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New Project For Alex!

Alexander Skarsgård , Peter Dinklage sign up for 'The Dwarf'

EXCLUSIVE: Renaissance action film is being represented by Fortitude at this week’s EFM.

Game Of Thrones mainstay Peter Dinklage will star opposite Alexander Skarsgård as a Machiavellian right-hand man in $14m renaissance action film The Dwarf.

Brad Anderson, renowned for his work on edgy fare like The Machinist, Transsiberian and The Call, is on board to direct from a screenplay he wrote with Lyn Vaus.

Production is scheduled to commence in July in Italy on the project that Fortitude International has introduced to international buyers at the European Film Market (EFM).

Dinklage will play a fearless man who proves his mettle and earns the trust of a prince after he conquers an all-time wrestling champion in a contest.

Once he has jockeyed for position next to the seat of power, the dwarf pledges his undying loyalty and resorts to assassinations and subterfuge in his merciless quest to protect his new master.

Sriram Das, Marc Rosen and Dinklage serve as producers on The Dwarf and Robert Ogden Barnum and Mark Collins are the executive producers.

Dinklage will return as the charismatic Tyrion Lannister in the upcoming seventh season of HBO fantasy smash Game Of Thrones and starred in Sundance premiere Rememory.

Skarsgård stars in the current HBO crime drama Big Little Lies and played the lead in last summer’s tentpole The Legend Of Tarzan.

http://www.screendaily.com/news/ale...e?blocktitle=LATEST-FILM-NEWS&contentID=40562
 
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Esizzle said:
I can't stop staring at the one underlined eye and the non underlined one. What in the photoshop hell? Their promo posters have been subpar. Glad to read all the good reviews!
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I really don't understand the point of all the photoshopping? Did they not notice how bad it looks, or was that the point?

Santress said:
Thanks, Jooa!

A Throwback Thursday photo and new outtake from Alex’s Details Magazine (May 2010) photo shoot with Norman Jean Roy:

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"#tbt with #alexanderskarsgard."

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Hmm, oily and wet Skarsgard. :graucho:Hard to believe this photoshoot is seven years old.

Santress said:
From ASN:

New Project For Alex!

Alexander Skarsgård , Peter Dinklage sign up for 'The Dwarf'

EXCLUSIVE: Renaissance action film is being represented by Fortitude at this week’s EFM.

Game Of Thrones mainstay Peter Dinklage will star opposite Alexander Skarsgård as a Machiavellian right-hand man in $14m renaissance action film The Dwarf.

Brad Anderson, renowned for his work on edgy fare like The Machinist, Transsiberian and The Call, is on board to direct from a screenplay he wrote with Lyn Vaus.

Production is scheduled to commence in July in Italy on the project that Fortitude International has introduced to international buyers at the European Film Market (EFM).

Dinklage will play a fearless man who proves his mettle and earns the trust of a prince after he conquers an all-time wrestling champion in a contest.

Once he has jockeyed for position next to the seat of power, the dwarf pledges his undying loyalty and resorts to assassinations and subterfuge in his merciless quest to protect his new master.

Sriram Das, Marc Rosen and Dinklage serve as producers on The Dwarf and Robert Ogden Barnum and Mark Collins are the executive producers.

Dinklage will return as the charismatic Tyrion Lannister in the upcoming seventh season of HBO fantasy smash Game Of Thrones and starred in Sundance premiere Rememory.

Skarsgård stars in the current HBO crime drama Big Little Lies and played the lead in last summer’s tentpole The Legend Of Tarzan.

http://www.screendaily.com/news/ale...e?blocktitle=LATEST-FILM-NEWS&contentID=40562
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Well, this is different! And Peter Dinklage? This could be bad, or it could be wonderful, and with those two I don't care.
 
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Esizzle said:
Another new project!! Alex is on a roll. I love Peter Dinklage in GoT, he does a fantastic job. I wonder what Alex will be playing...maybe the prince?
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audiogirl said:
I'm pretty sure Alex won't be the drwarf :P:cool:
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You never know, Peter's one of the producers, maybe he wants to be the prince and CGI does amazing things these days! :P
It's listed as an action film, but are they playing it straight, or will it be more comedic, etc.
Also, Alex in period costume, this I look forward to.

So right now it looks as if his schedule is: Finish The Aftermath, film the Kill Team. That was supposed to be early Spring, though I've not seen anything else on it. Then Fever Heart May-July, and then this. It's a lot of work, but at least we have projects to look forward to.
 
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....and another new gig. When it rains, it pours! The man is in super workhorse mode.:smile:

Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgård, James Badge Dale to Star in Netflix Thriller 'Hold the Dark' (Exclusive)

Riley Keough and James Bloor are also cast in Jeremy Saulnier's follow-up to his acclaimed "Green Room."

Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgård and James Badge Dale will star in Hold the Dark, Netflix’s adventure thriller from director Jeremy Saulnier.

Riley Keough and James Bloor are also cast in the project, which is Saulnier’s follow-up to his acclaimed Anton Yelchin thriller Green Room.

Dark adapts the book by William Giraldi and is set in a remote Alaskan wilderness in which wolves have taken and killed children. A wolf expert biologist is called in to investigate but finds himself in between in between a secret-harboring mother, who disappears, and her husband, who goes on a maniacal spree when he returns from Iraq and learns of his son’s death. White cold snow runs red with hot blood.

Wright will play the biologist caught up in the spree while Badge Dale is a detective who wants to catch the husband, to be played by Skarsgård. Keough will play the mother and Bloor a creepy drifter.

The movie is looking at shooting in Alberta, Canada in March.

Macon Blair wrote the script. Producing are Russell Ackerman and John Schoenfelder, as well as Eva Maria Daniels, Anish Savjani and Neil Kopp

CAA-repped Wright is one of the stars of HBO’s Westworld and appeared in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay movies.

Skarsgård last year starred as Tarzan in The Legend of Tarzan and appears opposite Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon in HBO’s Big Little Lies. He is repped by CAA and Hansen Jacobson.

Badge Dale was part of Michael Bay’s 13 Hours and recently wrapped The Empty Man, Fox’s adaptation of a Boom! comic. He is repped by CAA and MJ Management.

Keough, who appeared in Mad Max: Fury Road, has two films recently wrapped: noir thriller Under the Silver Moon by It Follows filmmaker David Robert Mitchell, and Logan Lucky from Steven Soderbergh. She is repped by WME.

Bloor, repped by CAA and Grandview, is a newcomer who will not only be seen in Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot Leatherface but also in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk.

Source: HollywoodReporter.com

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/he...dge-dale-star-netflix-thriller-hold-dark-9745
 
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Jeez, he's not taking any breaks at all. And with this filming in March I guess Kill Team is on hold. I hope he has scenes with Wright, who's one of the better actors out there.

ETA:
Here's Deadline's announcement from last fall:
"Hold the Dark, set in the Alaskan wilderness, is about family and fate. The story revolves around a child taken from his village by a pack of wolves and an expert hunter is called in to track them down and kill them. He finds himself confronting not only the cruelty of Mother nature but also his own failings. As the child’s grief-crazed father follows behind him, it becomes unclear who is really being hunted.

In its review, The New York Times called the novel “extraordinary…an unnerving and intimate portrayal of nature gone awry” while the Boston Globe boldly stated that “it stands out as one of the decade’s best books.”"
http://deadline.com/2015/09/hold-the-dark-movie-a24-1201548677/

He keeps adding to my reading list. Here's the NYT review:
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/books/review/hold-the-dark-by-william-giraldi.html
 
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Oh. My. God. Another new project?!?! HAHA Alex needs some rest!! This project sounds more interesting than the dwarf one and I love that its for netflix. Netflix is where its at these days. Youre right Buckeye, another book to add to the reading list.
 
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Alex will definitely need some rest after these are done filming. But the rate he's going this year he'll probably have something lined up for this fall. :P
I'm glad that he's getting roles that interest him, he wasn't always able to get that.
And with this being his second film for Netflix, I'm probably going to end up subscribing.
This is from the Japanese Twitter feed for WOE, it's a clip from the outtakes of WOE's UK BluRay:
https://twitter.com/badguys_jp/status/830007517279252480

ETA:

On Thursday, February 16, HBO is holding screenings of BLL in several US cities:
https://usscpromotions.com/ew/biglittlelies_screening/
 
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This is good - a long time coming but all that I'd hoped for once he left the tight schedule and exhaustive PR of True Blood.
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He did what he could within the confines of TB, and kept building up that resume. He's at a good spot now. He's made good choices the last few years, even if he hasn't had that mega box office smash. He's had interesting roles, and I do think the industry is slowly realizing that yes, he is ridiculously good looking, but he's not too bad at the acting stuff either.

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Thanks, Buckeye.:smile:

Update - IMP Awards has added a HQ versionof Alex’s Big Little Lies’ character poster to their site:

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http://www.impawards.com/tv/big_little_lies_ver6_xlg.html
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It's a slight improvement, he seems to have pores again! :PBut, the eyeliner, I don't understand the eyeliner!

And if this article is correct, Alex may be spending a few days in Morocco, since it's apparently standing in for Iraq:

One of American independent cinema’s hottest new filmmakers is set to direct a Netflix movie in Alberta.
Jeremy Saulnier, best known for directing thrillers Blue Ruin and Green Room, will be at the helm for an adaptation of William Giraldi’s bestselling novel Hold the Dark. The production will be based out of Calgary and cameras are set to roll Feb. 27, sources close to the production told the Calgary Herald.
No cast has been announced.
Hold the Dark takes place in Alaska, where nature writer Russell Core is summoned to track a pack of wolves that are suspected of killing three children. He is hired by the parents of a six-year-old boy believed to have been killed by the wolves. After the mother disappears, the boy’s father returns from the Iraq War intent on wreaking havoc.
Areas of the Kananaskis are expected to sub in for Alaska. The production will also film in Morocco for a few days, presumably for scenes involving the war...
http://calgaryherald.com/entertainm...hoot-in-alberta-with-director-jeremy-saulnier
 
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This is a long thread & I've only just found it...
I watched "Jack & Alex Save the Arctic " last night. I'm amused. It appears Alex's reasons to be there aren't totally altruistic. [emoji1]
 
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Another great review of BLL.
http://www.awardsdaily.com/tv/big-little-lies-review/
Jean-Marc Vallée directs an all-star cast in HBO’s take on Liane Moriarity’s Big Little Lies. Is there substance to the style of this Monterey-set drama?
Parents of troubled children will tell you that they often hold their breath. A lot. Waiting for “the call.” Waiting for the looks from daycare/school employees. Waiting for a parent to accost you in the parking lot. I know it all too well. I’ve been there with my son, formerly a biter. He grew out of it fairly quickly. Different story for his parents. That connection propelled me through Liane Moriarity’s 2014 breezy novel Big Little Lies and, now, the HBO-pedigreed limited series adaptation from Jean-Marc Vallée. I liked the novel, flaws and all, but I loved the adaptation, a textbook example of how to expand and deepen the world of a beach-read novel without compromising its integrity.

Big Little Lies stars Reese Witherspoon as Madeline, an opinionated firecracker of a mother who never backs down from a fight. Nicole Kidman plays Celeste, her impossibly rich and beautiful best friend with (naturally) a dark secret. Shailene Woodley rounds out the main trio as Jane. She’s a single mother new to Monterey whose son Ziggy (Iain Armitage) may or may not have strangled Amabella, the daughter of power mom Renata (Laura Dern, an Emmy-worthy scene stealer for sure). The central story gradually reveals itself over the course of the series through the gossipy voices of other parents, a Greek chorus of sorts. There’s a Desperate Housewives-y murder at an “Audrey and Elvis” school fundraiser, but the series smartly focuses on relationships over the whodunnit. Think True Detective for the soccer mom set.

Throwing stones in glass houses
Swift pacing and entertaining set pieces elevated Moriarity’s novel above its occasionally one-note characterizations, my major issue with it. In the series, writer David E. Kelley (Picket Fences, Ally McBeal) takes the novel’s events and smartly creates subtext. Working extraordinarily well with Vallée, Kelley gives the actresses meaty material on which to feast. Witherspoon’s Madeline rages both beneath the surface and openly, publicly – raging against her growing children, her ex-husband, and her sense that life is moving too quickly. Woodley’s Jane fears the world thanks to a bad one-night stand which resulted in her biggest joy, her son. She’s a brittle, isolated woman unable to trust.

The most intriguing evolution from page to screen centers around Kidman’s Celeste. Married to the good looking, wealthy Perry (Alexander Skarsgard), Celeste finds herself attracted to and repulsed by their toxic, abusive marriage. Perry’s unconfined anger results in bruises and in hot, dirty sex. Celeste’s shame in both deepens the material in fascinating ways. The book’s Celeste was defined by her abusive marriage, but, in the series, Celeste feels torn between the idyllic family and real danger. Kidman’s scenes in marital counseling provide some of the best acting she’s ever done with Skarsgard going toe-to-toe.

Vallée frames his actresses in and around as much glass as possible. Glass houses on the beach. Glass windows in cars and glass iPhone surfaces. You have the sense that, if anyone breathed too hard, everything would shatter. These characters fight against the seemingly perfect trappings of their high class surroundings. That theme is a bit of a cliche, of course, but it still works incredibly well here. You simply have to understand the environment – one where a birthday party omission is akin to a horse’s head in the bed. Yes, these are white, privileged families, but they still have stories to tell. Their kitchens may be better than ours, but, at the end of the day, we all face the same central issues with life, love, families, and the safety of our children.

Final Verdict
Big Little Lies ultimately feels like an incredibly well made, thematically rich throwback to old ABC miniseries. You could ignore it or dismiss it as too white bread for your time. Doing so would mean you’re missing some of the best acting on television this year. Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman are revelations in their roles, digging into the nuances like the great actresses they are. And I will never ignore a Laura Dern performance after HBO’s great Enlightened. The men turn in strong performances as well with Skarsgard shading the abusive Perry to shockingly good effect and Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation) makes Madeline’s doormat husband Ed a soulfully supportive presence, haunted by the insecurity he feels against his wild wife.

I love Big Little Lies because it balances the *****y, big moments with gentle moments of real contemplation. Thank Vallée and Kelley for breathing much needed nuance into Moriarity’s robust story. There may be better limited series this year, but there likely won’t be as grand an entertainment that literally delivers on all fronts. It’s a dark little gem that digs much farther beneath its glassy surface than you’d ever imagine it would.
 
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