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Posted on: June 2, 2011 by Christine |
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A sensual and mysterious Megan Fox – with wings. That alone should warrant multiple film viewings, but throw in some obsessed Mickey Rourke, sassy Kelly Lynch (love her!) and unsettling Bill Murray and you’ve got the new to DVD/Blu-ray flick “Passion Play” hitting shelves on May 31 from Image Entertainment. Rourke plays a washed-up jazz musician on the run from gangster Murray who happens upon angelic carnival bird woman Fox and sees a way to possibly wash his dirty slate clean. Rife with many twists and turns in a noir world where nothing is as it seems, the film is the directorial debut of “Scrooged” and “The Recruit” screenwriter Mitch Glazer. (Who is also married to the ever-timeless Lynch – lucky dog!) Starpulse got a chance to chat one-on-one with Glazer about his journey getting the film to the screen, securing his eclectic cast and the insight behind having a lead character with wings.
Megan Fox has a very ethereal quality in this film that we haven’t seen from her before – was that a conscious decision on your part during the casting and shooting?
Mitch Glazer: The woman I met was so in character – she’d read the script three or four times – that when we met for lunch it’s a version of what you see on screen. Now I don’t know how much of that is her in real life, but she came so prepared and with such a fully formed take on the character. I mean we’re putting her between Academy Award nominated actors Mickey and Bill and she just killed them and she never broke for the entire shoot.
Can you talk about Megan Fox’s wings for a moment – how did they either help or hinder in terms of making the film?
Mitch Glazer: I always wanted them to be not angelic and not demonic, they were kind of funky and real. We had some practical wings that were made with swan feathers and they were used in a few shots and then the rest were the CG ones. Truthfully it was very ambitious – there were two hundred effects shots and we had a fourteen million dollar budget. Part of the deal was the wings had to be real and it’s a struggle because without the money that you can really throw at CG when you really need it becomes specific and surgical about how you use them. But we had prop wings for Megan to use in scenes that were kind of behind her at times and I thought it was wonderful – it added another dimension to the movie.
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Posted on: June 1, 2011 by Christine |
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 Just a head’s up to Megan Fox fans, ‘Passion Play’ is coming to Redbox. Keep a look out June 14, 2011 for the DVD & Blu-ray at your local stores that have a Redbox machine.
Details:
Rated: R
Formats: DVD & Blu-ray
Runtime: 01:34 minutes
A terrific cast will hold you spellbound in this one of a kind seductive thriller from the screenwriter of The Recruit. The last thing washed-up jazz musician Nate Pool (Academy Award-nominee Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler) wanted to do was betray sinister gangster Happy Shannon (Academy-Award-nominee Bill Murray, Lost in Translation). But it may be the last thing he does unless he can deliver Lily (Megan Fox), a beautiful and mysterious carnival sideshow attraction. The stakes can’t get any higher for the two lovers as they try to elude the merciless killer who will stop at nothing to keep Lily for himself. Kelly Lynch and Rhys Ifans costar in this gritty and unpredictable tale of redemption in the hard-boiled tradition of classic film noir.
Rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for language, some sexuality/nudity, violence and brief drug use.
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Posted on: November 2, 2010 by Christine |
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Megan Fox indentified with her character in Passion Play so much that she “wanted to be her forever”.
The beautiful Hollywood actress plays Lily in the film, a lady who is kept in a glass box as part of a carnival attraction.
Megan admits the role has been one of her favourites of her career so far, and says she especially appreciated the vulnerable nature of her character.
“I identified with the character a lot. She’s broken, damaged and exposed – I loved Lily and I wanted to be her forever,” the star told Total Film magazine.
The movie’s director Mitch Glazer also saw similarities between Megan and her character. In fact, the parallels between their lives were one of the main reasons the actress was cast in the role.
“When I had lunch with her she was so vulnerable and mysterious and as I talked with her about the role of a woman who people pay to watch in a glass box and about the objectification of women, I looked through the window and there’s a wall of paparazzi photographing her as we’re eating and I thought, if this girl doesn’t understand this character – nobody will, because that’s really her life,” Mitch explained.
The director had reportedly been working on the film’s script for 20 years before it came into fruition, meaning 24-year-old Megan was only a little girl when the movie concept was first hatched.
The edgy fairytale romance also stars Mickey Rourke and Bill Murray, and has received fantastic reviews.
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Posted on: September 19, 2010 by Christine |
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Squeezing in under the wire as the curtain was falling Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival, “Passion Play,” starring Mickey Rourke, sold to Image Entertainment.
Written and directed by Mitch Glazer, the film stars Rourke as a jazz trumpeter who falls in love with a woman (Megan Fox) who sprouts wings. Bill Murray co-stars.
Image took U.S. rights in a deal, which closed Sunday and is valued at more than seven figures. Entertainment One will distribute in Canada.
Daniel Dubiecki and Megan Ellison produced the film, with Rebecca Wang as exec producer. ICM, which reps Glazer, Rourke and Fox, handled the sale.
Image will release “Passion” theatrically, although release dates haven’t yet been determined.
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