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Acker's 9 got some positive buzz at Comic-Con. Filmmakers Tim Burton and Timur Bakmembetov were so excited by the visuals in Shane Acker's 2005 Oscar-nominated UCLA thesis short that they helped to produce the Focus Feature. While the world and the visuals are stunning, the story is derivative and familiar. I want more depth and originality, post-Wall E. Here's the original short:
Here's my Cannes coverage on Marshall's Nine:
The Weinsteins also debuted for buyers and press a featurette made by Rob Marshall of his musicalNine, which was adapted by the late Anthony Minghella from the Broadway musical inspired by Federico Fellini’s 8 ½. In the role of the womanizing director having a midlife crisis (played on-stage by Raul Julia and Antonio Banderas) is Daniel Day Lewis, who looks handsome and charismatic in the movie. (Yes, he sports an Italian accent. And sings. And dances.) Much of the story, like Marshall’s Oscar-winning Chicago, unfolds in the director’s mind as he muses over the women in his life: his mother (Sophia Loren), the village prostitute (Fergie), lover (Nicole Kidman), wife (Marion Cotillard), mistress (Penelope Cruz), interviewer (Kate Hudson) and costume designer (Judi Dench). The movie looks sumptuous, elaborate, visually dazzling. It also looks expensive, and was shot in London and Cinecitta (estimates range from $80 to $90 million). The risk for the Weinsteins: is there a market big enough to pay back the cost of a studio-scale all-stops-out musical? The movie opens during awards season, November 25. Here's the trailer.
And District 9 clips and trailer:
3 Comments
MCU | August 12, 2009 1:47 AM
And of course John August's The Nines.
Craig Kennedy | August 11, 2009 11:30 AM
Earlier this year there was also $9.99
Griff | August 11, 2009 9:09 AM
The casting of Day-Lewis seems ideal, but I just don't know whether the libretto and score of NINE is really strong enough to work as a movie musical. Rob Marshall isn't exactly Fellini, after all...