RSS
Home
DiCaprio, Scorsese in prison; Peter Jackson alienated
Print
Email
RSS
Subscribe
Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese (AP)
Leonardo DiCaprio can't escape the 1950s, at least on the silver screen.
After enduring cookie-cutter suburbia in last year's overlooked and undervalued Revolutionary Road, the actor finds himself as a U.S. Marshal circa 1954 in Shutter Island -- the latest crime drama from Martin Scorsese.
Take a look, if so inclined, at the film's compelling and disturbing trailer here.
Scorsese, of course, employed DiCaprio in The Departed and Gangs of New York earlier this decade.
Slated for October, Shutter Island concerns a hospital for the criminally insane inhabited by Ben Kingsley, whose character says, "Valuable things have a way of being misunderstood" in a way that makes you, well, understand. Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain) and John Carroll Lynch (Fargo and Gran Torino) are also in the mix.
Lest you think it appears to be little more than Escape From Alcatraz meets The Amityville Horror, perhaps it's best to think how professionals like Scorsese and Kingsley might take such a combination to another level.
Also lurking in the near future is District 9, whose title reads more like an election ballot than a sci-fi thriller.
The dust kicked up from Peter Jackson's profitable The Lord of the Rings trilogy settled long ago, so the filmmaker had ample time to help District 9 get off the ground. Jackson, to be sure, serves as a producer -- not director this time.
As helmed by Neill Blomkamp, a South African who has yet to observe his 30th birthday, the picture involves extra-terrestrials (whose language is translated via subtitles) stuck on Earth until their biotechnology links them with a federal agent. Although Blomkamp isn't a name known to casual audiences, the film's trailer has a Jackson-like essence, a peculiar feel that's captivating.
Entering into District 9
Related Articles:
Add a Comment
.JPG)
.jpg)
