The real Domino Harvey died yesterday...Could this mean a delay for "Domino"?
06-29-05, 03:22 AM
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The real Domino Harvey died yesterday...Could this mean a delay for "Domino"?
From IMDB (although I hate the IMDB news pages, this seemed like an interesting question to me. Will they delay the film to incorporate her death into it? It mentions it at the end of the article.)
From IMDB: Former supermodel-turned-bounty hunter Domino Harvey was found dead in a bathtub in her West Hollywood home on Monday night. She was 35. The daughter of late English actor Laurence Harvey - who starred in the original 1962 The Manchurian Candidate - and model Paulene Stone, was facing a possible life jail sentence over drug charges filed last year. Domino quit modeling 12 years ago to capture fugitives and criminals who had jumped bail. Police Lieutenant Don Mauldin says, "We got a call at 10:30 last night, saying that possibly a person had drowned in a bathtub. A friend or relative had called 911 from the house for paramedics. She was found in the bathtub." Mauldin denied rumors a gun was involved in the demise, saying, "If it was a gunshot wound or a suicide, then we would have sent investigators to the scene - that did not happen." The Los Angeles coroner is set to perform toxicology tests to see if drugs were involved. Domino's life story has recently been the subject of Keira Knightley's new movie Domino, which is scheduled to hit cinema screens in the UK in August, although it may now be delayed to incorporate the former model's death into the storyline.
From IMDB: Former supermodel-turned-bounty hunter Domino Harvey was found dead in a bathtub in her West Hollywood home on Monday night. She was 35. The daughter of late English actor Laurence Harvey - who starred in the original 1962 The Manchurian Candidate - and model Paulene Stone, was facing a possible life jail sentence over drug charges filed last year. Domino quit modeling 12 years ago to capture fugitives and criminals who had jumped bail. Police Lieutenant Don Mauldin says, "We got a call at 10:30 last night, saying that possibly a person had drowned in a bathtub. A friend or relative had called 911 from the house for paramedics. She was found in the bathtub." Mauldin denied rumors a gun was involved in the demise, saying, "If it was a gunshot wound or a suicide, then we would have sent investigators to the scene - that did not happen." The Los Angeles coroner is set to perform toxicology tests to see if drugs were involved. Domino's life story has recently been the subject of Keira Knightley's new movie Domino, which is scheduled to hit cinema screens in the UK in August, although it may now be delayed to incorporate the former model's death into the storyline.
06-29-05, 07:55 AM
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Never heard of this person (or this movie) until now.
06-29-05, 09:52 AM
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06-29-05, 12:18 PM
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Don't know if this has been posted elsewhere, but here's an interesting twist on the film that I just found:
Real-life lesbian model-turned-bounty hunter Domino Harvey, who's being played by Keira Knightley (pictured) in the action film Domino, is none too pleased about being presented as a heterosexual on-screen.
It's not the first time that real-life homosexuality has been erased for the movie version, but Domino Harvey--whose life is being turned into a big-budget action movie--objects to the fact that she's being portrayed on the screen as a heterosexual, reports the London Sunday Telegraph. Harvey, a fashion model-turned-bounty hunter, is being played by Keira Knightley in a film due later this year from director Tony Scott (The Hunger, Man on Fire). Harvey's mother, former Vogue model Pauline Stone, tells the Telegraph, "Domino is not happy. She is a recluse, and she wants absolutely nothing to do with the film or anyone who has anything to do with it."
Harvey, the 33-year-old daughter of actor Laurence Harvey (The Manchurian Candidate), is also reportedly unhappy because New Line Cinema did not give her script approval on the film, which is based on a newspaper article about her life. A friend says that Harvey is particularly unhappy with the script by Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko), which portrays Harvey as a straight woman rather than the proud lesbian she really is. "Domino sees it as an insult that the producers are selling it as her life story, when they are completely overlooking what she regards as a pretty basic part of her life," says the friend. "She feels that they have stolen her life from her and made her into the woman that they want her to be rather than the woman she is. She thinks it's ironic that so much of the publicity the film has attracted as been based on its raunchy sex scenes." Domino is scheduled to be released later this year.
So the filmmakers had a chance to incorporate raunchy sex scenes and lesbians?!? Boy, did they miss the boat on that one!
Real-life lesbian model-turned-bounty hunter Domino Harvey, who's being played by Keira Knightley (pictured) in the action film Domino, is none too pleased about being presented as a heterosexual on-screen.
It's not the first time that real-life homosexuality has been erased for the movie version, but Domino Harvey--whose life is being turned into a big-budget action movie--objects to the fact that she's being portrayed on the screen as a heterosexual, reports the London Sunday Telegraph. Harvey, a fashion model-turned-bounty hunter, is being played by Keira Knightley in a film due later this year from director Tony Scott (The Hunger, Man on Fire). Harvey's mother, former Vogue model Pauline Stone, tells the Telegraph, "Domino is not happy. She is a recluse, and she wants absolutely nothing to do with the film or anyone who has anything to do with it."
Harvey, the 33-year-old daughter of actor Laurence Harvey (The Manchurian Candidate), is also reportedly unhappy because New Line Cinema did not give her script approval on the film, which is based on a newspaper article about her life. A friend says that Harvey is particularly unhappy with the script by Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko), which portrays Harvey as a straight woman rather than the proud lesbian she really is. "Domino sees it as an insult that the producers are selling it as her life story, when they are completely overlooking what she regards as a pretty basic part of her life," says the friend. "She feels that they have stolen her life from her and made her into the woman that they want her to be rather than the woman she is. She thinks it's ironic that so much of the publicity the film has attracted as been based on its raunchy sex scenes." Domino is scheduled to be released later this year.
So the filmmakers had a chance to incorporate raunchy sex scenes and lesbians?!? Boy, did they miss the boat on that one!
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06-29-05, 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by The_Infidel
So the filmmakers had a chance to incorporate raunchy sex scenes and lesbians?!? Boy, did they miss the boat on that one!
06-29-05, 03:33 PM
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They saw what happened to Alexander, and so they didn't want to risk losing their target audience of young adult males by putting in gay sex scenes.
06-29-05, 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe Molotov
They saw what happened to Alexander, and so they didn't want to risk losing their target audience of young adult males by putting in gay sex scenes.
But I doubt Alexander had anything to do with it...this film was shooting and obviously was written before Alexander was released. And it's more then apparent that Alexander didn't fail because of gay stuff. Of course, that film didn't even do that stuff well either.
06-29-05, 07:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe Molotov
It was kind of a joke, you see. I've never been very good with them, but I hear they can be terribly effective. 
If I catch a joke of yours next time, I'll try to provide you with validation.
06-29-05, 09:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe Molotov
It was kind of a joke, you see. I've never been very good with them, but I hear they can be terribly effective.
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Real-life lesbian model-turned-bounty hunter
Keira is beautiful, I love you Keira, will you marry me?
Not really looking foreword to this movie, I like Tony Scott though.
06-30-05, 09:34 AM
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I like Keira Knightley and think Tony Scott is a good director. But with a script that doesn't even stay true to a basic aspect of her life, how factual can you expect the rest of it to be?
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Richard Kelly sets the record straight here.
1. Tony Scott optioned Domino's life rights twelve years ago. She had been
in close contact with Tony since then. She met with me for several hours for
an interview when Fox (the original studio behind the film) hired me to
write the script. Domino was very excited about the film... she loved the
script... and even filmed a cameo. She was at the wrap party in Vegas. Her
mother, Pauline Stone, visited the set and was very friendly with Tony and
the producers.
2. Domino's sexual orientation was never an issue for me, Tony, or the
studio. There was never an attempt to soften or sugarcoat any element of her
life. Before her passing, Domino herself issued a statement denying
allegations that she was a lesbian, and said that she loved the way Tony was
handling her story. This is absolutely nothing sugarcoated about this film.
If anything... it exaggerates certain parts of her life as a means of
satirizing the outrageous nature of it. I think Domino might be one of the
most subversive films released by a major studio since Fight Club.
3. The film opens with a title card that states: 'This film is based on a
true story... sort of.' The film is very tongue in cheek in its intentional
distortion of the truth. This is part of its design... and this design is
something that Domino loved about the project. I made it clear to her when I
met her that we would capture her fiercely unapolagetic, dystopian and
ultimately tragic worldview. She saw America through a very subversive punk
rock lens (Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols was a friend of hers), and Tony
has captured this worldview in a way that she approved. This is a satirical
interpretation of a biopic... one that shifts from fact to fantasy as a way
of expressing her rebellious spirit and rejection of traditional values,
restrictions and archaic traditions forced upon women.
4. Everyone involved in the production is enormously saddened by her
passing. I have seen Tony's film and I am incredibly proud of it. I know
that Domino was too. I can guarantee that there were never any reshoots done
to address her recent arrest. The film ends how it always ended... in the
realm of myth and fantasy... in a place where Domino has now arrived... and
I guarantee you that she is smiling back at us right now with a mischevious
grin.
I just wanted to set the record straight... as the press has gotten so many
things wrong.
RK
in close contact with Tony since then. She met with me for several hours for
an interview when Fox (the original studio behind the film) hired me to
write the script. Domino was very excited about the film... she loved the
script... and even filmed a cameo. She was at the wrap party in Vegas. Her
mother, Pauline Stone, visited the set and was very friendly with Tony and
the producers.
2. Domino's sexual orientation was never an issue for me, Tony, or the
studio. There was never an attempt to soften or sugarcoat any element of her
life. Before her passing, Domino herself issued a statement denying
allegations that she was a lesbian, and said that she loved the way Tony was
handling her story. This is absolutely nothing sugarcoated about this film.
If anything... it exaggerates certain parts of her life as a means of
satirizing the outrageous nature of it. I think Domino might be one of the
most subversive films released by a major studio since Fight Club.
3. The film opens with a title card that states: 'This film is based on a
true story... sort of.' The film is very tongue in cheek in its intentional
distortion of the truth. This is part of its design... and this design is
something that Domino loved about the project. I made it clear to her when I
met her that we would capture her fiercely unapolagetic, dystopian and
ultimately tragic worldview. She saw America through a very subversive punk
rock lens (Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols was a friend of hers), and Tony
has captured this worldview in a way that she approved. This is a satirical
interpretation of a biopic... one that shifts from fact to fantasy as a way
of expressing her rebellious spirit and rejection of traditional values,
restrictions and archaic traditions forced upon women.
4. Everyone involved in the production is enormously saddened by her
passing. I have seen Tony's film and I am incredibly proud of it. I know
that Domino was too. I can guarantee that there were never any reshoots done
to address her recent arrest. The film ends how it always ended... in the
realm of myth and fantasy... in a place where Domino has now arrived... and
I guarantee you that she is smiling back at us right now with a mischevious
grin.
I just wanted to set the record straight... as the press has gotten so many
things wrong.
RK
07-04-05, 09:16 AM
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I find it strange that Kelly's statement would differ so greatly from that of Harvey's mother. As for factual inaccuracies... facts, schmacts. I don't go to movies for facts but for emotions. As long as the movie isn't attempting to be an honest biopic (*cough*Beautiful Mind*cough*), changing the main character's sexual orientation isn't an issue for me if it doesn't fit the story the filmmakers want to tell. The idea that the film veers wildly towards fantasy from a factual starting point sounds terrific to me. Not enough films are brave enough to do that... Fear and Loathing and Dead Ringers come to mind.
