Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law, Rachel McAdams and Guy Ritchie directing? If all these players are on their A-game this could be pretty interesting. The trailer is certainly action packed:
Check out WatchMojo.com’s recent look at the origins of the superhero Ironman:
“Downey captures Chaplin’s spirit, even in costume as the Tramp.” – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
“Robert Downey Jr. is brilliant.” – San Francisco Examiner
Lionsgate are planning to announce the DVD release of the 15th ANNIVERSARY EDITION of CHAPLIN, a dramatized biography of the highs and lows in the life of one of the foremost comic geniuses the silver screen has ever known, played by Robert Downey Jr which earned him an Academy Award® nomination and BAFTA Award. The film, directed by two-time Academy Award® winner Richard Attenborough (Ghandi), boasts a critically-acclaimed ensemble cast that includes Academy Award® winners Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs), Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda) and Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny) ; Academy Award® nominee Diane Lane (Unfaithful) ; and Academy Award® nominees and Emmy® winners Dan Aykroyd (Driving Miss Daisy) and James Woods (Ghosts of Mississippi).
This 15th Anniversary Edition features a newly re-mastered widescreen version of the film and all-new bonus materials, including two featurettes that document Chaplin’s film legacy, a never-before-seen home movie of Chaplin and a retrospective interview with director (remove comma) Richard Attenborough. The special edition DVD comes in a limited edition plastic o-card that reveals to an image of the Little Tramp underneath.
Chaplin, the film that earned acclaimed actor Robert Downey Jr. an Academy Award® nomination and BAFTA Award, is now available in a brand new, special edition DVD. The film, directed by two-time Academy Award® winner Richard Attenborough (Ghandi), boasts a critically-acclaimed ensemble cast that includes Academy Award® winners Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs), Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda) and Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny); Academy Award® nominee Diane Lane (Unfaithful) ; and Academy Award® nominees and Emmy® winners Dan Aykroyd (Driving Miss Daisy) and James Woods (Ghosts of Mississippi). Chaplin: 15th Anniversary Edition features a newly re-mastered widescreen version of the film and all-new bonus materials, including two featurettes that document Chaplin’s film legacy, a never-before-seen home movie of Chaplin and a retrospective interview with Attenborough. The special edition DVD comes in a limited edition plastic o-card that reveals to an image of the Little Tramp underneath. The DVD will be available on October 14, 2008 for the low suggested retail price of $19.98.
Chaplin is a dramatized biography of the highs and lows in the life of one of the foremost comic geniuses the silver screen has ever known. With the use of flashback, an elderly Chaplin (Downey Jr.) discusses his autobiography with his editor (Hopkins) who urges him to be more vulnerable and emotionally honest with his memoirs. Together, they journey through Chaplin’s poverty-stricken childhood, closest friendships, many marriages, and his ingenious invention of “The Little Tramp,” as well as J. Edgar Hoover’s merciless pursuit, Chaplin’s shocking exile to Switzerland and his triumphant return to Hollywood. Downey’s astonishing mimicry of Chaplin’s gait, gestures and accents complete a dazzlingly authentic portrait of one of cinema’s first pop culture icons.
DVD SPECIAL FEATURES
- “Strolling Into the Sunset” – a new retrospective with director Richard Attenborough
- “All at Sea” – a never-before-seen home movie of Charlie Chaplin on vacation in Catalina, CA
- “Chaplin the Hero” – a new featurette on Charlie Chaplin’s contributions to film, including interviews with Richard Schickel (film critic for Time Magazine and director of “Charlie: The Life and Art of Charlie Chaplin”) along with Chaplin’s official biographer, David Robinson
- “The Most Famous Man in the World” – Charlie Chaplin was mobbed by thousands of fans everywhere he went … long before the days of TV and the internet. See how Chaplin became the first pop culture icon
- Theatrical trailer
The Original Trailer:
From SciFi.com:
Robert Downey Jr., who stars in the upcoming movie Iron Man, told SCI FI Wire that he’s already looking ahead to a possible sequel and added that he’d like to explore the burden his superhero responsibilities impose.
“If you ask me, the next one is about what do you do with the rest of your life now that you’re completely changed?” Downey told reporters while responding to a question from SCI FI Wire during an interview in New York last weekend. “And you are in touch, and you have created this thing that has the power to take life. Essentially, you have been made into a god. A human being, metaphorically, who’s been made into a god is not going to turn out so well. And their conscience is going to come to bear.”
In Iron Man, Downey plays billionaire playboy and weapons manufacturer Tony Stark, who undergoes a dramatic change of heart after being captured by Afghan insurgents, and he emerges as the heroic Iron Man. The film is based on the Marvel Comics series.
One possible sequel storyline thread, Downey said, could be based on the “Demon in a Bottle” comic series. In it, an overwhelmed Stark becomes an alcoholic.
“I think the drinking will be a way to confront his age, his doubts, to confront the fact that Pepper [Gwyneth Paltrow] maybe gets a boyfriend,” Downey said. “He’s like, ‘I’m so happy for you.’” Downey then pretended to swig a drink.
“Then he shows up in the Iron Man suit going, ‘What’s he got that I don’t?’” Downey said. “I tend to think like [screenwriter] Shane Black in these situations. And no one thinks like Shane Black, stuff that really speaks to the truth of what happens between people.”
Downey then went off on a tangent, addressing Black’s uncredited contributions to Iron Man and further detailing what he’d like to see in a sequel. Black wrote the screenplay for the Downey film Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
“The weapons and stuff would have to be cooler, too,” Downey said. “We would go to Shane Black, [director] Jon [Favreau] and I every once in a while, [and] it would be like going to Yoda. We’d bring him some salmon, and he’d want blueberries. And he’d never take a penny, and then he’d say something, and everything for six miles would evaporate. That idea that your brain has created something so destructive, it’s like the Manhattan Project myth; we have become the destroyer of worlds. But he’s not the destroyer of worlds.”
Downey paused and said, “Anyway, I answered it. People ask me, ‘What makes you think you could get it up for another one?’ Are you kidding me? We’re just getting started here.” Iron Man opens May 2.
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