Empire Magazine, diffusissima rivista inglese di cinema, dedica il numero in edicola a Inception, il nuovo thriller di Christopher Nolan e Leonardo Di Caprio.
All’interno servizi sul film, sul dietro le quinte, interviste a Nolan e Di Caprio e anticipazioni sui prossimi film del regista inglese: Batman 3 ed il nuovo Superman, che arriveranno rispettivamente il 20 luglio 2001 ed a Natale dello stesso anno.
Afferma Di Caprio:
There’s no big playback and no big monitor screen system. It’s just Chris with his handheld cameras, shooting and shooting and shooting. And if it looks great to him on this little monitor, to the naked eye, on film, he’ll move on. It’s very fast, very efficient, there aren’t a lot of bells and whistles. Him and the cameraman and the actors. Boom boom boom.
E Nolan parla di un riferimento inatteso:
This is absolutely my Bond movie. I’ve been plundering ruthlessly from the Bond movies in everything I’ve done, forever. I grew up just loving them and they’re a huge influence on me. When you look at being able to construct a scenario that’s only bound by your imagination, I think the world of the Bond movies is a natural place your mind would go.
I think that [On Her Majesty’s Secret Service] would be my favorite Bond. It’s a hell of a movie, it holds up very well. What I liked about it that we’ve tried to emulate in this film [Inception] is there’s a tremendous balance in that movie of action and scale and romanticism and tragedy and emotion. Of all the Bond films, it’s by far the most emotional. There’s a love story. And Inception is a kind of love story as well as anything else. I’m going soft in my old age…
I think that [On Her Majesty’s Secret Service] would be my favorite Bond. It’s a hell of a movie, it holds up very well. What I liked about it that we’ve tried to emulate in this film [Inception] is there’s a tremendous balance in that movie of action and scale and romanticism and tragedy and emotion. Of all the Bond films, it’s by far the most emotional. There’s a love story. And Inception is a kind of love story as well as anything else. I’m going soft in my old age…
Sul nuovo Superman conferma che l’idea è venuta a David Goyer:
..What it is, while David Goyer and myself were putting together the story for another Batman film a few years ago, you know thrashing out where we might move on from the Dark Knight, we got stuck. We were just sitting there idly chatting and he said ”by the way, I think know how you approach Superman”.. and he told me his take on it.
I thought it was really tremendous. It was the first time I’ve been able to conceive of how you’d address Superman in a modern context I thought it was a really exciting idea. What you have to remember about Batman and Superman is that what makes them the best superhero characters there are, the most beloved after all this time, is the essence of who they were when they were created, when they were first developed. You can’t move too far away from that.
Mentre per il terzo e conclusivo capitolo del suo Batman, pur non avendo ancora firmato per dirigerlo, i preparativi sono a buon punto:
My brother Jonathan is working on the screenplay. We came up with a story that we are very exited about. We particularly like where we are taking the characters and what the ending is. There are things for me to be very exited about in addressing the characters again, but ultimately it always comes down to the script, and can we make a great film from this? Thats something I will firmly be turning my attention to figuring out fairly soon. [This film will be] the ending of a story rather than infinitely blowing up the balloon and expanding the story.
Non ci sarà Joker: sostituire Heath Ledger è impossibile.
Non ci saranno neppure cross-over nelle storie dei due eroi DC, così come ora sta avvenendo per l’universo Marvel. I personaggi della Marvel sono solitari, figure eccezionali in un mondo ordinario.
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