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Sir Anthony Hopkins Directs Slipstream
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According to Starpulse Blog and imdb, Sir Anthony Hopkins (I would insert of what movie fame, but if you don’t know who he is you should probably be at a different website) will make his major directoral debut (1996’s “August” [read re-invention of Chekov's "Uncle Vanya"] did not make major splash’s) with a comedy noir called Slipstream.
Anthony Hopkins through starpulse.com states:
“It’s about a man, who’s caught in a slipstream of time falling back on itself and he remembers his own future. My own interpretation is if there’s a God, that God is actually time. I’m fascinated by the fact the older I get every moment just slips past. What is real? You grasp this moment and then it’s gone. I was talking 10 minutes ago but that’s all gone, it’s all a dream.”
The actual plot is about an aging writer who is working on a murder mystery script and finds himself troubled when his characters appear in real life and the people he knows end up in his dream world.
Christian Slater, Chris Lawford, Emmy/Golden Globe winner Gena Rowlands, and Hopkins’s wife Stella Arroyave will join him in what looks to be an interesting movie.
Hannibal Lecter is making a movie? I am excited.
This sounds good…although Hopkins is an excellent actor…I wonder how he will be as a director.
I am sufficiently intrigued to keep my eyes open for news on this movie as it progresses. Though… there is that nagging voice in the back of my head that says, “Hey, if you aren’t that jazzedd about singers becoming actors, what makes you think an actor can necessarily make the jump to behind the camera?” I know what you’re all going to say, “But-but-but he’s had so much experience with and exposure to directors!!!” True, but that’s not all that goes into being a director. A great director is also an editor (script, time and film – all at the same time). A director has to be able to keep a lot of balls in the air, juggling them constantly, all the while maintaining complete control and focus of the film.
It will be interesting to see if he pull it off. I’m rooting for him. Nothing Anthony Hopkins has done has disappointed outside of Meet Joe Black, but even that wasn’t his fault. It was a boring script and the director didn’t have the vision to infuse it with any energy or momentum. For all the eye candy that flick had and all the talent they tapped for it, I was very non-plussed when I watched it.
Hey Lilly,
The thing is… he’s been in the movie business for 50+ years, working with and colaborating with dozens of directors and been involved in the art of filmmaking for longer than I’ve been alive.
A musician has been aroung filmmakers… oh yeah… never. :)
Not to mention, this isn’t Hopkins first directorial endeavor.
Cheers!
PS. How are my kids?
:)
Well, if you’re talking about Basil I & Basil II, the plants you and I brought home together, I have some sad news. Basil I didn’t survive the cold snap last winter.
What else has Hopkins directed? Why am I not aware of his other directing?
I mentioned the movie August in my post-an adaptation of Chekov’s play Family Guy joke Uncle Vanya. If you look at his imdb he also directed a filmbiography.
However this will be his first MAJOR stab at directing…
Interestingly enough he is also a music composer it seems so we might get some good music out of this too.
This is exciting. He has an amazing resume and years of experience that I think will be of great benefit not just to the film but to the other actors on set. On more than one occasion I’ve read of actors saying that they like working with someone like Redford because they have experience working in front of the camera too. Personally, this sounds like a win win situation. I’ll be looking for it!
Some are great actors….some are great directors…
Few are both!
Sometimes great actors direct horrible movies…
If I can save one other the pain of watching this film, my time here has been worth something
(Was like a bad Pulp-Fiction…)