Johnny Depp to Play Whitey Bulger in Black Mass

[John McGuirk]

This looks awesome. I hope Depp can rebound, this might be an Oscar nomination for him if done right.

 

[Sawyer]

Dat new trailer.

 

[StarLord]

Dat new trailer indeed.

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[Sawyer]

I wonder how old Bulger is supposed to be at the point when this film takes place. He couldn't have been all that much older than Depp is now, and yet it looks like they've aged him up 30-40 years.

 

[Broseph44]

Dat trailerrrrrrrr t:

 

[Doctor Jones]

Yeah, that was an excellent theatrical trailer.

 

[Sawyer]

I need a gif of that creepy face-stroke Depp gives Julianne Nicholson.

 

[Slick]

So I guess this is the story that inspired the late-great showtime show brotherhood. I miss that show lol

 

[Lencho01]

‘Black Mass’ TV Spot and New Images Tease Explosive Johnny Depp Performance



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[StarLord]

TV Spot #3

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Can't wait to see this. I watched the WHITEY documentary last week.

 

[MrMaooz]

This looks so damn good.

 

[Napoleon]

Might do a double-feature with this a Sicario. Very much anticipating this.

 

[StarLord]

Reviews.

Variety: http://variety.com/2015/film/festiv...1EQAmA&usg=AFQjCNEwP4JOg1jx69IDQLXkqHFq3sQgiw

The Playlist:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayl...dict-cumberbatch-dakota-johnson-more-20150904

Deadline:
http://deadline.com/2015/09/black-m...ack-sienna-miller-role-cut-venice-1201514299/

 

[:eek:]

Miller Cut From Rave Reviewed "Black Mass"


By Garth Franklin Friday September 4th 2015 02:34AM
The Venice Film Festival is currently in full swing and in surprising news, four major dramas set to get a wide U.S. release soon have screened so far and all of them have been landing rave reviews.
Amongst them is "Black Mass," filmmaker Scott Cooper's crime drama about Boston mobster James 'Whitey' Bulger who is currently serving two life sentences for murder and other crimes. Reviews so far have seen Johnny Depp, who plays Bulger, scoring some of the best notices he's had in over a decade.
The film itself scored two rounds of strong applause as well, while several supporting actors in the film like Joel Edgerton and Benedict Cumberbatch have also scored good notices. One person who WAS in the film was actress Sienna Miller who was to play the role of Bulger's girlfriend. That role was cut out of the film entirely in the editing room.
Talking about that decision, Cooper tells The Boston Globe that the film's focus decided to stick with the mobster's earlier life and though Miller had been "fantastic," the decision to cut her "came down to narrative choices."
Warners begins an international rollout of "Black Mass" on September 17th.
Source: Deadline

 

[Lencho01]

More reviews...

http://www.slashfilm.com/black-mass-early-buzz-a-return-to-form-for-johnny-depp/

Tommaso Tocci at The Film Stage (B-):

Expectations of Depp are high on this one, now that audiences seem to have finally tired of his infamous cartoonish performances. The role of Jimmy presents a nice opportunity for some middle ground between those and his more ‘serious’ turns – this time he plays a gangster (like in Donnie Brasco, Blow, Public Enemies) and he can do his thing behind a mask. Pale, blue-eyed and bald – if not for the white tufts of hair seemingly about to take off from the sides of his head – he looks like Goodfellas’ Ray Liotta in an advanced stage of transformation into Gary Oldman’s Dracula. Depp’s magnetism serves the character well, even buried underneath the glacial menace of a man whose mission in life seems to be the manipulation of others.
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Geoffrey MacNab at The Independent (3/5):

Black Mass is a triumph of sorts for Depp. It shows him tapping a malevolence and cruelty that many fans would never have guessed was in him. As a gangster movie, though, it is a frustrating and strangely dour affair. Bulger’s success lay in the fact that he was smart, ruthless and never showed emotion. He is simply too inscrutable and aloof a figure to make a satisfactory anti-hero. Movie villains don’t come any less loveable than this.
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Peter Bradshaw at The Guardian (4/5):

Cooper and his screenwriters Mark Mallouk and Jez Butterworth have something substantial to add to the genre: making the point that gangsters do not arise from nowhere like comic-strip supervillains. They are the symptoms of political corruption, parasites created by agencies of the state, and by weak, credulous law enforcement officials who are content to sub-contract policing to the bad guys.

Scott Foundas at Variety:

f Johnny Depp’s mesmerizing performance — a bracing return to form for the star after a series of critical and commercial misfires — is the chief selling point of “Black Mass,” there is much else to recommend this sober, sprawling, deeply engrossing evocation of Bulger’s South Boston fiefdom and his complex relationship with the FBI agent John Connolly, played with equally impressive skill by Joel Edgerton.
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Todd McCarthy at THR:

Depp […] takes control of the proceedings from the outset and never yields it, except for when he disappears for a while in the second half. He’s as charismatic as his character must be, fully convincing and frightening as his Bulger toys with friends and enemies alike to keep them guessing, hides his true intentions and dishes out punishment at an alarming rate. Depp’s instinct for observing, underlaying and keeping things in, then letting it all out when required, pays big dividends here in a performance far more convincing than his previous big gangster role, John Dillinger in Michael Mann’s Public Enemies.; it’s unexpected, very welcome at this point in his career, and one of his best.
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Alonso Duralde at The Wrap:

While “Black Mass” is frequently engrossing, it has occasional pacing issues; some characters (like Dakota Johnson, playing the mother of Bulger’s child) disappear sooner than you’d imagine, while the film’s last act could stand to lose 15 or 20 minutes. (If the movie starts with hoods turning state’s evidence, thus guaranteeing the plot’s outcome, we shouldn’t notice how long it’s taking to get to the finish line.)
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[terry78]

Damn right. He's always been a master of this stuff, lately he's just been camping it up for the sake of it though.

 

[:eek:]

With this and Everest getting a lot of praise, talk about that The Visit is a return to form for Shymalan and Sicario hopefully delivers... September looks like it could be one of the best movie months in a long time.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Miller Cut From Rave Reviewed "Black Mass"


By Garth Franklin Friday September 4th 2015 02:34AM
The Venice Film Festival is currently in full swing and in surprising news, four major dramas set to get a wide U.S. release soon have screened so far and all of them have been landing rave reviews.
Amongst them is "Black Mass," filmmaker Scott Cooper's crime drama about Boston mobster James 'Whitey' Bulger who is currently serving two life sentences for murder and other crimes. Reviews so far have seen Johnny Depp, who plays Bulger, scoring some of the best notices he's had in over a decade.
The film itself scored two rounds of strong applause as well, while several supporting actors in the film like Joel Edgerton and Benedict Cumberbatch have also scored good notices. One person who WAS in the film was actress Sienna Miller who was to play the role of Bulger's girlfriend. That role was cut out of the film entirely in the editing room.
Talking about that decision, Cooper tells The Boston Globe that the film's focus decided to stick with the mobster's earlier life and though Miller had been "fantastic," the decision to cut her "came down to narrative choices."
Warners begins an international rollout of "Black Mass" on September 17th.
Source: Deadline

Makes sense, but I do hope there is a mention of his capture at the end of the film.

 

[antonydelfini]

Im just glad Depp is taking acting seriously again. I think he'll surely get an Oscar nom for this.

 

[NotSoLongAgo]

Seems so oscar-baity.. Didn't really catch my interest but I'll probably end up watching it

 

[Loki882]

I really dislike the term "Oscar bait." It's so subjective/vague as to be practically meaningless.

 

[StarLord]

Actors acting = Oscar bait!

 

[Loki882]

Biopics=Oscar bait.
Period pieces=Oscar bait.
Actors giving intense performances=Oscar bait.
Actors radically transforming physically for a role=Oscar bait.
Etc.

You see how ridiculous this gets.

 

[Napoleon]

I personally disagree that this is "Oscar-bait." Oscar-bait to me are films that seem to have an inflated sense of self-importance, and I'm not getting that from this.

 

[Kane52630]

Not to mention gets released around Dec/Jan.