Tuesday, July 7
Variety reports that Clifton Collins Jr. has joined the cast of the upcoming thriller The Experiment, a group that already includes Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Elijah Wood, and Twilight actor Cam Gigandet.
You may remember Collins as the elusive hitman in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic. In Capote, he played vicious killer Perry Smith, the subject of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Collins also appears in the upcoming Mike Judge movie Extract.
The Experiment, which begins shooting in Iowa next week, is based on the 2001 German thriller Das Experiment, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel and starring Moritz Bleibtreu (Run Lola Run). Like the original, this remake will tell the story of a group of individuals selected to participatein a psychological study. They are put into a mock prison in which halfof the participants are prisoners, the other half guards. As theexperiment progresses, the participants fall deeper into their roles,resulting in abusive treatment.
Prison Break writer Paul Scheuring is directing the movie from his own script, which was based on the novel by Mario Giordano(who also wrote the screenplay of the 2001 movie). InfernoEntertainment and Magnet Media Group are financing the movie, whichdoes not yet have a specific release date.
The story idea is based in part on the1971 Stanford Prison Project, which involved undergraduates at Stanfordparticipating in a similar study in the basement of the university'spsychology building. The study was planned for two weeks but had to beabandoned after six days. You can read more about it on the study's official site.
Posted 7/7/2009 by Rich Z
Related: Das Experiment | Paul Scheuring | The Experiment | Clifton Collins Jr.
Friday, June 19
Variety reports that Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Elijah Wood, and Twilight actor Cam Gigandet have all agreed to star in an English-language remake of Das Experiment, the 2001 German thriller directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel and starring Moritz Bleibtreu (Run Lola Run).
Like the original, this new movie – simply titled The Experiment – will tell the story of a group of individuals selected to participate in a psychological study. They are put into a mock prison in which half of the participants are prisoners, the other half guards. As the experiment progresses, the participants fall deeper into their roles, resulting in abusive treatment.
Prison Break writer Paul Scheuring is directing the movie from his own script, which was based on the novel by Mario Giordano (who also wrote the screenplay of the 2001 movie). Inferno Entertainment and Magnet Media Group are financing the movie, which does not yet have a specific release date.
The story idea for The Experiment is based in part on the 1971 Stanford Prison Project, which involved undergraduates at Stanford participating in a similar study in the basement of the university's psychology building. The study was planned for two weeks but had to be abandoned after six days. You can read more about it on the study's official site.
Posted 6/19/2009 by Rich Z
Related: Adrien Brody | Forest Whitaker | Moritz Bleibtreu | Das Experiment | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Elijah Wood | Paul Scheuring | Twilight | Cam Gigandet