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Post by Ace on Aug 22, 2006 10:37:26 GMT -5
So they are on a hiatus because they couldn't have finished filming in 4 1/2 weeks.
From Set Hunter:
Just got back from the set of MARRIAGE.
Somehow I managed to sneak behinde the scene. Got Pictures with Brosnan and Cooper. Both of them super friendly and gentle guys. Cooper even gave me an autograph. Mac Adams wasn't on set. One of the PA's said she already left Vancouver. Brosnan personaly told me he's leaving tomorrow morning as well as Cooper, who is flying back to Arrizona. THey are hoping that this Film gets a Grammy Award. [Edit -- I don't think they said Grammy]
The shooting was mainly inside the building, but also in front of the Marine Building. Nice old cars and everyone was dressed up like in the 30's.
I can only say that I was realy impressed with Brosnan who seems to be the nicest guy ever. He didn't just talk to me like I was some pedestrian the stoped buy, he asked what my name is, where I come from and what I do. He even introduced me to his personal Assistent, a goodlooking girl in her mid 30's. When I left he wished me all the best and said..."Ok, take care man. Nice meeting you." Also the extras were very nice.
Was good to have you here in Vancouver Pierce! Wish you all the best and success with this movie!
The poster's photos from the set: With Pierce: pbfiles.t35.com/marriage/marriage-set048.jpgWith Cooper: pbfiles.t35.com/marriage/marriage-set049.jpgWith Extras: pbfiles.t35.com/marriage/marriage-set051.jpgMarriage Set: pbfiles.t35.com/marriage/marriage-set050.jpgAnd another from Flickr: Brosnan, Ira Sachs Cooper: pbfiles.t35.com/marriage/marriage-set052.jpg
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Post by Ace on Aug 22, 2006 19:52:14 GMT -5
From HSX:
MARRIAGE is now on hiatus until Oct 4
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Post by Ace on Aug 23, 2006 2:03:04 GMT -5
Vancouver 24: Star-studded gathering at WestBy DARREN PARKMAN August 23, 2006 Veteran actress Patricia Clarkson was the guest of honour at an informal, but star-studded gathering Sunday night at trendy West Restaurant on Granville. Pierce Brosnan, Rachel McAdams, Chris Cooper and other cast and crew of the locally shot feature flick Marriage turned out to celebrate their award-winning costar Clarkson. It just so happens that a night earlier she picked up a Creative Arts Emmy award for her performance in the TV series Six Feet Under. She then had to hurry back here to continue work on the period drama Marriage, which is about an adulterous husband who plots the murder of his wife.
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Post by Ace on Sept 11, 2006 14:45:09 GMT -5
Info and Spoilers on Marriage.
Character names have been changed and maybe a major plot point change (though that might be a mistake by the reporter otherwise what the director has said previously and what the book is about have been tossed out the window)
A very long engagement Big-name 'Marriage' cast holes up in Vancouver for suspenser shoot
By DON TOWNSON
TORONTO -- On the Vancouver set of "Marriage," a neo-noir drama about love, deception and murder, it's supposed to be pouring rain as the young seductress Kay (Rachel McAdams) tells her adulterous older lover, Harry (Chris Cooper), "You look a little bit off. Why don't I put up some soup? Go and sit by the fire." Actually, it's an unusually hot August summer day outside and even hotter under the lights inside the soundstage of First Avenue Studio. And Cooper, beneath his pale makeup, is in the pink of health, despite a hectic schedule this summer that has him going back and forth between this film and the Peter Berg-directed thriller "The Kingdom."
"I'd rather help you," Cooper replies wistfully.
In a way, the physical discomfort lends an extra edge to the period suspenser about a man (Cooper) who attempts to leave his faithful but cold wife (Patricia Clarkson), for the passionate and much younger Kay. Afraid of the shame divorce will bring, Harry plots to poison Kay, which he reveals to his best friend, Richard (Pierce Brosnan). In the noir tradition of whatever can go wrong will go wrong, the plot thickens when Richard falls in love with Kay, becomes Harry's rival and tries to foil the murder.
The long-gestating project, with its starry cast and Sundance prizewinner Ira Sachs at the helm, represents somewhat of a coup for a new studio complex known primarily for its commercial shoots.
"I'm still awestruck," says First Avenue Studio owner David Switzer, as he watches carpenters dismantle the main set, a meticulously crafted, 1930s-style house erected inside his 9,000-square-foot building in Burnaby, a Vancouver suburb.
"We just opened last year, and a 'Marriage' location scout saw our sign and knocked on the door," says Switzer says. "So this has been one amazing experience."
It's taken four years for the on-again, off-again "Marriage" to march down the aisle this far. In the end, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment came onboard to finance the $17.5 million pic.
Homegrown star
The first 22 days of shooting have gone smoothly, and the crew is in a good mood. They are clearly enamored with McAdams, a homegrown star on the rise who is the daughter of a truck driver and a nurse. Earlier in the week, McAdams -- who was raised in St. Thomas, Ontario -- was named No. 8 on Canada's Celebrity Power list by Canadian Business magazine (after Avril Lavigne and before Matthew Perry). Brosnan has almost achieved local status, having made thriller "Butterfly on a Wheel" in Vancouver earlier this year.
With the bulk of the shooting over, production manager Simon Abbott has just circulated a memo to the crew on behalf of the producers extending their "heartfelt thanks for a job well done." Most of them are looking forward to an Indian summer vacation before returning to finish filming in October. Not returning are McAdams and Brosnan, who have completed their scenes.
"This is only my 74th day as a director in my life," says Sachs. "But people are willing to take a risk with me because creatively, 'Marriage' is full and rich."
Screenplay, penned by Sachs and Oren Moverman, is based on a 1953 novel by John Bingham, first published in the U.K. as "Five Roundabouts to Heaven" and then Stateside as "The Tender Poisoner." Sachs brought the project to exec producer Geoff Stier, who introduced it to SKE's production prexy Bill Horberg last year. Stier worked with Sachs on "Forty Shades of Blue," which won the 2005 Sundance Film Fest's grand jury prize.
"Marriage" is being produced by Sachs, Sidney Kimmel, Steve Golin and Jawal Nga.
"The opportunity to work on a film so performance-driven is refreshing," says David Nicksay, one of the seven credited executive producers involved with the film. "This kind of picture is the new wave for North American filmmaking. They're able to attract better casts than ever before. Indies are the place for movies with content and ideas."
Cooper was the first actor inked for "Marriage." "He had seen the script," says Nga, who produced Sachs' Sundance winner. "Then Ira and I went to Boston in 2005 and showed him 'Forty Shades of Blue.' He's been completely dedicated to the project."
Nga, a NYU grad who grew up in Tripoli, Libya, and London, says he's looking forward to people seeing "Marriage."
"You can win all the awards, but you can't get four people to see it," he says. "Nobody went to see 'Forty Shades of Blue.' Distribution adds legitimacy to your project." MGM will distribute "Marriage" Stateside through its arrangement with Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, and Kimmel International is handling the film overseas.
Date in print: Mon., Sep. 11, 2006, Weekly
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Post by Ace on Sept 14, 2006 19:47:59 GMT -5
MSN Aussie actor cast with Pierce Brosnan
Friday Sep 15 10:13 AEST
Australian actor David Wenham has been cast in a support role alongside Pierce Brosnan and Rachel McAdams in an upcoming Hollywood flick called Marriage.
Brosnan has described Wenham as a "good lad".
"He is a good lad, we had a nice time together," Brosnan told AAP at the Toronto International Film Festival, where his film, Seraphim Falls, is screening.
"He has a good sense of humour."
advertisement Marriage is being directed by Ira Sachs and was adapted for the big screen from the book of the same name by John Bingham.
The film also stars Chris Cooper and Patricia Clarkson and tells the story of a cheating husband who plots his wife's murder instead of putting her through the humiliation of a divorce.
"Marriage is kind of a film noir, Hitchkocky love story set in Seattle in 1949," explained Brosnan.
"I play a bachelor and rogue who shags everything that comes his way. So it is a good one."
Wenham recently wrapped production on 300, starring opposite British actor Gerard Butler.
Meanwhile, Brosnan's Seraphim Falls will be released in Australia early next year.
The US western also stars Liam Neeson and is set in the 1860s, at the end of the Civil War, and follows an army colonel's attempts to hunt down a man with whom he has a grudge.
For Brosnan, the role was different from anything the former James Bond star had ever done.
"I am mixing it up you know," he said. "I have done Mr Smooth acting most of my life and gotten away with it to one degree or less so now is a time to get down and get dirty, change it, shake it up.
"You want to live as many lives as you possibly can and certainly acting allows one to do that.
Brosnan has several films slated for production over the coming year and said he would be very keen to work in Australia, although the right project had not yet come along.
"I was speaking to (director) Bruce Beresford the other day, he's got a project going down there and I had just done this period piece and his piece was a bit like this piece so it just didn't work out.
"But I will get down there."
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Post by Ace on Sept 26, 2006 0:05:28 GMT -5
EDIT: I found the full article onlineThis is a subscriber required article so I only have the opening bit and the part that was posted on the IMDB McAdams board where he talks about Marriage. The rest, no doubt focusing on Seraphim Falls I don't alas have (yet). Vancouver Province: Brosnan's just looking for a good role By: Glen Schaefer September 24, 2006 TORONTO -- Pierce Brosnan is lounging at a restaurant table at the Hotel Intercontinental, nursing a breakfast coffee. Just off a spring and summer spent mainly in Vancouver making two movies, and doing the festival rounds for yet another movie, he's laid back, stylish -- a relaxed-fit version of that character he played in those spy movies. He doesn't mind admitting that those movies gave him the clout to do whatever he wanted, but the routine got to him. "In the early days of my career as Bond, I realized I could make films anywhere in the world," Brosnan says, in a meandering conversational mood after premiering his new western S eraphim Falls for a festival crowd the previous night. That movie opens in theatres later this year. "But I kind of painted myself into a corner there with suave and debonaire." Point out the contrast between Seraphim Falls's shaggy civil-war veteran and the chatty 1940s bon vivant he just finished playing in the Vancouver-filmed thriller Marriage, and Brosnan leans back in his chair. "So what does that say? It just means I'm an actor looking for a good role, looking for a good job, just like any actor is," he says. "You want to be, hopefully, an unexpected surprise. At this point, that would be a mantra to live by, having played somewhat the same . . ." He trails off and ponders for a moment. "One was educated and taught and led to believe that if you want to play a character you must transform the physical being, the physical speech. Then you find yourself coming to America and you kind of play the same. You get into a style -- not a rut, but you find a groove for yourself. You go off and do a big movie, they say 'do it again.' You do it again, but within that comes a certain ennui. You're not scared anymore, where you used to scare yourself." All of which led Brosnan from 2002's Die Another Day on the career track that ultimately landed him in Vancouver last March as star and executive producer of Butterfly on a Wheel. Maria Bello and Gerard Butler are also featured in a close-quarters contemporary thriller. "It's a toughie, really, thrillers are always tough to pull off," says Brosnan, who got to play scary for British director Mike Barker and Vancouver producer Bill Vince. "It's about this husband and wife who get waylaid by this crazy, horrid psychotic guy. I'm the psychotic guy. For one day I hold them ransom with their child -- it's not until the end that you find out why." Almost as soon as that movie wrapped, Brosnan signed on to stay in Vancouver for the summer making Marriage, a quite different thriller set in a 1940s American small town. Both movies hit theatres in 2007. American director-writer Ira Sachs resumes filming Marriage next month with Chris Cooper and Patricia Clarkson, while Brosnan finished his role in August as the questionable confidant to Cooper's married man. "I just loved the character, it was so well-written," says Brosnan. "It had such a lovely Hitchcockian tone to it -- film noir, thriller, romantic, whodunit. We talk a blue streak, we just talk and talk, lots of dialogue." Cooper's character meets his friend for lunch and tells him that he must leave his wife (Clarkson) because he's met another woman (Rachel McAdams). "I look over my shoulder, and here she comes," Brosnan says. "God she's beautiful. She sits down and thus starts the story. It's really quite delightful. I'm the narrator of the story." Is he also the story's conscience? "No, not really. The burden of conscience does not weigh heavily on my shoulders, because I'm a rogue. But a sincere rogue." Sounds like a fun way to spend the summer.
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Post by sparklingblue on Sept 26, 2006 3:12:55 GMT -5
I love it when he is a rogue. Especially a sincere one.
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Post by Ace on Sept 26, 2006 5:29:24 GMT -5
Yes, he does. The burden of conscience does not weigh heavily on my shoulders, because I'm a rogue. But a sincere rogue."Isn't that a marvelous character description? Ace
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Post by sparklingblue on Sept 26, 2006 6:31:54 GMT -5
It is brilliant. Only he would say something like that. (she says with Mildred-like adoration) (I simply could not resist ) | V
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Post by DCZinger on Sept 26, 2006 9:26:39 GMT -5
Awww. I just WISH that somewhere, somehow, there's an OSCAR winning role for this man. He's definitely getting a Lifetime Achievement award, but I'd like to see him get that OSCAR. Perhaps in the next batch of films he's got coming out.
DCZinger
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Post by Ace on Sept 26, 2006 12:26:19 GMT -5
Awww. I just WISH that somewhere, somehow, there's an OSCAR winning role for this man. He's definitely getting a Lifetime Achievement award, but I'd like to see him get that OSCAR. Perhaps in the next batch of films he's got coming out. DCZinger If The Matador came out this year instead of last, it probably would have been that role. There were just so many acclaimed, non genre, not to mention Oscar favored biographical roles by lead actors last year. This year the field seems to be considerably less crowded. So far only Peter O'Toole for Venus seems to have garnered this kind of hype and it's only been released in film festivals so far. I would love to see O'Toole win a non honorary Oscar though. Ace
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Post by Lauryn on Sept 29, 2006 10:24:27 GMT -5
Sums it up nicely, LOL! Great quote. Sounds delightful to me. It's probably dicey to talk in terms of anyone in the novel being the story's conscience in the traditional sense, as it's more what drives some of the players to do rather questionable or even unspeakable things. At least, their conscience as they see it.
You do get the impression in these interviews, that whether PB is playing a man of few words in "Seraphim Falls" or talking a blue streak in "Marriage" he feels a real sense of liberation in his acting choices these days. I do hope the dialogue in "Marriage" hits all the right notes for the characters and the genre and is provocative and lively on its own. Going by the book, the potential is there.
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Post by Ace on Nov 8, 2006 0:50:06 GMT -5
Hollywood Reporter: The A-list - Some of the most buzzworthy projects set to debut at the AFI marketBy Stephen Galloway Nov 1, 2006 Marriage (Kimmel International) Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson and Rachel McAdams star in this tentatively titled drama about relationships, love and deception. The movie spans two decades and follows a married man whose affair with a younger woman becomes complicated when he introduces her to his best friend (Brosnan), a womanizer who manipulates the situation so that he ends up with the girl. Based on the John Bingham book "Five Roundabouts to Heaven," "Marriage" is directed by Ira Sachs, who wrote the screenplay with Oren Moverman. The film is shooting in Vancouver. MGM is set to release "Marriage" domestically.
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Post by Ace on Nov 23, 2006 17:45:53 GMT -5
From the Kimmel International site there's a PDF scan of the Hollywood Reporter article on "A List Projects" at the American Film Market. At the top, and the largest photo from the article, is a photo from the set of Marriage of Pierce and Rachel. Looks like it was taken in that diner that was mentioned in one of the set reports. Here's the photo: pbfiles.t35.com/marriage/hr-afm-marriage.jpg
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Post by sparklingblue on Nov 25, 2006 21:27:04 GMT -5
I love that photo!
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Post by Ace on Jan 18, 2007 20:31:04 GMT -5
A snippet from the Guardian: 'We called it a festival, but it became a market'Ira Sachs, director of the 2005 winner 40 Shades of Blue, had a "really, really terrible time" with his distribution after winning at Sundance, But, he says, he benefited in the end: the award helped him make his next movie (the upcoming Married Life, with Pierce Brosnan and Patricia Clarkson). =================================== I wonder if Married Life is the new title. If so I prefer Marriage.
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Post by sparklingblue on Jan 22, 2007 6:49:56 GMT -5
"Married Life" sounds like a staid documentary. Let's hope this was a typo/misunderstanding.
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Post by Lauryn on Jan 22, 2007 12:19:04 GMT -5
"Married Life" sounds like a staid documentary. Let's hope this was a typo/misunderstanding. Oy. I feel an eyeroll coming on like Chandler in "Friends" -- Could they BE anymore boring? Literally. "Marriage" wasn't a great title but the word alone could sustain more of a hint of mystery. Sometimes a prosaic title can play as a bit ironic, but this doesn't. It's just flat. Something a little Hitchcock or noir would be more than we could hope, I guess.
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Post by Lauryn on Jan 24, 2007 23:54:12 GMT -5
"Married Life" sounds like a staid documentary. Let's hope this was a typo/misunderstanding. I was channel surfing recently and landed on "The English Patient," one of those movies with a title that sounds "ordinary" but is meant to be full of portent. Maybe they could try that art film strategy on for size and instead of "Married Life" call it something like "The Wine Merchant." <large "I'm only kidding" wink> Well, OK, you had to be there, or at least have read the book, LOL!
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Post by Ace on Jan 25, 2007 3:01:47 GMT -5
But at least the seemingly vague "The English Patient" was Michael Ondaatje's own title. I'm still trying to figure out what makes "Marriage" or "Married Life" better than "Five Roundabouts to Heaven" or "The Tender Poisoner". I know Roundabout isn't exactly a common word but this film isn't exactly going to be marketed to teenagers either. They could have also replaced roundabout with some other more common traffic term -- like Exit. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with or unmarketable about "The Tender Poisoner".
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