A new film brings together key architects of the Best Picture winners for 1997 and 1999. If everything holds true to form, it should be a thing of beauty.
March 24, 2007 (Press Release) --
It’s a good thing that news of a second film pairing of actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet did not hit the wires in the middle of last week's annual gathering of theater owners at ShoWest in Las Vegas. Chances are the assembled crowd might have had a collective heart attack on the exhibitors’ floor, unable to believe their good fortune.
To them, the pairing of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet is as titanic a twosome as Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca, or Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind. Only better, because the text messaging kids of today love both of these actors.
According to Daily Variety, Winslet’s husband Sam Mendes will direct the pair in an adaptation of Revolutionary Road, a critically acclaimed but reputably bleak 1961 novel by Richard Yates. “This is one of the best books for anyone who is around thirty years old,” writes one reviewer on Amazon.com.
Winslet and DiCaprio will be husband and wife this time rather than aristocrat and stowaway, playing a 1950’s suburban couple struggling to reconcile the era’s social norms with their personal desires. After Jarhead and Road to Perdition, this would definitely seem to return Mendes to the hallowed ground of his 1999 Best Picture winner American Beauty, which of course won the prize two years after Titanic.
Source: http://yahoo.com.cn
Posted by Dennis Michael
To them, the pairing of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet is as titanic a twosome as Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca, or Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind. Only better, because the text messaging kids of today love both of these actors.
According to Daily Variety, Winslet’s husband Sam Mendes will direct the pair in an adaptation of Revolutionary Road, a critically acclaimed but reputably bleak 1961 novel by Richard Yates. “This is one of the best books for anyone who is around thirty years old,” writes one reviewer on Amazon.com.
Winslet and DiCaprio will be husband and wife this time rather than aristocrat and stowaway, playing a 1950’s suburban couple struggling to reconcile the era’s social norms with their personal desires. After Jarhead and Road to Perdition, this would definitely seem to return Mendes to the hallowed ground of his 1999 Best Picture winner American Beauty, which of course won the prize two years after Titanic.
Source: http://yahoo.com.cn
Posted by Dennis Michael
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