They did Speed on a bus…they did Speed on a boat, and now there will be Speed at a Piano. Wait, what?! Elijah Wood has been cast in the indie thriller written by Damien Chazelle and directed by Eugenio Mira. The story takes place after a once great pianist suffers from stage fright and takes a 5 year hiatus from performing. At his first concert back, he notices a threatening note on his music sheet and then is forced to continue to play the "best concert of his life" in order to save his life as well as his wife's. Speed was a great action film, with an awesomely original premise at the time, but even though they were confined to a bus, they still had places to go, things to see and conflict that could arise. I am fascinated how they are going to do all of this with a character sitting at a piano. However, I have to say, we ask for new and original movies and not just re-makes and sequels and here we go. A film in which we have no idea what to expect, and I doubt that the extremely busy Elijah Wood would do anything that didn't have great potential. It is also produced by many of the people involved with Ryan Reynold's film Buried, so if they can do it underground, perhaps they can do it on a piano. Personally, I am excited to see how this turns out and can't wait to see the trailer…or anything about it for that matter!
In other casting news, Michelle Rodriguez has officially signed on for Fast and Furious 6. Will this franchise ever end? Bringing back Rodriguez (who is an even bigger star than she was when she started the films) , Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and the addition of Gina Carano (the MMA star who first appeared in Steven Soderbergh's Haywire) I think the answer to my question is, no, this probably will not be ending anytime soon. Maybe when it is "Fast and the Furious 60: Wheelchair Wars."
Rodriguez has also committed to reprising her role in Machete Kills, the sequel to Robert Rodriguez's (no relation) grindhouse film. Machete Kills begins filming this month before production starts on Sin City 2. And, in other wild grindhouse news…it is reported that the rumors that Mel Gibson is set to also star in the sequel are true and he is confirmed to play "a cunning arms dealer and death merchant who aims to spread war across the planet by launching a missile". Maybe this is the film that Mel Gibson needs to get back on the "cool-meter" after all of his previous PR, um, shall, we say blunders. I know that it is at least a movie I will see him in, so maybe we will be remind us all why we loved him in the first place? I mean, Riggs has got to still live in side of him somewhere, right?
I'm excited to see Wheelchair Wars! Wheel Harder.
"star in and indie thrilled?" should that be "star in an indie thriller" or am I being dumb?
Fast and Furious is the shaping up to be the series that the Expendables wishes it was.
Sorry, I just stopped by because I saw that hot Michelle Rodriguez beckoning me with open armaments and the rest of her body of acting. Somebody say something about soft server frogurt. . . Nevermind. Michelle.
@Tomrock said:
you = right. me = wrong. it = fixed.
"Bringing back Rodriguez who is an even bigger star than she was when she started the films and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson with the addition of Gina Carano, the MMA star who first appeared in Steven Soderbergh'sHaywire also has a role in the film, so I think the answer to my question is, no, probably will not be ending anytime soon."
I'm not mad. I don't think you're a horrible person. I don't think this is the end of Screened.
But please proofread :P
@Sandor: Duly noted :)
Robert Rodriguez is a hard dude to love. Why does this amazing director insist on working with the worst actors?!?
The Wood movie sounds more like Phonebooth than Speed with a piano but thats just me.
Wait, Gibson is going to be in which sequel, Machete or Sin City?
I never liked Fast & The Furious when it was about the flashy pimped out cars, i do like the direction they went in with Fast & Furious and Fast Five, and the latter was a seriously great film.
Addition of Mel Gibson in Machete is welcomed but being a villain in that won't do him much good since it didn't do Steven Seagal much favours, i mean he was a VERY VERY good villain in that but it didn't really revitalise his career, did it? He's still churning out the same bullshit STV stuff he's been doing.
@zkillz said:
you couldn't be more wrong sir, F&F never wishes to aim so high and be so great. It's good but it's nowhere near as good as Expendables.
Any one else wonder how they plan to get Michelle Rodriguez's character back into Fast and Furious since she was killed in The Fast and Furious, thus instigating Vin Diesels reason to hunt down the bad guys?
@Black_Rose said:
Machete Kills!
@optimusprime223 said:
I thought they did that in Fast Five?
Not as far as I remember, she remained dead and Diesels character had a thing with that really hot mexican cop....
@optimusprime223: after the credits.
Ah ok, that explains that then, didn't realise there was an after credits sequence on that!