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    • The Taking of Pelham 123

      (2009) R

      Directed by: Tony Scott

      Starring: Denzel Washington, John Travolta, John Turturro

      Overview: Based on the novel by John Godey.

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Thursday, June 11

  • The Taking of Pelham 123 Subway Tour

    The Taking of Pelham 123Sony gave a private press tour of some of the forgotten Byzantine labyrinth beneath New York City's streets as part of its promotion of The Taking of Pelham 123. The warren of abandoned subway stations and caverns play a significant role in the story, and part of the reason for the press tour may have been to make sure people realize that filmmakers didn't just make it all up.

    In fact, as director Tony Scott emphasized earlier, the subway itself is one of the real stars of the movie, and he went to great lengths to make filming down there as real as possible. UGO has some cool pictures from the event, including shots of the abandoned City Hall Station, the Wine Cellar, and other atmospheric bits and pieces of discarded urban infrastructure.


    The Taking of Pelham 123 - Trailer

    Denzel Washington & John Travolta Star - Releases June 12

    Posted 06/11/2009 by Bill

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  • Tony Scott Talks About His Warriors Remake

    Cinema Blend recently spoke with director Tony Scott and got some details about his remake of the 1979 movie The Warriors, which deals with gang violence on the streets of Coney Island, New York. Scott's adaptation, due sometime in 2010, transports the action to the streets of Los Angeles:

    L.A. is now the city of the future. If it's the Warriors, it's sunset and it's quiet. I've got a whole different feel. I'm letting it breathe in a different way.

    He then went into detail about the movie's opening, explicitly mentioning gang leader Cyrus, the protagonist:

    Then on the Vincent Thomas Bridge, which is Long Beach, you have a thousand gang members up there, then Cyrus goes "bang." It's almost like 9/11, bodies coming off, it just goes ballistic. Then these guys have got to get from the Vincent Thomas back to Venice, through all these different gang territories. And it becomes anarchy. The gangs are meeting, they're meeting for a truce. Just like they were in the original. But once that truce is broken, they go back to their turf. And our guys, the Warriors, they've got to get back to their turf, back to Venice.

    Sounds very Michael Bay-ish. Here's the trailer for the 1979 movie, which was directed by Walter Hill and based on the book of same name by Sol Yurick:


    Posted 06/11/2009 by Rich Z

    Related: Tony Scott | Walter Hill | Michael Bay | The Warriors | The Warriors

Monday, June 1

  • Three New Clips and a Featurette from The Taking of Pelham 123

    The Taking of Pelham 123Not all the action in The Taking of Pelham 123 takes place down in the subway or in the offices of the MTA. Three new clips from the movie show off some intense car chase scenes, as well as the more personal negotiations between the amateur hostage negotiator Garber (Denzel Washington) and his wife (Aunjanue Ellis) as he prepares to head into danger.

    There's also a new featurette that descends back into "the darkness and the grittiness of the bowels of New York" for some commentary by director Tony Scott and the cast on the the film's other star, the subway itself.


    Posted 06/01/2009 by Bill

    Related: Denzel Washington | Tony Scott | Aunjanue Ellis | The Taking of Pelham 123

Wednesday, May 20

  • Reverse-engineering and Rip-offs in The Taking of Pelham 123

    The Taking of Pelham 123In an interview with Film Journal, director Tony Scott explains that for him making a movie is a lot like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. He doesn't start with a complete script. Instead he starts with the real-life situations and characters he is interested in and tries to figure out how they might work together.

    For example, he says he "reverse-engineered" Ryder, the lead hijacker in The Taking of Pelham 123 starting with a real former New York City contractor with a chip on his shoulder for doing 12 years in prison. This gave him a template for a character motivated by revenge and also helped set the stage for what he calls "the third character" in the movie, the city that wronged Ryder.

    Scott, who calls himself a "great plagiarist," isn't afraid to borrow liberally from earlier movies either. And the influences aren't always what you might expect. The complicated time-lapse sequence of New York City at the beginning of Pelham is, he confesses, a "rip-off" of a scene from the 1982 documentary Koyaanisqatsi.


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    Denzel Washington & John Travolta Star - Releasing June 12, 2009

    Posted 05/20/2009 by Bill

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Saturday, May 16

  • Beyond Good and Evil in The Taking of Pelham 123

    The Taking of Pelham 123An Esquire preview of Tony Scott's new interpretation of The Taking of Pelham 123 compares the characters in the remake to those of 1970s original and finds them refreshingly gray.

    It starts out just like the reviewer expected it to: "It's fast and violent and profane. It's unmistakably modern, and, sure enough, it's loud as hell." The characters come off as mostly black and white, good or evil. Denzel Washington plays Garber, a regular out-of-shape Joe who just happens to find himself on the other end of the radio with a team of ruthless hijackers. John Travolta takes up the other end, as the ruthless hijacker Ryder, a stereotype of pure evil.

    But then things got a little more complicated:

    ... as Garber and Ryder talk, and revelations are made, and they begin to make their confessions to each other, the lines begin to blur. Garber -- who has his own mixed emotions -- isn't all that good, and Ryder -- who believes the city has done him significant wrong -- isn't all that evil.

    The director's willingness to think outside the box on good and evil extended to some of the other characters as well. Looking for real life personalities to model Travolta's accomplices on, Scott tells Esquire that he

    unearthed a pair of real crazed Albanians who may or may not have spent time in prison ... and eventually they jobbed their way into parts in the actual movie ... "Now they want to be actors," Scott says with a shake of his head, perhaps wondering whether he's saved us from two monsters or created two more.

    Overall, the review concludes, Scott really has managed to one-up the original, and his version of Pelham is that "rare popcorn movie in which we're never sure whose side everyone is on or where they might end up."


    The Taking of Pelham 123 - Trailer

    Denzel Washington & John Travolta Star - Releasing June 12, 2009

    Posted 05/16/2009 by Bill

    Related: Denzel Washington | John Travolta | Tony Scott | The Taking of Pelham 123

Thursday, May 7

  • The Taking of Pelham 123 Makes the Subway a Star

    The Taking of Pelham 123The New York Times goes down into the tunnels with the makers of The Taking of Pelham 123 to get some face time with the movie's 400-ton star. Subways have been a hot spot for cinematic terror lately. Witness the truly harrowing train crash sequence in Knowing. Here the train is even more critical to the action and the atmosphere.

    In Tony Scott's remake of the 1974 classic hostage thriller, every effort was made to keep it real by filming as much as possible inside the actual New York City subway. "I feel that's always been my m. o. -- it's something about touching the real world," says the director. Not an easy feat in this case, considering that the train system there never sleeps, and shows little deference to star power even for the likes of John Travolta, who plays an angry, neck-tattooed hijacker, or Denzel Washington, who plays a doughy, good-guy train dispatcher. And, of course, they always had to watch out for the third rail.

    One scene in Grand Central proved so difficult to film that Scott vows never to shoot at that station again. It hasn't put him off trains, though. The director says he's already begun scouting locations for one of his next projects, which is "about a runaway train hurtling toward a defenseless city with a cargo of toxic chemicals."


    The Taking of Pelham 123 - Trailer

    Arriving in theaters June 12, 2009

    Posted 05/07/2009 by Bill

    Related: Denzel Washington | John Travolta | Tony Scott | The Taking of Pelham 123 | The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three

Wednesday, October 17

  • Movie news: Nicolas Cage and Tony Scott

    Nicolas Cage has signed on to star in The Vanished, a thriller about a man whose college-aged, American-born Muslim son goes missing overseas. It will be the studio feature directing debut Palestinian-born director Hany Abu-Assad.

    Director Tony Scott (Man on Fire, Deja Vu) will be making a movie about Don Aronow, aka the inventor of the cigarette boat. We weren't originally sure how exciting that would be, but then we discovered that Aronow was killed in a mob-style hit in Miami in 1987 after receiving a $20 million contract to build boats for US Customs agents to catch Columbian drug smugglers--who liked using his cigarette boats to smuggle their drugs.

    Okay, that could work.


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    Nicolas Cage talks about Cris Johnson's Abilities

    Posted 10/17/2007 by reelz

    Related: Nicolas Cage | Tony Scott | Untitled Don Aronow movie | The Vanished

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