Condon + Fangs?
It goes without saying, I presume, that Bill Condon allegedly agreeing to direct the final Twilight movie — i.e., Breaking Dawn — sounds weird. Like he’s slumming, I mean. We all have to keep body and soul together and I wish him the best. Maybe he can make something more out of a franchise that everyone turned on last November when New Moon was seen. It’s been rumored that the latest one, Eclipse, also smells.
Everyone– and I mean everyone– forgets that Condon directed CANDYMAN: FAREWELL TO THE FLESH.
Something that seems almost impossible to wrap one’s mind around when watching the tony likes of Gods and Monsters and Kinsey.
Seems like kind of a dry choice, actually. And, yes, a big-name director doing a “part four” is kind of strange, but “Eclipse” is by the HARD CANDY GUY, which should be reason enough to assume the position of BOWING.
Also: K-STEW is probably the chief reason all these talented auteurs want to work on these. It’d be like if 1973 Pacino was stuck doing a mainstream cash cow for four years, and every great Movie Brat was willing to take a crack at the series just to get to work with THE MOST EXCITING PERFORMER on the national stage.
Kristen = the most hypnotic presence of all time.
Killer Condon. I need to Crackle Candyman one of these days.
Lex: Wait, I thought part four was gonna be split up into two moives.
What really would’ve sold this entry is a DREAMY picture of Kristen.
Also I want everyone to notice my new thing is calling my actresses by first name in every post– Kristen, Carey, Dakota, Jessica.
It’s way more annoying and awesome.
The curious thing with Condon is that his storied reputation as a filmmaker seems to stem more from the social content of his work than from any real evidence of cinematic chops. Despite the man’s unabashed love of the musical, DREAMGIRLS possesses all the directorial acumen of the latest MTV flavor-of-the-month (read: the musical numbers are obscenely overcut and overcovered as though no one made any real choices other than to razzle-dazzle us with the Rob Marshall School of Shock & Awe).
Similarly, KINSEY and GODS AND MONSTERS may be handsomely mounted and thoughtfully performed, but forgetting that they appeal to my liberal political proclivities, both felt remarkably, well, turgid in their drive to the finish line. In all seriousness, has anyone out there been possessed by a burning desire to revisit either of these films a second or third time of late?
The dirty little secret is that while the man may have impeccable taste, his skills aren’t so far advanced as to make the batshit final chapter of TIWLIGHT some kind of slumming unworthy of his (eternally middling) craftsmanship.
LexG is right about Condon. He doesn’t have a stellar resume. He’s done more shit than he has done ‘prestige pictures’. This is right up his alley, plus it’ll net him a huge payday. Can’t blame the man. He’ll be living off the proceeds for years.
You’ve got to hand it to Summit for at least trying to mix up the style a little bit. Each film has had a very, very different director. With Hardwicke the specialist in edgy, teen outsiders, Weitz the slick studio guy, Slade the action man, and Condon the ‘respectable’ dude to finish off the series.
Wrong LexG… not everyone.
http://www.thewrap.com/ind-column/summit-taps-bill-condon-direct-breaking-dawn-16059
Condon’s resume is one you, I don’t know, admire than one you actually enjoy. I walked out of Gods and Monsters and Kinsey with the same reaction: “That was wonderful. I think. Maybe.”
KINSEy was pretty great but not because of Condon. The actors would have carried it just as well if Frank Pierson had directed it for HBO.
LexG is right about Condon. He doesn’t have a stellar resume. He’s done more shit than he has done ‘prestige pictures’. This is right up his alley, plus it’ll net him a huge payday. Can’t blame the man. He’ll be living off the proceeds for years.
Condon found a way to make an old-time Broadway show palatable on film (in a device that Rob Marshall basically lifted outright for “Nine”), so he gets points from me for that. But is this really a “huge payday” for him? I refuse to believe that he’s making more money here than he would if he were to direct some $90 million musical or another stuffy historical piece.
Wait, unless I’m confused, how did Marshall lift the device from DREAMGIRLS when it was the same device used in CHICAGO…
When Condon adapted CHICAGO in the early 00s and takes the musical numbers out of the reality of the story and places them in a fantasy world. So unlike WEST SIDE STORY, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, MY FAIR LADY, you have the narrative through-line existing separately from the musical number. Rob Marshall directs that script.
6, 7 years later, Rob Marshall makes NINE, and he (or Minghella/Tolkin) use the same gimmick for NINE’s numbers, and Condon is nowhere to be found.
Good directors looking for a payday and clout direct superhero movies. Good directors looking for a payday and clout who have nothing in the way of “action chops” direct Twilight movies.
You have to hand it to Jeff about one aspect of this – he is consistent about well respected directors taking genre work. Sam Mendes and Bond, Condon and the
I’m looking forward to the Twilight ‘saga’ being over and done with, and the fans growing up and watching stuff like Near Dark and Let The Right One In and saying to themselves: “”What was I thinking?!”
This whole saga smells. It smells of teen girls gleeing on the theater’s seats.
TWILIGHT POWER.
That’s some nice wishful thinking markj, and I love Near Dark, but not a chance in hell any woman ever is gonna watch some SUPER DATED 1987 shit because Twilight was some kinda gateway.
Plus it’s a lot of cougars and middle-aged chicks who swoon over Twilight. Probably even more than tweens and teens. Half the audience is probably pushing 40, and probably never going to be in the mood for 25-year-old barroom redneck shootouts.
Plus KRISTEN STEWART. Honestly, any man who ISN’T going to see the Twilight movies is suspect in my book.
KRISTEN 4 EVER.
People “turned” on the franchise after the second film? Who were these people so desperately behind the curve that they thought this whole thing was a worthwhile endeavor after the first installment?
TWILIGHT RULES.
BOW GABE KAPLAN.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTnC193ohd0
DeezNuts, you know the rule: Please ANNOUNCE AHEAD OF TIME when a YouTube link is going to be some painfully stupid, like this was.
Also: I am DRUNK and listening to SYSTEM OF A DOWN TOXICITY, which probably only Kaned appreciates, but my SERJ TANKIAN IMPRESSION is the GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD, and it would RULE if KRISTEN was down with SOAD and we could BLAST IT on my 1990 Ford’s epic CASSETTE DECK driving through Glendale and all the awesome Armenian dudes giving us dap via an appreciative nod and then K-STEW would be wearing her LITTLE SWEAT JACKET with a hood then we’d go to some CAFE and drink the awesome Russian-Armenian type coffee in the LITTLE CUPS.
I love KRISTEN STEWART SO MUCH, she is SO beautiful and ENCHANTING. No one can really compare.
How do you get to be an extra on these movies? Maybe Bill Condon is a big Hot Blog or HE fan and knows my posts and would let me come on set and just stand in the background or play some kind of Forks BEAT COP or something, ANYTHING.
I realize I am not Robert Pattinson, that I am a tubby pushing-40 guy, but I want to date a celebrity SO BAD, I love famous women and really can’t even feel attraction for women who aren’t famous.
I have tried starving myself for a week, eating one apple and one can of tuna per day, THAT’S IT… oh and 12 beers…. and I still can’t lose the weight. And my hair is horrible. How am I ever gonna get into SAG looking like this?
I want to be famous more than anything in the world.
When I became the sun I shone light into the man’s heart WHEN I BECAME THE SUN I SHONE LIFE INTO THE MAN”S HEART
EATING SEEDS AS A PASTIME ACTIVITY.
Haven’t listened to this since 2002 or so… OH MY GOD is it awesome!!!!!!
it really is. One tends to forget their virtuosity if you haven’t listened in awhile. It’s not all killer no filler, but such daddies.
Also to tie into something you said yesterday, no Iraq war movie is going to be successful until it uses the song ‘Chop Suey’
Now I am listening to ORIANTHI who isn’t quite KRISTEN level hotness (no one is) but when she PLAYS HER LITTLE GUITAR I wish her fingers and hands were DOING SOMETHING ELSE, and by that I mean SHE IS HOT and I WANT TO MAKE OUT WITH HER.
My birthday is coming up in the next few days and if anyone seriously has a “lead” on a “pro”, it would be SO MUCH APPRECIATED. Please don’t let 2010 be another sexless year.
ihahah s that the chick from THIS IS IT
Yeah she rules and Condon should put her in the movie so she can make a music video tie in where she plays her little guitar and hangs out with Kristen
The “Candyman” flick aside, Condon’s got some other genre credentials: he cowrote the faux-exploitation flicks “Strange Behavior” and “Strange Invaders” in the early ’80s. He also co-produced “Behavior.” He’s largely responsible for that film’s off-the-wall party sequence, which turns into a bonafide dance number, to the strains of Lou Christie’s “Lightnin’ Strikes.” So there’s likely still a part of him that’s gonna look at this as more than just a paycheck gig, I think.
Have you met Condon at all, Jeff? He’s the friend of an old Premiere friend so I was able to spend some off the record time with him on occasion back in the day. Great guy, very cordial and engaging, and super brilliant.
I’m looking forward to the Twilight ‘saga’ being over and done with, and the fans growing up and watching stuff like Near Dark and Let The Right One In and saying to themselves: “”What was I thinking?!”
Is there some reason that women can’t direct these? There’s only been one.
Bowen: Probably just reflective of the low numbers of female directors in the mainstream. I remember Harry Knowles championing Kathryn Bigelow as a potential director of New Moon, but obviously she won’t go near this franchise now.
Bowen, considering that these films aren’t in any way horror movies and are just love stories in vampire dress, someone like Nora Ephron or Nancy Myers wouldn’t have been an out of line choice to direct one of these movies.
New Moon was so bad, I walked out of my living room.
*rimshot for raygo* NO, THAT IS STILL NOT A CLUE ABOUT MY FETISH!
Anyway, a little late to the party on this, obviously, but yes – SOAD does indeed mash. I know they’ve sort of become a target for hatred in extreme metal circles, but I have a strong feeling that’s less about the music — which is by all accounts thrashy, energetic, creative, and FUN — and more about them look vaguely like “those people” who bomb airplanes (in that sense, the song JET PILOT certainly isn’t doing them any favors).
I swear about 75% of the metal audience is conservative beyond belief. And it’s usually not even the kind of relatable conservative demeanorI’ve gotten used to growing up in the Midwest. It’s this sociopathic behavior that implies — if not outright endorses — the notion that everyone who doesn’t act or think exactly like me needs to DIE, or at the very least disappear from the public sphere forever. SO embarrassing to be a metal fan at a concert (speaking of which, OZZFEST announcement tomorrow night) when everyone is moshing around in unity, until some tubby-ass, David Duke-lovin’, Hate Forest t-shirt wearin’, Derek Vinyard- lookin’ motherfucker stops banging his head just long enough to catch a glimpse of one of the band’s road crew members, who just happens to have darker skin than Mister-sippi Burning. Then all of the sudden the BAND is suddenly the worst in the world to him, a couple old rednecks happen to agree, and we’ve got about the second lamest excuse for a fight in a century’s time, right behind good ole’ Archduke Ferdinand.
At that point, I’d almost rather be listening to Poison play “Unskinny Bop.” Not because it’s better music — not by a long shot — it’s just because nobody ever seems to get in a fight over silly hair metal. I’m actually about as ANTI-unskinny bop as they come, but if you start playing the song, I’ll happily start singing my heart out while visions of a naked Bonnie Grape dance — okay, more like waddle — in my head.
Then after the song’s over, I’ll suddenly come to my senses and puke in the men’s urinal.
Anyway, love Serj and Daron’s side-projects, but System was the real magic — hopefully we’ll see a full-on reunion sooner rather than later.
I DON’T KNOW WHERE ARMENIA IS ON THE MAP POWER.
But what about Orianthi?
She’s DREAMY.
Uhhh, she’s a little too blonde and young for me.
That chick in Halestorm — who I like a lot — looks a little like a cross between Orianthi and Chrissie Hynde. She’s not exactly demure, though.
But she is somewhat METAL.
Fuck, nevermind. That chick is 25 years old??? She looks about 19, tops. Jesus. Ponce de Leon did find the Fountain of Youth. Apparently it’s located in Australia.
She still looks a little too young. Too clean-cut, I guess? I dunno. She’s def. cute, though.
It’s cute when they play their little guitars and are all pleased with it.
Like, just be hot, please. All anyone cares about.
You’d prob. love Lauren Harris then (daughter of LEGENDARY Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris). Looks a bit K-Stewish, really.
http://img193.imageshack.us/i/laurenharrisu.jpg/
Her music’s clearly awful, as almost anyone’s is who is the lucky beneficiary of entertainment industry nepotism.
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