WEIRDLAND: On the set of "Brothers"

Monday, June 16, 2008

On the set of "Brothers"

"Everyone who expects a love triangle or two brothers fighting for a woman will be disappointed. I for one am happy with this - I don´t want a typical Hollywood film.

IMO the three main roles have nearly equal screen time - perhaps Natalie a little less than the two guys.
"Actually all the awards prediction sites have Jake as leading and Tobey as supporting.

If the script is correct and they have not changed it it will be:

Jake - Tommy (Thomas) Cahill
Tobey - Sam Cahill
Natalie - Grace Cahill

During the scenes where Sam is probably dead they alternate between the family dealing with Sams "death" and him being a prisoner of the Taliban and what happens there.

IMO Tommy is a great opportunity for Jake - I really hope he will be able to disappear in this character and we will see him in another challenging role".Source: iheartjake.suddenlaunch.comDavid Benioff & Amanda Peet.
"While the title of this interview might seem a bit like hyperbole, ComingSoon.net has talked to many screenwriters in our time, and true, many of them are pretty cool--Juno's Diablo Cody is the latest upstart contender to receive the honorary title--but none of them have quite the credentials that David Benioff has that makes him so cool.

For your consideration, we shall list some of the reasons why we think he's cool:

* Although he may be the coolest writer in Hollywood, he's actually a New Yorker born and raised, and he still spends a lot of time in the city that never sleeps.

* His first screenplay was an adaptation of his first novel, which turned into Spike Lee's The 25th Hour, one of the few films that epitomizes what it was like being a New Yorker right after 9/11.

* He wrote the initial draft for the upcoming prequel X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and he's a long-time comic book fan himself.

* He adapted Susanne Bier's wartime drama Brothers into an English language film starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman and Tobey Maguire and directed by Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan (In America)

* He's working on a screenplay for a Kurt Cobain biopic!

Source: www.comingsoon.net

2 comments :

Xenia said...

Finally we have news about Brothers! Having seen the original Danish movie (which I liked a lot) I can't wait to know what Sheridan, Jake, Toby and Natalie made with it.

Elena said...

"Brothers" has already a release date:
on 4th Decembre!