Post by mkelly on Aug 4, 2022 21:57:30 GMT -5
Now this is interesting - another from my files I'd forgotten about. Highsmith's Ripley and Brosnan? Another missed opportunity for a darker PB
Irish Voice, Aug 15, 2000
Reports suggest that Brosnan will be taking over the Ripley role in the next flick based on Patricia Highsmith's series of murder mystery novels. (Different film companies own the rights to Highsmith's Ripley books, so continuity with leading stars was never expected.) “Ripley's Game” is slated to begin shooting in Europe this fall, and Brosnan is said to be the top contender for the lead, co-starring with either Dougray Scott (Mission Impossible) or Rupert Everett.
Well we all know why this didn't happen - Sean was recovering at home. Keely Shaye Smith pregnant June 2000; Oct 2000 returned to Dublin for brief postproduction work on Tailor of Panama; Break in filming for essentially 16 months - from June 2000 – Oct. 2001, Evelyn Oct - Dec 2001; Paris born Jan. 2001. Married August 2001.
But can you see PB as Ripley?
It was made in 2002 with John Malkovich as Ripley and this one had a brief threatical release and then straight to DVD.
Wikipedia: The film received positive critical reviews, with a 92% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 24 reviews.[2] Roger Ebert added Ripley's Game to his "Great Movies" list, calling it "the best of the four" Ripley films he had seen (the other three being Purple Noon, The American Friend, and The Talented Mr. Ripley) and Malkovich "precisely the Tom Ripley I imagine when I read the novels," praising what he felt to be "one of [his] most brilliant and insidious performances; a study in evil that teases the delicate line between heartlessness and the faintest glimmers of feeling."[3] Ebert criticized the decision not to release the film theatrically in North America, writing: "The failure to open it theatrically was a shameful blunder."
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Irish Voice, Aug 15, 2000
Reports suggest that Brosnan will be taking over the Ripley role in the next flick based on Patricia Highsmith's series of murder mystery novels. (Different film companies own the rights to Highsmith's Ripley books, so continuity with leading stars was never expected.) “Ripley's Game” is slated to begin shooting in Europe this fall, and Brosnan is said to be the top contender for the lead, co-starring with either Dougray Scott (Mission Impossible) or Rupert Everett.
Well we all know why this didn't happen - Sean was recovering at home. Keely Shaye Smith pregnant June 2000; Oct 2000 returned to Dublin for brief postproduction work on Tailor of Panama; Break in filming for essentially 16 months - from June 2000 – Oct. 2001, Evelyn Oct - Dec 2001; Paris born Jan. 2001. Married August 2001.
But can you see PB as Ripley?
It was made in 2002 with John Malkovich as Ripley and this one had a brief threatical release and then straight to DVD.
Wikipedia: The film received positive critical reviews, with a 92% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 24 reviews.[2] Roger Ebert added Ripley's Game to his "Great Movies" list, calling it "the best of the four" Ripley films he had seen (the other three being Purple Noon, The American Friend, and The Talented Mr. Ripley) and Malkovich "precisely the Tom Ripley I imagine when I read the novels," praising what he felt to be "one of [his] most brilliant and insidious performances; a study in evil that teases the delicate line between heartlessness and the faintest glimmers of feeling."[3] Ebert criticized the decision not to release the film theatrically in North America, writing: "The failure to open it theatrically was a shameful blunder."
Need to find this on streaming