Here's a new one! I had not heard of the Coen Brothers new one HAIL CAESAR! but it features Channing Tatum doing a sailor number (a la Gene Kelly?) , and Ralph Fiennes and Tilda Swinton are in it too (see A BIGGER SPLASH below), along with Clooney ..... sounds intriguing at the very least !
The BFI says: "25 years after BARTON FINK the Coens revist Capitol Pictures with another colourful portrait of studio-era Hollywood. This time its the 1950s and Capitol boss Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) is making a prestige Roman epic, but all hell breaks loose when star George Clooney is kidnapped. Many familiar faces - Tilda Swinton as Hedda Hopper (didn't Helen Mirren also portray Hopper in TRUMBO..) - populate an extraordinary cast." There's also Tatum doing a camp musical number, and Scarlett Johansson as perhaps Esther Williams doing a swimming number ....
We can see it when it opens here in March, (There really was an Eddie Mannix at MGM back in the day, a Mr Fixit for the stars).
Michael! :Hail, Caesar!" is terrific. I've a hunch you'll like it. And for the record, Tilda Swinton dos not play Hedda Hopper but - get this - twin gossip columnists, Thora and Thessaly Thacker, both hugely competitive and both deliciously venomous.
ReplyDeleteI was less impressed with the trailer than you seemed to be but, of course, anything by the Coens is essential and with that cast! I have a ticket to see it at the Savoy in Dublin (massive screen) on Saturday morning.
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