Movie Buzzers recently reported that Roman Polanski’s Carnage, adapted from Yasmia Reza’s Tony-winning play, God of Carnage, would be opening this year’s New York Film Festival. However, according to the Los Angeles Times, the movie is also making its world premiere during the Venice Film Festival, although it won’t open until December.
The movie stars Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Kate Winslet, and Christoph Waltz. They are two couples who meet after their son’s have a violent scuffle on their school’s playground.
In a blog for the newspaper, there were many differences revealed between the movie and its famed play version. The original stage cast included James Gandolfini, Marcia Gay Harden, Hope Davis, and Jeff Daniels, who all recently reprised their roles at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles earlier this year.
(Some SPOILER) Details are as follows:
-In the original play, the term of endearment used by one couple is “woof-woof.” For the movie, it’s apparently been changed to “doodle.” (The endearment is a recurring joke throughout the play.)
-Some of the character names have been changed. In the American version of the play, the characters are Alan Raleigh, Annette Raleigh, Michael Novak and Veronica Novak.
-The setting of the movie (and American version of the play) is Brooklyn. Because of Polanski’s legal situation, the film was shot in Paris. You will notice in the trailer that there is a flier for the Brooklyn Academy of Music hanging in the apartment belonging to the Foster and Reilly characters.
-Some of the play’s key visual gags are also in the movie — a vase of tulips, a bucket and a constantly buzzing cell phone that meets a tragic end.
-A recently released publicity still from the movie shows a scene of kids fighting on an open field in what looks like Brooklyn. In the play, the fight takes place entirely offstage and we never see the children. (Considering Polanski’s legal predicament, was this scene shot with a second unit?)
-A representative of Gandolfini told The Times this year that the actor was offered a part in the movie but that he had to turn it down for “numerous reasons.”
Take a look at the trailer below to get your first look at the star-studded dark comedy!
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