Robert Pattinson will play Colonel Joll in Waiting for the Barbarians
Well that didn’t take long. IMDbPro updated overnight and Waiting for the Barbarians has been added to Rob’s IMDb page. It’s under “projects in development and its status is still “optioned” Rob’s character name is “Colonel Joll”. Waiting for the book to arrive – so can’t wait to start reading it over Christmas.
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Robert Pattinson talks about upcoming projects, directors and more with IndieWire
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Rob sure does like working with “Mia’s”. Also, I’m probably in the minority but I am still holding out hope for “Idol’s Eye”. Indiewire spoke to Rob whilst he was at the Savannah Film Festival for the Maverick Award and had some insight from Rob in relation to this upcoming films and collaborations. I noticed he didn’t mention Joanna Hogg, but I’m with Rob about hoping “The Devil All The Time” happens because it’s one of my favourite reads this year – quirky fabulous book:
Clair Denis’ Sci-Fi Project “High Lifeâ€: “It’s definitely nuts,†said Pattinson. “I just finished it last week. [Denis] is incredible. I’m not just saying that, she’s like one of the most fascinating people to work for. I was saying to her at the end of the shoot, she’s the most authentic punk that I’ve even met in my life. Just someone who can control a set. She’s so tiny, and to me she’s the most definitive auteur I’ve ever worked with as well. There’s disparate elements of the [‘High Life’] story. It’s just all over the place and I can’t waiting to see how she finds the throughline of everything, because it’s insane.â€
The Zellner Brothers’ “Damselâ€: “It’s got that same kind of ‘Kumiko [the Treasure Hunter]’ tone. It’s a funny movie I think, well I hope, I haven’t seen the final movie. I thought the script was very funny. It’s a very, very odd – ostensibly a western, but it’s like a feminist western comedy.â€
Antonio Campos’ “The Devil All the Timeâ€: “It’s got a really fun part in it. I hope it’s going to happen, I think it will. I love Antonio, I’m sort of friends with him as well and I think Mia Goth [“Cure for Wellness,†“Nymphomaniacâ€] will be in it, and she’s excited about it as well.â€
Olivier Assayas’ heist film “Idol’s Eyeâ€: “Every few months it kind of reappears again, but I think it’s happening with [Sylvester] Stallone, which is cool. I’m still always talking to them and seeing what’s going to happen, but I love Olivier.
Ciro Guerra’s “Waiting For the Barbariansâ€: “I saw ‘Embrace the Serpent’ that last day it played at the Sunshine in New York and the matinee was packed. I just knew Ciro Guerra’s next film was going to be amazing. I’m going to do ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ with Mark Rylance.â€
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Robert Pattinson Talks Tall Takes, Good Time & High Life with the Irish Times
The Irish Times sat down with Rob where he talked tall tales, The Lost City of Z, Good Time and High Life. Here’s what transpired:
Robert Pattinson is gleaming just as surely as his odd little golden splodge of hair at the front. Today that blond bit is made especially visible by a close crew cut. He’s in strikingly chipper form. I’m not sure I was expecting chipper.
Having worked with Werner Herzog, David Cronenberg, Anton Corbijn and, as we meet, Claire Denis, Pattinson has blossomed into the one of the most interesting actors of his generation. Still, he has never been the kind of performer you’d confuse with such great, boozy, storytelling carousers as Peter O’Toole.
“How did those guys do it?†Pattinson says. “It’s the most amazing thing. How can you operate at that level while simultaneously sabotaging yourself? Have you read that Andre Agassi biography? I can’t get over it. So he was still seeded. Around 30th in the world, I think. And he was addicted to crystal meth. And he’s also gluing his wig to his head with polymer cement. So he’s playing a five-set tennis match. On meth. With a wig cemented to his head. How crazy is that?†He laughs. “I mean, I can’t do anything if I’m slightly tired. Or if I’ve drunk two cups of coffee. After two cups of coffee I’m literally incapacitated.â€
When we last caught up the artist formerly known as R-Patz was shooting The Lost City of Z in Belfast and had just been declared a total ledge by the media after dropping in on a Co Down wedding reception. He had a great time, he says.
“But the best thing about Ireland was seeing Van Morrison play in Cypress Avenue,†Pattinson says. “It was my birthday, and he was incredible. I’m a bit obsessed with Van Morrison. I’ve seen him seven times, and twice he has really, really killed it. But that was really something. Just amazing.â€
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Robert Pattinson Reinvents Himself (every couple of years)
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Rob recently spoke with Nicole Ferling of Vanity Fair about Good Time, accepting his charmed life and upcoming films. He also confirmed he would be in Ciro Guerra’s “Waiting for the Barbarians” which I pondered about back in July. Here’s the interview:
A few years ago, Pattinson received a psychic reading from a waitress/medium at a London restaurant who told him that his soul had lived many previous lives and the one he’s currently in was something of a reward for all his past lives’ hardships. “She was like, ‘This life is your soul just having a ride, having fun, just a roller coaster,†said Pattinson during a recent interview at his favorite Los Angeles restaurant that he asked me to keep secret.
“That’s generally how I feel,†he added. “It’s been fucking incredible. I really haven’t had any bad times. I’ve had a cruise from beginning to end.â€
Most of that cruising has been done on movie sets. Since he first appeared opposite Reese Witherspoon in Vanity Fair when he was 16 (his scenes were eventually cut from the film) to today, Pattinson has worked consistently, jumping from set to set, including the four years he spent brooding as Edward, the tortured vampire with the sparkly skin and a desperate passion for the forbidden human Bella in Twilight,the series that sent his star power into the stratosphere. We all know how that fairy tale ended. What’s remarkable is that it did little to quell Pattinson’s own passion for the game. Rather, it taught him the importance of having good directors and solidified his quest to seek them out at all costs.
“That’s what film is to me,†Pattinson said of his single-mindedness about filmmakers. “It shows respect for the art form and the lineage of movie-making if you go after the people who influence everyone else.â€
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Robert Pattinson with cast and producers of High Life
Media Biz posted this great photo from the end of filming of High Life in Cologne. The photo includes from left to right: Producer Christoph Friedel (Pandora Film), Juliette Binoche, Robert Pattinson , Petra Müller (Managing Director Film- und Medienstiftung NRW), André Benjamin, Claire Tran as well as producer Claudia Steffen (Pandora movie).
It also confirms that Pandora Film Distribution will bring “High Life” to German cinemas in 2018.
Thanks Posh.
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Not only do we have confirmation that High Life filming now complete but we get a slightly larger version of the photo. According to Film und Medien Stiftung NRW:
The filming of Claire Denis ‘ new movie “ High Life ” is over, Pandora Film reports today . The international feature film was shot in the last three months in the Cologne Media Park NRW Studios. Additional recordings took place in the studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin and in the Polish Bialystok. The science fiction thriller is Claire Deni’s first English-language project with Robert Pattinson and Oscar winner Juliette Binoche in the lead roles. For Pandora Film this is the third collaboration with Claire Denis, one of the most extraordinary filmmakers of her generation.
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Claire Denis describes Robert Pattinson “like a man with another man inside himself, craving for something”.
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The Hollywood Reporter had the opportunity to discuss High Life with Claire Denis where they discussed astrophysics, her fear of special effects and why Pattinson was the “exact opposite†of whom she originally had in mind to play the lead. Below is the extract about Rob:
Did you have any particular actor in mind as you wrote the script?
I had the idea for the story for a long time. I had a few actors in mind, but most strongly Philip Seymour Hoffman. When he died, I had no one else in mind. And in the process of mourning him, I met a few actors, and the only person who touched me, who really was so much the opposite of Philip, was Robert. I was afraid even to meet him. I thought, “He is too far away from my cinema, why does this guy even want to work with me?†And then I met him a few times and realized he is just the sort of actor I love. Because he is like a man with another man inside himself, craving for something. I like actors like that, ones where you always want more but you know there is a secret inside them. … Robert is like that. All the actors and actresses in the film, Juliette, Mia Goth, Andre Benjamin — they have their own secrets.
Click on the link to read the full interview.
I’m sure like me we can’t wait to meet Monte.