Wes Anderson's next movie: The Darjeeling Limited
08-19-06, 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted by The Bus
I thought he was doing a stop-motion animation movie.
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Originally Posted by Ronnie Dobbs
YES!!!
This is awesome news...
It wouldn't quite be Wes Anderson withoug Bill Murray..
Cant wait to see this film...IMO Anderson has continually outdone himself with each new film...
03-31-07, 10:52 PM
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December of this year.
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from: http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/a...arjeeling.html
The Darjeeling Regression
I almost never do this, but I danced through the screenplay for The Darjeeling Limited this weekend, comfortable that whatever is on the page of a Wes Anderson movie will be something altogether when I see it on a screen. Story movies, he does not make.
What first caught my eye were his co-writers - Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman – and the retro tone of the whole enterprise. Then, it smacked me in the face was that this trio of characters was oddly familiar. The three brothers…
Francis… Ford Coppola
Peter... Bogdanovich
Jack… Nicholson
The trio all worked for Roger Corman in the early 60s.
Francis Coppola is, obviously, a relative to two of the screenwriters and his distinctly verbose and controlling lead role in the movie makes sense. The character is loaded with quirky, detail oriented quirks. One wonders whether anyone in the family actually ever called him “Frannie.”
Peter Bogdanovich is the fussy one, as he is in the script. And as in the script, got pregnant with his girl, then Polly Platt, early on… and went on to divorce her before their firstborn daughter was 3. (The relationship is not part of the movie, thus, not a spoiler. But the discussion is in there.)
I considered whether Jack was Jack Hill, but he isn’t the legendary character and girl chaser that Nicholson is. In the script, the character is always on the make and somehow, still, a good guy, and pretty much willing to indulge his “brothers,” so long as he can keep his game going.
The script reads like either a story about a trip the Coppola boys heard as kids and are fictionalizing in their heads or just a pure fiction developed after a late night of binging on whatever, when someone said, “You know what would be really cool? Can you imagine is Francis and his appetites and Bogdanovich, before the cravats, and Nicholson were actually brothers? They’d be cooler than the Marxes, the Howards, and the Ritzes combined. So we put them on a train all together, forced to be together.” “Cool.” “Cool.”
Of course, we know from Roman’s first film that he is interested in that 60s period. Anderson too. And they grew up around these men, all of whom went on to legendary status in the industry.
Interesting, huh?
Well… maybe… to some of you…
The Darjeeling Regression
I almost never do this, but I danced through the screenplay for The Darjeeling Limited this weekend, comfortable that whatever is on the page of a Wes Anderson movie will be something altogether when I see it on a screen. Story movies, he does not make.
What first caught my eye were his co-writers - Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman – and the retro tone of the whole enterprise. Then, it smacked me in the face was that this trio of characters was oddly familiar. The three brothers…
Francis… Ford Coppola
Peter... Bogdanovich
Jack… Nicholson
The trio all worked for Roger Corman in the early 60s.
Francis Coppola is, obviously, a relative to two of the screenwriters and his distinctly verbose and controlling lead role in the movie makes sense. The character is loaded with quirky, detail oriented quirks. One wonders whether anyone in the family actually ever called him “Frannie.”
Peter Bogdanovich is the fussy one, as he is in the script. And as in the script, got pregnant with his girl, then Polly Platt, early on… and went on to divorce her before their firstborn daughter was 3. (The relationship is not part of the movie, thus, not a spoiler. But the discussion is in there.)
I considered whether Jack was Jack Hill, but he isn’t the legendary character and girl chaser that Nicholson is. In the script, the character is always on the make and somehow, still, a good guy, and pretty much willing to indulge his “brothers,” so long as he can keep his game going.
The script reads like either a story about a trip the Coppola boys heard as kids and are fictionalizing in their heads or just a pure fiction developed after a late night of binging on whatever, when someone said, “You know what would be really cool? Can you imagine is Francis and his appetites and Bogdanovich, before the cravats, and Nicholson were actually brothers? They’d be cooler than the Marxes, the Howards, and the Ritzes combined. So we put them on a train all together, forced to be together.” “Cool.” “Cool.”
Of course, we know from Roman’s first film that he is interested in that 60s period. Anderson too. And they grew up around these men, all of whom went on to legendary status in the industry.
Interesting, huh?
Well… maybe… to some of you…
07-20-07, 07:21 AM
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The discussion began almost a year ago. 
07-20-07, 11:14 AM
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Can anybody make out the credit title that is followed by Satyajit Ray and Merchant Ivory. What do they have to do with this?
Anyway I cannot wait to see this film...
Anyway I cannot wait to see this film...
07-20-07, 11:41 AM
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Originally Posted by chris_sc77
Can anybody make out the credit title that is followed by Satyajit Ray and Merchant Ivory. What do they have to do with this?
Anyway I cannot wait to see this film...
Anyway I cannot wait to see this film...
Anyway, the poster is out now. I like it.
07-20-07, 03:28 PM
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I'm interested in anything Anderson is doing and this looks to be another off-beat flick just going by the poster. I hope it continues his streak of excellence.
07-23-07, 01:47 AM
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Just saw the trailer attached to Sunshine, and while the name is certainly not mainstream (in fact I think the title will keep most people away from the movie), the film looks very accessible. Can't wait to see it!