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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 18, 2017 7:32:08 GMT
From our Paparazzi Photos thread on the Sightings board: Or this, or even both, might be... I was just listening to this podcast and at 1:29:35 Adam McKay is talking about now doing make-up tests with this guy... and I was thinking, wellll... the guy would need to be clean shaven for that purpose, and it just so happens... and other things would fit as well, so... Thoughts? that's a nice find. when the project was firts announced i was wondering if mckay might approach bale about it since they worked so well together before but dismissed the notion because bale looks nothing like cheney. but now that mckay says the actor doesn't actually resemble cheney and furthermore seems to have the same trepidations about the make up that bale previously had when he was set to play george bush it could very well be bale that's up for the role. i've wanted bale to play someone in a biopic for quite a while and cheney seems like a meaty role so i'd be all for him doing it. plus this time around having mckay attached to a drama doesn't set off any alarm bells like it did when he was announced as the director on the big short although those alarm bells were evened out by having bale, pitt, gosling and carell doing the role. but yeah, mckay says he's talking to actors and crew about it and is about to take it to paramount so how soon could this start filming? the big short came together really fast so maybe this one will too.
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 18, 2017 7:41:22 GMT
From the McKay/Cheney project newsbite, NOV 22, 2016, Deadline: The Big Short’s Adam McKay will next direct an untitled drama at Paramount Pictures about Dick Cheney, who moved from Halliburton chief executive to become reputedly the most powerful Vice President in American history. McKay has quietly completed a screenplay that will go out to actors shortly, as he and the studio hope to be shooting by spring a film that will be ready for release late 2017.
Plan B producers Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner will produce with McKay and his Gary Sanchez partners, Will Ferrell and Kevin Messick. They are all reuniting after The Big Short got five Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Director, and which won Oscars for McKay and Charles Randolph for adapting the book by Michael Lewis.*
There has been expectation that the upset election of Donald Trump might spur Hollywood filmmakers to focus more on topical subject matter and cautionary tales. ... It’s something he quietly began writing right after winning the Oscar, part of his continuing evolution that started with The Big Short. In Cheney, McKay found what he feels is arguably the single most powerful political figure in modern American history.
“I’ve always found Cheney fascinating,” McKay told Deadline. “Questions of what drove him, what his beliefs were; but once we started digging I was astounded at how much he had shaped modern America’s place in the world and how shocking the methods were by which he gained his power.”_________________ * The name 'Christian Bale' fits so well in that sentence. It totally makes sense! You guys are genius, Tuulia and The_Low_Dweller! Thank you for directing the forum's attention to this juicy possibility! It would be a total departure for Bale! I often wonder what Bale would have brought to the screen had he remained Bush in that Oliver Stone biopic but this looks better! McKay is certainly a creative force with a conscience, also funny but not spuriously funny like O'Russel hysteria style but rather biting ironical style. I hope your speculation is true and this is the next Bale project for which we have all been holding our breaths for so long! Also, McKay has proven a quick worker so may be he will be able to roll it out before the year is over!
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Post by Tuulia on Apr 6, 2017 1:38:16 GMT
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Post by Tuulia on Apr 6, 2017 2:02:09 GMT
Deadline was saying September, Variety says spring... ? source
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Post by RhodoraO on Apr 6, 2017 2:48:35 GMT
My, my! Congratulations Tuulia! Our first smell-a-story is a success! You are a good detective! I have been waiting for days for this news ever since you informed us about that McKay podcast and put 2 and 2 together! Can't say how happy I am, I was getting anxious about Bale and what he's upto.
Spring? Well, spring is now! Isn't it the same time around which they started filming The Big Short and it was released in time for same year's season? Hope to God Variety means THIS spring and we get another one-two punch this year from Bale (similar to Out of the Furnace, American Hustle, one). Also really hope, Bale really devlves into the interiority of this character rather than relying too much on outward similarities __ something which doesn't suit him much!
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Post by ripley on Apr 6, 2017 6:58:56 GMT
Yeah. I am not surprised that they (McKay,Carell,Bale) again work together. I am happy that Amy again works With CB
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Post by fernanda on Apr 6, 2017 11:10:12 GMT
Yay finally, a new bale project. this project sounds really good. screaming that Bale and Amy are working together again.
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Post by The Low Dweller on Apr 6, 2017 12:18:42 GMT
nice to finally have our suspicions confirmed.
funnily enough all three actor have worked with mckay before. carell multiple times, bale in the big short and adams in talladega nights. this might be mckay's most ambitious undertaking yet so i suppose it's good to do it with actors you're already familiar with.
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Post by RhodoraO on Apr 6, 2017 13:35:45 GMT
nice to finally have our suspicions confirmed. funnily enough all three actor have worked with mckay before. carell multiple times, bale in the big short and adams in talladega nights. this might be mckay's most ambitious undertaking yet so i suppose it's good to do it with actors you're already familiar with. I didn't know Adams was in Talladega Nights. Have you seen it? Is it a good watch? Some over on the Movie Awards board are saying there better be hell of a make-up job because all the actors are way too young for the characters. On the other hand, we don't know what periods are gonna be covered by the film? Will it be a traditional biopic or focused (most probably) on the Bush Jr. period? If the latter is the case, then their stars' ages concerns are valid.
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Post by Tuulia on Apr 6, 2017 13:48:44 GMT
I liked Talladega Nights. Made me laugh... Of course it's bonkers and all, and you need a certain mindset when watching McKay comedies. I wouldn't expect a traditional biopic from MacKay. I'd be surprised if he did that. Traditional biopics tend to be kinda serious and sort of reverent(even if negative) and I can't imagine he'd go for that, he's so irreverent and has a comedic slant even with serious stuff. But I don't know.
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Post by Tuulia on Apr 6, 2017 14:29:59 GMT
Yay finally, a new bale project. this project sounds really good. screaming that Bale and Amy are working together again. I literally did when I read the headline yesterday. That there's finally a new project, and that these 4 adorable people (I think they all are) will work together again (they all have before). It was only a matter of time before CB and McKay worked together again, they had too much mutual respect and too much fun together not to. Seeing CB and Carell together during promotion and awards season made it clear they liked each other (plus judging from what Carell said he's a huge fan). And CB and Adams really needed to work together again, and also work together on something other than a Russel project. I'm still just grinning about this all.
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Post by fernanda on Apr 6, 2017 14:32:42 GMT
I hope bale does not have to put on weight for this role, He is in such excellent shape that it would be a shame.
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Post by The Low Dweller on Apr 6, 2017 14:34:16 GMT
I didn't know Adams was in Talladega Nights. Have you seen it? Is it a good watch? it's been a while since i've seen it but if you like mckay's other comedies i think you'll like talladega nights.
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Post by Tuulia on Apr 6, 2017 15:00:43 GMT
I hope bale does not have to put on weight for this role, He is in such excellent shape that it would be a shame. He never had to, the AH thing was his own idea. Russell neither originally suggested it, nor encouraged it when he found out. As much as I love his Irv, I wish he hadn't done that to himself. He better not be doing it again, ever. It's unhealthy. I almost feel like joining Twitter just to beg McKay to force fat suits on him instead. But if CB left the Ferrari project for the health concerns given as the reason about the weight gain thing, then he absolutely can't do it anyway.
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Post by RhodoraO on Apr 6, 2017 20:37:56 GMT
I hope bale does not have to put on weight for this role, He is in such excellent shape that it would be a shame. I'm sure he won't though. Tuulia is right. Don't expect a by the numbers biopic from McKay -- it's probably gonna be an all-out farce. My hope is for Bale to be lived-in like in American Hustle but not to rely on physical approximation like in, again, American Hustle. He has enough untapped comedy chops that so far we've seen only twice (in the two "American" films) and I wish McKay will take him in that direction!
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