Frank is a movie I'm pretty psyched for this year -- the UK comedy casts Michael Fassbender in what seems to be a quirkily comedic role (you know, like his gig in Prometheus) alongside Maggie Gyllenhaal and Domhnall Gleeson. The picture sets Gleeson as Jon "a young wannabe musician who discovers he's bitten off more…
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Briefly: This is a pretty small story, but it could lead to something fun: Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gleeson (son of Brendan, and Bill Weasley in the last two Harry Potter films) have been signed to star in a UK comedy called Frank. The Film4 production is written by Jon Ronson (who wrote the book The…
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Part of the story angle behind Grant Heslov's directorial effort The Men Who Stare at Goats is that the film is based on a true story.
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While journalist and documentarian Jon Ronson is currently undergoing a metamorphosis into a screenwriter, the first film to bear his name is not from one of his own scripts but has been fictionalized, and rather heavily so, from his non-fiction book The Men Who Stare at Goats by Newcastle scribe Peter Straughan. What Ronson set…
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We've often referred to The Black List, the annual countdown of favorite scripts compiled by canvassing the opinions of film industry folk, but never before, I believe, The Brit List. The principal with this one is exactly the same, it's just limited to films out there on the British market. In 2007, the list was…
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Jon Ronson is a journalist probably best known for his columns in The Guardian; guest appearances on This American Life; and the non-fiction books Them, which includes a series of reports about Ronson's misadventures with deluded conspiracists and similar crackpots, and The Men Who Stare at Goats, detailing the various lunatic-sounding 'psychic' operations, or PSYOPS,…
Read MoreIf you're a moviegoer who doesn't generally dislike George Clooney but reacts to movie news about him like an allergic reaction to salt-and-peppered dander, you'll want to make an exception here. The actor is set to star in an adaptation of Jon Ronson's book, Men Who Stare at Goats, a wily nonfiction account of the…
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