Sentences with phrase «focused on a character played»

A standalone adventure focused on the character played by Alec Guinness and Ewan McGregor is in the works, with Stephen Daldry in talks to direct

At one point we were going to get two versions of the movie from filmmaker Ned Benson, with one called The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: His and focusing on James McAvoy «s character, and the other called The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Hers and focusing on the character played by Jessica Chastain.

According to Deadline, Universal is quickly preparing a spinoff that will focus on the characters played by Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, who were most recently seen in the Fate of the Furious movie.

With Tyrese Gibson's frustrations over Dwayne Johnson taking over the Fast And Furious series effectively dismissed, Universal is now free to move forward with the spin - off movie focusing on the characters played by Johnson and Jason Statham — an idea that sounds awesome to literally everyone but Tyrese Gibson.

I think it's nicer if they focus on the characters I play as opposed to on me as a person.

Not exact matches

This production does not shed any new light on the play's themes, but wisely focuses on Shakespeare's wit and warmth, allowing the audience to delight in the escapades and truisms of some of the canon's most beloved characters and draw their own conclusions.

«It is interesting that so much of the artwork on this theme, Wilde's play and the opera that followed [which was based on the Wilde play], have focused on Salome as the interesting character,» he says.

Our programs focus on three main areas: skill development through soccer training and competitive play, leadership training through our junior coaches and career mentoring programs, and character building through our community service initiatives both home and abroad.

In tummy time mode, the Kick & Play Piano Gym helps infants practice keeping their heads up as they... MORE focus on the brightly - colored characters on the mat.

The Descent plays it ballsy, focusing on tragedy and character development before becoming a thrilling horror adventure.

Weaver plays the character straight, focusing on the inner demons that haunt her to this day.

With a large roster of characters to choose from, the focus of three - on - three fights, and the overall art style and sensibility, King of Fighters XIII really does feel good to play.

Very much a character study, with most of the focus mostly on Bjorn Borg (played by Sverrir Gudnason)-- notably, the film was titled Borg in Sweden — and his meticulous, robotlike preparation pitted against the wild - child spirit of John McEnroe, who was seemingly perfectly stunt cast with real - life powder keg Shia LaBeouf.

The focus is appropriately kept firmly on the characters, with an emphasis on close - ups, though there are some gorgeous scenes shot from the top of a hill, a chess game played on a monument overlooking the lights of the town.

You'll want to focus on playing offline for a while so you can learn how the game works and so you can upgrade your character and make him ready for the online battles.

By focusing so strongly on Cruise's «Nick Morton» character, The Mummy makes its monster little more than a background prop, a mistake future movies probably won't make (bigger stars, like Javier Bardem and Johnny Depp, are confirmed to be playing Frankenstein's monster and the Invisible Man respectively).

The story was political, focusing on Chile during the Pinochet regime, but the director was smart enough to let it play in the background while the main character did his own thing, that being a disco John Travolta impression.

Part of the movie focuses on abuse and the cycles of violence it can create, but it's treated with the same clunkiness as the supposedly - comic romantic subplot that sees sidekick characters, played by Whannell and Angus Sampson, hitting on a couple of much younger women.

I still du n no about this one, I really liked HW (still the exception though as far as musou goes) and I love Fire Emblem, but this seems to play a lot more like a run of the mill musou game than HW with its almost incessant focus on bosses and mini-bosses, Zelda - related gadgets and a host of wildly different characters.

A role in Captain Marvel would interesting, as he's played military characters before and if the film focuses on Carol's time in the military they'll be plenty of male roles to fill for her peers and superiors.

Directed by Bryan Singer, and written by David Hayter (from a story by Tom DeSanto & Singer) X-Men leaves out a few major characters from the comic book (my favorite, Nightcrawler, among them), skimps on the development of the remaining characters, and changes around Rogue's storyline for convenience sake — all so that the film can focus on the series» most popular character, Wolverine (played by Hugh Jackman).

That pill - popping matriarch is played by Meryl Streep, and this new clip is from focuses on Streep's character grilling one of her daughters» (Juliette Lewis) new beau (Dermot Mulroney).

Just last week, Amazon gave a full series order to Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, a new series focusing on the recurring CIA analyst character who has been played by the likes of Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin, Ben Affleck and Chris Pine on the big screen.

Well, this one focuses on Lin Shaye's aging spirit - medium character and the two annoying sidekicks played by Angus Sampson and series screenwriter Leigh Whannell.

Being based on a play, it works with these constraints and allows the audience to focus on the chemistry of the characters rather than the sets or the locations.

In order to make Silent Hill 2 work we need to be focusing on making the characters real by having high - quality textures, and at the same time we must improve the gameplay so people will feel, even though its really horrific, we must make them want to play the game over and over.

WHY: The fourth season of «The Walking Dead» may be plagued by many of the same problems as previous years, but while its tendency to let plotlines drag on for too long causes the show to grind to a halt at times, the renewed focus on keeping the story moving even when its characters aren't plays a huge part in its success.

Over 3,000 actors auditioned to play Han Solo in Disney's upcoming Star Wars spin - off film focusing on the iconic character's younger years, but it was 26 - year - old Alden Ehrenreich — a rising star, but not a household name yet — who bagged the massive role in July 2016.

The plot of Paris, Texas is disarmingly simple, focusing on the dramatic after - effects of a marriage's breakdown on young Hunter (played by Hunter Carson, son of writer L. M. Kit Carson and actress Karen Black); his father, Travis (a name that still had sinister resonance eight years after Scorsese's Taxi Driver, and played with shell - shocked intensity by Harry Dean Stanton); and his mother, Jane, a plain name almost willfully ill suited to the fragile, feral character embodied in the film by Nastassja Kinski.

Where Peter Berg's Patriot's Day took the action movie tack, focussing on law enforcement and an admittedly ridiculous compound character played by Mark Wahlberg, here the focus is very much on a single individual's own response to the events and how they both physically and spiritually shaped him afterward.

Though to be fair, Sydney Pollack's «Out of Africa» (left) does all it can to avoid making any statement about the suffering of Africans under colonialism, placing focus instead on its white characters, played by Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, a pair of European settlers in Kenya.

Yesterday at the Winter Solider junket, I asked them the status of the pilot, what the show would focus on, its timeline, whether Atwell is still interested in playing the character, and more.

The story focuses on the character Bud, played by Stoll, who when at the top of his game in boxing, had it all: both the physical commodities that come with fame as well as the admiration.

NBC has ordered The Blacklist: Redemption, focusing on characters from The Blacklist played by Ryan Eggold and Famke Janssen.

The trailer is more focused on showcasing action clips, whether it's showing the U.S.S. Enterprise being torn apart by swarms of tiny spaceships (forcing its crew members to escape and land on a mysterious nearby alien planet) and / or highlighting the fighting abilities of the extraterrestrial character played by Kingsman: The Secret Service's Sofia Boutella - who, by the look of it, joins forces with Captain James Kirk (Chris Pine) after the Enterprise crashes and its crew members are separated.

Speaking on the Fox Searchlight panel, Lang focused on his collaboration with director Paolo Sorrentino in creating music that would reflect the emotional journey of the main character — a newly retired composer — played by Michael Caine.

Rather than just making a game that followed the events of the story, they focused on the possibility of playing with the Toy Story characters as one would actual toys.

Progression is handled well with the way you can augment your characters abilities and skills using the upgrade stations and skill trees but often you'll find yourself being forced to select from a series of options that don't necessarily reflect the areas you wish to focus on, leaving you playing a game that ostensibly offers up a variety of ways to play but ultimately leaves you with only a handful of ways to approach the game.

While the hyperactive story focuses on a pair of twins, Lianna and Rowan, in battle you play as an ensemble cast, free to switch between a number of various characters at the touch of a button.

The characters and the ballooning scope of the story, as well as the moral and ethical tangles they put on display, put us in mind of the hallowed HBO series The Wire, which focused its final season on journalism (partly in the person of McCarthy, who played an ethically compromised reporter).

-- Courtney Small [LOVED] The plot plays out very much like a play, with the film only focusing on a very small cast of characters.

Whereas Steven Soderbergh's movie was a moody drama about the dark underbelly of the stripper lifestyle that focused on character and story, «XXL» (which was directed by Soderbergh understudy Gregory Jacobs) is an upbeat and whimsical bro-fest that plays like a racier, bizarro version of «Entourage.»

Interestingly, the story mode will focus on our original hero or heroine, but we'll still have the chance to play other established characters.

It sneaks up on you, with its focus on characters and smartly playing the material, but the result is that we're concerned about how Michael will do (me especially, since the film assumes its audience will know who Oher is, while I did not).

Boden and Fleck are shrewd enough to give not just one character to focus on, but two — Curtis played by longtime Hollywood heartthrob Ryan Reynolds («Woman in Gold») and Gerry, who's played by Australian character actor sensation Ben Mendelsohn («Black Sea»).

Clarke plays the role of Qi» ra on the upcoming movie Solo: A Star Wars Story, which will focus on the popular Star Wars character Han Solo in his early days.

The movie will focus on a younger version of the iconic titular character, originally played by Harrison Ford.

Where Siegel's film focused heavily on the Clint Eastwood character (played here by Colin Farrell), Coppola looks to have switched the focus to the young women whose close bond is threatened by the sudden presence of a man in their lives.

Each character has a role to play and, unlike previous films where the character of the hero is explored, Infinity War flips the script and densely focuses solely on what is at stake.

With characters played by Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson (who hasn't shown this type of acting power since, although she is great in the otherwise mixed - to - mediocre Don Jon) in their new home of Tokyo alone (or in Johansson's case, with a husband who has no interest in spending time with her), the film puts its focus on solitude front and center.