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  • Julia Stiles, Matt Damon Ready for ‘Bourne 5’

    Julia Stiles and Matt Damon are reportedly both in for the filming of the next in the series of the Bourne spy franchise films. Tentatively called Bourne 5, Nicky Parsons and Jason Bourne are back with these actor’s reprisals.

    Alongside Matt Damon, Julia Stiles starred in The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum. Neither appeared in The Bourne Legacy. Paul Greengrass, who directed both Supremacy and Ultimatum, is coming back to direct Bourne 5.

    Julia Stiles’ portrayal of Nicky Parsons serves as one of the major links connecting the original three Bourne movies. It makes perfect sense for her to continue playing a role in this next chapter. Nicky has deep knowledge of Jason Bourne’s psychological issues, and this knowledge would likely come into play during the Bourne 5 narrative–as featured in the script that Greengrass and Damon have written alongside Paul Greengrass’s longtime editor, Christopher Rouse.

    It’s possible that Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen will join Matt Damon and Julia Stiles in Bourne 5. He’s purportedly being eyed for the role of the film’s villain. Alicia Vikander of Ex Machina fame is as possibility in a key role as well.

    Regardless of the other players, Matt Damon and Julia Stiles are said to be a done deal. Filming is set to begin next month with Bourne 5 scheduled to hit theaters in July of 2016.

    Are you excited to learn that Julia Stiles and Matt Damon will soon reprise their Bourne roles?

  • Julia Stiles Reprising Her Nicky Parsons Role In “Bourne 5”

    Julia Stiles is reportedly the lastest actor to come onboard for the next installment in The Bourne Identity franchise.

    Julia Stiles will reprise her role as covert agent turned accomplice Nicky Parsons.

    The only other star to confirm involvement in what is temporarily being called Bourne 5 is Matt Damon.

    However, it is rumored that Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen might be signing on to join Julia Stiles and Matt Damon in a villain role.

    Mortensen has generally stuck to independent-type movies, so this could be his biggest role since Aragorn, should he take it.

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    Rumor has it that Joan Allen could possibly return. It has also been said that Ex Machina star Alicia Vikander was being offered a part.

    What we do know is that Paul Greengrass is returning to write the screenplay with Christopher Rouse and that Frank Marshall and Jeffery Weiner will produce again for Bourne 5.

    This will be yet another massive boost for Universal, which saw huge success recently with Jurassic World.

    This isn’t Julia Stiles’ only project right now, though it does seem like we haven’t seen her in a while.

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    Julia Stiles will also be appearing soon in Beyond Deceit with Al Pacino and Go With Me with Anthony Hopkins. Not too shabby.

    In my mind, Julia Stiles is still playing this role:

    Are you excited to see Julia Stiles and Matt Damon team up again in the upcoming Bourne sequel?

  • Viggo Mortensen Begins Venice With “Far From Men” Tomorrow, Then Off To Toronto

    Viggo Mortensen has been dominating the international film festivals this year. Already his movie The Two Faces of January, made waves at the Berlin film festival in February with an 84% critic approval according to Rotten Tomatoes, and Indiewire reported that Magnolia Pictures made a deal to distribute the movie in the United States.

    Then in May, Jauja was released at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard category and managed to claim the FIPRESCI Prize. In September, it moves on promisingly to the Toronto and New York Film Festivals. “Lisandro Alonso has created a work of immense beauty and power that will be studied and talked about and adored for years to come,” Ryan Krivoshey of Cinema Guild told Indiewire, “It’s a film that needs to be seen by as wide an audience as possible and that’s exactly what we intend to do.”

    The movie is set in the 1880s during a genocidal war in Patagonia, but you wouldn’t know that from watching the unconventional trailer:

    Tomorrow, however, marks the beginning of the Venice Film Festival. Mortensen has yet another film in the festival’s opening line up of French language movies, according to Deadline. The David Oelhoffen directed Far From Men will premiere in Venice and then move on to the Toronto International Film Festival in a Special Presentation berth.

    Will Mortensen be in an English language film ever again? The star is currently filming Captain Fantastic, which doesn’t come out until next year. With Steve Zahn, Frank Langella, Kathyrn Hahn, Missi Pyle, and Erin Moriarty, it is sure to be in English, especially since it is set in the Pacific Northwest.

    The Two Faces of January, mentioned above, also is in English. According to Magnolia Pictures’s website, Americans can expect it to be released in theaters September 26th, but you can watch it on demand with iTunes starting on Thursday.

  • Viggo Mortensen To Star In Captain Fantastic

    The screenplay for the comedy drama Captain Fantastic has been called the best script that film distributor Entertainment One has seen since Little Miss Sunshine. Now the cast for what could shape up to be one of the most acclaimed films of 2015 is coming together. Viggo Mortensen has been cast as the lead role. The imdb.com tagline: “A father living in the forests of the Pacific Northwest with his six young kids tries to assimilate back into society.”

    Also joining Mortensen will be Steve Zahn, Frank Langella, Kathyrn Hahn, Missi Pyle, and Erin Moriarty. Matt Ross is set to direct.

    Entertainment One acquired the international rights to the film earlier this week. “This is a project we all fell in love with and was voted best script of 2014 by our distribution teams on the ground,” Entertainment One President Harold van Lier said in a statement. “It is a very original story, both funny and deeply emotional and a wonderful role for Viggo. I don’t think we have read anything like it since Little Miss Sunshine, but this is altogether very different.”

    In the film Mortensen plays Ben, a father of six, who has turned his back on society and gone totally off the grid. He teaches his children survival and combat skills. He also homeschools his kids and raises them in the style of Thoreau’s Walden Days. When his character is forced to leave his comfort zone of the great outdoors of the Pacific Northwest and face modern society, Ben struggles mightily with the adjustment.

    You can also check out Mortensen in two more films that have already completed production: Lisando Alonso’s drama Jauja and the French film Far From Men.

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  • Viggo Mortensen Gets Co-Stars for ‘Captain Fantastic’

    If someone was to stop you on the streets and ask what the upcoming film Captain Fantastic was about, odds are you would guess that it is the latest movie to be released in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And, truth be told, that would be a damn good guess. I mean, there is Mr. Fantastic from the Fantastic Four and Captain Marvel, as well. (For those of you who grew up in the 70’s, there is also the chance that you would think Captain Fantastic was an Elton John biopic based on his album entitled “Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy”.) Unfortunately, though, that guess could not be further from the truth.

    Captain Fantastic, directed by Matt Ross and set to be released sometime in 2015, is about as far from a superhero movie as one can get. Set in the woods of the Pacific Northwest, the story for Captain Fantastic centers around a father who chooses to turn his back on society and raise his six children in the style of Thoreau’s Walden days. Viggo Mortensen, who plays the father in the film, directs his children in combat and survival skills during the day, and adds to these lessons by homeschooling them in the classics during any free time.

    All is fine and dandy at Walden 2.0 until Mortensen and his children are forced to leave their rural utopia and deal with the plagues of modern society.

    “This is a project we all fell in love with and was voted best script of 2014 by our distribution teams on the ground. It is a very original story, both funny and deeply emotional and a wonderful role for Viggo. I don’t think we have read anything like it since Little Miss Sunshine, but this is altogether very different,” stated the president of Entertainment One Films International, Harold van Lier.

    Monday, more of Mortensen’s co-stars were revealed for the upcoming film. Joining Mortensen for the film will be Steve Zahn, Kathryn Hahn, Missi Pyle and Erin Moriarty. Zahn most recently received acclaim for his role in Dallas Buyer’s Club, while Hahn last starred in Bad Words and Pyle in Gone Girl. It was earlier announced that Tony Award winner Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon) would also join the loaded cast.

    While Mortensen will be surrounded by great actors and actresses, one can rightfully guess that he will receive most of the attention given Ross’s fanboyish crush: ”Viggo Mortensen’s dedication to his craft and to the world of the story he’s telling have been an inspiration to me for years. There is a depth to his art that I greatly admire. Any film he’s in is a film I want to see. He’s one of the greats. Getting to collaborate with him on Captain Fantastic is quite literally the best thing that’s happened to me since my wife asked me to marry her.”

    Until the release of Captain Fantastic, Ross and other Mortensen fans can get their fix by watching The Two Faces of January, set to hit theaters on August 28.

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  • Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst in New Thriller

    Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst brought an Alfred Hitchcock-inspired thriller to life at the Berlin Film Festival this past week. The Two Faces of January premiered at the festival Tuesday, and also stars Oscar Isaac. This films marks the directorial debut of Iranian-British screenwriter Hossein Amini, known for writing the 2011 blockbuster Drive.

    The film is based on a novel written by the late Patricia Highsmith. The U.S. crime writer was best known for penning The Talented Mr. Ripley. Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst star as an American couple–Chester and Colette–who are on vacation in Greece. After catching the eye of a Greek tour guide named Rydal–played by Oscar Isaac–the film takes a sudden turn. Soon murder, mystery and a love triangle all take center stage.

    Mortensen says he was a huge fan of Highsmith and loved the ‘film noir aspects of the story.’

    “It’s a term that’s thrown around a lot — it needs to have shadows, it needs to be black and white,” he said. “The only thing I would say is that the characters need to lie and lose, and it needs to end badly for everyone.”

    He also believes in order for there to be intrigue, that all characters should have secrets.

    “That’s what the story’s generally about: the masks, and the masks fall away, and what you end up seeing about these people is often ugly and embarrassing,” he said. “But when it’s well done, when the thriller aspect works in terms of storytelling, no matter how badly they behave you’re on their side somehow. You don’t want the cops to catch them.”

    The Two Faces of January garnered mixed reviews at the Berlin Film Festival last week. The Daily Telegraph called it an “elegantly pleasurable period thriller, a film of tidy precision and class”. But movie website Indiewire summed it up as a “competent disappointment”. It will be very interesting to learn how it does back home in U.S. theaters.

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