Margot Robbie to Headline Tonya Harding Movie

[Schlosser85]

It's more of a vanity project by Margot Robbie than anything anyone, including Miramax, expects a lot of people to see. It's her production company, LuckyChap Entertainment, making the movie.
So the more correct thing to say would be nobody but Margot Robbie really cares about this. Sort of like how Melissa Rauch made the "The Bronze" movie, sort of a satire of a Tonya Harding type
character, which ended up making $616 thousand. What little publicity it did get was for the incredibly raunchy sex scene.

Also with Sebastian Stan!

 

[Fallen Angel]

So i read the script for this.

Nancy Kerrigan barely appears at all.

This is definitely a dark comedy. I was surprised by the mom character. That right there is a bait role. Stan will play the insensitive *****e very well. The lines for Tonya just weren't good enough imo. Honestly, this read like a bad Coen brothers film at times. Tone is all over. The ending is cliche.

Looks like they went with the early version my friend read. Nancy's barely in this. No wonder they cast the actress more than half way through filming.

It's a one sided story.

A friend of mine has read a very early version of this script and apparently Nancy's barely in the movie. It's totally from Tonya's point of view. Maybe that's why they haven't cast Nancy yet and production has already begun.

 

[MydnightPhoenix]

Is it really onesided or does it just not deal a lot with the actual incident? Maybe Nancy appears winning a competition, being hit, on ice with Tonya at the Olympics; all of which she wouldn't have to speak.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

https://twitter.com/colliderfrosty/status/906367431383437312

Steven Weintraub
@colliderfrosty

Absolutely LOVED I, Tonya. Script is fantastic & Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan and Allison Janney are amazing. Will be sold for big $

Seriously I'm floored by I, Tonya. I've seen a lot of the @TIFF_NET 2017 films and this is one of the best.

https://twitter.com/adamchitwood/status/906367635331334144

Adam Chitwood
@adamchitwood

'I, Tonya': A hilarious and surprisingly emotional take on Tonya Harding. Margot Robbie's incredible. GREAT script. #TIFF17

https://twitter.com/TheInSneider/status/906367193121685504

Jeff Sneider
@TheInSneider

Lot of parallels between I, TONYA & MOLLY'S GAME, surprisingly. Margot is excellent, but @AllisonBJanney is the real Oscar shoo-in as Mrs H.

Was surprised how much of I, TONYA is played for laughs, like LOGAN LUCKY on ice. But I'll say this much... Craig Gillespie did a GREAT job.

Oh, and I, TONYA has one of the best soundtracks of the year. There's almost a Scorsese/PTA feel to the music choices.

https://twitter.com/mikeryan/status/906367182245974016

Mike Ryan
@mikeryan

Margot Robbie RULES as Tonya Harding. Often hilarious; always tragic. I, TONYA is going to be a big deal. #tiff17

https://twitter.com/MattGoldberg/status/906368207153442816

Matt Goldberg
@MattGoldberg

I, TONYA swerves between tragic and darkly comic, sometimes falling off balance, but always compelling. #TIFF17

https://twitter.com/ezwrites/status/906367982296813568

Esther Zuckerman
@ezwrites

I, TONYA leans into how the whole case is sort of Coens-y and it mostly works

 

[Blitzkrieg]

https://twitter.com/CinemaBite/status/906372726939684864

e. oliver whitney
@CinemaBite

Completely loved I, Tonya. Takes a darkly hilarious approach that works surprisingly well. Robbie is stellar. Janney total dynamite #TIFF17

also some terrific work by Craig Gillespie. best surprise of TIFF so far!

https://twitter.com/EriktheMovieman/status/906370933178466305

Erik Childress
@Erikthe Movieman

I, TONYA: Best work to date by Margot Robbie highlights this solid & sympathetic biopic of Harding. Solid direction by Craig Gillespie #TIFF

https://twitter.com/NextBestPicture/status/906368473349095425

Matt Neglia
@NextBestPicture

I, Tonya is the real deal. Margot Robbie is the real deal but you already knew that #TIFF

https://twitter.com/kateyrich/status/906368535659732992

Kateyrich
@kateyrich

Allison Janney steals all the scenes but Margot Robbie is next level in I, Tonya. #Tiff17

https://twitter.com/Brian_Tallerico/status/906368842418532353

Brian Tellerico
@Brian_Tellerico

I, TONYA: Takes Coenesque dark comedy approach to a story you think you know and nails it. Robbie is phenomenal. Biggest surprise so far.

Oh and Alison Janney should be on the list of cinema's best swearers.

https://twitter.com/alisonwillmore/status/906375310735822848

Alison Wilmore
@alisonwilmore

I, TONYA: Duelling narrators, class rage, Margot Robbie crushing a cig out with a skate — over-obvious soundtrack aside, a total bop #tiff

 

[Blitzkrieg]

http://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/i-tonya-review-margot-robbie-1202552743/

For a while, you may make the mistake of thinking that “I, Tonya” is a joke: a blithe spoof of Tabloid Nation. It is that, yet it’s also built around something piercingly sharp and sincere: Margot Robbie’s canny, live-wire, deeply sympathetic performance. In case there was any doubt (some might say “Who knew?”), she’s a major actress. She plays Tonya as a trash princess who has nothing to cling to but her passion to skate, and has been so abused by life that it’s her karma to abuse it back.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/i-tonya-review-1037074?utm_source=twitter

Managing to both revel in its subject's trashiness and convince us she's far more innocent than America believed, Craig Gillespie's I, Tonya reintroduces us to the most infamous athlete-villain of the first half of 1994 (that was the summer of O.J., you'll recall) and lets her, for once, have the last say. Proving, after many a stolen scene, that she's capable of carrying a picture in the lead role — even when makeup and hairstylists treat her character's famous looks cruelly — Margot Robbie takes obvious pleasure in playing figure skater Tonya Harding, from her vulnerable teens to her present-tense, take-it-or-leave-it retirement. The lively and lurid film has solid commercial legs under it and marks a rebound for Gillespie, who has yet to match his lovable breakout film, Lars and the Real Girl, but is definitely earning his right to keep trying.

http://www.rogerebert.com/festivals-and-awards/tiff-2017-i-tonya-on-chesil-beach-the-lodgers-1

The centerpiece of “I, Tonya,” and what people will really be talking about, is the stunning work from Robbie, the best of her career to date—yes, I know, she’s great in “The Wolf of Wall Street,” but this is challenging on a different level. Her take on Harding is much more than just a physical transformation—she presents Harding not as a tabloid subject or a sob story but a completely three-dimensional person, someone who knew the world was unfair at a very early age and had to fight against that at every turn. Robbie is alternately defiant and hysterical, but she never takes the easy way out, which would have been to turn this take on Tonya into a parody or a tragedy. She contains elements of both. She's alternately defiant and miserable. It's a physically and emotionally demanding performance, and Robbie doesn't take a single false step. She does something even most traditional biopics fail to do—she tells us her side of the story in a way that feels heartfelt and genuine. Everyone here is great—I didn’t even mention the always-fantastic Julianne Nicholson and Bobby Cannavale—but it’s Robbie’s movie. And she nails the triple axel.

All these raves

 

[Schlosser85]

At the Toronto Film Festival the other day.

 

[scarlet-witch]

When I heard they were making this film and saw the set pics I did not expect to hear rave reviews when it came out. This definitely makes me more interested in it now.

 

[Kane52630]

Margot Robbie didn't know disgraced skater Tonya Harding was real when agreeing to play her

http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/a837654/margot-robbie-didnt-know-tonya-harding-was-real/

 

[harlequinade]

So happy for Margot!

 

[Blitzkrieg]

https://twitter.com/NEONrated/status/907290154343309312

NEON
@NEONrated

Acquired: Craig Gillespie's I, TONYA.

 

[Kane52630]

Man, Neon is off to a great start (Colossal, Ingrid Goes West, and Bad Batch).

Hats off to Tim League.

 

[flickchick85]

This sounds great.

 

[Luigi]

Wonder if they'll wait to release it next fall to improve its Oscar chances.

 

[guitarsingerguy]

I can't believe Robbie had no idea this was based on actual, real world events. Sigh...

 

[Guts]

She grew up in Australia and I'm assuming this didn't make the headlines over there back in the nineties and Margot was only four years old when this happened.

 

[Sawyer]

Yeah, I'm like two days younger than Margot Robbie, and I'm pretty sure the first time this story made any impact on me was when I watched VH1's I Love the '90s as a teen/preteen. Doubt the story had much staying power in Australia.

 

[harlequinade]

 

[guitarsingerguy]

She grew up in Australia and I'm assuming this didn't make the headlines over there back in the nineties and Margot was only four years old when this happened.

Ok...now you just made me feel old as hell.

 

[Luigi]

http://theplaylist.net/margot-robbie-oscars-tonya-20170922/

Its starting an Oscar qualifying run on December 8th.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Man, Neon is off to a great start (Colossal, Ingrid Goes West, and Bad Batch).

Hats off to Tim League.

 

[Breogan]

Seems like Allison Janney playing mother LaVona Golden/Harding, steels more than a few scenes.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rev...source=twitter

Managing to both revel in its subject's trashiness and convince us she [Tonya] is far more innocent than America believed,...

"convince us she's far more innocent than America believed"?
Didn't she actually make "America believe" she was innocent, that she supposedly knew nothing of the attacks, and it was just those around her who brought her down?

I guess they are not going to introduce the more recent evidence that wasn't released to the public, of phone calls, and the handwritten note in which Harding had written the address of the skating center where Kerrigan would be.
Is the movie continuing with her innocent and knew nothing narrative?

 

[harlequinade]

Teaser is out but cannot link it due to language

 

[Kane52630]

Looks great.

 

[harlequinade]

The CGI when it comes to the face and the skating is a bit...noticeable or...non existent even