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	<title>Obsessed With Film &#187; Mark Strong</title>
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		<title>Cate Blanchett as Maid Marion in NOTTINGHAM?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Replacing Sienna Miller in Ridley Scott's NOTTINGHAM could be Oscar winning actress Cate Blanchett. 

Mark Strong, who is playing the villainous Guy of Gisbourne in NOTTINGHAM told The Telegraph...
"I think Cate Blanchett is set to take the Maid Marian part...She is a wonderful actress and it would make it a much classier film if she was in it,"
Much classier film?

Is Strong hinting that it was Miller's persona and attitude that lost her the part of Marion earlier this year and not what those gossip rags claimed when they said the love scenes between her and Crowe would look odd because they are on different sides of the weight scale?

Love Blanchett, each and every year she gives a performance which completely shows up her peers. Though in summer blockbuster fare (I thought she was mis-cast in INDIANA JONES IV), we never get to see her best work, but alongside Crowe, I think it will work just fine.

Ridley Scott should direct this movie in the Spring with Russell Crowe leading as both Robin Hood AND The Sheriff of Nottingham.

Brian Helegland (A KNIGHT'S TALE, MYSTIC RIVER) came uop with the story that BULLETPROOF MONK writers Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris turned into a screenplay.

via ...]]></description>
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		<title>Simon wonders what a ROCKNROLLA is&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

When will Guy Ritchie stop having to prove that he deserves his status as one of Britain’s leading directors? Well, first of all he has to produce something so monumentally excellent that everyone forgets his involvement in SWEPT AWAY- how easy it is to forget the impact of Ritchie’s first two major films. And how easy also to forget the innovations and the fantastically accomplished stylised cinematography in some truly impressive frenetic sequences.

It pains me to say it, but ROCKNROLLA just isn’t very good. It starts with the poor plot- it’s all so diabolically Guy RitchieTM that it’s less an actual narrative than a collection of recognisable Ritchie tropes (recognisable but unfortunately not good). It seems that Ritchie recognised in the relative success of SNATCH and LOCK, STOCK… a winning formula in the complex amalgam plot style, with various strains interlocking with apparently disastrous consequences. Basically, take a good old-fashioned ensemble movie, with the familiar swollen cast of characters (perhaps caricatures is a better word for Ritchie) and lace it with explosive charges. But the difference here is that Ritchie abandons his usually admirable plot building devices in favour of shoe-horning in his usual suspects- the wildly eccentric criminal, the ...]]></description>
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		<title>First time we&#8217;ve ever seen SHERLOCK HOLMES shirtless?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now there's literally hundreds of SHERLOCK HOLMES film and t.v. adaptations but I doubt any of them featured a shirtless image of super sleuth from Baker Street. And if they did, I doubt that they ever looked as good as this...


Guy Ritchie's adaptation of the character is to go back to the very origins of Arthur Conan Doyle's novels where Holmes was depicted as a more than capable martial arts fighter, a sport which Downey Jr. himself is familiar with. The purposefully released image from Warner Bros. is a message to us that this Holmes adaptation will be different to every other.

The second official image from Warner Bros. show the detective with his sidekick Dr. Watson as played by Jude Law...



Rachel McAdams (as Holmes' love interest Irene Adler), Mark Strong (as the villain Blackwood) and the always great Eddie Marsan (as Insepc. Lestrade) co-star for the Nov. 20th 2009 movie.

source - /film ]]></description>
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		<title>GOOD trailer featuring Viggo Mortensen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GOOD premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival but despite some early raving reviews, the buzz has gone eerily and worryingly quiet since. I can't help but think it's the accent thing again, a movie about German history with German characters but with actors talking in English.

It seems to be a move backwards, especially just a year after Viggo Mortensen himself won an Academy Award nomination for his fantastic transformation into a Russian (accent included) for EASTERN PROMISES.



But in any event, this movie looks really strong in every other aspect. It's the tale of how good and moral German men became wrapped up into the Nazi regime and were seduced, often by their own cowardice and weak mindedness to become part of something evil.

Jason Isaacs, Mark Strong, Steven Mackintosh and Gemma Jones co-star.



The movie still has no release date and much like Viggo's other upcoming movie THE ROAD, it does look like it's going to be a quietly released 2009 film, unfortunately.

Awards Daily have premiered a new poster for the movie, which I have featured below after the jump...





source - the playlist ]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATED: Strong joins NOTTINGHAM, nearly became Anton Chigurh &amp; what about Bond?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

UPDATED: I've been informed by Simon at Digital Spy that Strong was misquoted. This revised edition of the article now reflects accurately the actor's quotes. 

The versatile Mark Strong for over ten years has been an actor I've greatly admired, he would pop up in all kinds of genre movies, like most British character actors usually do, and completely steal the screen from the bigger "stars" playing opposite them.

But in the last 12 months or so his career has really, really taken off. After playing a big part in BODY OF LIES, director Ridley Scott has hired him again for his next movie NOTTINGHAM where he will play the villainous Guy of Gisbourne.

In the usual Hood folklore, he is the close adviser to the Sheriff of Nottingham who is given the task to aggressively hunt down the outlaw known as Robin Hood. In the much loved Errol Flynn adaptation of the character, Gisbourne is played by the great Basil Rathbone and is the main adversary of Hood but in the 1991 adaptation he is little more than Alan Rickman's man for hire.

Digital Spy carry these quotes from Strong...
"The script is still fluid, but it's essentially the Guy of Gisborne character. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Russell Crowe not Watson</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm not attempting to bring about disrespect to fellow OWF writer James Clayton but I have to state 100% for the record (as I loathe rumors, especially those that hit the bullshit detector on red alert) that Russell Crowe is not Dr. Watson to Robert Downey Jr's Sherlock Holmes in Guy Ritchie's upcoming adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's classic literary detective character.

It simply ain't true.


Any news story that appears in The Sun and for that matter any of the absolute bullshit that is flying around for Christopher Nolan and Batman 3 should be disregarded right now because it's just fanboy gossip.

Russell Crowe will not be Watson because he is Russell Crowe. The leading man. The guy who has one of the biggest ego's in Hollywood (and with great justification) is not going to play second fiddle to Downey Jr as a bumbling sidekick.

I could have possibly seen him as Moriarty but Guy Ritchie has already found his man in Mark Strong, his frequent collaborator who has starred in his last two movies Revolver and the opening Friday in the U.K. - Rock"N"Rolla.

But what is true is that Crowe is out hunting for a movie that will fill the time before ...]]></description>
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		<title>Strong choice for Prof. Moriarty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A strangely quiet but extremely important news item was leaked onto the web earlier this week but I've only myself just stumbled across it because of Filmstalker.

Guy Ritchie, whose career I don't think I have ever been this excited about in years (come on, Rock"N"Rolla looks pretty damn awesome), has cast the main villain for his exciting Sherlock Holmes project which will star the "never been this popular" Robert Downey Jr.

Said actor is Mark Strong. He is British, born in London, 45 and looks something like this....


That's right, he was one of the main supporting parts in Ritchie's good pal Matthew Vaughn's movie Stardust and previously appeared in Ritchie's much hated gangster movie Revolver.

He also appears in Rock"N"Rolla.

He's a terrific actor who has a decade of great supporting roles behind him and has a face that can really adapt to any time period or genre.

Could he be playing Prof. Moriarty, or for the first movie is Ritchie going to avoid the tantalising carrot of using the most famous (and for many the only one known) villain in Arthur Conan Doyle's series much like Christopher Nolan did with leaving out The Joker in Batman Begins.


After all, Ritchie is rebooting this franchise, ...]]></description>
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