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Director:Andrew Niccol

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Cast (Credited cast)

Orlando Bloom

Vincent Cassel

Olga Kurylenko

Re: New Movie - The Cross
by myselfandi 1 day ago (Thu Feb 5 2009 16:20:53) Ignore this User | Report Abuse

UPDATED Thu Feb 5 2009 20:26:35

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Niccol wrote and directed Gattaca and wrote The Truman Show, so he has got good creds. Based on the description in Variety, The Cross sounds like it will be post-apocalyptic sci-fi set in the near future (so ummm, no laser swords, nmjade, sorry). I'm also impressed that film is not an adaptation of a book or play or graphic novel nor is it a remake. Even so, it got pulled together enough under the radar that Variety is still linking to the wrong movie and IMDb has nothing on The Cross, even in IMDbPro.

However, Niccol has an unproduced script called the "River Road" from 2000 (yes, I an a science fiction geek). There is a review on the script here, http://www.screenwritersutopia.com/modules.php?name=Content&;pa=sho wpage&pid=263. See, I'm thinking River Road is an early version of The Cross.

Some of the plot described from that October 2000 review:
In Andrew Niccols new script -- RIVER ROAD -- he introduces us to a prison-homeland. An unnamed country is bisected by a river. One side makes up 33rd District; the other 34th. On the 33rd District life is hard and despotic. You live meagerly, working the job youre assigned to, and if you even approach the gate blocking your way across the river...you are shot dead.

The one hope that keeps these people alive is to sneak across the river and into the utopia they can only dream waits on the side (since none have actually seen it).

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Niccols three scripts have thus far been about a man getting somewhere hes not allowed. Ethan Hawke wanted to travel to space but wasnt genetically perfect in GATTACA. Jim Carrey wanted to leave his TV-show existence in THE TRUMAN SHOW. And now Milar (MY-lar) Kline is out to cross the small, gently-flowing river that might mean the difference between prison and freedom.

Niccol sets up a somewhat interesting villain -- the fastidious Gideon. Gideon might not be the greatest character ever written. But his torture for trying to escape is sure inventive. If you try to cross you must eat a bucket of 34th District dirt. Try again -- two buckets. And onwards.

Milar falls in love and eventually wins the heart of a local woman who runs a boarding house. The affair isnt quite logical because Niccol sets her up as a woman still getting over the death of her husband (who was trying to build a tunnel for them all to escape and got killed for it).

The script becomes a touch redundant as Milar tries to escape, gets caught, eats dirt, heals, goes back out, etc.

The escapes are always astute and intriguing. Theyre never boring. ....
I suppose its all made up for with the ingenious ending, which combines brains and spectacular, exhilarating action (hard to find these days).

Im assuming Niccol put this aside because he had his three million dollars and his funding, but he saw that the script was still flabby and needed to be shaped.

On the strength of his previous work, and all the greatness (as old hat as it might be) he hints at in this script, I have no doubts that RIVER ROAD will stand as another example of Niccols formidable, singular mind.

-- Darwin Mayflower.

Sounds promising, quite promising, to me.

After a failed film (S1mOne) and a successful movie (Lord of War), Andrew Niccol returns to directing with The Cross, in which he has cast Orlando Bloom. Science fiction remains the most notable film genre exploited by Niccol (S1mOne, Lord of War) since he directed "Gattaca", a little masterpiece of the genre. Orlando bloom (Kingdom of Heaven, Troy, LOTR, POTC) has been hired to act as one of two brothers. Right now he is working under the direction of Mark Ruffalo in the comedy-drama "Sympathy for Delicious", alongside Laura Linney. He is also scheduled for Johnny To's action film "Le Cercle Rouge", in addition to Fools Rush In - Wings of Sarajevo, a movie about the dramatic events in the Balkans, which he is also producing. Andre Niccol is also developing a film about the artist Salvador Dali.

我很喜欢"Gattaca"，如果新片也是那种超酷的风格那真是值得期待啊！

Bloom plays a man seeking to cross a mysterious border, something no one else has achieved

呃，我之前自己心里先把它翻译成“穿越”了（缩……）
ilxwing 发表于 2009-2-15 18:40