Showing posts with label saul bass. Show all posts
Showing posts with label saul bass. Show all posts

Thursday, March 08, 2007

Bunny Lake Is Rescued?

Reese Witherspoon has quit Joe Carnahan's remake of Bunny Lake is Missing. The film's start date is fixed, leaving the producers - well, those that remain, as Reese was amongst their ranks initially - trying to find a replacement.

I think this might save the film. What do I mean? Possibly not what you expect. I like Reese just fine. But I think this might crash the project, leaving it without a director. As far as I can tell, the script by Doug Wright is very, very strong, and deserves a better man than Carnahan. He can go off and do White Jazz which is highly unlikely to have such a good script.

Soderbergh's the man for the Bunny job. Here's hoping it lands on his desk soon.

In the meantime, let's all enjoy the DVD of Otto Preminger's original Bunny Lake is Missing
one more time - even if, for some reason, the incredible Saul Bass poster art isn't used on the disc's cover. D'oh!

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

The Prisoner Poster

This poster for The Prisoner, Or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair showed up on the International Movie Poster Awards site. As they said, it does indeed have obvious echoes of the work of Saul Bass.

The documentary feature, directed by husband and wife team Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein opens in just a handful of US cinemas on March 23rd.