David Oyelowo to Star in Prison Thriller ‘Three Seconds’ 0 679

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British actor David Oyelowo has been working his way towards becoming one of the best and most compelling screen presences of the last few years. Following on from his stunning, “should have been Oscar nominated” turn in Martin Luther King biopic Selma, he has lined up an altogether different film.

THR reports that Oyelowo has joined the cast of an upcoming high-stakes prison thriller entitled Three Seconds, which already has Luke Evans tapped to star. It’s based on a popular Swedish book of the same name by crime-writing team Anders Roslund and Borge Hellström and focuses on an undercover prison assignment gone horribly awry. The script is being written by Matt Cook and Rowan Joffee.

Three Seconds tells the story of a man (Evans) forced to go undercover in prison as part of an FBI operation. When he’s abandoned, however, he’s forced to escape on his own. Oyelowo will play an anti-social N.Y.P.D. detective who quickly begins unraveling the FBI’s operation after the murder of a fellow officer.

It sounds very similar to the plot of the brilliant French prison riot movie Cell 211 from a few years back but with more of a focus on the police side of things. It’s obviously transporting the events and themes of the movie from Sweden to the U.S., and as a result it will lose all of the exploration of contemporary Swedish law enforcement operations. Hopefully they can adapt that well enough so that it explores similar themes for the New York setting.

This is the second film Oyelowo has committed to from Cannes, the other being A United Kingdom, a historical drama in which he’ll play Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana who caused controversy in the 1940s by marrying a white woman. Alongside Selma, he gave another great performance recently in American crime drama A Most Violent Year so it’s great to see him going after another crime tale.

Source: THR

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Watch: Incredible New Trailer for ‘The Revenant’ 0 1238

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We don’t usually post trailers individually – saving them for the Trailer Watch – but this one was just too good to pass up.

The Revenant is the new film from acclaimed director Alejandro González Iñárritu, who most recently won an Oscar for Birdman. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson and Will Poulter in a tale of a forntierman in 1820 who sets out on a path of vengeance who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

We already had one amazing teaser trailer, now check out the equally great new trailer below:

Could this be the film that finally wins Leo his Best Actor Oscar? Quite possibly!

The Revenant is set for release in the UK on January 15th, 2016.

Vincent Cassel To Play Villain in Next ‘Bourne’ Film 0 1458

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After a fourth Bourne film in which Jason himself was conspicuous by his absence, things are returning to the old but brilliant formula of Matt Damon starring and Paul Greengrass directing.

We already know that in addition to Damon returning (rejoice!), Tommy Lee Jones and woman-of-the-moment Alicia Vikander are part of the cast, playing a tough CIA operative and (presumed) love interest, respectively, as well as Julia Stiles reprising her small but crucial role as Bourne helper Nicky Parsons. But now we’re getting word that one of the best French actors in the business is also joining the cast.

Variety has the news that the wonderful Vincent Cassel has signed on to the spy action sequel as its main villain, which will see him match wits and possibly even go toe-to-toe go with the former amnesiac hero. Although exact plot details are being kept secret for the time being, sources are saying that Cassel will play an assassin tracking Bourne. No doubt he will tie in with the Treadstone/Blackbriar history of the Bourne mythology – maybe he’ll be a scorned fellow assassin who feels Bourne somehow wronged him/was chosen ahead of him.

The series has a pedigree of casting great actors as assassins, whether it be Clive Owen in The Bourne Identity, Karl Urban in Supremacy, Edgar Ramirez in Ultimatum and Oscar Isaac in Legacy.

I was already looking forward to the return of the Damon-Greengrass team but the addition of Cassel – genuinely one of my favourite actors of modern times – only makes me wish next summer would get here sooner.

The as-yet-untitled Bourne sequel is set to start shooting this year for a July 29th, 2016 release date.

Source: Variety