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03-06-2025
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Jacob Elordi & Lily-Rose Depp To Star In Cormac McCarthy Adaptation ‘Outer Dark' — Red Hot Project Bubbling At The Cannes Market
EXCLUSIVE: Here's a very cool project bubbling at this year's Cannes market. We can reveal that Jacob Elordi and Lily-Rose Depp, two of the industry's buzziest young names, are set to star in Outer Dark, a film based on iconic author Cormac McCarthy's (No Country For Old Men) dark 1968 novel. More from Deadline Tribeca Title 'Dog of God' Acquired For France As Media Move Launches Sales - Cannes Market 'Dossier 137' Director On Cannes Ban Of His Film's Actor Accused Of Sexual Assault: "I Understand Their Decision" International Insider: Cruise In Cannes; Standing Ovations; Chinese Box Office Future The 'dark fairytale', which is being lined up to shoot in 2026, will mark the English-language debut of Oscar-winning Son Of Saul filmmaker Laszlo Nemes. Outer Dark is set in Appalachia during the Great Depression and tells of a young woman who bears her brother's baby. The brother leaves the nameless infant in the woods to die, but tells his sister that the newborn died of natural causes and had to be buried. The sister discovers this lie and sets out to find the baby for herself. But as both brother and sister separately move through the countryside, three terrifying strangers are on their tails, wreaking death and destruction wherever they appear. Nemes wrote the screenplay with Clara Royer, while Mike Goodridge of London-based Good Chaos is producing alongside Nemes; executive producers are Ilene Feldman, Ori Eisen of Original Films and Nicolas Gonda. Good Chaos and Nemes have the book-to-screen rights. Goodridge, the Triangle Of Sadness co-producer who has Left-Handed Girl playing at this year's festival, is among the team on the ground in Cannes in early talks with potential partners for the project. It's not formally on sale here but there are likely to be plenty of suitors to finance or get behind it. We understand the actors really sparked to the material and both are coming off big successes. It's fitting stuff for both: Depp is coming off Oscar-nominated box office hit Nosferatu, another dark fairytale, while Euphoria and Priscilla star Elordi is coming off excellent notices for The Narrow Road To The Deep North and will next be seen as the creature in Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein, as Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights and in Ridley Scott's Dog Stars, which is in production. Laszlo Nemes said: 'Since reading Outer Dark the first time, it has been my dream to make it into a film, and to find the appropriate cinematic language that would do justice to Cormac McCarthy's evocative and cosmological work. Joined by two magnetic actors, I now feel it's possible. The extraordinary source material is a profound inspiration to build a unique world that vibrates with life and death at the same time. An exciting road-movie, a terrible and beautiful journey into the labyrinth of the human soul – this is the ambition I have for Outer Dark.' Nemes recently completed his third film Orphan (also produced by Goodridge) which is scheduled to premiere at a festival later this year before its October 23 release in Hungary. He will next shoot Moulin, a French-language feature about WWII resistance fighter Jean Moulin which is being sold at the Cannes market by 193. Gilles Lellouche and Lars Eidinger are starring for producer Alain Goldman. Alongside Orphan, Goodridge is also in post-production on Edward Berger's next film, The Ballad Of A Small Player, starring Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton. Cormac McCarthy's lauded novels adapted for the screen include Oscar winner No Country For Old Men and Viggo Mortensen starrer The Road. Elordi is repped by Gersh and Goodman, Genow. Depp is repped by CAA, Markham, Froggatt & Irwin, Agence Adequat, and Lichter, Grossman. Nemes is represented by CAA and Ilene Feldman Management. Best of Deadline 2025 TV Cancellations: Photo Gallery Where To Watch All The 'Mission: Impossible' Movies: Streamers With Multiple Films In The Franchise Everything We Know About 'My Life With The Walter Boys' Season 2 So Far
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17-05-2025
- Entertainment
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Jacob Elordi, Lily-Rose Depp to Star in "Outer Dark" Film Adaptation
Yara Sameh Jacob Elordi and Lily-Rose Depp, two of the buzziest young names in the acting industry, are set to star in "Outer Dark," a film based on iconic author Cormac McCarthy's (No Country For Old Men) dark 1968 novel. The 'dark fairytale', which is being lined up to shoot in 2026, will mark the English-language debut of Oscar-winning "Son Of Saul" filmmaker Laszlo Nemes. "Outer Dark" is set in Appalachia during the Great Depression and tells of a young woman who bears her brother's baby. The brother leaves the nameless infant in the woods to die, but tells his sister that the newborn died of natural causes and had to be buried. The sister discovers this lie and sets out to find the baby for herself. But as both brother and sister separately move through the countryside, three terrifying strangers are on their tails, wreaking death and destruction wherever they appear. Nemes wrote the screenplay with Clara Royer, while Mike Goodridge of London-based Good Chaos is producing alongside Nemes; executive producers are Ilene Feldman, Ori Eisen of Original Films and Nicolas Gonda. Good Chaos and Nemes have the book-to-screen rights. Goodridge, the "Triangle Of Sadness" co-producer who has "Left-Handed Girl" playing at this year's festival, is among the team on the ground in Cannes in early talks with potential partners for the project. Depp is coming off Oscar-nominated box office hit "Nosferatu" another dark fairytale, while Euphoria and Priscilla star Elordi is coming off excellent notices for "The Narrow Road To The Deep North" and will next be seen as the creature in Guillermo Del Toro's "Frankenstein", as Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights" and in Ridley Scott's "Dog Stars", which is in production. Nemes recently completed his third film "Orphan" (also produced by Goodridge) which is scheduled to premiere at a festival later this year before its October 23 release in Hungary. He will next shoot "Moulin", a French-language feature about WWII resistance fighter Jean Moulin which is being sold at the Cannes market by 193. Gilles Lellouche and Lars Eidinger are starring for producer Alain Goldman. Goodridge is also in post-production on Edward Berger's next film, "The Ballad Of A Small Player", starring Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton. Cormac McCarthy's lauded novels adapted for the screen include Oscar winner "No Country For Old Men" and Viggo Mortensen starrer "The Road." read more New Tourism Route To Launch in Old Cairo Ahmed El Sakka-Led Play 'Sayidati Al Jamila' to Be Staged in KSA on Dec. 6 Mandy Moore Joins Season 2 of "Dr. Death" Anthology Series Don't Miss These Movies at 44th Cairo Int'l Film Festival Today Amr Diab to Headline KSA's MDLBEAST Soundstorm 2022 Festival Arts & Culture Mai Omar Stuns in Latest Instagram Photos Arts & Culture "The Flash" to End with Season 9 Arts & Culture Ministry of Culture Organizes four day Children's Film Festival Arts & Culture Canadian PM wishes Muslims Eid-al-Adha News Egypt confirms denial of airspace access to US B-52 bombers Lifestyle Pistachio and Raspberry Cheesecake Domes Recipe News Ayat Khaddoura's Final Video Captures Bombardment of Beit Lahia News Australia Fines Telegram $600,000 Over Terrorism, Child Abuse Content Arts & Culture Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's $4.7M LA Home Burglarized Sports Former Al Zamalek Player Ibrahim Shika Passes away after Long Battle with Cancer Sports Neymar Announced for Brazil's Preliminary List for 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers News Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly Inaugurates Two Indian Companies Arts & Culture New Archaeological Discovery from 26th Dynasty Uncovered in Karnak Temple Business Fear & Greed Index Plummets to Lowest Level Ever Recorded amid Global Trade War
Telegraph
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Leonardo DiCaprio versus Thomas Pynchon: How a baffling book became the craziest film of 2025
On the face of it, Paul Thomas Anderson's next film, One Battle After Another, represents one of the least likely commercial prospects for American cinema this year, if not this decade. Not only is Anderson a director who firmly shuns the mainstream, but he has never had a true hit film. His most praised picture, 2007's There Will Be Blood, grossed a total of $76 million at the international box office (by way of comparison, the Coens' No Country For Old Men, which beat it to Best Picture at the Oscars, earned nearly $100 million more) and his last film, 2021's excellent Licorice Pizza, was a considerable commercial flop. It lost as much as $30 million despite being deservedly Oscar-nominated for Best Film, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. It takes guts, therefore, for any studio to offer Anderson a mega-budget of $140 million for his next project, but that is exactly what the much-maligned David Zaslav's Warner Brothers has done. The studio has already giant risks on Bong Joon-Ho's lunatic sci-fi Mickey 17 and Robert De Niro's Alto Knights (both of which flopped), but neither are as curious – or potentially fascinating – as One Battle After Another. Not only will this film test the box office earning power of its star Leonardo DiCaprio to the limit, but is also based on some of the least likely existing intellectual property for a mainstream blockbuster imaginable. The newly released trailer for Anderson's new picture promises that this will be something deeply unusual and original. DiCaprio is playing Bob Ferguson, a dishevelled former revolutionary who was part of a gang called 'The French 75', which appears to include Benicio del Toro and Teyana Taylor. They are now on the run from Sean Penn's bleach-blonde antagonist, Sgt Lockjaw, a military man and ruthless white supremacist. Ferguson is desperately searching for his daughter, and the trailer hints at action scenes far bigger and more elaborate than anything Anderson has ever tackled before in his work. The film's official synopsis reads: 'When their evil enemy resurfaces after 16 years, a group of ex-revolutionaries reunites to rescue one of their own's daughter.' This could equally be said of The A Team or Mission: Impossible, meaning that the film will continue to remain mysterious until its September release, were it not for an intriguing, and decidedly Andersonian, nugget. In 2014, Anderson wrote and directed an adaptation of the American author Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel Inherent Vice. The film was commercially unsuccessful, despite a star-studded cast that included Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Reese Witherspoon and Owen Wilson, but it was nonetheless a watershed of a kind in mainstream cinema, as it was the first time that its creator's work was put on film. Pynchon is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, despite or perhaps because of a commitment to privacy that made the similarly reclusive JD Salinger look like a fun-loving extrovert. From his first novel, 1963's V., up to his most recent book, 2013's Bleeding Edge, Pynchon has built his literary reputation on a relatively slim canon – he has published seven novels, one short story collection and one novella – which have received considerable recognition for their allusive, tricksy, post-modern qualities. His most famous and respected publication is probably 1973's Gravity's Rainbow, 780 pages long and every one of them stuffed with self-reflective wit and invention. Nominally about the creation of the V2 rocket in WWII, the book abandons conventional chronology or characterisation in favour of a Joycean display of intellectual prowess that led both to comparisons to Moby-Dick. The Pulitzer Prize jury that year called the book 'unreadable,' 'turgid,' 'overwritten' and in parts 'obscene'; one critic suggested that he had only managed to get a third of the way through. It would be fair to call Pynchon a Marmite novelist, were it not for the fact that, if you described him as such, he would probably lead you on a 10,000-word digression through the global history of breakfast condiments before ending with an apposite quote from Nabokov. Or, indeed, The Simpsons. Amusingly, this most highbrow of writers has appeared twice on the show, voicing himself, although he refused to deliver a line calling Homer Simpson a 'fat ass' because 'Homer is my role model and I won't speak ill of him.' In his life and work alike, Pynchon revels in confounding expectations and leaving breadcrumb trails for his most obsessive admirers to follow, a quality that he shares with Anderson. It is therefore inevitable, and fascinating, that rumour and scuttlebutt – as yet formally unconfirmed – have suggested that One Battle After Another is, in fact, a renegade quasi-adaptation of Pynchon's 1990 novel Vineland. Anderson has form in taking the bare bones of existing novels or literary works and creating something entirely different from them. There Will Be Blood was very loosely based on Upton Sinclair's 1920s book Oil!, about a tyrannical oil millionaire, and The Master took inspiration from everything from the life stories of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and Magnolia actor Jason Robards to Pynchon's novel V. Yet the film-maker's only 'straight' literary adaptation to date has been Inherent Vice, which duly saw Anderson Oscar-nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, and set him on a path to another reckoning with the hitherto unadaptable Pynchon. Anderson has been candid about his feelings for Vineland. He told Time Out in 2014, around the time of Inherent Vice's release, that 'I'd wanted to adapt Vineland, but I never had the courage. It seemed to be a great way to translate [Pynchon] into a movie.' Yet he recognised that to do so would be, in his words, 'borderline pathological'. He has even hinted that Inherent Vice was a trial run of sorts for his truer passion project. Anderson told Los Angeles Magazine in early 2015, when asked about upcoming ideas, that 'Vineland is really near the top for me. I got bogged down with certain things, but the characters still stick with me, the ideas stick with me, the girl Prairie sticks with me, trying to figure out what happened to her mom and dad.' He concluded, apparently jokingly, 'I mean, either I'll do it or just rip a lot of it off.' Amidst persistent rumours that One Battle After Another adapts – or rips off – Vineland, necessitating Anderson's production company buying the rights to the novel before filming, it is looking increasingly likely that Warners' largesse has finally given Anderson the chance to make a suitably fast-and-loose version of his beloved book. Certainly, he has taken on an impressively difficult task. When Vineland was published in 1990, 17 years after the hugely successful Gravity's Rainbow, it was greeted with a mixture of respect and faint confusion. Its narrative, set in the appropriately Orwellian year of 1984 – Ronald Reagan's re-election – initially focuses on the hippie Zoyd Wheeler, who is pursued, along with his daughter Prairie, by the implacable federal agent Brock Vond. The FBI is attempting to bring down a counter-cultural collective that Wheeler and Prairie's mother Frenesi used to belong to, the aptly named 'People's Republic of Rock and Roll' or 'PR³' for short. Unfortunately, Frenesi is a government informer, selling out her fellow hippies to her on-off lover Vond. Interspersed with copious flashbacks to the Sixties, the novel can be interpreted as a eulogy for the free-thinking and open-minded attitudes of a bygone age, compared with the near-fascistic contemporary era. Yet although the book is a comparatively snappy 384 pages, it is so full of digressions, eccentric supporting characters – step forward Weed Atman, an academic who is treated somewhere between a god and a guru – and cultural allusion that it's a dense, slow read, albeit fascinatingly so. Nonetheless, when it was published, most critics did not see it as the equal of Gravity's Rainbow. Salman Rushdie, then in the midst of the Satanic Verses fall-out, was respectful in the New York Times, calling it 'free-flowing and light and funny and maybe the most readily accessible piece of writing the old Invisible Man ever came up with', but also acknowledged that it was not the book that most readers had expected from Pynchon. As he wrote: 'We heard he was doing something about Lewis and Clark? Mason and Dixon? A Japanese science-fiction novel? And one spring in London a magazine announced the publication of a 900-page Pynchon megabook about the American Civil War, published in true Pynchonian style by a small press nobody ever heard of, and I was halfway to the door before I remembered what date it was, April 1, ho ho ho.' April Fools aside, the Mason and Dixon book would eventually materialise in 1997, and attracted the plaudits that Vineland did not. That novel was criticised by the New York Review of Books' Brad Leithauser in a largely negative review that began 'The further I ventured into Thomas Pynchon's new novel, Vineland, the more pressingly I found myself wondering: For whom is this intended?' Although he acknowledged Pynchon's 'quick intelligence and quirky invention', Leithauser went on to say, sorrowfully, 'one must note that in view of our expectations the book is a disappointment.' This swiftly became the consensus, especially after the publication of the far more popular – if longer – Mason & Dixon seven years later. Even Rushdie, its greatest champion, recognised that the book 'either grabs you or it doesn't'. Most of its readers seemed resolutely ungrabbed. Thirty-five years on, Vineland has yet to undergo a wholescale reappraisal, which may or may not occur in the unlikely event that One Battle After Another both acknowledges its source material and becomes a commercial success. Still, there have been murmurings. In 2010, the Guardian's Andy Beckett wrote that, after Pynchon's 2006 novel Against the Day was published, to exhausted and even dismissive reviews, 'the relatively modest and heartfelt Vineland began to look more of an achievement: not 'a breather between biggies', but perhaps Pynchon's last fully realised novel.' Appropriately enough for a counter-cultural novel, it is much lauded on Reddit, where one commentator breathlessly wrote that Vineland 'is so f_____ unbelievably good its [sic] like he took all the insane complexity of his earlier novels & took the insane pain to write something like 49 or GR & instead wrote a novel where every sentence & paragraph are flawless, it's Nabokov on LSD 25, while Surfing.' Just as Inherent Vice – novel and film alike – may not have been for the mainstream but were ardently welcomed by the aficionados whom Pynchon and Anderson were surely aiming at, so the prospective reunion of elusive author and allusive film-maker promises to be one of 2025's most exciting – if commercially risky – creative marriages. And if Anderson has given the seldom seen Pynchon a cameo, as he was rumoured to have done in Inherent Vice, then that will be all the more reason to head down to the cinema in September.
Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Cain Velasquez's path from UFC star to state prison is one of the most sympathetic imaginable
Just slightly over 12 years, 17 pro fights and six UFC title fights with two separate reigns as UFC heavyweight champion. That was the MMA career of Cain Velasquez. Then on Monday he was sentenced to five years in prison for a range of charges including attempted murder for his assault aimed at a man who'd been accused of molesting his son at a daycare. I can't help but think of a line from Cormac McCarthy's 'No Country For Old Men,' the one about how in life you might think you have some idea where the ride is headed but you might be wrong. No way Velasquez could have seen this coming for himself. Who could? There's probably a parallel universe out there in which we're sitting around right now talking about Velasquez as the greatest heavyweight champ in UFC history. And it's not one of those upside-down worlds where ice cream is health food and broccoli causes heart attacks. It's a world very close to our own but with a few minor tweaks. Maybe in that world Velasquez's knees didn't start to go bad on him right as he snatched the title in 2010. Maybe he didn't feel pressured to go into that first Junior dos Santos fight injured and get face-planted by a right hand in front of nearly 9 million people on network TV. Maybe he showed up in Mexico City a month or two early for that 2015 fight with Fabricio Werdum rather than getting there the week before and letting the elevation get to him. Velasquez only lost three fights in his entire career. That's it. Just three, and all of them to guys who would end up holding the UFC heavyweight title. His win over Brock Lesnar to claim the belt for the first time is still one of my all-time favorite pure butt-whoopings in UFC history, if only because it looked in-person exactly like the kind of David vs. Goliath matchup that martial arts was created to address. When Velasquez first showed up in the UFC he seemed like exactly the type of heavyweight we'd been waiting for. Here, at last, was an actual athlete. He could strike and he could wrestle. He was hard-nosed but also skilled. He fought at an extremely high pace, especially for that division, but he never seemed to get tired. He went 9-0 in the first half of his career, en route to his first meeting with the UFC title. Then he went 5-3 to close it out. After that, of course, came a brief stint as a pro wrestler. Then this, where he chased a man through traffic firing a .40 caliber pistol as he went, driven by a mad, though understandable rage. Of all the paths a retired MMA fighter might take to a prison sentence for attempted murder, Velasquez's is one of the most sympathetic imaginable. Even the judge who sentenced him on Monday noted that Velasquez was not a threat to public safety, calling his 'a tragic case.' Many of us can understand what motivated Velasquez to do what he did, while also understanding that you just can't go around shooting at people in heavy traffic and not expect to see the inside of a prison cell. The specifics of Velasquez's case were part of what made him sympathetic to the MMA community, but it was also the fact that he was so beloved. No one really ever had anything bad to say about him. And that's almost never true about anyone who's spent any amount of time in this sport. His sentencing certainly could have been much worse. At times after his initial arrest in 2022, it seemed that Velasquez might spent decades behind bars. Now, with credit for time served, he could conceivably be out a little over a year from now. Though, with everything his family has been through, you also can't say he's getting off easy. I remember after Velasquez lost that first fight to dos Santos in 2011. It was his first professional loss and it cost him the title he'd taken off Lesnar a year earlier. He'd been dealing with knee issues even then, but since he was the defending champ in the one and only fight the UFC scheduled for that first appearance on FOX following a landmark TV deal, he felt he couldn't pull out of the bout. About a minute into the fight he took a hard right hand behind the ear and that was that. A couple days later I was in the AKA gym on an unrelated assignment and Velasquez came walking in. I was surprised to see him so soon after the fight. He wasn't there to train. He was just hanging out, seeing his friends. As his head coach Javier Mendez told me, Velasquez spent so much of his life in the gym that, in moments like this, he didn't know where else to go. It was like he just got in the car and ended up there through sheer muscle memory. What I remember is how mostly unbothered he seemed just a couple days after losing his title. It wasn't that he didn't care so much as he wasn't dwelling on it. I tried, as gently as I could, to ask him why that was. Velasquez sort of shrugged and told me he wasn't worried. He was sure he'd get the belt back soon. He did, too. I remember being impressed by that certainty, especially in this uncertain sport. Here was a man who was so confident in his own abilities that he felt he knew what was coming. But then, a lot of us think at times that we know what's coming or what life has in store for us. And a lot of us end up being wrong.
Yahoo
14-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Paul Di'Anno's final interview to appear in Iron Maiden documentary
A documentary film about Iron Maiden will feature a final interview with the band's former singer Paul Di'Anno, who died aged 66 last year. Band members past and present including Di'Anno, who sang with the band between 1978 and 1981, take part in the untitled Iron Maiden feature documentary, which comes out in the band's 50th anniversary year. The heavy rockers, formed in 1975 in east London, have sold more than 100 million records, and performed over 2,500 concerts in 64 countries across six continents. Later this year they will add to this number as the band embark on their Run For Your Lives Tour kicking off in Budapest, Hungary, in May. Rod Smallwood, manager of Iron Maiden, said: 'We're proud Universal Pictures Content Group has chosen to share the unique story of Iron Maiden with the world. We have given them unrestricted access to the band, our fans and musical peers. 'We trust that they will excite not only music fans but also anyone who loves a story of an underdog beating the odds to become and remain one of Britain's biggest musical exports since our first record released 45 years ago.' Fans were also interviewed for the film along with famous faces such as No Country For Old Men and Skyfall star Javier Bardem, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich and Kiss musician Gene Simmons, while the band's ghoulish mascot Eddie is brought to life via animation. For most of the last few decades, guitarists Dave Murray, Adrian Smith, Janick Gers, lead singer Bruce Dickinson, bassist Steve Harris, and drummer Michael 'Nicko' McBrain, who has been replaced with Simon Dawson for the latest series of concerts after retiring in 2024, have been the main line-up. Previous members have included singer Blaze Bayley, drummers Barry 'Thunderstick' Purkis and Doug Sampson, guitarist Dennis Stratton, and keyboardist Tony Moore. Di'Anno featured on their 1980 debut album and its follow-up Killers, singing on songs such as Running Free, Sanctuary and Remember Tomorrow, and later had guest appearances with Iron Maiden, after being replaced by Dickinson. The film is promised as 'an emotive journey through Iron Maiden's 50-year history told from the perspective of both the band and some of their most devoted followers'. Helen Parker, executive vice president at Universal Pictures Content Group and executive producer, said: 'We're thrilled Iron Maiden have entrusted us to bring their legacy to cinemas around the world. 'Working closely with the band and their passionate fans has been an unrivalled experience allowing us to tell their story in a unique way and celebrate their incomparable fearless creativity in their 50th anniversary year.' It is directed by Malcolm Venville, who directed the Netflix docu-series Churchill At War, and produced by Dominic Freeman, who worked on the Depeche Mode film Spirits In The Forest. Iron Maiden has had a number one in the UK with 1988 single Bring Your Daughter… To The Slaughter and 35 songs in the top 40, according to the Official Charts Company. They have also had five number one albums including Fear Of The Dark, The Book Of Souls, The Final Frontier, Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son and The Number Of The Beast, with the latest record, 2021's Senjutsu, making it to number two in the UK charts. The Universal Pictures Content Group said the film is set for an autumn 2025 release in cinemas internationally.
