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| Steven Spielberg's 'The Post' features Broadway actors by the dozen | |
| Last Edit: WaymanWong 03:50 am EST 01/13/18 | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 03:42 am EST 01/13/18 | |
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| ''The Post,'' Spielberg's acclaimed new movie about the Washington Post and the Pentagon Papers, just opened wide yesterday. It stars Meryl Streep as publisher Katharine Graham and Tom Hanks as editor Ben Bradlee. And it's got lots of theater actors in the many supporting roles. Among them: David Alan Baker, Susan Blackwell, Philip Casnoff, Carrie Coon, Rick Crom, Johanna Day, Christopher Innvar, Tracy Letts, Jessie Mueller, Stark Sands, Cotter Smith and Michael Stuhlbarg. As for the movie, it's one of Steven Spielberg's best films in years and oughta be an Oscar contender. A movie about the freedom of the press and a president who tries to quash it, is so timely and important. Liz Hannah and Josh Singer's savvy script keeps you on the edge of your seat even if you know the history. As a journalist, it especially hit home for me in its nostalgia for newspapers and old-fashioned values, like what's in the First Amendment, particularly at a time when Trump wants to rip up our libel laws. In the wrong hands, ''The Post'' could've been a dry history lesson; Spielberg turns it into a thriller for our times. |
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| Link | Official trailer: Steven Spielberg's ''The Post'' |
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| I think Spotlight was better | |
| Posted by: dramedy 12:14 pm EST 01/13/18 | |
| In reply to: Steven Spielberg's 'The Post' features Broadway actors by the dozen - WaymanWong 03:42 am EST 01/13/18 | |
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| Its pretty much the same etory except vatican coverup of priests is more juicy story than whitehouse coverup of vietnam. Its a very solid movie, but s little dry. It is timely only because the script has been sitting around in Hollywood for years and when trump took office and railed against the press, spielberg greenlit the production. | |
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| The First Draft of the Script was Finished Labor Day 2016 & Amy Pascal Got it Going | |
| Posted by: ScriptGirl 09:16 am EST 01/14/18 | |
| In reply to: I think Spotlight was better - dramedy 12:14 pm EST 01/13/18 | |
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| I worked on The Post as the Script Supervisor. I wonder where you got the idea that the script has been sitting around for years. The reality is completely the opposite. Liz Hannah, who wrote the script, finished the first draft in September of 2016. Amy Pascal, the producer, was the one who got the project going. A director doesn’t greenlight. Fox is the studio and they green lit the production. Going from first draft to having the finished film showing in theaters in 15 months is practically unheard of; that’s about as “instant” as it gets in the movie business. | |
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| re: The First Draft of the Script was Finished Labor Day 2016 & Amy Pascal Got it Going | |
| Posted by: dramedy 03:14 pm EST 01/14/18 | |
| In reply to: The First Draft of the Script was Finished Labor Day 2016 & Amy Pascal Got it Going - ScriptGirl 09:16 am EST 01/14/18 | |
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| I tbought i heard it on one of the morning shows few weeks ago. But i must have misinterpreted the statements made. | |
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| 'Post' script: How it got fasttracked for a quick turnaround | |
| Last Edit: WaymanWong 01:25 pm EST 01/14/18 | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 01:17 pm EST 01/14/18 | |
| In reply to: The First Draft of the Script was Finished Labor Day 2016 & Amy Pascal Got it Going - ScriptGirl 09:16 am EST 01/14/18 | |
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| Congrats, ScriptGirl, on working on such a wonderful and incredibly topical movie like ''The Post''! I read an interview with Liz Hannah (linked below) that confirms what you said: that it was written on a short timeline and bought by producer Amy Pascal, who got the ball rolling. It was fasttracked to production, thanks to the amazing efforts of Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks. Josh Singer, who won the Oscar for Original Screenplay for ''Spotlight,'' was contacted to do a quick rewrite on Hannah's spec script (which she wrote at age 31!). I hope Hannah and Singer get Oscar-nominated, but it's so competitive this year. Given how politically polarized this country is, I'm amazed this movie got made at all, and wondered if there'd be any audience for it. Happily, it's gotten rave reviews and an A from CinemaScore. Looks like it'll be No. 2 at the box office, with about $22 million or so. |
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| Link | Indiewire.com: 'The Post' - Liz Hannah and Josh Singer on revisiting history with Steven Spielberg and Meryl Streep |
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| re: I think Spotlight was better | |
| Posted by: TheOtherOne 12:30 pm EST 01/13/18 | |
| In reply to: I think Spotlight was better - dramedy 12:14 pm EST 01/13/18 | |
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| I also thought the barrage of theater actors in small roles was a bit gimmicky. Very few of them had a chance to make much of an individual impression, though I guess their agents scored in getting them into a timely Spielberg film. Good movie, though! |
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| It was filmed in New York. Should they have flown in bit players from LA? (NM) | |
| Posted by: Seth Christenfeld (tabula-rasa@verizon.net) 07:16 pm EST 01/13/18 | |
| In reply to: re: I think Spotlight was better - TheOtherOne 12:30 pm EST 01/13/18 | |
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| Seth, c'mon | |
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| re: I think Spotlight was better | |
| Last Edit: ryhog 01:48 pm EST 01/13/18 | |
| Posted by: ryhog 01:46 pm EST 01/13/18 | |
| In reply to: re: I think Spotlight was better - TheOtherOne 12:30 pm EST 01/13/18 | |
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| since when is it a gimmick to use terrific stage actors in a film? this sentiment astonishes me. is it a gimmick when we use the same actors in small roles in a play? p.s. 99.9% of the audience for this film is not even aware that there is a "barrage" of stage actors in it. |
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| re: Steven Spielberg's 'The Post' features Broadway actors by the dozen | |
| Posted by: claploudly 09:08 am EST 01/13/18 | |
| In reply to: Steven Spielberg's 'The Post' features Broadway actors by the dozen - WaymanWong 03:42 am EST 01/13/18 | |
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| You forgot to acknowledge Bradley Whitford, a Julliard alum who replaced Tom Hulce as the lead in Aaron Sorkin's "A Few Good Men" on Broadway plus Lincoln Center's "Measure for Measure," Broadway's Three Days of Rain," and "Boeing, Boeing." | |
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| re: Steven Spielberg's 'The Post' features Broadway actors by the dozen | |
| Posted by: twocents 10:35 am EST 01/16/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Steven Spielberg's 'The Post' features Broadway actors by the dozen - claploudly 09:08 am EST 01/13/18 | |
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| And daddy dearest in Get Out. He's certainly in demand and pulling in the loot! | |
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| re: Steven Spielberg's 'The Post' features Broadway actors by the dozen | |
| Posted by: ryhog 09:44 am EST 01/13/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Steven Spielberg's 'The Post' features Broadway actors by the dozen - claploudly 09:08 am EST 01/13/18 | |
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| Actually, I found over 2 dozen additional stage actors in the cast, and probably missed some. Spielberg knows how to cast. :-) | |
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| re: Steven Spielberg's 'The Post' features Broadway actors by the dozen | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 11:30 am EST 01/13/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Steven Spielberg's 'The Post' features Broadway actors by the dozen - ryhog 09:44 am EST 01/13/18 | |
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| Obviously, that wasn't meant to be a complete list of stage actors in ''The Post,'' which is why I said: ''Among them ...'' But I should applaud the woman who's credited for the casting: Ellen Lewis, who's won Emmys and Artios for her work. |
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| re: Steven Spielberg's 'The Post' features Broadway actors by the dozen | |
| Posted by: SidL 05:34 am EST 01/13/18 | |
| In reply to: Steven Spielberg's 'The Post' features Broadway actors by the dozen - WaymanWong 03:42 am EST 01/13/18 | |
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| An obvious terrific future double feature will be the Alan Pakula's equally patriotic film "All The President's Men" Along with the two leads, movie features many theater actors including: Jack Warden,Martin Balsam,Hal Holbrook,Jason Robards,Jane Alexander,Ned Beatty, Penny Fuller,John McMartin, F. Murray Abraham,Lindsay Crouse, Polly Holliday and Neva Patterson. |
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| Link | "All The President's Men" trailer touting eight Oscar nominations |
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| Remembering the forgotten man of 'All the President's Men' (spoilers) | |
| Last Edit: WaymanWong 12:34 pm EST 01/13/18 | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 12:31 pm EST 01/13/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Steven Spielberg's 'The Post' features Broadway actors by the dozen - SidL 05:34 am EST 01/13/18 | |
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| There's a moment in ''The Post'' in which Spielberg pays tribute to ''All the President's Men'' that calls to mind Frank Wills. Who's that? He's the black security guard, who at 24, discovered the break-in at the Watergate, which led to President Nixon's downfall. And without Wills' discovery, there would've been no story by Woodward & Bernstein, let alone the movie of ''All the President's Men.'' In the 1976 movie, Alan Pakula cast Wills to play himself; it was his sole film credit, and his fleeting moment of recognition. Sadly, this unsung hero would spend the next 2 decades often unemployed and living in poverty, caring for his mother who had had a stroke. He was convicted of stealing a pair of sneakers and sentenced to a year in prison. When his mom died in 1993, Wills was so poor that he had to donate her body to medical research because he couldn't afford to bury her. Wills died in 2000 at age 52 of a brain tumor. In ''The Post,'' Wills is played by N.Y. actor JaQwan J. Kelly, who has a GoFundMe campaign to raise $3,000 to join SAG/AFTRA. In one more indignity, Wills isn't even identified by his name in the credits; he's simply ''Watergate Security Guard.'' |
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| Link | Washington Post: 'The Post' and the forgotten security guard who discovered the Watergate breakin |
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