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Awake
Sept 2, 2005 21:07:48 GMT -5
Post by dzero on Sept 2, 2005 21:07:48 GMT -5
Thanks for the great tips you two , if it ever happens again I'll be sure to bring up those suggestions with the docs . Although the premise of the movie doesn't really sound that great , I'm with Aerie , and am going to take a wait and see attitude. It's all in the execution . I thought HC ( there is no way! I'm going to type out that whole name for the next year and half til the movie opens ) was excellent in Shattered Glass ( a good example of a terrific film from a first time director ) and his skywalker well, wasn't really his fault. And nothing could be as bad as Paranoid. Literally ;D, it's some kind of law of nature/science/physics that nothing could ever suck as bad as that film sucked. Aerie is the science girl , she'll back me up on that one .
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Awake
Sept 5, 2005 2:49:06 GMT -5
Post by englishrose on Sept 5, 2005 2:49:06 GMT -5
It will be interesting to see if Jessica's hair goes darker for this movie.
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Awake
Sept 6, 2005 7:48:14 GMT -5
Post by Hometown9 on Sept 6, 2005 7:48:14 GMT -5
...but I wouldn't know Hayden C. from Health L. or that other guy that I forgot his name. Hey Aerie, is Orlando Bloom the name of that *other guy*? I'm only guessing since it seems like you came up with another name that "fit", so to speak, the type of actors that the other two seem to be.
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Awake
Sept 6, 2005 7:51:44 GMT -5
Post by Hometown9 on Sept 6, 2005 7:51:44 GMT -5
It will be interesting to see if Jessica's hair goes darker for this movie. Oh please may you be proven clairvoyant on this one englishrose. But I'm going to add that it would be so MUCH better than "interesting". Only now I can't think of just the right adjective to use for what it would mean to me.
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Awake
Sept 6, 2005 15:23:20 GMT -5
Post by englishrose on Sept 6, 2005 15:23:20 GMT -5
From Dark Horizons.com
Alba & Glover Deny Superhero Talk Posted: Friday September 2nd, 2005 11:44pm Source: The Great Link Author: Garth Franklin Jessica Alba has laughed off reports she is donning oversized pants and slippers to star in the film remake of I Dream Of Jeannie reports The Great Link.
Alba has just signed up to appear in a low-budget film and is baffled by reports she is set to take over Barbara Eden's cult TV role. Alba tells the New York Daily News, "I just signed on to an independent called Wide Awake for Miramax, actually, with Sigourney Weaver and Hayden Christensen. (So playing Barbara Eden...?) not that I know of, no."
Alba & Christensen Are Wide "Awake" Posted: Friday September 2nd, 2005 11:38pm Source: Variety Author: Garth Franklin Weinstein Co. and GreeneStreet Films have set Jessica Alba and Hayden Christensen to star in psychological thriller "Awake" reports Variety.
The two companies are co-financing the pic, which will be the directorial debut of Joby Harold who also penned the script. The film is scheduled to begin shooting in October in Gotham.
Story focuses on a man (Christensen) who suffers "anesthetic awareness" and finds himself awake and aware, but paralyzed, during surgery. His young wife (Alba) must wrestle with her own demons as a drama unfolds around them.
The name of this movie seems to keep changing
from imdb.com The indie thriller Awake features Hayden Christensen as Clay, a young man with a huge family fortune who will undergo surgery to receive a heart transplant. During the procedure, he realizes that the entire surgical team is in a conspiracy against him to get his money. Alert and awake, he must figure out a way to save himself.
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Awake
Sept 7, 2005 19:54:34 GMT -5
Post by dzero on Sept 7, 2005 19:54:34 GMT -5
from imdb.com The indie thriller Awake features Hayden Christensen as Clay, a young man with a huge family fortune who will undergo surgery to receive a heart transplant. During the procedure, he realizes that the entire surgical team is in a conspiracy against him to get his money. Alert and awake, he must figure out a way to save himself. Thanks for the news english_rose . This description makes it sound more interesting than the other ones I've read, more sinister . P.S you quoted darkhorizons.com?? I used to go to that site everyday, but for the last month I haven't been able to bring up the site , I figured the site was down, but I guess other people can log on??
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Awake
Sept 7, 2005 21:00:30 GMT -5
Post by englishrose on Sept 7, 2005 21:00:30 GMT -5
I don't logon to it. I just sort happened upon it.
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Awake
Sept 8, 2005 14:51:45 GMT -5
Post by englishrose on Sept 8, 2005 14:51:45 GMT -5
www.filmmakermagazine.com/summer2005/features/25_faces21-25.php25 NEW FACES OF INDEPENDENT FILM 2005 22 JOBY HAROLD “ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF EVERY AGONY SITS SOME OBSERVANT FELLOW WHO POINTS,” Virginia Woolf once wrote. For writer-director Joby Harold, he had his own six hours of pain before he could write his dark psychological thriller Awake. “I had a kidney stone,” Harold explains, “and I was in extreme amounts of pain. The morphine wasn’t helping, so in my mind I looked for a happy place to hang out until the pain went away.” It was during that day in the hospital that Harold hatched the ingenious high concept for Awake, a thriller played out in the mind of a man undergoing open heart surgery, whose failed anesthetic leaves him completely alert, but paralyzed and unable to tell his doctors. If you think you’ve heard that log line before, it’s probably because the film has had its own share of painful fits and starts. After getting set up with a New York–based all-star team of Open City Films, GreeneStreet Films and the Weinstein Company, it was announced as being on the verge of preproduction last year with Jared Leto and Kate Bosworth starring. Later Katie Holmes became attached when Bosworth dropped out to do Superman Returns, but now Harold is recasting again. “Katie Holmes is rearranging her life, and we didn’t want to wait and see if we were part of her rearrangement,” Harold says diplomatically. Born in England, Harold moved to the states to attend UCLA Film School. After graduating, he stayed in L.A., scored an agent and manager but in 1999 decided to move to New York. “What I sacrifice by not being able to take a meeting in five minutes I get back in the writing,” he says. Now he writes his “early Polanski”–inspired scripts from midnight to seven in the morning each day. “It’s easier for me to get away from the phone, and the stuff I’m writing is fairly dark,” he explains. “And when my wife wakes up, I’m there waiting with a big smile on my face; she leaves, and I go to sleep.” — S.M. Contact: Jay Baker at CAA: (310) 288-4545, Shawn Hopkins at Anonymous Content: (310) 558-3667
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Awake
Sept 8, 2005 16:09:15 GMT -5
Post by dzero on Sept 8, 2005 16:09:15 GMT -5
Interesting article, the more I hear about this film, the better it sounds.
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Awake
Sept 14, 2005 18:45:02 GMT -5
Post by dzero on Sept 14, 2005 18:45:02 GMT -5
JA was quoted in the latest Entertainment Weekly about the film.
"It's what happens to people when they go through surgery, but [the doctors accidentally] don't put them out completely, so they can feel the surgery but can't speak," explains Alba. Freaky! "That happens to Hayden's character. He has a bad heart, and what gets him through [the experience] is this love he has for my character, Sam. She's his mothers assistant," and Mommy doesn't know about their relationship!
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Awake
Sept 14, 2005 19:12:18 GMT -5
Post by englishrose on Sept 14, 2005 19:12:18 GMT -5
Considering she's supposed to play his wife, how did Mommy not know about their relationship?
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Awake
Oct 11, 2005 23:32:25 GMT -5
Post by dzero on Oct 11, 2005 23:32:25 GMT -5
JA spoke to MTV.com about the movie. www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1510963/story.jhtmlThe recent news that Jessica Alba and Hayden Christensen would collaborate on a romantic thriller was far from shocking. The daring concept of "Awake," however, did generate more questions than answers. The film, which shoots later this year, tells the story of a man (Christensen) undergoing surgery whose failed anesthetic renders him comatose. Alba assured fans, however, that the stars will have plenty of "Awake" time to sizzle: "The first half of the movie is before he goes under, and then the second half of the movie is him going under. You get to flashback to the way we met and when we first fell in love," said the "Into the Blue" beauty, whose character is "paranoid and crying and nervous and loving my man." In addition to playing Christensen's soulmate, Alba will star alongside acting hero Sigourney Weaver ("She plays Hayden's mom, and I am her assistant") in the unorthodox film. "It's not about me putting on a bathing suit or being an action hero or dancing with the lasso or dancing like I did in 'Honey' or kicking ass like I did in 'Dark Angel.' There's nothing physical that I have to do, which is really nice." ...
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Awake
Oct 15, 2005 0:21:38 GMT -5
Post by Cate on Oct 15, 2005 0:21:38 GMT -5
I remember reading an article where JA was complaining that she wasn't getting offered the roles that other big Hollywood actresses were being offered and all the roles she was offered seen to concentrate on her body. I think this is a really good step for her, there seems to be a good buzz around the movie.
Cate
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Awake
Nov 6, 2005 3:44:07 GMT -5
Post by ML Fan on Nov 6, 2005 3:44:07 GMT -5
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Awake
Nov 8, 2005 1:44:10 GMT -5
Post by dzero on Nov 8, 2005 1:44:10 GMT -5
From comingsoon.net comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=11908More casting news for the film, looks like no more Sigourney Weaver. Olin, Howard and Robards are Awake Source: The Hollywood Reporter November 8, 2005 Lena Olin, Terrence Howard and Sam Robards are joining Hayden Christensen and Jessica Alba in the psychological thriller Awake, says The Hollywood Reporter. GreeneStreet Films and the Weinstein Co. are co-financing writer Joby Harold's directorial debut, in which Christensen plays a victim of "anesthetic awareness," in which a patient remains awake but paralyzed during surgery. Production began October 31 in New York. Olin and Robards play Christensen's parents, and Alba plays his wife, who's facing her own demons. Howard plays the heart surgeon who leads the operation.
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