Dead Men Tell No Tales Production Beginning
The fifth Pirates of the Caribbean movies has begun production at the Village Roadshow Studio in Gold Coast Australia. Shooting is scheduled to begin in mid February. More details are available here.
Month: September 2014
Johnny Depp and Ryan Adams on stage
Last Thursday Johnny Depp made a surprise appearance at Ryan Adams London concert where they played Danzig’s anti-PMRC screed “Mother” as an encore song.
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Pirates of the Caribbean rumored cast
So the Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is setting sail this 2015 in Australia and of course Johnny Depp will be leading the movie as Captain Jack Sparrow but there are a couple of actors that are rumored to set sail next to Johnny.
Firstly, Orlando Bloom who has recenty said: “There have certainly been some discussions about it and I’m open to it”. On the other hand Keira Knightley has confirmed she will not be part of the next Pirates movie.
Other actors that might be part of the film are: Jack Davenport, Christoph Waltz, Geoffrey Rush, Mackenzie Crook, Keith Richards, Lee Arenberg and Martin Klebba.
Paul McCartney Early Days Behind the Scenes
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Kevin Smith’s Marijuanaissance
Kevin Smith’s Marijuanaissance: On ‘Tusk,’ ‘Falling Out’ with Ben Affleck, and 20 Years of ‘Clerks’
EXCERPT 09.09.14 by thedailybeast.com
The outspoken filmmaker sat down with Marlow Stern to discuss his wacky walrus horror film Tusk, his upcoming film with Johnny Depp starring their daughters, his love of weed, and more.
Any conversation with Kevin Smith, the loquacious filmmaker/geek god, tends to go to interesting places. The guy has no filter, and regularly regales colleges and podcast listeners with his industry yarns, from the hellish experience working with Bruce Willis on Cop Out to the living soap opera that was developing his script for the superhero flick Superman Lives, replete with a giant, killer spider (at the producer’s behest).
Following the disappointing box office for Red State, Smith said that his follow-up film, Clerks 3, would be his last. Later, he amended that statement to say that he’ll keep making movies, but only ones “I would/could ever make.” Which brings us to Tusk.
A couple of years back, on his comedy podcast SModcast, Smith and pal Scott Mosier discussed an ad for a man renting out a room in his house gratis—on the condition that the tenant dresses up like a walrus for a few hours a day. They had a field day with it, disassembling and reassembling it, until they landed on an idea: What if it was a horror film about a demented elderly seafarer who posts a misleading ad, lures a man to his cabin in the woods, and then attempts to transform him into a walrus. That, dear friends, is the plot to Tusk. Written and directed by Smith, the film stars Michael Parks as the seaman Howard Howe and Justin Long as Wallace Bryton, the poor podcaster who’s abducted. When he goes missing, Wallace’s girlfriend (Genesis Rodriguez) and pal (Hailey Joel Osment) team up with an eccentric Montreal private eye, Guy LaPointe (Johnny Depp), to track him down.
Tusk was shot in 19 days on a budget of $2.9 million, and made its world premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, where The Daily Beast sat down with Smith to discuss the bizarre film, the 20th anniversary of Clerks, and much more.
I feel like my entire generation grew up smoking weed and watching Clerks and Mallrats.
See, that’s something I never did until fairly recently. It was [Seth] Rogen who turned me on to it. I’d smoked weed in the past, but treated it as a recreational, once-in-a-blue-moon thing. But Rogen was just so impressive and productive as a stoner, and the only stoners I’d known filled the stereotype, but this is a guy who works against the stereotype, since he’s always working on, like, nine things at once. He introduced me to the notion that there’s a whole community of productive stoners—not just in this business, but everywhere.
It’s a really mental wall, but once you concentrate and bust through that wall,
Johnny at GQ Men of Year
I’ve added some pics from a week ago, Thanks to Claudia
First review of “Tusk”
“Tusk”, directed by Kevin Smith, premiered yesterday at the TIFF.
The movie, too, takes on a wildly different tone when, around the film’s third act, a wholly unrecognizable Johnny Depp is introduced as a gonzo French-Canadian detective named Guy LaPointe, who teams up with Wally’s co-host and girlfriend (Genesis Rodriguez) to track him down. With Depp’s entrance, what had been a relatively straightforward horror film is turned on its head. It’s undoubtedly the best, most off-the-wall performance Depp has given in ages, the kind of actorly feat that is so out there that it borders on the hypnotic. Depp, with little more than some well-placed prosthetics and a goofy French-Canadian accent, makes “Tusk” infinitely weirder.
Full review: indiewire.com
Pirates of the Caribbean 5 Gets Green Light for Filming in Australia
The Guardian is reporting the Australian government has given the green light to provide $20.2 million in tax incentives for Dead Men Tells No Tales. This film will take the place of the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea remake which has been delayed. Details can be found here.