Child 44

[Faora]

 

[Visceral]

looks bad ass. rapace is a crush of mine.

 

[Schlosser85]

Hardy would be great as some hard-boiled noir '50s detective.

 

[BestGirl]

Shouldn't Noomi's character be Raisa Demidova?

 

[MrCandy]

 

[Faora]

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Shouldn't Noomi's character be Raisa Demidova?

Of course, who else would she be?

 

[BestGirl]

She's listed on the poster on the previous page as Raisa Demidov. Women's surnames in Russia end in an -a, therefore, she ought to be Raisa Demidova.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

She's listed on the poster on the previous page as Raisa Demidov. Women's surnames in Russia end in an -a, therefore, she ought to be Raisa Demidova.

Ah, in the book I just remember it being Demidov, but that may not be right.

 

[MrCandy]

A guy on reddit posted this yesterday, take this however you will.

I call Child 44 Academy Award winner for Best Picture 2015. I was at the pre screening and I would say it is one of the best movies I´ve seen in years. Tom Hardy puts down an amazing performance as Leo Demidov(his accent was incredible even sometimes I still got Bane-vibes). I hadn´t heard much of it before I got hold of the pre-screening tickets but now I am hunting down the books to read the rest of the story. Dark brutal thriller that depicts the soviet-era out of sight out of mind mentality very well.

Ohh. Just saw the trailer. It really doesn´t catch the character of the movie at all.

There is no silly twist. I would say it is a lot going on in the movie- there are like 3 main "problems" for the lead-duo. The trailer covered only one of them. There is constant suspense throughout the whole movie even considering it's 2h17m runtime.

Nope. I claim this movie is going to atleast a nominee.

 

[Faora]

 

[Faora]

Russian trailer.
[YT]watch?v=N1Jo0l9eZfE[/YT]

 

[Faora]

 

[MrCandy]

Heres someone who was at a very recent private screening.

http://thedarkpages.co.uk/the-is-no-murder-in-paradise/

Eight years ago I read Child 44 on printed out A4 sheets, a time when publishers gave themselves debilitating back problems from lugging manuscripts around in tote bags. This was before the days of the Kindle. Before you could read a book on your iPhone. Before we had even acquired the novel to publish. And I devoured it. I even missed two tube stops because of it, so gripped by the epic train carriage scene, that I raised my head at Oxford Circus when I was supposed to get off at Holborn. It was an incredible debut novel, a politically charged, literary historical thriller and Tom Rob Smith was undoubtedly one of the most exciting new names in the genre. There was huge excitement in the industry about this special book AND the novel had been optioned by Ridley Scott to be a film.


Eight years later, after international bestsellerdom, two more books in the Demidov series and hot off the heels of his recent stand-alone novel called The Farm, in a private screening room in Soho I watched the opening credits to the movie adaptation that I have been waiting all this time for. As the names Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Noomi Rapace, and director Daniel Espinosa popped up on the screen, I felt a twinge of panic for them. They have the responsibility of turning the book that I’ve held so dear into a film worthy of the words.
They did not disappoint.

Set in the Soviet Union in 1953, Tom Hardy plays Leo Demidov, a high ranking MGB Agent who is a loyal member of the State. He unquestioningly carries out his orders to serve his country. He arrests whomever he is told to arrest. He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to, because he trusts the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia.

But when he is forced to watch a man he knows to be innocent be brutally tortured, and then told to arrest his own wife, played by Noomi Repace, he faces a stark choice: his wife or his life. And still the bodies of young boys are found…

Beautifully shot, the sense of menace and fear runs strong through the film. Brutal in places and bloody in others it delivers a cerebral chase thriller unlike any other I’ve seen lately. With great cameo performances from some big names, Child 44 is sure to be a big movie hit. There are some differences to the book. So, read it first and see if you can spot them.

 

[Faora]

French Poster.

Still.

 

[Faora]

 

[Schlosser85]

 

[Rowsdower!]

This cast and premise is epic.

 

[Schlosser85]

It will be a damn crying shame if this somehow isn't good.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Getting excited for this now, really hope it manages to adapt the book well which was superb!

 

[Schlosser85]

A few weeks to go.

 

[MrCandy]

 

[bapi]

Well, I can confirm 137 min runtime.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Well, I can confirm 137 min runtime.

That's a good run time, there is a lot to cover in the book but I imagine stuff will still need to be taken out. But I am happy with that run time for sure.

 

[MrCandy]

B-roll and some on set interviews released.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014763/videogallery?ref_=tt_pv_vi_sm