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Robert Pattinson and David Cronenberg talk about ‘Maps To The Stars’ with EW 1 comment
For those of you who don’t get how David Cronenberg would want to work with Robert Pattinson, just look at Breaking Dawn. If Bella’s pregnancy doesn’t count as a prime example of Cronenbergian body horror, then I don’t know what does. And now, it appears that Pattinson and Cronenberg are hoping to pair up once more following their upcoming Cosmopolis. Pattinson confirmed to EW that he’s attached to the director’s long-gestating Maps to the Stars — although he’s not sure when they would begin production. “I don’t know if I’m doing it next,” he says. Cronenberg has stated that he hopes to cast frequent collaborator Viggo Mortensen as well.
The film would be based on a script by novelist and screenwriter Bruce Wagner, who has also written an adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s novel, As She Climbed Across the Table, for Cronenberg. “It’s about child stars,” says Pattinson of Wagner’s script. “It’s very funny. It’s very, very dark.”
Cosmopolis, which is based on a 2003 Don DeLillo novel, debuted two weeks ago at the Cannes Film Festival.
Cosmopolis Review by Toronto.com “A blockbuster of the mind” 2 comments
From Toronto.com
Cosmopolis
(out of 4)
Starring Robert Pattinson, Paul Giamatti, Sarah Gadon and Juliette Binoche. Written and directed by David Cronenberg. 108 minutes. Opens June 8 at the Varsity and Sheppard Grande. 14A
David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolisis a blockbuster of the mind, fascinating as much for what the Toronto director shows as for what he chooses not to.
Sex, violence, despair and talk, talk, talk fill this dystopian road movie.Twilight’s Robert Pattinson stars as a dissolute billionaire in a stretch limousine, cruising a Toronto made to resemble New York (more or less).
There are extreme visuals that cross cinematographer Peter Suschitzky’s unblinking lens, including flung dead rats and a Taser-packing naked woman. But there aren’t as many as you might expect.
Significantly missing is a nude orgy scene, an epiphanic part of Don DeLillo’s 2003 source novel, involving 300 people in a Manhattan intersection. Cronenberg skipped it, thinking it would look fake on film.
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*AUDIO* David Cronenberg talks Robert Pattinson and Cosmopolis with CBC 2 comments
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Some quotes (from Cosmopolisfilm)
- Host: What were you thinking when you cast Rob? David: You’re looking for a great actor. It’s a very difficult role with a lot of dialogue, Quite funny too. You need an actor that gets all of that.
- Host: Did you know he could do it? David: I had seen him in Little Ashes where he plays a young Salvidor Dali, an extreme, difficult Spanish movie. This is a guy who’s not afraid to do something really challenging and difficult. He’s not afraid to play an unsympathetic role. Until you do the movie, you don’t know the breadth of it and I think he gives a fantastically subtle and beautifully modulated performance.
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*VIDEO* Robert Pattinson’s interview with ET Tonight – Cannes Press Junket 1 comment
From ET Tonight
Robert Pattinson has burst the Twilight bubble and charted his career out of the vampire-infested forest into roles in Bel Ami and Cosmopolis. With his acting career now open to various directions, ET found out which actors he would like to work with in the future.
When asked what films he enjoys the most, Pattinson answered with cult filmFear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Johny Depp) and drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Jack Nicholson) but also mentioned comedy film The Mask(Jim Carrey).
Although he said that he would love to work with any of the lead actors in his favorite films, he singled out Jim Carrey and revealed an interest in acting in comedies. “I love Jim Carrey. I think he’s amazing. He is one of the most consistent actors and people don’t really realize ’cause he is a comedian,” Pattinson said of Carrey.
“I love a lot of comic actors,” he continued. “I love Eddie Murphy. I want to do a film with Eddie Murphy…but I’ve never met him or anything.”
While the 26-year-old actor is content to broaden his acting roles beyondTwilight and perhaps even into comedy, he said that the franchise provided a relieving safety net that doesn’t pertain to non-franchised films.
“There was something nice about ‘Twilight’ where you could experiment in between and you could kind of take a risk and you’d always have another ‘Twilight’ movie to go back to,” he said. “When there is a safety net…you aren’t really making decisions. You are kind of like, ‘Maybe it will work, maybe it won’t, but I got another ‘Twilight’ film anyway.”
Although he enjoyed having the “safety net,” Pattison maintains that the lack of that luxury has allowed him to become a more decisive and refined actor. “Now that there [are] no more ‘Twilight’ films, I’m like, ‘This has to work.’ So it’s nice. It makes you stronger.”
Pattinson also discussed his role in Cosmopolis of a very confident and expressive man, which he said he could relate to despite being an introvert.
“It’s a strange thing to play someone who is so determined to prove that he knows what anyone else is going to say before they even say it,” he said. “He has ideas of being a savant and stuff but…he’s really lost and I think that’s what I sort of relate to about it. He doesn’t know what is going on.”
Cosmopolis debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May and is set for release around the world this summer.
Cosmopolis gets a US release date – August 17th 6 comments
Entertainment One Films US has set a date for David Cronenberg’s “Cosmopolis.” On August 17th, the film will open in New York and Los Angeles, expanding into additional markets soon after. Based on the novel by Don DeLillo, the film stars Robert Pattinson as a 28-year old financial whiz kid who heads out in his tricked-out stretch limo to get a haircut from his father’s old barber. Along the way, he’s joined by a cast including Juliette Binoche, Sarah Gadon, Mathieu Amalric, Jay Baruchel, Emily Hampshire, Samantha Morton and Paul Giamatti. The film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival last month to mixed responses. Indiewire’s Eric Kohn said that “‘Twilight’ fans won’t respond to Pattinson’s uncharacteristic turn and only diehard Cronenberg fans are likely to spread positive word of mouth” in his review. Entertainment One is releasing the film in the US well after it does so in Canada and the UK, where release dates are set for June 8th and June 15th, respectively.
First clip of Rob on George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight Show! 1 comment
Robert talks about whether he chose to do Cosmopolis in order to avoid Twilight typecasting, how Ryan Gosling’s career helped him understand his own situation, what it feels like to be somewhat isolated as a celebrity, arguing with Adele about ambition, his plans post-Twilight, his feelings about Heath Ledger’s work in ‘The Dark Knight’, and where he’d like to see Hollywood go.
The show airs tomorrow night, Thursday, June 7, at 11:05 pm on CBC television. It’s a Cosmopolis special, also featuring interviews with director David Cronenberg and fellow actors Paul Giamatti and Sarah Gadon.
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Moviefone: ‘Cosmopolis’ – Everything you need to know 3 comments
From Moviefone:
Imagine, if you will, a movie that takes place almost entirely in a stretch limousine, with the cameras trained directly on the main character. This is David Cronenberg‘s latest film, Cosmopolis, and if you didn’t know already, it stars Twilight alumnusRobert Pattinson in the lead role.
At times dark, at times light(er), but all the time serious, Cosmopolis is a cerebral, dialogue-heavy take on Don DeLillo’s book of the same name. With the limo serving as his corporate office, Pattinson plays Eric Packer, a youthful entrepreneur with money to burn and a desire for something more. For most of the film, Pattinson meets-and-greets with people in his limo/office — it’s a series of bizarre vignettes, with his daily visit from his doctor as one of the highlights.
Cosmopolis is a look inside a brilliant mind, but also a voyeuristic insight into what it might be like to lose it all. We’ve put together a bunch of things you need to know about the movie, just in case you were expecting something else entirely.
Thinking of Rob 