For those who still have suspicions about what really happened on that important day in Dallas – November 22, 1963 – by Oliver Stone JFK remains a definitive document. The 1991 film captured the exact sketch of a conspiracy that was widely agreed upon, but at least the operatic whip of those still lingering feelings of shock, anger, and suspicion. Using the various theories gathered by Jim Marrs, among others, Fort Worth Star Telegram reporter and JFK assassination expert, Stone created a true fantasy war parody of the Cold War paranoia, one that mixed powerful historical details – including a re-enactment of Kennedy’s garage that was staged right there in Dealey Plaza—With unashamedly poetic license, using shadowy speculations, imaginary conversations, and composite characters to create a compelling tale of wide-ranging conspiracy at the highest levels of government. Stone left no stone unturned in his various liberties, and famously presented his version as a ‘counter-myth’ to the more official story propagated by the Warren Commission, which portrays Lee Harvey Oswald as President John F. Kennedy’s lone killer designated. Some critics were much more blunt and mention the labels JFK a dangerous fabrication.
Thirty years later, Oliver Stone remains an ardent defender of his film and its central arguments (sometimes he even responds sparingly to any random ball that dares to question it). His latest salvo in that ongoing crusade is JFK: Destiny Betrayed, a documentary that will essentially continue where the first film left off – both in content and in controversy. As Stone said The New York Times last year, the new film offers an updated “learning of detail” based in part on documents that were finally classified in 2017, thanks to a decades-old congressional order inspired by JFK and its cultural impact. But as Stone explained to co-filmmaker Spike Lee this week a conversation for Variety, he is struggling to find a distributor who will tackle it. Both National Geographic and Netflix have already rejected the film, citing its dubious fact-checking.
“Where are you going to find this information except in this movie?” Ask Stone Rhetoric. “If, according to conventional sources, they do a fact-checking, it will naturally turn out to be untrue.” It Catch-22 means JFK: Destiny Betrayed Stone is currently planning to premiere at the postponed Cannes Film Festival in July – but “not for the American side of it,” Stone explained. ‘This is a big step for us, because if it can not be recognized in America as a document, it will eventually be recognized by international people. And that’s important. “Nevertheless, wherever it goes, there is someone who guesses, no matter how seriously it will be received.
In a statement, Stone said it JFK: Destiny Betrayed ‘represents an important letter to my film from 1991. It binds many loose threads and hopefully rejects much of the ignorance surrounding the case and the film. ” As such, he is committed to evicting it somewhere– “even if it’s on YouTube. Or in Transylvania, ”as he told the Times. Stone insists that his new film ‘makes the matter more difficult, more stringent’, as he told Lee, with ‘real facts that are shocking to people’, and that it’s all impossible to get away with it unconvincingly. Unless the case is put forward by Kevin Costner, it seems most people will probably never hear it.
Five more GameStop movies are on the way
There is no shadow, JFKconspiracy behind the recent madness surrounding GameStop – just an open, completely legal scheme to exploit the fraudulent system that is the US stock market. Nevertheless, the unlikely, still-unfolding saga, aimed at the Texas-based retail chain, is being hailed as a similarly important moment in American history – and it has generated almost as much film art. In fact, this week at least five more joined the stack, with the already announced projects from Netflix and MGM is joined by a feature film at HBO, a documentary of Console Wars director Jonah Tulis, another documentary by directors Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci, en another documentary series on Netflix by Oscar-winning filmmakers Dan Cogan and Liz Garbus. Meanwhile, Jaime and Joel Rogozinski – the men behind Reddit’s r / WallStreetBets and the architects of the buying frenzy –sold their life story rights to Brett Ratner’s RatPac Entertainment for another film adaptation.
At the press time, which is seven GameStop-related projects in development, they all compete to be the first to tell the exact same David-versus-Goliath story about scrapped online rebels taking on the vultures, while the Grapevine company is caught. somewhere in the crossfire (and, it must be said, do not look back much out of publicity). If only there was a way to do short sales on which of the projects would see the light of day.
Pedro Pascal to lead HBOs The last of us
If enough people just bought copies of Sony PlayStations The last of us of GameStop, the whole structure of American capitalism might not have to be thrown into chaos. But alas, most video games are being downloaded these days, which means the chain is far too late to take advantage of any boost it is likely to get from the upcoming adaptation of the HBO series. Not so for Pedro Pascal. The Mandalorian star – who spent his childhood in San Antonio, making himself Texan enough for our purposes, is at the right time to make money with his newly announced starring role in the series, which is not even necessary to go behind a mask does not crawl. Deadline reports that Pascal will play the lead actor Joel, a tormented man tasked with watching a 14-year-old girl over a violent America that has been completely turned upside down by a pandemic. The show is expected to premiere in early 2022, when its premise will hopefully once again look like a pessimistic fantasy.
Renée Zellweger is on her way to television
Verse of her Oscar-winning performance in Judy, Renée Zellweger follows the career playbook of her former Texas Chainsaw Massacre costar Matthew McConaughey with an onslaught on prestige television. The Katy native will compete to punch another hole in her EGOT card with NBCs The thing about Pam, a limited series based on the still unsolved murder of Missouri woman Betsy Faria. Zellweger will play Faria colleague Pam Hupp, the woman suspected of killing Faria and setting up Faria’s husband for the crime, and then killing another man to disguise it. Hupp’s convoluted story – which includes the accusation that she also killed her own mother – served as the basis for five different NBC Dateline episodes, and it’s also the subject of one of iTunes’ most popular podcasts. In other words, there is a substantial built-in audience for this story, coupled with the obvious interest in seeing Renée Zellweger play her first lead role on TV. (Zellweger led the Netflix series What if in 2019.) For once, she can probably even use her natural accent.
Sandra Bullock and Brad Pitt, finally together
In another, though probably unimportant, Sandra Bullock will play opposite Brad Pitt in the upcoming Sony Express train, Deadline reports, a combination that is seemingly decades in the making. Although both actors saw important turning points in their careers in 1994 – Bullock with Speed; Pitt in Interview with the VampireThen it became two of Hollywood’s most bankable names, somehow they’ve never crossed the screen, even though they’s certainly been combined into dozens of romantic comedy pitches that both eventually passed on. Express train is based on Kotaro Isaka’s book Maria Beetle, about a group of assassins who gather on the same high-speed train and discover that they each have the task of overlapping missions, making them increasingly paranoid about who will make it alive. (In Pitt terms, it’s a lot like Mr and Mrs Smith, plus three additional forges). It is currently unknown who will play Pitt or Bullock in the big ensemble that includes Joey King, Brian Tyree Henry, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Michael Shannon and Zazie Beetz. Presumably they are playing some of the above assassins who just get more screen time than everyone else.
People are really putting on Malone’s new hair
While Tom Brady mechanically hit another Super Bowl victory last weekend, bored and creepy viewers were left to find other, increasingly desperate ways to entertain themselves – such as getting horny over Post Malone’s hair, for example. The rapper of the Grapevine rapper, who recently debuted, and Caesar cuts, has been fully released for Malone’s latest ad for Bud Light, where he features a group of fellow Bud Legends such as Cedric the Entertainer and the “I Love You “Man” Man in rescue a stranded delivery driver. Reactions to the ad were certainly thirsty, though perhaps not as Bud Light intended: enough people tweeted about Post Malone looking ‘hot’ Elite Daily was moved to write a whole damn article about it. Anyway, far from me to kink shame. Especially as Malone has just announced ‘Virtual Concert’ on February 27 in celebration of Pokémon Day– In which he will find himself, hairstyle and tattoos and everything, rendered as a blocky video game avatar—It certainly unlocks a whole new onslaught of fetishization.
This week in Matthew McConaughey
The weekend was a slightly mixed reaction to the debut of Matthew McConaughey’s own Super Bowl campaign for Doritos 3D, in which the Austin actor was reduced to a sad, two-dimensional version of himself, like a rolling paper without anything to it. fill. . While some consider the ad to be commendable (a knee-jerk reaction at any time that makes McConaughey drop a lot of weight), others found the footage disturbing and whimsical, A “nightmare” fuel that further suffered under the pure improbability that Matthew McConaughey ever engulfed his body with a Dorito. Meanwhile, McConaughey’s Super Bowl accidentally upset even more fans on his social media on Sunday, including a video he posted of himself. throws a football to Brad Pitt back in 2014 came under fire from those who, unaware that the cut was nearly seven years old, were terrified that no one was wearing masks.
Fortunately, we can take to heart if we know that McConaughey probably did not even hear of it, because he was probably too busy driving. Matthew McConaughey loves driving!
Yessir, all your worries and all your criticisms are like whistles in the wind, friendand sweeps through the cracked window of McConaughey’s luxury car as he shoots down the gleaming highway of life, burning the tire deck. There are no pit stops for self-pity. There are no exits to existential crises. Nothing and no one will push us along this driveway – not when the occupancy of this vehicle remains so very, very high. Where are we going, you ask? The real question is where are our heads by, are you digging? Because if McConaughey is in the driver’s seat, all the GPS says YES. Fasten your bandanas and throw away your shirts. Because Matthew McConaughey loves to ride, and we’re all just together for the ride.