The Lone Ranger
William Fichtner ("Drive Angry 3D," "Armageddon") has been hired to replace Dwight Yoakam in Gore Verbinski's "The Lone Ranger" project at Disney Pictures.
Fichtner will play the villain Butch Cavendish, the role Yoakam dropped out of on Friday because of a scheduling conflict. [Source: Deadline]
Holy Mackerel
Geoffrey Rush is being sought for the lead role in "Holy Mackrel", the new name for "Divine Rapture" which previously came close to production back in 1995 with Marlon Brando, Johnny Depp and Debra Winger.
The story revolves around a machinist who is declared a saint after apparently rising from her coffin at a funeral, Rush would play a priest. Production designer Glenda Ganis penned the script and shooting aims to kick off this Summer in Ireland. Barry Navidi will produce. [Source: The Guardian]
Cavalry
Isaach de Bankole ("The Limits of Control," "White Material") and David Wilmot ("Michael Collins," "Intermission") have joined the cast of...
William Fichtner ("Drive Angry 3D," "Armageddon") has been hired to replace Dwight Yoakam in Gore Verbinski's "The Lone Ranger" project at Disney Pictures.
Fichtner will play the villain Butch Cavendish, the role Yoakam dropped out of on Friday because of a scheduling conflict. [Source: Deadline]
Holy Mackerel
Geoffrey Rush is being sought for the lead role in "Holy Mackrel", the new name for "Divine Rapture" which previously came close to production back in 1995 with Marlon Brando, Johnny Depp and Debra Winger.
The story revolves around a machinist who is declared a saint after apparently rising from her coffin at a funeral, Rush would play a priest. Production designer Glenda Ganis penned the script and shooting aims to kick off this Summer in Ireland. Barry Navidi will produce. [Source: The Guardian]
Cavalry
Isaach de Bankole ("The Limits of Control," "White Material") and David Wilmot ("Michael Collins," "Intermission") have joined the cast of...
- 2/23/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
None of us have enough on the long-dormant Divine Rapture to estimate its overall quality, but there has to be something special in material that lets a producer hold on for seventeen years. This is the situation with Barry Navidi, who’s been holding out hope for a Glenda Ganis-penned religious tale — one which would’ve starred Marlon Brando, Johnny Depp, and Debra Winger — that was struck down after the proper financing fell through in 1995. (A failed venture that ended up bankrupting the Irish village of Ballycotton, Co Cork and many of its citizens in the meantime.)
With, for lack of a better phrase, the patience of a saint, Navidi has waiting for Rapture to get its due, and now might finally be the time. When speaking to The Belfast Telegraph (via The Guardian), the producer announced that he’s “going to do it within the next six months...
With, for lack of a better phrase, the patience of a saint, Navidi has waiting for Rapture to get its due, and now might finally be the time. When speaking to The Belfast Telegraph (via The Guardian), the producer announced that he’s “going to do it within the next six months...
- 2/23/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
The first sign things were going wrong on the set of Divine Rapture was when Marlon Brando shaved his head. But that was the least of the film's troubles
If all the roads in Ireland were to converge at a final destination, you would probably find yourself in Ballycotton, Co Cork. A tiny village on a rocky headland, it is as removed and cosy as its name suggests. Its harbour is stocked with a colourful fishing fleet and traditional music seeps from the pubs on Main Street. Despite an annual running marathon that passes through the town, it is slow-paced, sleepy, and cocooned from the outside world. But although 200-ft cliffs keep the Atlantic at bay and an offshore lighthouse looks out for danger, nothing could protect Ballycotton from nature's cruellest force: Hollywood.
Back in 1995, Johnny Depp, Debra Winger, and Marlon Brando rolled into town to make a film called Divine Rapture.
If all the roads in Ireland were to converge at a final destination, you would probably find yourself in Ballycotton, Co Cork. A tiny village on a rocky headland, it is as removed and cosy as its name suggests. Its harbour is stocked with a colourful fishing fleet and traditional music seeps from the pubs on Main Street. Despite an annual running marathon that passes through the town, it is slow-paced, sleepy, and cocooned from the outside world. But although 200-ft cliffs keep the Atlantic at bay and an offshore lighthouse looks out for danger, nothing could protect Ballycotton from nature's cruellest force: Hollywood.
Back in 1995, Johnny Depp, Debra Winger, and Marlon Brando rolled into town to make a film called Divine Rapture.
- 11/26/2009
- The Guardian - Film News
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