Clive Owen is in two upcoming corporate scandal films early next year. The first looks a bit on the cheesy, actioner side (The International), but the other, of which I just saw the trailer for today looks damn good. But as the title of this post suggests, I’m obviously biassed.
The film, Duplicity, is the brain child of one Tony Gilroy. So yeah, writer of the Bourne screenplays and better yet, the writer/director of Oscar winning Michael Clayton, I can’t think of many trailers that grabbed my attention immediately. It starts off on a bit more serious note, but as soon as Goldfrapp’s “Ooh La La” starts playing, I instantly got a Soderbergh feel.
So we’ve got the potential smarts of Michael Clayton, the fun action of Bourne and judging from this trailer a bit of Ocean’s 11 Soderbergh and maybe even some Coen Brothers style writing going on here. Add to that this cast and March ’09 suddenly seems very too far away.
And for those haters of Roberts, see Closer or Full Frontal.
Both CLOSER and FULL FRONTAL are excellent films. And Gilroy has been pretty great at making mainstream edgy stuff starting at the Bourne Identity.
His Pre-Bourne resume. Yie. Wowzers. (Armageddon, The Devil’s Advocate, Extreme Measures, Dolores Claiborne)
The half-smile on Owen at the end sold me.
What you guys said!
Crackin trailer indeed.
I need not more than those four names in the title to have me there on opening day:)