There's only a very short teaser on this so far, but it looks so amazing that you'll all want to be watching it:

 

 

David Cronenberg adapts Don DeLillo's novel about a multimillionaire (Robert Pattinson) on a 24-hour odyssey across Manhattan in his ridiculous limousine in order to get a haircut. I don't know much about DeLillo, but I imagine it'll be overwhelmingly Cronenbergian anyway - the imagery already backs that up. Should be interesting to see what Cronenberg can do with Pattinson, but the highlight of this trailer is surely the flash of Juliette Binoche enjoying being sodomised.

Pattinson actually playing someone that is not a vampire or DULL (most often both). OMG

Edited March 22, 201214 yr by Caïn

I'm not entirely sure he's even CAPABLE, but that trailer does look very good.

Gawd, why on earth is Cronenberg lowering himself to work with the talent-free zone that is Robert Pattinson...? I take it Viggo Mortensen was too busy this time..?

The role is a late-twenties billionaire, and Viggo is 53. But I personally always find it interesting when big name directors choose lambasted young actors to work with, you never know when someone might turn out to have unused talent. Cronenberg obviously saw something worthwhile in him, anyway.

The role is a late-twenties billionaire, and Viggo is 53. But I personally always find it interesting when big name directors choose lambasted young actors to work with, you never know when someone might turn out to have unused talent. Cronenberg obviously saw something worthwhile in him, anyway.

 

Well, howabout our very own Jamie Bell then...? Fantastic young actor and can frankly act Pattinson off the screen... I've seen Pattinson in other things, wasn't impressed.. To me, he's as wooden as Daniel Radcliffe, who almost managed to ruin The Woman in Black (thankfully the general lack of lines of dialogue and the fact that experienced old hands like Ciaran Hinds were on hand to cover for him saved the enterprise)

 

I only mentioned Viggo because he seems to crop up in a lot of Cronenberg's films these days....

 

Well, howabout our very own Jamie Bell then...? Fantastic young actor and can frankly act Pattinson off the screen... I've seen Pattinson in other things, wasn't impressed.. To me, he's as wooden as Daniel Radcliffe, who almost managed to ruin The Woman in Black (thankfully the general lack of lines of dialogue and the fact that experienced old hands like Ciaran Hinds were on hand to cover for him saved the enterprise)

 

I only mentioned Viggo because he seems to crop up in a lot of Cronenberg's films these days....

 

I much prefer Jamie Bell to Robert Pattinson too, but all I'm saying is that I don't think you should write-off Pattinson when we have bountiful evidence of the types of performance Cronenberg is capable of getting out of people. It also sounds like a plot that happens at him rather than him being particularly active within it, and so less reliant than The Woman in Black was on Radcliffe.

 

Perhaps Pattinson doesn't deserve the level of fame he has, and didn't deserve to be cast, but I think it's a bit restrictive of you not to be open to someone who might be improving at their craft. At the very least, both Pattinson and Kristen Stewart's choices outside of Twilight show actors willing to explore unusual and distinctive projects.

I much prefer Jamie Bell to Robert Pattinson too, but all I'm saying is that I don't think you should write-off Pattinson when we have bountiful evidence of the types of performance Cronenberg is capable of getting out of people. It also sounds like a plot that happens at him rather than him being particularly active within it, and so less reliant than The Woman in Black was on Radcliffe.

 

Perhaps Pattinson doesn't deserve the level of fame he has, and didn't deserve to be cast, but I think it's a bit restrictive of you not to be open to someone who might be improving at their craft. At the very least, both Pattinson and Kristen Stewart's choices outside of Twilight show actors willing to explore unusual and distinctive projects.

 

Kristen Stewart has shown a few acting chops in one or two things (she did pretty well as Joan Jett in The Runaways, as did Dakota Fanning, they were unfortunately let down by a pretty awful script though...), unfortunately, I've seen nothing from Pattinson as yet.... Wasn't The Woman in Black similar though, lots of things happened at and to Radcliffe's character, he didn't seem as though he was in any kind of control of the events at all...

Announced earlier as part of the main Cannes competition line-up. Conveniently some trailers debuted a few hours before:

 

 

Or a slightly more diffuse French one that I can't embed: http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/in-contention/...mopolis-trailer

 

RATS.