EF was fortunate enough to be invited along to the premiere of Robert Pattinson’s latest drama Remember Me, which is released in cinemas today. We caught up with Robert, his co-star Emilie de Ravin and one of the film’s producers Nick Osborne as they discussed the making of one of this year’s finest films.
Robert Pattinson had been looking for a new direction between Twilight sequels and literally read hundreds of scripts before picking Remember Me. He liked the naturalistic dialogue of the story and how the story dealt with grief. He also noted that this character starts and ends the movie as pretty much the same guy- it was a young part devoid of the usual Hollywood transitions when everything ties up nicely at the end. He joked that he doesn’t really like anything so picking a next project was easy. He clearly isn’t driven by money either so when the opportunity for Remember Me came along, he knew it was the right project. Robert also feels like these types of movies aren’t around very much today and saw a gap in the market to do such a narrative.
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Entertainment Focus also did a review of "Remember Me". Here's a snippet.
Robert Pattinson hands in an accomplished performance here full of substance and worth. He is most definitely a character-actor on the basis of this and he manages to handle the complexities of Tyler Hawkins perfectly. Remember Me will hopefully go some way to prove to non-believers that Pattinson is a genuine talent that will no doubt have a diverse, successful and long-lasting career in the future. He is supported beautifully by Emilie de Ravin who manages to make Ally Craig more than just a love interest; she is the catalyst for Tyler to find peace in his life. de Ravin takes a break from Lost and reminds us all that she is a capable actress with an ability to raise her game when called upon. The two share an organic chemistry that easily convinces us that Tyler and Ally are a believable couple. You want them to end up together and you want them to save each other such is the intensity of their onscreen romance. Pierce Brosnan also does well in fleshing out the supporting role of Tyler’s highly-strung but conflicted father Charles Hawkins. He manages to build a great rapport with Pattinson and their father-son exchanges are a joy to watch unfold.
Go here to read the rest! (slight spoilers if you haven't seen the movie yet)
Thanks to Jason for sending the links to us.
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28 comments:
This was a pretty good review, however, I was not conflicted with the ending. Art imitates life!
The review is a little 'breathless' but that's understandable... ;)
If anyone in the UK is interested in another kind of conference - blame Rob for this one, too, lol:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/apr/06/vampire-conference-literature-hertfordshire
Great review!! Love the pic with Pierce, this is when he is saying one of the best lines in the movie!!
I gotta run but because I linked to Hertfordshire - please, Mike, consider BD. I know you're tired but I'm down on my knees...lol
@AP
Thank you for the link. I have read the article and I am going to make a comment there.
@LTvares: you're welcome and thanks for the b.o. update on RM.
Well - it sounds like they are saying Condon for Breaking Dawn, which is fine, but not my fav choice - dammit. Ah, Mike...
Lovely review! I fear the ending will be a source of eternal controversy, but there we are.
@LTavares thanks for the BO numbers update, and I hope RM will do well in my country (France).
@AP
Of course I prefere Gus Van Sant, mostly because he is a sugestion of Rob, but Condon is a good director. I have seen Kinsey, Dreamgirls and Gods and Monsters, that he did with one of my favourite actors: Sir Ian McKellen (Gandalf of Lord of Rings). Thank you. Remember Me is still alive!!!
@WhyIstheRumAlwaysGone
Thank you. Remember Me is still alive and kicking!!! It is great!!!
Remember Me played in my town for 3 weeks. It played in the mountain community near my town for 3 1/2 weeks but now the other theater chain in that mountain town is bringing it back. Had to go up there today to see Summit's Ghost Writer. I think politics are involved.
Now this reviewer "gets it".
According to Box Office Mojo, today:
United Kingdom and Ireland and Malta $1,501,749, as of: 4/4/10, the release date was:4/2/10.
I too went over and left my 2 cents on this site as well. Well. Okay. My $1.98. I'm sorry. I just don't know how to say what I want to say in a paragraph...or 12 (part of that crazy brain thingy I guess). But I was nice and thanked them for their lovely review and then (nicely) told them that they got the end wrong.
And is it true that Bill Condon is going to direct BD? He's a good filmmaker although I too would have loved to see what Gus Van Sant could have done with it. But I never held out too much hope for him. He's too much the maverick and I just couldn't see him letting the studio (and especially Stephenie Meyer) tie his hands. But at least they're naming someone...FINALLY! Directors usually need about 6 months for pre-production. Although I'm a bit confused about the start date. I'd heard initially, September. But then I heard it got pushed back to November. Then I just read in that Scottish (I think) interview that BD would be wrapped by years end and that Rob was then going to start shooting Unbound Captives at the beginning of next year. Which is HALLELUIAH news. But not if they're waiting until Novemeber to start BD. Which doesn't make sense. What are they waiting for? Get the damn thing done and with this going to be two films, they're going to have a longer shoot than they did for the others.
Who knows? It's the movie business. But the fact that they're naming a director tells me, they're goona shoot this sooner rather than later. I just got one worry here...
If they shave his head so that he can play 'old' Jacob in WFE and then they have to put Edward in a wig for BD, I am going to bring a flame thrower to the theatre and shoot it through the screen.
YOU CANNOT PUT EDWARD CULLEN IN A WIG. THAT WOULD GO AGAINST THE LAWS OF NATURE AND I WILL NOT HAVE IT!!!
@Nik: lol - no flames as no shaving. No plans for Rob to play Old Jacob so far, and the part seems considerably less than in the book...
Buzz is Condon but, of course, we all have to wait for 'confirmation.' Last I heard prospective start date was mid-October...
@LTavares: I like Condon more as a writer than as a director, and "Gods and Monsters" deserved to win. I am also a fan of Sir Ian. He can be very funny... Gus Van Sant is terrific but I don't know if he'd be attracted to this material. I still wish Mike Newell could do it. I know - saying it over and over doesn't make it so...lol
Nicola6...
The first comment I've seen from you in a while. You always make me laugh.
Flame thrower...reminds me of when Buffy blew away 'the judge', second season.
Aw, come on, they're not going to make Rob play old Jacob, are they? Shave his head? Sacrilege.
What kind of hair would he have in Unbound Captives? Didn't some of the Indians have Mohawk cuts in Mochicans??
And Edward with a wig?? You're joking, right.
Pass over the flame thrower, or tell me where I can get a good price on one, Nik.
Nicola...
Maybe I'll add my $2 worth there too.
I put in a 'review' on Amazon (for RM DVD) and I googled it later and found out I was being quoted on other sites. It's called 'spread the word'.
By the way on the thread with those gorgeous head shots of Rob sans hats from Bel Ami--today or yesterday--a few of us got going talking about critics. Some of you might have interesting things to add over there.
Well here I am at 3 in the morning wide awake like an up all night bat writing on another dead thread.
Ain't insomnia grand? But just in case anyone wanders back...
Hey AP...Were they really considering Mike Newell? Oh don't tell me that. He was my 'secret' choice all along. Now I'm gonna cry. I like Bill Condon though. Well. I liked Gods And Monsters. But with his penchant for musicals (he's done more musical stuff than just Dreamgirls, hasn't he? Didn't he produce last years 'musical' Oscars with Hugh Jackman?), what if he got a bee in his bonnet and in the middle of all the angst he decided the film needed a little levity and staged...'Forks High School Musical' with Edward and Bella in the Zac/Vanessa roles? Oh dear god. Actually, that would so cautastrophically unimaginable that it might actually turn out brilliant...in all of it's horror (can you tell it's late? I'm spiraling down into psychosis).
And hi there Jessegirl...Don't you want him to play old Jacob? I sure do. And you can bet your house that Rob wants to do it to. THAT'S the great challenge of this role. Can they believeably age a 24 year old seventy years without having to rely on a boatload of CGI? If they can do it and he can pull this off, he could end up with his first Oscar nomination next year. It's that kind of role. They did it with Dustin Hoffman back in 1970before the days of CGI. With just makeup and his talent, at 32 they aged him to 110. Oh and the film was Little Big Man. Yeah, I sure hope they let him play old Jacob. And I'm guessing that once he wraps Bel Ami (this week?) he'll be hightailing his little butt back to LA 'cause he's got some serious pre-production before that May 22 start date; he's gotta spend alot of time with those critters so that he's comfortable with them and they with him, he's got to spend hours in that make up chair trying to find old Jacob's 'look' and to see if they can age him believeably (I promise you, he wants to use as little CGI as possible) and then he'd have to go spend some time observing old people. Most likely at the Motion Picture Retirement Home in Malibu. Yeah, he's gonna be a busy boy for the next several weeks. And I'm guessing AP that Rob is going to play the entire role. Unless they determine that it's simply beyond his reach and I don't think they think that 'cause if they did, they probably wouldn't have cast him in the first place. I think he can do it. And I got no objection with him shaving his head for a role. My objection is messing with that hair when he's got to play Edward Cullen one last time and if he does shave it off, he won't have time to grow it back. He's gonna have to cut it shorter anyway because young men back in the 30's weren't running around with 'Rob' hair. But if this shoots from late May to most likely late August and they start filming in mid/late October or early November, that would give him 2-3 months to grow it out enough to give Edward his 'do.' Remember the buzz cut of December 2008? And just two months later in late February, he showed up at the Oscars looking like he'd never touched it? Hmmm...maybe he could shave it off. Nah. Don't chance it babe. As for what would he look like in Unbound Captives? Next post.
I know some have said they can't wait to see Rob looking liking an Indian with long, straight black hair and tanned skin. The tanned skin? Yes. Phin would have been living for years out in the sun and his skin would be a golden brown. However, with Rob's fair skin and with all those moles I saw on his back in that shirtless scene in RM (that sent a little red flag up for me as moles are indications that our bodies like to 'grow' things and since he cannot see his own back, he needs to have those checked periodically by a dermatologist and I'm not being an alarmist here. He's got an unusual amount of moles on his back and he NEEDS to stay out of the sun). Anyway, I would not recommend that Rob go bake himself in the sun in order to get a natural tan. Screw that (probably wouldn't have time to do it anyway). They can spray one on him (just stay away from that 'orange' shit babe). As for his hair...
Just because Phin has been abucted and raised by the Camanches, that wouldn't mean that he would then suddenly metamorphis into an Indian with long, straight, black hair. He'd still be a white man. If I were doing his look? Golden skin, long flowing hair (not straight but more lion mane...ish, picture Rome Rob only with long hair), his own light brown hair color with natural looking golden highlights that would look as though he'd spent years in the sun (which his character would have). As for his body hair (arms, legs, chest, facial stubble), I'd leave it. It'd be ridiculous to shave his body to make him look like an Indian because he wouldn't be an Indian...genetically speaking. And I don't know that the Camanches had shaving paraphenalia out on the praires in the 1850's because why would they have need of such? No. He's an Indian...culturally. But his look? A carmel skinned, wild haired 'white' Indian...with body hair. I got a question though...
I'm gonna guess that if Rob did shave his head to play old Jacob, that alot around here would object to that. Would people object if he gained 30 lbs. for a role? Or if he played roles in which he buried that singular beauty? If he played a burn victim covered in scars like Ralph Fiennes in The English Patient? Well. I think we may see some of that in some of Rob's future roles. And if he does show up now and again onscreen not looking so beautiful, would his fans still support that or do they just want to see him as his gorgeous self? I'm really curious about this.
But be prepared. Me thinks like Johnny Depp before him, that Rob isn't interested in 'playing' beautiful every time up to bat. Just a hunch.
Allrighty then. Guess I better try to lay my head down for a few. I don't even know why I'm doing this. Nobody's gonna see it. I'm just sitting here playing with myself, huh?
Okay. That didn't come out right.
@Nik: Well, I heard whispers about Newell and I was hoping against hope, and I'll lend you a hanky, but I have to wring it out first...
No - need it still because I'm laughing so hard at Forks HS musical I'm crying....Would I pay to see the Cullen tapdance number? Oh, yeah....lol
Just an addenda about Old Jacob - I think they've cut the nursing home scenes and he just appears in scenes with Charlie. A lot of prep work for a small amount of screentime. Not saying it won't happen but odds aren't great as there is much other demanding preparation - as you mention.Of course, that means more Young Jacob on screen...;)
Wait a minute. They're cutting most of old Jacob's scenes? Wow. That stuns me. It changes the entire story for me and I must admit, doesn't make near as interesting a story. Those scenes with old Jacob were heartbreaking and made you feel what it is to be old. To know that all that you loved; the people, the life that you lived is gone and you want it back so badly. You want your life back. I recommended this book to six different people and they all fell in love with it. All of it. This was a rather successful book and I'm going to take a guess here and say, if they exclude old Jacob from the film, alot of those who love this book are going to see the film as a butchery of the story and of this character. Just an opinion. I think this is a mistake.
Although Richard LaGravenese is a terrific writer (his forte is writing women's roles though) and I'll just have to hope that they know what they're doing and that it will be okay. It's just that I get very protective of books that I love and I LOVE this one. And I understand that books have to be adapted to the screen and you lose things along the way. But you remove old Jacob from this story and you remove a big piece of it's heart. And if they do, then this won't be the role I had envisioned for Rob. It will be a standard leading man role for him and that'll be fine. But it won't bring him to the attention of the Oscars like playing a character he'd have to age seventy years for would.
I hope this isn't true but it wouldn't surprise me if it is. It would be a much easier endeavor if they don't have to age a 24 year old man to 93. But I can't help but think that it was THAT aspect of the story that might have been what drew Rob to it in the first place. The challenge of it. Not that he wouldn't have been drawn to other things. His love of animals being one.
I dunno. This has really bummed me out.
But wait. They have to have old Jacob, at least at the end. They absolutely cannot change that unexpected, delightful and whimsical ending. They can't. If they do, it won't be the same story. And if they're going to go to all the time and expense to age Rob for just a few scenes at the end, then why not film a few more?
Did I say I was bummed? I'll go further than that. I think my whole day has been shot. Who's producing this?
Dear Whoever the hell is producing this...
Please don't ruin my book.
@Nik: No, no - not that extreme - he's not removed. He still bookends the film, and yes the ending is still there, just changed in a couple of little details. The pathos, charm and delight of the ending remains. Being brutally logistic, they may simply not use Rob because otherwise he doesn't really get a break, and they can't film around him very much. I think given everything Rob has to do in this film he'd still be a contender...
Okay. I guess I can see that. Opening the story with old Jacob, setting it up and then closing it with that wonderful ending intact. That could work. But I still say (unless the decision has already been made that he's not going to do it) that Rob is going to fight to do this. This is the kind of stuff actor's dream of. Literally. They dream about it.
As for him having some time off. Well. They're going to have to give him some time off at the end of June so that he can go do promotion for Eclipse. Now, he certainly isn't going to be able to do a 3-4 week juggernaunt around the world as he did with the first two films. But he's gonna have to do some. Being here in California he'll most likely do Jay and Ellen and KTLA in the Morning (that's the big entertainment morning news show here in LA) and of course attend the LA premiere (and maybe hop him over the pond for the London premiere) and he'll have to do the day long interview thing where they bring one reporter in after another...all damn day long. So yeah, a bit of a break from WFE although I guess it won't be much of a break as he'll be working. The thing is...
If this is a long, grueling shoot for him, three plus months, with lots of physicality and perhaps some extensive time in a make up chair, they can schedule him in 4-5 days off about midway through. That's not unheard of. I just don't think that this being a tough shoot for him would make him hesitate to take on the role of old Jacob if they think he can do it. I mean, physically and emotionally act the role.
I guess we'll find out soon enough. Does anyone know who's directing this? With the start date just six weeks away, the director's gotta be on board. Who is it? Have they said yet?
@Nik: I imagine you're not 'on' at the moment, but if you come back and read - my last little note regarding the contender bit... There is a magical little scene fairly early on by a stream where Jacob sings a bit, and if Rob n' all get it right...it already makes me hold my breath to think of it. I hope they keep it in. I can't wait for this film -but then I'm a masochist...lol Catch you later.
@Nik: Just saw your comment. Yes, they'll have to give him time to promote Eclipse a little, but that's why I don't think they'll be able to give him too much more, and they can't extend too far or they'll run into BDawn prep. Rob does seem to go for a non-stop schedule...
Francis Lawrence is directing. Gotta go but again, I'll catch up later.
Nik...
I went to bed at 4 am, my time, last night. I get the insomnia.
I sound so pathetically shallow about the hair and I know it. But Rob is definitely his own man and might even want to play the old guy just to destroy the Edward image once and for all.(But, shallow me says...sigh...)
I remember Dustin Hoffman's role and WFE would have Oscar cachet I agree. And, yes, in the book old Jacob and his nursing home environment did play a pretty big role, not just framing the story, but interspersed.
AP..I'd forgotten about singing Jacob. Wow, that would be nice.
Nik...
Unbound C. Yeah you're right about what he would, probably have to look like. But what kind of tribe are they? Not with the Mohawk haircuts?? Comanche?
Musical BD??
Did you watch Buffy?
Remember the musical episode, which was pure magic (because it was Joss Whedon, duh).
But if he plays old Jacob they'll compare him to Dustin and try to skewer him.
With RM the James Dean references are everywhere. I should watch 'Rebel' again. I don't think it's actually as good as everyone remembers. But it now has been deemed a classic and won't be pitched off that pedestal. I think, in RM, Rob was better than Jimmy Dean. I'll have to compare.
Dean was fantastic in East of Eden though.
@Nik: Don't know if you'll revisit this but forgot one more thing about the ending that has changed a little in the production script –Old Jacob’s last scene is not with an orangutan but with an elephant. They’re not shooting yet, so I don’t count it as a spoiler, lol, but it seems a reasonable change.
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