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Production has begun on David Cronenberg’s Toronto-shot “Cosmopolis,” starring “Twilight” heart-throb Robert Pattinson.The film is adopted from the novel by Don DeLillo about a billionaire who makes an eventful trek across Manhattan.
The 40-day shoot is expected to run through mid-July.
“Cosmopolis” is a Canada-France co-production between Paulo Branco through Paris-based Alfama Films Production, and Martin Katz of Toronto-based Prospero Pictures.
It’s the third collaboration between Katz and Cronenberg after “Spider” and the upcoming “A Dangerous Method.”
“Cosmopolis” also stars Juliette Binoche, Paul Giamatti, Samantha Morton and Jay Baruchel.
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This is really cool!
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As for Akira, the intention of the studio is to keep the picture on a fast track, which means they will find a director quickly. The studio has been wrestling with the approach on the film for the past year. Last March, Warner Bros put together a short list of up-and-coming actors after getting a strong rewrite by Steve Kloves that set the film in a rebuilt New Manhattan, where a leader of a biker gang saves his friend from a medical experiment. At the time, Robert Pattinson, Andrew Garfield and James McAvoy were given the script for the role of Tetsuo, and Garrett Hedlund, Michael Fassbender, Chris Pine, Justin Timberlake and Joaquin Phoenix were courted for Kaneda. The two leads were expected to come from that group of actors. Then, the studio had a change of heart and, given the budget, wanted to have an established box office star in the movie. That led to a flirtation with Keanu Reeves that ended recently.
Warner Bros is back to the other plan, and will likely go back to that list of actors in hopes of making the picture later this year or early next.
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“You never told me you were blue-eyed.” ~Elise
Cosmopolis stills photographer, Caitlin Cronenberg, revealed the first official still today on twitter. With production starting May 23rd, this is certainly a treat for Cosmopolis fans. We’ve added a new menu page, Official Stills, to the limo bar.
After the dust settled (it hasn’t really but I’m too excited to not talk about this), I thought we could have a discussion thread about the scene in the still. We had an invigorating discussion series on the book back in February. You can check it out, The Discussion, found under The Story.
Book excerpt after the cut *SPOILERS*
From Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo:
He glanced out the one-way window to his left. It took him a moment to understand that he knew the woman in the rear seat of the taxi that lay adjacent. She was his wife of twenty-two days, Elise Shifrin, a poet who had right of blood to the fabulous Shifrin banking fortune of Europe and the world.
He coded a word to Torval up front. Then he stepped into the street and tapped on the taxi window. She smiled up at him, surprised. She was in her mid-twenties, with an etched delicacy of feature and large and artless eyes. Her beauty had an element of remoteness. This was intriguing but maybe not. Her head rode slightly forward on a slender length of neck. She had an unexpected laugh, a little weary and experienced, and he liked the way she put a finger to her lips when she wanted to be thoughtful. Her poetry was shit.
She slid over and he got in next to her. The horns subsided and resumed in ritualistic cycles. Then the taxi shot diagonally across the intersection to a point just west of Second Avenue, where it reached another impasse, with Torval jogging hot behind.
“Where’s your car?”
“We can’t seem to find it,” she said. “I’d offer you a ride.”
“I couldn’t. Absolutely. I know you work en route. And I like taxis. I was never good at
geography and I learn things by asking the drivers where they come from.”
“They come from horror and despair.”
“Yes, exactly. One learns about the countries where unrest is occurring by riding the taxis
here.”
“I haven’t seen you in a while. I looked for you this morning.”
He took off his sunglasses, for effect. She gazed into his face. She looked steadily, with fixed attention. “Your eyes are blue,” she said.
He lifted her hand and held it to his face, smelling and licking. The Sikh at the wheel was missing a finger. Eric regarded the stub, impressive, a serious thing, a body ruin that carried history and pain.
“Eat breakfast yet?”
“No,” she said.
“Good. I’m hungry for something thick and chewy.”
“You never told me you were blue-eyed.” He heard the static in her laugh. He bit her thumb knuckle and opened the door and they stepped across the sidewalk to the coffee shop near the corner.
And the still certainly captures this moment, doesn’t it? Right here: He took off his sunglasses, for effect. She gazed into his face. She looked steadily, with fixed attention. “Your eyes are blue,” she said. And again here: “Good. I’m hungry for something thick and chewy.” “You never told me you were blue-eyed.”
Thank you to Elite Affiliate Cosmopolis Film for the analysis!
“ROBERT PATTINSON as Eric and SARAH GADON as Elise in COSMOPOLIS
Photo credit: CAITLIN CRONENBERG”
Thank you @caitcronenberg so very much for the picture!
Update: She tweeted after the picture was released:
@annajullia Allow me to explain. Films in production release a press release to alert news outlets that they are in production.
@annajullia Traditionally, a still image from the film accompanies this release. Chosen by producers and approved by actors.
@annajullia This image has also been sent to every news outlet in the world today… I hope that answers your question and all others…
@Flinstones1973 You can rest assured that I would never do or say anything that could get me in trouble.
The following tweets were before she released the picture:
I so appreciate the love! I shall be keeping calm and carrying on!
When support and love come from unexpected places it just makes it that much more special and important. Today has been an experience! #love
Observation 1: A lot of people trip over wires where I am…
@marshmarshie I’m just here doing my job like I would on any other set. The hate seems like a bit of a waste of time to me!
Robert Pattinson became a worldwide celebrity with success in the Twilight saga as Edward Cullen, but he’s managed to fit other projects into his packed schedule too. He’s tackled a modern, anguished role in Remember Me and also took a surrealist turn as Salvador Dali in Little Ashes. Robert also showed his stuff in the period piece Water For Elephants, as well as in the forthcoming Bel Ami.
He’s currently working on David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis, portraying an elite playboy who’s driven around Manhattan for an entire day on a modern odyssey to find the perfect haircut. Rob spends the majority of the film seated in the backseat of a limo while events unfold around him.
We got a first look of Robert Pattinson in Cosmopolis today, and now we’re curious as to what you make of his next role. So, tell us — are you excited to see Rob in Cosmopolis?
The current results as of 1:30pm MT:
Yes — I’d watch Rob in just about anything.
92%(97)
No — More details are needed on this project before I decide if it’s a must see.
8%(8)
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TORONTO — Production has begun on David Cronenberg’s Toronto-shot “Cosmopolis,” starring “Twilight” heart-throb Robert Pattinson.
The film is adopted from the novel by Don DeLillo about a billionaire who makes an eventful trek across Manhattan.
The 40-day shoot is expected to run through mid-July.
“Cosmopolis” is a Canada-France co-production between Paulo Branco through Paris-based Alfama Films Production, and Martin Katz of Toronto-based Prospero Pictures.
It’s the third collaboration between Katz and Cronenberg after “Spider” and the upcoming “A Dangerous Method.”
“Cosmopolis” also stars Juliette Binoche, Paul Giamatti, Samantha Morton and Jay Baruchel.
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via @SarahEWaldock
It-boy Rob Pattinson walking his pooch in Yorkville this eve. He must have a hint of vamp in him, having no fear of being hit by lightning
Dear Ted:
Gee wiz Ted, you really stuck that knife in the back of every Twilight fan that has supported the Awful Truth over the years with your “major put down” of Twilight by saying that a reason Hunger Games is better is because of the “Oscar nominated cast.” Really? What an insult to the Oscar winning directors Chris Weitz and Bill Condon, Oscar nominated actresses Anna Kendrick and Catlina Sandino Moreno, BAFTA winners Kristen Stewart and Michael Sheen, SAG bominees Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning, not to mention the Oscar winning and nominated crews. I tell you what, now that you’ve established THGs is better than Twilight, it’ll have no problem breaking every box office record. Heck, Twilight’s only an indie film anyway. Shouldn’t be a problem with all its Oscar nom headliners.
—pg
Dear Bitchy Bloodsucker:
Oh, don’t get your Pattinson-loving panties in a twist. The most insulting thing I said was that The Hunger Game books are better than the Twilight series—which, with a resounding DUH, they are. Love the Twi cast and I’ve always been vocal how I adamantly think K.Stew and company have buckets of star-power, but I’ve never been shy to say the books and adapted movies aren’t fully taking advantage of this talent.
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