Jodie Foster has been very busy lately, having directed her first movie since 1995’s Home for the Holidays, called The Beaver, starring her Maverick co-star Mel Gibson. Rumor has it that the actress will also be in Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium with Matt Damon. She’s also been talking about her role in Roman Polanski’s Carnage, based on the Tony-winning play God of Carnageby Yasmina Reza. She stars alongside Kate Winslet (The Reader), Christoph Waltz (The Green Hornet), and John C. Reilly (Step Brothers) in the adaptation which has begun shooting in Paris. Hit the jump to read more!
The Academy Award winner tells Empire about the intense dramedy: “Two couples have a child each, who fight each other on a playground. One of them gets hurt, so the parents go to the others’ house to have a negotiation. It all happens in real-time, so it’s about an hour and forty-five minutes of negotiation between two sets of parents and how it all falls apart. Kind of like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, but a little funnier. There’s a lot of wit.”
Foster and Reilly are one couple, and Winslet and Waltz comprise the other. Backstage adds, “Carnage ensues after an initially cordial meeting turns sour.”
The play’s original setting was Paris, but for its 2009 Broadway debut, it was changed to Brooklyn. According to Backstage, Polanski saw the original cast on stage and said, “As soon as I saw the play I thought it would make an exciting movie… It’s a challenge to make a film in real time, without a single ellipse.”
The original cast included James Gandolfini (The Sopranos), Marcia Gay Harden (Into the Wild), Hope Davis (In Treatment), and Jeff Daniels (Speed), all of who were nominated for Tony awards, but Gay Harden was the only one to take home a trophy. To possibly add some hype for the upcoming film on the east coast, the quartet of actors will be teaming up once again for six-week reprisal in Los Angeles from April 5th to May 15th.
Having seen the original production of the play, I will make an early predictions that this will easily be an award’s show contender, especially since three of the four cast members are Oscar winners, and Reilly is an Oscar nominee. At moments, the play borders on dark comedy, but if you’re a fan of the referenced Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, or most of Tennessee Williams’ plays, then this is the must-see for you! There is no word yet on the film’s release date yet.
Jodie Foster has been very busy lately, having directed her first movie since 1995’s Home for the Holidays, called The Beaver, starring her Maverick co-star Mel Gibson. Rumor has it that the actress will also be in Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium with Matt Damon. She’s also been talking about her role in Roman Polanski’s Carnage, based on the Tony-winning play God of Carnageby Yasmina Reza. She stars alongside Kate Winslet (The Reader), Christoph Waltz (The Green Hornet), and John C. Reilly (Step Brothers) in the adaptation which has begun shooting in Paris. Hit the jump to read
more!
The Academy Award winner tells Empire about the intense dramedy: “Two couples have a child each, who fight each other on a playground. One of them gets hurt, so the parents go to the others’ house to have a negotiation. It all happens in real-time, so it’s about an hour and forty-five minutes of negotiation between two sets of parents and how it all falls apart. Kind of like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, but a little funnier. There’s a lot of wit.”
Foster and Reilly are one couple, and Winslet and Waltz comprise the other. Backstage adds, “Carnage ensues after an initially cordial meeting turns sour.”
The play’s original setting was Paris, but for its 2009 Broadway debut, it was changed to Brooklyn. According to Backstage, Polanski saw the original cast on stage and said, “As soon as I saw the play I thought it would make an exciting movie… It’s a challenge to make a film in real time, without a single ellipse.”
The original cast included James Gandolfini (The Sopranos), Marcia Gay Harden (Into the Wild), Hope Davis (In Treatment), and Jeff Daniels (Speed), all of who were nominated for Tony awards, but Gay Harden was the only one to take home a trophy. To possibly add some hype for the upcoming film on the east coast, the quartet of actors will be teaming up once again for six-week reprisal in Los Angeles from April 5th to May 15th.
Having seen the original production of the play, I will make an early predictions that this will easily be an award’s show contender, especially since three of the four cast members are Oscar winners, and Reilly is an Oscar nominee. At moments, the play borders on dark comedy, but if you’re a fan of the referenced Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, or most of Tennessee Williams’ plays, then this is the must-see for you! There is no word yet on the film’s release date yet.
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