Sentences with phrase «biopic movie about her life»

Adele has laughed off reports that Rebel Wilson is set to play her in an upcoming biopic movie about her life, saying that the media has only made...

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The Jewish Daily Forward: Spielberg in Talks for Moses Biopic Steven Spielberg is in talks to direct a movie about the life of Moses.

One thing that isn't talked about enough vis - à - vis biopics is what a huge, huge, huge deal they become in the lives of their subjects who are still alive — milestones that never make it into the movies» final crawls.

It's an interesting and unusual choice (which I didn't know about going in - in fact I actually thought this was going to be a conventional, full - life biopic as I hadn't read much on the film beforehand), and at times I had the sense I was seeing a sequel to a movie I'd missed.

An epigraph before the movie warns us not to take anything we're about to see too seriously — probably because, while Hughes was a real figure, the movie compresses various events of his life and inserts fictional characters, eventually taking on the cast of an old, fictional Hollywood narrative closer to Sunset Boulevard than a biopic.

If you wrote a script for a movie that closely represented events in your life — in effect making a biopic not about Napoleon or Jesse Owens but about a run - of - the - person like most of us — do you think you could interest a solid audience to eavesdrop on your existence?

Great punch line Martin Scorsese's evocative black - and - white biopic about real - life brawler Jake LaMotta (Robert De Niro) is an intensely physical movie, tracing with operatic grandeur its protagonist's life from volatile middleweight contender to an obese has - been.

Doug Liman and Tom Cruise, the director - actor team behind Edge Of Tomorrow (one of our favorite science - fiction movies of the last three - and - a-half-decades), have reunited for American Made, a years - spanning biopic about a real - life pilot who got drafted into both the CIA and a South American drug - smuggling operation.

It's a well made movie, and the legendary filmmaker tries to avoid the trappings of the biopic to make it less about the man and his work and more about a man oppressed by the authoritarian dictates and its impact on his life.

He talked about what it's like to be part of a famous filmmaking family and still earn recognition on his own terms, the difficult process of shooting Kill Your Darlings that gives the movie an extra spark, how he prepared to play Kerouac at this stage in his life, his character's arc on Boardwalk Empire, American Hustle and the unusual way they shot the film, upcoming projects including an Errol Flynn biopic and a production of Strangers on a Train in London, and more.

A film that already starts out oddly enough — as a kind of subversive biopic about a low point in Miles Davis» life — gets even stranger as it morphs into an ode to «70s blaxploitation movies, before a third act in which it completely disables the brakes.