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Trailer For The Coen Brothers’ New Comedy A Serious Man

dave — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:29:50 +0000

Is this going to be better than the barely mediocre Burn After Reading? It doesn’t matter. I will fork over money every time these guys make a movie because they’ve rarely let me down.
A Serious Man is a black comedy set in 1967 and centered on on Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), a Midwestern professor who watches his life unravel when his wife prepares to leave him because his inept brother (Richard Kind) won’t move out of the house.

Coen Bros. To Remake True Grit

dave — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:41:24 +0000

Finally a remake to get excited about! Having just wrapped A Serious Man the brothers Coen have announced that they will next tackle remaking John Wayne’s 1969 classic True Grit. The original is about a drunken U.S. Marshall, a texas ranger and a young woman who track the killer of the young woman’s father through hostile Indian territory. The Coen’s version will be told through the eyes of the young woman’s character rather than the U.S. Marshall originally played by John Wayne. Robert Duvall played Ned Pepper in the original. I think the Coens should consider brining him back. What say you?

X-Files Rumors, Coen Brothers Truths, and a Whole mess of other stuff including that whackjob Tom Cruise….

dave — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:04:20 +0000

It had been previously reported on a few sites that the a third X-Files film was in the works an was in fact headed Direct-to-DVD. Fortunately Frank Spotnitz (Producer/Writer) has dubunked this rumor on his official blog which you can read here.
The Coen’s made some interesting casting choices for their new flick A Serious Man, Richard Kind,(Mad About You,Spin City) and Michael Stuhlbarg a Tony award winning stage actor have been cast in the leads. SERIOUS , set in 1967, centers on Larry Gopnik (Stuhlbarg), a Midwestern professor whose life begins to unravel when his wife sets out to leave him and his socially inept brother (Kind) won’t move out of the house. Here’s a link to the JoBlo article I stole this from.
Is there anything that Tom Cruise hasn’t been at least attached to at one point or another in his career? AICN says that Tom Cruise is talking with Sam Raimi (yes the guy who is reviving Jack Ryans lame ass) about bringing DC Comics/Windstorm’s “Sleeper” to the big screen.
“Sleeper” written by Ed Brubaker with art by Sean Phillips, ran from 2003-05 and centers on an operative whose fusion with an alien artifact makes him impervious to pain and allows him to pass it on to others through skin contact. He is placed undercover in a villainous organization by an intelligence agency and falls for a member of the group, named Miss Misery.
And finally the awesome Dread Central has an interesting interview with Todd Farmer the screenwriter responsible for the new “My Bloody Valentine” remake…in 3-D. Yes I said it, in 3-D. If ever there was a film that deserved a 3-D treatment this certainly wouldn’t be it. I can’t get over what an awful idea this really is, but check out the interview anyway. It’s a crappy idea, but maybe it will be the kind of crappy that will make us all giggle. The interview is here.