Three Questions in the News
Friday, March 17, 2017 at 12:00PM by Murtada
As Carrie Bradshaw would say, some of today's movie news got us thinking. The news offered more perplexion than usual. We'll present you with the questions and maybe you can help with the answers. Or just join in the bewilderment:
How many franchises can one actor be in?
You’d think being Superman would be enough. But no Henry cavill is joining Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 6. No details about who he’s playing. Simon Pegg, and Rebecca Ferguson are expected to be back for the new adventure. Jeremy Renner is not.
Who is starring in Jennifer Kent’s follow up to The Babadook? We know who Sam Claflin is, as we’ve seen him in a few films including The Hunger Games. But he’s not the lead, the new film titled The Nightingale is set in Tasmania in the 1820s, and follows a young Irish female convict whose family is murdered by a British soldier. With the help of an Aboriginal tracker, she heads for the wilderness in hope of exacting revenge. Have you heard of Aisling Franciosi? Well she nabbed the coveted lead role. Digging into her IMDB we found out that she played Lyanna Stark in Game of Thrones, you know in that famous flashback scene. She was also in Ken Loach’s Jimmy’s Hall (2014). Can’t say we remember either performance, but we are very excited to see whatever Kent chooses to show us.
And finally buried in a news item announcing Andrew Dominick's new film; War Party which is billed as an action-adventure movie about Navy SEALs that will star Tom Hardy, is this nugget about his long gestating Marilyn Monroe project, Blonde:
he has been trying to get his Marilyn Monroe movie Blonde off the ground [], but has struggled to find a leading lady everyone can agree on
Hmmm. The names that have been publicly shared so far were Naomi Watts in the first iteration and then a few years later Jessica Chastain. We wonder who else was up for playing Marilyn and was deemed not appropriate?
Reader Comments (11)
Why can't they just cast Megan Hilty as Marilyn Monroe and be done with it?!?
#SmashForever #Bombshell #DontForgetMe
Aisling Franciosi was in the TV show 'The Fall' with Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan. She really was quite impressive, she played an increasingly frustrating and unlikeable character, but handled herself very well. I'm excited to see her get this leg-up.
Also, Hugo Weaving and Jeremy Renner are surely the franchise kings!?
Wasn't Henry Cavill angling to be the next James Bond at some point too ?
Excellent answer, Dancin' Dan! (Can't wait for the Broadway show!)
Henry Cavill was probably thinking, "Eh, they're not approaching me to be Bond and Man From UNCLE bombed. I need SOME spy franchise."
Charlize Theron is the only person who I think could play Marilyn as well as she could be played,that woman is just too famous and iconic to really be played by any1.
Henry Cavill should be a leading man by himself - seriously playing second banana to Cruise
Christina Hendricks. Period.
What about Jeremy Renner? He's Hawkeye in Avengers, Brandt in Mission Impossible and Aaron Cross in Bourne.
Didn't Michelle Williams got a bunch of awards nominations for playing Marilyn? I'd say, look no further...