The Number 23
Release Date: February 23, 2007
Studio: New Line Cinema
Director: Joel Schumacher
Screenwriter: Fernley Phillips
Starring: Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman, Danny Huston, Maile Flanagan, Patricia Belcher, Lynn Collins, Rhona Mitra, Mark Pellegrino, Tara Karsian
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Plot Summary: Jim Carrey will play a man who becomes obsessed and haunted upon reading a book that seems to be about his life but ends with a murder. The number 23 is woven throughout the plot.
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Madsen's Number Is 23
Virginia Madsen, the Oscar-nominated Sideways star who co-stars with Jim Carrey in the upcoming drama The Number 23, told SCI FI Wire that the movie is a dark journey into the mind of a man who's losing touch with reality. "It's very dark and scary," Madsen said in an interview while promoting her new CBS TV series Smith in Pasadena, Calif., on July 15. She added: "This is going to be such an important film for Jim, because he was so ready to be this. Jim was never really a standup comic, really. Jim's always been an actor."
Madsen said that she has wanted to work with Carrey for years, but not in a comedy. "A couple of years ago, I decided I would start talking about it," Madsen said. "I would just kind of put it out there in the universe that I wanted to work with Jim Carrey. ... They said, 'Well, you want to do comedy?' I said, 'No, I want to do a drama with him.' All my friends knew this, which was really funny: My agent called me up, and he goes, 'You're not going to believe this, Madsen! I just got a call. Guess who wants to work with you? Jim Carrey!' And I'm like, 'Is it a drama?' And he goes [yelling] 'It's a drama!' [laughs] And I'm like, 'Oh, my God, it came true!' Yeah, it came true."
In The Number 23, Madsen plays the wife of a man (Carrey) who begins to see similarities between his life and a book. "It's basically this man's descent into madness, as he slowly loses his mind, and I'm trying to pull him back from the brink," she said. Madsen added: "He's going into this other world as he's reading a book called The Number 23. And he starts to think that the book is about him, because of all these similarities. Then he's convinced that it is him. Then he's convinced that this is being done to him. So he's madly trying to find out who's to blame and becomes suspicious of me, and he just gets darker and darker and darker. And you go into the world that he's seeing as you read the book, too. So visually [there's] all this wild stuffit's [director] Joel Schumacher ... it's all these weird worlds that you go into and stuff. It's going to be very cool."
Though the movie fufills her dream to act with Carrey, Madsen added: "It was a long journey, the movie, and I was very happy when it was over [laughs]." The Number 23 is slated for release in February 2007.
This movie sound great, cant wait
Release Date: February 23, 2007
Studio: New Line Cinema
Director: Joel Schumacher
Screenwriter: Fernley Phillips
Starring: Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman, Danny Huston, Maile Flanagan, Patricia Belcher, Lynn Collins, Rhona Mitra, Mark Pellegrino, Tara Karsian
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Plot Summary: Jim Carrey will play a man who becomes obsessed and haunted upon reading a book that seems to be about his life but ends with a murder. The number 23 is woven throughout the plot.
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=37101
Virginia Madsen, the Oscar-nominated Sideways star who co-stars with Jim Carrey in the upcoming drama The Number 23, told SCI FI Wire that the movie is a dark journey into the mind of a man who's losing touch with reality. "It's very dark and scary," Madsen said in an interview while promoting her new CBS TV series Smith in Pasadena, Calif., on July 15. She added: "This is going to be such an important film for Jim, because he was so ready to be this. Jim was never really a standup comic, really. Jim's always been an actor."
Madsen said that she has wanted to work with Carrey for years, but not in a comedy. "A couple of years ago, I decided I would start talking about it," Madsen said. "I would just kind of put it out there in the universe that I wanted to work with Jim Carrey. ... They said, 'Well, you want to do comedy?' I said, 'No, I want to do a drama with him.' All my friends knew this, which was really funny: My agent called me up, and he goes, 'You're not going to believe this, Madsen! I just got a call. Guess who wants to work with you? Jim Carrey!' And I'm like, 'Is it a drama?' And he goes [yelling] 'It's a drama!' [laughs] And I'm like, 'Oh, my God, it came true!' Yeah, it came true."
In The Number 23, Madsen plays the wife of a man (Carrey) who begins to see similarities between his life and a book. "It's basically this man's descent into madness, as he slowly loses his mind, and I'm trying to pull him back from the brink," she said. Madsen added: "He's going into this other world as he's reading a book called The Number 23. And he starts to think that the book is about him, because of all these similarities. Then he's convinced that it is him. Then he's convinced that this is being done to him. So he's madly trying to find out who's to blame and becomes suspicious of me, and he just gets darker and darker and darker. And you go into the world that he's seeing as you read the book, too. So visually [there's] all this wild stuffit's [director] Joel Schumacher ... it's all these weird worlds that you go into and stuff. It's going to be very cool."
Though the movie fufills her dream to act with Carrey, Madsen added: "It was a long journey, the movie, and I was very happy when it was over [laughs]." The Number 23 is slated for release in February 2007.
This movie sound great, cant wait
