Posts by Matt Patches
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Q&A: Will Forte on Getting Serious in Alexander Payne’s Nebraska
Alexander Payne’s Nebraska is Will Forte’s sardonic, hushed, black-and-white Back to the Future. In the film, the former Saturday Night Live player stars as David, an aimless townie who indulges his dad, Woody, by traveling from Montana to Nebraska to claim a $1 million sweepstakes prize. Along the way, they stop by Woody’s hometown only […]
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The Marvel Way: How the Comic-Book Studio Chooses Its Directors
Alan Taylor had three feature-film credits to his name before Asgard beckoned. Taylor, the director of Marvel Studios’ Thor: The Dark World, had made Palookaville (1995), The Emperor’s New Clothes (2001), and Kill the Poor (2003) — all were met with middling reviews and none earned a million dollars at the box office. But as […]
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Endgame: The ‘Unfilmable’ Ender’s Game’s 28 Years in Development Hell
When Gavin Hood told Orson Scott Card that he planned to adapt Card’s science-fiction classic Ender’s Game for the big screen, the author replied with a familiar refrain: “Good luck, kid.” Card was done trying to bring his book to the screen. If someone else wanted to spend years of his life spinning in circles, […]
