Famous people working together! The bread and butter of pop culture news! According to Deadline, celebrated director Ben Stiller (of Escape At Dannemora and also apparently a successful comedy acting career before that) is teaming up with Oscar Isaac for London, a movie based on what Deadline refers to as a “new short story/high-concept thriller” from crime author Jo Nesbo. That’s an interesting description, since “short story” is the medium but “high-concept thriller” is the genre, which makes the high-concept thriller part seem like it’s probably a core aspect of whatever this thing is. On that note, we should say that Deadline doesn’t offer any details about the actual plot of London, so all we know is the “short story/high-concept thriller” thing.
Still, Isaac and Stiller! Working together! Also the screenplay is being written by Eric Roth, who has had his name on all sorts of successful stuff, including Forrest Gump, A Star is Born, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, and things that aren’t out yet but might be successful like Dune and Killers Of The Flower Moon.
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it’s a dramatic adaptation of the ‘hair gel’ scene.
If anyone could nail that stiffness, its Issac
Good god who is Oscar Isaac’s tailor?
haha i didn’t notice until you pointed it out. is that suit made of cardboard or something
Burlap isn’t the most comfortable fabric but it drapes well.
it must be like, breakaway clothing.this photo was taken five minutes before a flash dance mob.
It’s from Nintendo’s “Labo” leisure line of affordable evening wear.
and the tie is a functional synthesizer from the sharper image
Aw, man, they actually
Oscar Isaac was great as Joe Damerons is Space War 7-9.
I get that snark is the AVC’s stock-and-trade, but I genuinely can’t tell if the joke about Stiller’s credits is just that, or if you genuinely forgot that he directed Tropic Thunder, Reality Bites, and Zoolander, among other things. It’s not like Escape from Dannemora was his directorial debut.
I think they were probably just trying to stick with non comedy directing. I’m glad they did because I somehow never heard of Escape and it looks great
Forgot he directed Tropic Thunder.
And The Cable Guy!
“New York is really like a character of its own in my new film, ‘London’.”
Escape was pretty darn good, buoyed by one amazing performance in Arquette, one very solid performance by Dano, and del Toro kind of stunk actually. I felt it went too quickly after they escaped, but Stiller really did show a dedication to crafting the story.Jo Nesbo wrote The Snowman. Yikes.
Is it about the Kosovan War?