Sentences with phrase «movie version of the character»

Then again, It's highly likely that the movie version of the character will not be a direct adaptation from the comics (Cable's backstory is way too complicated) so maybe Kyle Chandler fits what the producers have in mind.

Dredd Directed by: Pete Travis Starring: Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey Rating: R Release Date: September 21, 2012 TRAILER SCORE: 6/10 Thoughts by TSR: It's reasonable to groan and wonder why we need another movie version of this character.

It's worth nothing TL signifies The Last: Naruto the Movie version of a character.

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And if my experience resembles a less - agonizing version of the experience of Bill Murray's Phil Connors character in Groundhog Day, that may be fitting inasmuch as the two movies invite comparison as different treatments of a common theme.

It's only fitting — Conley is a real - life version of the famously shaded title characters in the 1997 movie Men in Black.

Manifesto's visual inventiveness and Blanchett's multifarious performances make the movie consistently engrossing, even when the relationship between Blanchett's character and the words coming out of her mouth — or, more often in this version, spoken by her in voiceover — seem purely arbitrary.

Throw in Neil Patrick Harris — once again playing the Bizarro World version of himself — shattered and reinforced redneck stereotypes and a delightful take on Dubya [here, he may not speak real good English, but he's slyer, smarter and mellower than we are expecting] and the result is a solidly funny movie that Says Something more by highlighting the characters of Harold and Kumar than by the political jokes.

All it really suggests is that Marlo, in marrying a less successful version of her brother, has some provocative psychosexual issues that the movie can't be bothered with, mostly because it's one of those character - driven stories that reduce personalities to a set of readily defined traits and quirks.

But on February 28, for one week, about 1,000 movie theaters around the country will screen a version of the movie that is both the same — same plot, same characters, derived from the same filming sessions — and completely different, featuring exactly 763 new jokes.

In the meantime, we've always got Gina Gershon's gloriously overwrought version of the character in the 2013 Lifetime movie House Of Versacof the character in the 2013 Lifetime movie House Of VersacOf Versace.

During this recent interview to discuss the TV version of Zombieland, co-creators and executive producers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick talked about the journey from TV series to movie and now back to TV pilot, what it's been like to work with Amazon, what motivated the decision to have the same characters from the movie on the TV show, how they envision it as a road show, how much gore they can have, what Kirk Ward (who was originally cast as Tallahassee before being replaced by Woody Harrelson) brings to this version of the character, what led them to the 30 - minute format, whether they could have any surprise cameos (Bill Murray made a very memorable one in the film), what will determine whether the pilot is successful enough to go to series, and when they might know if they're picked up.

Paul Rudd still stars as Ant - Man, Michael Douglas plays Henry Pym, the inventor of the shrinking formula in this version of the movie (and not the original superhero like he is in the comics) and Lily who recently revealed a few more details and said her character Hope Van Dyne «is the daughter of the founders of The Avengers, Ant - Man and the Wasp» which will no doubt lead to lots of confusion as we know from the MCU Ant - Man and The Wasp weren't in those original movies (she's referring to what happened in the comics).

From the nail - biting tavern scene in which Kruger tries to mediate a tense showdown between the Nazis and the Basterds to the unforgettable climax in which Laurent's own version of happily ever after is revealed (the movie begins with «Once upon a time...»), the female characters are unquestionably necessary, powerful, and unforgettable.

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.

The 29 - year - old beauty stars alongside the pair in the forthcoming sci - fi movie — which sees Bruce play an older version of foot soldier Joseph Simmons and Gordon - Levitt portray the younger version of the character — and she was fascinated watching the 31 - year - old actor impersonate his older colleague.

In addition to playing multiple characters on «Orphan Black,» Maslany recently played the younger version of Helen Mirren «s character in «Woman in Black» and wrapped the indie movie «Two Lovers and a Bear» with Dane DeHaan.

While The Discovery plays in many ways like a more effective version of the concept - choked Brit Marling / Zal Batmanglij movies, the cult scenes feel underdeveloped next to their film The Sound of My Voice, an intriguing but ragged thread left dangling as The Discovery turns towards more concrete, backstory - driven explanations for its characters» obsessions.

A belated sequel to 2011's bizarrely successful Gnomeo & Juliette, Sherlock Gnomes continues the pun - based gnome gags of the first film by dropping garden variety versions of Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous characters (we get Sherlock, Watson and Moriarty) into a mirth - free adventure involving characters from the earlier movie.

Just sticking to relatively recent television (as opposed to something like the movie version of From Hell), The Alienist arrives after The Knick and Boardwalk Empire featured a New York only slightly further in the future, Peaky Blinders and Penny Dreadful have done the same across the pond (the latter featuring an alienist character of its own), and Netflix's Mindhunter tackled the»70s codification of the kinds of criminal profiling that Kreizler fumbles about with here.

Miller's both incredibly winning at the more upbeat side of the character (it's a version of the gay best friend archetype we actually recognize from real life, rather than from other movies), but sells the broken - heartedness, the step - sibling bond with Watson, and the general sense of being on the wrong side of the cool kids beautifully.

Actress Chloe Grace Moretz is reportedly voicing the lead character for the English version of the newest Studio Ghibli movie, «The Tale of Princess Kaguya.»

The Han Solo spin - off movie will focus on a younger version of the titular character, with Alden Ehrenreich taking over the iconic role from Harrison Ford.

«Captain America,» the new film version of the Marvel Comics character, is playing in area movie theaters.

In the comics story she's the one who eventually is able to rip the Infinity Gauntlet off Thanos» hand — and she's one of the few main characters who survived the purge in the movie version.

The «Han Solo» spin - off movie is set to follow a younger version of the titular character, with Alden Ehrenreich taking over the iconic part from Harrison Ford.

Though the characters are ostensibly different, the gunslinger - to - gunslinger banter between Washington and Pratt is intended to be this movie's version of the Yul Brynner / Steve McQueen dynamic.

Gere seems to insert a fair amount of charm into all his characters — the man's just charismatic — but where his usual gleam - of - the - eye plays out as endearing, here it translates roughly to the equivalent of an action movie version of the Lucky Charms mascot.

AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR: A movie version of a massive comic - book crossover, for better (fun character interactions) and worse (it's pretty much all Infinity Stone shenanigans).

If you look at «The Hand That Rocks The Cradle» and «Fatal Attraction» and all of those genre movies, what I wanted to do was a contemporary version of those movies, where you really understand all the characters, and steep it in plausibility.

DEADPOOL Director: Tim Miller Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, T.J. Miller, Ed Skrein, Stefan Kapicic, Brianna Hildebrand Fans have been clamoring for a proper Deadpool movie for years after Ryan Reynolds first played a version of the character in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Now they've returned with a movie version of Killer Joe, starring Matthew McConaughey as the ruthless title character.

Whether or not it's accurate to portray Travers as a woman on the verge of nervous breakdown because the movie version of her books might change a minor character and inflame her daddy issues (Personally, I doubt it), the conceit, like the central fight over ideas, works as drama.

We were told that there would be some differences between the movie version and his comic book counterpart, but that the essence of the character would still be intact.

The toy company has done some masterful marketing over the past few years, teaming up with Hollywood to create miniature sized versions of movie characters like Luke Skywalker, The Lone Ranger, Harry Potter and Captain Jack Sparrow.

The unmistakable irony is that here we have a rehashed version of the first movie, though with the realization of said irony in characters pointing out the similarities.

After creating a hyper - stylized art deco backdrop and playing with a bit of straightforward character development that makes Rogers something resembling a human being before pumping him full of mysterious chemicals that transform him into a super version thereof (The irony of using genetic experimentation to create a race of supermen to fight the Nazis is lost on just about everyone here), the movie gradually loses its design flair and human element for hastily assembled sequences of derring - do.

Its motion - capture CGI renders the characters in rubbery, apple - cheeked versions that sometimes slide queasily into the uncanny valley; its script (written by the dream team of Doctor Who show - runner Steven Moffat, Hot Fuzz writer - director Edgar Wright, and Attack The Block writer - director Joe Cornish) is an of - the - moment action movie, little more than a lengthy series of big setpieces, crammed with fights and chases.

Watching «The Amazing Spider - Man 2» made me long for a low - budget, indie version of the same movie — one that took out all the numbing action sequences and focused instead on the character's inner struggle.

The movie is a condensed version of two movies (subtitled Her and Him), each of which tells the story from one character's perspective (Those are currently scheduled for release later this year).

That Hashtag Show claims the film is looking to cast a European actress in her 20's to play an undisclosed «femme fatale,» which they go on to wildly speculate the character could either be Black Cat or Silver Sable, given the fact that Sony has a movie planned for both characters, or even some version of Jessica Drew, a.k.a. Spider - Woman.

If anything, the Marvel machine was almost responsible for killing the chances for a Deadpool movie by including a very unfaithful version of the character in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Every movie version of a book has to have some kind of clever twist, like setting it in a different time period or making it a prequel / sequel or making someone else the point - of - view character.

The movie is framed as a documentary, the actors playing their characters 25 years after the infamous Kerrigan incident, each spinning bitterly his or her own version of events.

With the team now confirmed as being a pivotal part of Deadpool 2, and an upcoming movie being directed / written by Drew Goddard, Wadlow's version of the characters will never be seen.

While I agree the the movie dragged and instead of picking one character and focusing the plot on them, it seemed to drift aimlessly to and fro from one character to the next... I will say that I for one am happy that someone has decided to choose the follow a slightly more true to form version of the Snow White tale.

While the literary fans will most likely be split as far as how Yates and Goldenberg have chosen to adapt the Rowling opus, fans of the movies can finally have something to smile about, and one can only hope that future film versions will continue this new trend on sticking to the basics to tell a story in an appropriately cinematic fashion, leaving the side stories and whimsical superfluous characters better left to the realm of the richly - developed book forms.

There is an alternate dispatch of exposition, a longer version of one character's demise, and an extended cut of Swagger and Memphis shopping that probably finds the movie at its most comedic.

Considering the new version of character will likely make her debut in one of the upcoming DC movies, it's definitely the right tome for Baccarin to make her intentions known.

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.»

«Bottle Rocket» then falls into a version of a familiar movie story, in which essentially innocent characters choose, or are pushed into, a life of crime, and find themselves increasingly alienated from society when all they really want to do is hang out and kill time.