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The Job
We have obtained news about a new dark comedy featuring Ron Pearlman titled “The Job.” We get wind of this picture thanks to the fabled caves of Yahoo:
Ron Perlman (”Hellboy”), Taryn Manning (”Hustle & Flow”), Joe Pantoliano (”The Sopranos”) and Patrick Flueger (USA’s series “The 4400″) will star in the darkly comic drama “The Job.”
Shem Bitterman is adapting his 1998 play about a hapless man, Bubba (Flueger), who’s desperate to find a job and marry the woman he loves (Manning). A drifter (Perlman) hooks him up with a slick employment agent (Pantoliano), but after agreeing to the job, Bubba quickly finds that he’s in way over his head. Bitterman’s play won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for best new play before transferring to an off-Broadway run.
This sounds like a great idea for a film! Being hired for a job that you are unqualified for is a helpless situation that should make for all sorts of tragic comedy. This story looks like it has already had a successful run on the stage and will be well tempered by the time it hits the silver screen. I like adaptations of plays to film, they are different stylistically and are a welcome change of pace.
Ron Pearlman is a fantastic pick for a drifter character. I can picture him with a satchel over his shoulder, wearing 5 o’clock shadow, and riding the rails from one town to the next without a schedule or destination. Pearlman is hobo chic.
If any of you have seen this stage production – please share your thoughts with us.
Could totally use that pic for one of those “What is he thinking right now?” posts.
Anyways, sounds like an interesting movie. Perlman is always ace.
Perlman as a drifter? Then he should play Tom Waits ina movie biography!
I’m just looking forward to “The Ron Perlman Story”, featuring Will Ferrell.
i was just gonna say, will ferrell and him should play twins in some movie.
Great picture for the story. It looks like the head shot he use during his 1980’s pornography days…
wow is that ron perlman or ron burgundy?
Apparently, it’s being filmed right outside my office building at this moment! They’ve got the street closed down.
Can you snap a pic and send it to us?
No camera, sorry. They had an old car (dark sedan, not quite black) that they had parked at a three-way intersection (no lights or stop signs). Looked like they took shots from outside and inside the car. I don’t know if they had any shots of the car moving.
Thanks for the heads up! We appreciate it very much.
The car is a Dark Brown 1969 Cadillac
They’re filming a scene with a guy and girl talking (couldn’t get close enough to see who they were) right now in front of the Leland, an old Detroit hotel with a diner on the corner called Luci and Ethel’s. An assistant mentioned that traffic is closed off to prevent unwanted reflections in the windows of the cafe – I’d never thought of that – it must be a HUGE pain to film in busy downtown areas – woohoo abandoned Detroit!
(Type your comment here. Make sure you’ve read the commenting rules before doing so) Have you seen Patrick Flueger on site?
patrick flueger was in a scene they filmed in our front yard today. birmingham, michigan.
Thanks for the news on Patrick. Any idea when the film will be released?
The movie is being released in early 2009