, food, sedation, all of the above,...
- 2/21/2011
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
He’s just finished wrangling a dream cast of older actors (including Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren) into an effective fighting team for Red, and now director Robert Schwentke might just be looking to bring a long-gestating drama project back from the depths of development limbo, as he’s become attached like a barnacle to submarine pic Shadow Divers.The source material for this one is Robert Knudson’s real-life tome, subtitled The True Adventures of Two Americans who Discovered Hitler’s Lost Sub, and charts what happens when a couple of divers stumble upon a sunken U-boat off the coast of New Jersey. The pair risked their lives over the next six years to bring its treasures to the surface.Back in the day (2006, to be exact) we reported on Peter Weir signing up to direct the film with a William Broyles Jr script, and we guessed...
- 8/5/2010
- EmpireOnline
The father of cyberpunk, William Gibson, follows a “cool-hunter” in his 2003 novel Pattern Recognition. Cayce’s profession of hunting cool unconsciously echoes Naomi Klein’s No Logo. Cayce is successful at the cool hunt partially because of her unusual reaction to marketing materials. Cayce’s allergy to logos reveals more than the just the insidiousness of corporate marketing. Her unusual talent/affliction illustrates how pattern recognition is culturally bound.
Marketing’s use of symbols and signs is intended to tap into a collective unconscious, in the Jungian sense; however, Cayce’s allergy is bound in a cultural unconsciousness. When she arrives in Tokyo, Cayce thinks about “the way certain labels are mysteriously recontextualized here: Whole seas of Burberry plaid have no effect on her, nor Mont Blanc nor even Gucci. Maybe this time it will even have started to work for Prada” (127). As an American in Tokyo, Cayce does not...
Marketing’s use of symbols and signs is intended to tap into a collective unconscious, in the Jungian sense; however, Cayce’s allergy is bound in a cultural unconsciousness. When she arrives in Tokyo, Cayce thinks about “the way certain labels are mysteriously recontextualized here: Whole seas of Burberry plaid have no effect on her, nor Mont Blanc nor even Gucci. Maybe this time it will even have started to work for Prada” (127). As an American in Tokyo, Cayce does not...
- 7/29/2010
- doorQ.com
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