Gavin Hood to direct Wolverine

[Retroman]

Checked out Hood's movie Tsosti a couple weeks ago.This is damn good movie.It's intense, gritty, violent and emotional.At the center is this bad guy you really end up caring for by the end.I'd recommend everyone here to it check out.

Even though it's won an Oscar i was actually surprised that my local rental had it.

http://iesb.net/index.php?option=com_xevidmegafx&Itemid=139&func=detail&id=1164

It looks good. It may give people a look at Gavin's style etc

Thanks this does look good.Wouldn't it be something if he could get Streep to star in Wolverine too?

Ratner may have an A list status is the biz, but his talents are C list at best.

I was actually referring to the A-list talent we had in terms of cast.

 

[Retroman]

Rendition premieres at the Toronto Film Festival this week.It's very likely that Gavin Hood will be there to present the film to the public. So we might get some qoutes on the status of Wolverine in a few days.
http://www.tiff07.ca/industry/filmsandschedules/filmdetails.aspx?ID=706291243451386

 

[danoyse]

Checked out Hood's movie Tsosti a couple weeks ago.This is damn good movie.It's intense, gritty, violent and emotional.At the center is this bad guy you really end up caring for by the end.I'd recommend everyone here to it check out.

I just saw it recently too (it's actually on cable a lot here lately!) and it's excellent. I couldn't believe I was actually sad for the guy by the end.

Rendition looks intense as well, I can't wait to check that out.

 

[BMM]

Rendition looks intense as well, I can't wait to check that out.

Definitely.

 

[Retroman]

I just saw it recently too (it's actually on cable a lot here lately!) and it's excellent. I couldn't believe I was actually sad for the guy by the end.

Rendition looks intense as well, I can't wait to check that out.

Hopefully the studio recognizes that as well and won't interfere too much in the creative process of Wolverine like they did on X3.

 

[Retroman]

So..Gavin Hood is in Toronto for the Film Festival. And there was a press conference to promote Rendition....

Cast member Jake Gyllenhaal (L) gestures with director of the movie Gavin Hood at a news conference for the movie "Rendition" during the 32nd Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto September 7, 2007. The festival runs from September 6 until September 15. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

Source

 

[narrows101]

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/misc_toronto_international_film_festival/news/1669180/

Director Gavin Hood was recently announced to helm Wolverine, and it's easy to see why: after nabbing the foreign film Oscar for Tsotsi, Hood gives in to his Hollywood impulses completely for Rendition, a polished-to-a-shine thriller in the vein of Babel.

 

[danoyse]

Hopefully the studio recognizes that as well and won't interfere too much in the creative process of Wolverine like they did on X3.

I hope so too. Since it looks like they're filming in Australia, it looks like Hugh has plenty of say on the project as well.

 

[Retroman]

Rendition opened this weekend but didn't set the box office alight.

Two adult-targetted dramas failed to find their mark as the political thriller Rendition (New Line) opened to a disappointing $4.2 million in 2,250 theatres--an average of $9100 per-theatre--to take ninth place.

http://www.comingsoon.net/blog/2007/10/a_bloody_box_office_isnt_just.php

Who's seen it?

 

[narrows101]

New Hood video interview - click on the link for the video:

http://www.reelzchannel.com/movie/234326/wolverine?clipid=28817

Hood aiming for a "grand and operatic" Wolverine flick

If director Gavin Hood gets his way, expect the upcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine to differ dramatically in tone from 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand.

Speaking last week to Secret's Out guest host Aisha Tyler, Hood described his Wolverine as "a person who's really suffering from a great deal of existential angst, who wants to lash out and yet hates himself for doing so...his battle is within his own nature."

Referencing ancient Greek lore, the Rendition director laid out his ambitious plan for the highly anticipated X-Men prequel, in which Hugh Jackman will reprise his trademark role. "These characters are modern mythological characters that represent human emotion in a grand and somewhat operatic way," Hood said of the inhabitants of Wolverine's comic book universe. "And if we can access that and combine it with some good action and some great cinematography and music and sound and so on, then we could have an exciting, emotional movie."

"Exciting and emotional" sounds pretty good, especially when contrasted with Brett Ratner's controversial "shallow and bombastic" approach toward X-Men 3.

 

[BMM]

Sounds good. Hood talks a good game. Hopefully, he follows through with it. It could be one of the better X-Men related movies yet.