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Monday, October 29, 2007

Radioactive Tea with Michael Mann

posted by on October 29 at 12:39 PM

Obviously, the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko was one of the best deaths of 2007, if not all time. Apparently Columbia Pictures agrees, because it’s developing a movie based on the assassination. I should be thrilled, but somehow I’m doubting Michael (Miami Vice) Mann was the best guy for the job. Who needs bombast when you’ve got a cup of polonium 210-spiked tea?

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I’m still holding out hope for the Johnny Depp version.

(I think I saw this first on indieWIRE.)

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Yeah, I think there're several films of this story in the pipeline.

The punchline is that the prime suspect is now heading towards public office in Russia. That's Putin's Russia for you. Pretty amazing.

Posted by Gabriel | October 29, 2007 12:45 PM
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Michael Mann can do a good job when he wants to do a good job. Miami Vice was just waiting to suck, it had nothing to do with him.

I sure wish you'd get some of that good'ol tea, you disingenuous *****.

Posted by Mr. Poe | October 29, 2007 2:11 PM
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I give Michael Mann credit for doing some good film in his style. However, I agree that he is exactly the wrong person for a Litvinenko film.

And Johnny Depp is god, and should be allowed to do anything he wants.

Posted by SDA in SEA | October 29, 2007 3:06 PM
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"Miami Vice" actually rocked. It will just take about 5 years for people to realize that. Mann is one of the best living directors in the world. Calling his style bombastic indicates a complete misapprehension of his style. He's the opposite bombast. Michael Bay and Tony Scott are bombastic. Mann is about the cool, well except for in "The Last of the Mohicans."

Posted by Jay | October 29, 2007 5:32 PM
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That should read: "he's the opposite OF bombast."

Posted by Jay | October 29, 2007 5:34 PM
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If Michael Mann tells the Litvinenko story with the same depth and style he did in his best movie, Thief, than it'll be fucking great.

Posted by bill | October 29, 2007 6:53 PM
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I heard Daniel Craig's name bandied about as well. I love the Depp but I gotta go with Craig on this one. Unless Mann directs then both of them should run away.

Posted by i wish | October 29, 2007 10:08 PM
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@4: How can Scott and Bay be bombastic? They don't have anything to say.

Posted by annie | October 30, 2007 10:58 AM
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Bombastic is a synonym of pompous and overblown. You're being a bit traditional and archaic with the meaning of the word. Bombast originally referred to language, but it's come to mean overblown, and that can mean overblown visually. The directors I named are visually and aurally bombastic. An even more bombastic director is de Palma, and he's bombastic in every sense of the word.

Mann is neither bombastic in the verbal/textual sense nor stylistically.


Posted by Jay | October 30, 2007 3:24 PM

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