Michael Fassbender
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I agree when this article says that tons of films could be made about Steve Jobs. His life was long and he did A LOT. I think that Sony will make a huge film about him, with a stellar cast, a worldwide release and it has everything to be amazing. But like I said, it HAS, I won't say it will be awesome because it's a complex person and a complex life and people's reaction to it is a mystery. Biographies are complicated and sometimes they can be fine and others not, even with amazing people behind it. We have to wait and see.
Michael can totally do it but, like I said before, I don't know if he has the time to do so and Weinstein will play all its cards on his performance in Macbeth next year. Unless Jobs comes out in 2016 only...
I don't think it will come out the next year.But yes,he could have some problems because he's still filming TLBO and Sorkin said that filming should begin in the next couple of months. This role requires time.
Even with the Weinstein machine behind him I feel like it will be very difficult for his performance to get significant award traction.
I could be completely wrong and it's not that I don't think the performance won't be great but I can't recall the last time a Shakespeare role was nominated for an Oscar or made any significant splash in the pop culture.... and it's not like there haven't been good Shakespeare performances in the last few years. Kenneth Branagh got an Oscar nod for Henry V but he's Kenneth Branagh, defender of all thing Shakespeare, the nomination felt more like a brand reinforcement... actually most Oscar noms and wins feel like brand reinforcement of some sort.
In order for it to get ahead in the awards race it has to break expectations in some way and it's very difficult to do that with Shakespeare, especially these days.
Macbeth also seems to be too much in Fassbender's wheel house (European, dark character, brooding, violence etc.) to be much of a surprise... now if it was Matthew McConaughey doing the role he'd probably have no problem getting award attention and not only because it's the McConassance.... Lol, can you imagine.
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All I can hear now is Matthew McConaughey doing Macbeth...lol.
"Alright, alright, alright, alright. Let not light see my black and deep desires."
"Alright, alright, alright, alright. Let not light see my black and deep desires."
Recently there's none, except for Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare In Love but it's not based on any of his work LoL In the past there's Branagh, Laurence Olivier who won and was nominated to several Oscars too, Marlon Branco, Maggie Smith ans so on...but I can't also remember, at least in the past few years, a very good film based on Shakespeare's plays. In the past there were plenty.
If Macbeth is indeed good, I think that Michael has great chances of being nominated. Winning I really don't know but he's playing a role that was made for him and critics were already stunned by the trailer presented at Cannes in May. He's usually seen in dramatic roles and it's a not a surprise to see him amazing in these kind of characters but he has something that few actors have: he can surprise us in every single role he does. I think that, in Macbeth, he will do something totally different from what we've seen, it will surprise everyone. I hope this films is presented at Berlin or Cannes next year. Based on its reception we'll know.
From what I've read,this Macbeth is a personal work but at the same time is intended to appeal to a modern target. Michael will have great chances of being nominated if the film has a great festival traction and great reviews for his performance.
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From what I've read,this Macbeth is a personal work but at the same time is intended to appeal to a modern target. Michael will have great chances of being nominated if the film has a great festival traction and great reviews for his performance.
Yeah, exactly. That's what I think. A lot of websites predict its release at Cannes and then a worldwide release in the end of the year. If it's indeed good as a lot of people think, Michael has great chances of being nominated. Winnning I don't know but nominated, hell yeah! And we all know that he and Marion rarely do bad films...this one must be awesome
Gosh, I didn't realize Michael bears any resemblance to Steve Jobs, but this certainly proves me wrong - https://twitter.com/Golem_13/status/530415177968390144/photo/1
McConaughey playing anything apart from romcoms would be surprising so he has a huge advantage there. Now that everyone thinks he's fallen into a kettle of talent they're always pleasantly surprised about his roles.
Sorry I'm not a big Matt McCon fan. He's just another proof what's wrong with the Oscars.
ETA: Maybe Marion doing Shakespeare could give her the surprise factor they need for a nomination. Though she's European she's not British but French and therefore probably struggling a bit more with the whole language thing (God help me, I already had problems with Bill in German). If she's delivering a stunning performance in this she might get a nomination.
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God, that's awesome! My problem with him in this movie is not his appearance, is more because his schedule is busy as hell. He can do anything. And I'm not worried with the film itself because it has good people involved in. It can be bad, of course, but I have hopes it will be awesome. Better than Jobs (2013) it will definitely be LoL
McConaughey playing anything apart from romcoms would be surprising so he has a huge advantage there. Now that everyone thinks he's fallen into a kettle of talent they're always pleasantly surprised about his roles.
Sorry I'm not a big Matt McCon fan. He's just another proof what's wrong with the Oscars.
ETA: Maybe Marion doing Shakespeare could give her the surprise factor they need for a nomination. Though she's European she's not British but French and therefore probably struggling a bit more with the whole language thing (God help me, I already had problems with Bill in German). If she's delivering a stunning performance in this she might get a nomination.
I have to defend Matthew McConaughey. It's ok if your not a fan, I saw Mud-great performance; Killer Joe-sadistic & crazy-great performance. Dallas Buyers Club-great performance. Last night, Intersteller-incredible performance. All of his performances lately have been completely different, not forced and genuine.
I don't know if him getting married and having children elevated him to a different level or if he could always act but would only receive Rom Com scripts.
As for Michael considering the Jobs role, I have several concerns:
Two major incredible actors passed on it. Who else passed on it that we don't know about? We all know that Leo & Christian can pull this off easily. Fincher passed, Sorkin praised Christian so much so in that video you'd think he was his BF.
Don't we know everything about Jobs at this point? When the Social Network came out, we knew nothing about Mark Zuckerberg. The interest level was very high, Facebook was new.
Michael's accent always seems to appear slighty in all the movies I've seen except for 12 years which I felt his performance was forced. ( just my opinion).
I think his most convincing and best performance was Hunger.
So I think he should pass on this role.
True, but I think that the only unusual thing about this was that it was so public--largely due to Aaron Sorkin's big mouth. I suspect that Leo, Bale, Brad Pitt, and a few others initially get all the high profile scripts. They can't do all of them, so they pass on them. It doesn't mean something is wrong with the scripts. (And articles about which actors passed on career-making parts are posted all the time--I can't find any at the moment, but they're around!) Bale seems to have been the only one who was really in serious talks about it; Leo was mentioned, but apparently it didn't get that far, and some of the reports on this story suggest that he wasn't really seriously in the mix. Danny Boyle, of course, took over from Fincher, but directing gigs also get changed around as well.
I hope MF has the time to do it between the end of LBO and X-Men. He'll have to prep for it quite a bit, but I think he'll be able to pull it off very well if he does. It's a significant comment on his standing at the moment that they go to him after Leo and Bale.
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I love Matthew, specially after one interview he gave saying that he started reading critics to see things he could develop in his performances and thet helped him a lot because these were things he thought about himself too. And since then he's been doing amazing roles. I think he's great But not for Macbeth...but he can do that someday and be stunning and I'll keep my mouth shut LoL
About Bale and Leo passing the role, we don't know why they did it for sure but it doesn't mean that the script is bad. Like I said before, Michael can totally do it but I don't know if he has the time to. It's a role that demands A LOT of preparation and it seems that Sony plans to release it in the end of 2015. In the first case, he will finish TLBO in the end of November I think so he would have too little time to prepare for it. In the last case, I think that Michael has Slow West and Macbeth to promote in the end of 2015 and if everything goes as planned with Macbeth, he will definitely go for Oscar's race. I don't know if Weinstein and Sony wanna fight for the same spot with the same actor. Unless Jobs comes out only in 2016, then it would be fine.
But not for Macbeth...but he can do that someday and be stunning and I'll keep my mouth shut LoLAbout Bale and Leo passing the role, we don't know why they did it for sure but it doesn't mean that the script is bad. Like I said before, Michael can totally do it but I don't know if he has the time to. It's a role that demands A LOT of preparation and it seems that Sony plans to release it in the end of 2015. In the first case, he will finish TLBO in the end of November I think so he would have too little time to prepare for it. In the last case, I think that Michael has Slow West and Macbeth to promote in the end of 2015 and if everything goes as planned with Macbeth, he will definitely go for Oscar's race. I don't know if Weinstein and Sony wanna fight for the same spot with the same actor. Unless Jobs comes out only in 2016, then it would be fine.