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First Look at Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Franklyn’
Today, news and photos of the new thriller ‘Franklyn’ (starring Ryan Phillippe and Eva Green) have hit the net, and all I have to say is that the film looks great!!
FirstShowing gives us these details for the soon to be highly-anticipated film:
Franklyn is basically about four intertwining stories, three of which are based in contemporary London and one of which is based in a kind of parallel fantasy environment called Meanwhile City. Our hero in that strand is this sort-of masked vigilante detective who’s the only atheist in Meanwhile City, played by Ryan Phillippe, who basically runs around trying to extract people from cults, has a big cynicism about the whole thing and hates The Ministry with a vengeance.”
What is Meanwhile City? “It’s this place which is sort-of run by a shadowy, religious uber-power called The Ministry who has decided, over the centuries, that as long as they can get their population to believe in something - anything - they can control them. People have faiths and religions based on strange things like The Seventh Day Manicurists and Washing Machine Street Preachers. Their doctrines and dogmas are all based on things like washing machine instructions.”
Wow, this sounds like a film tailor made for Mr. Doug Nagy! :P I, am not a very religious person, (I’m more of a spiritual person myself) but this movie’s concept sounds intriguing enough for me to check this one when it comes out next year. (Although, the stills for the film already had me sold!) This seems like a pretty impressive project for first time director, Gerald McMorrow and I hope he can deliver the goods! Click here to check out more pics and news on ‘Franklyn.’
So what do you guys’ think?
Cool!!! Can’t wait to see the reaction by Bill Donahue and the Catholic League on this one.
As for me. I’m there opening day.
And all this time I have been worshipping my microwave….and it does that humming noise like the Ark of the Covenant.
Sounds like more “Religion is bad” stimuli.
This guy kinda looks like Rorschach from the Watchmen.
With that pic, I thought Tim Burton was doing a live action version of ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’.
Maybe this is a direct response to the fact that the golden compass is meant to have toned down it’s anti-church message? Sounds kind of similar premise, Magistratum (or whatever they are called) and the ministry.
With that pic, I thought Mad Magazine was doing a live action version of ‘Spy Vs Spy’.
Apparently it’s out in December. I can’t wait, Eva Green is going to put on a flawless performance as always and with the whole scifi, noir type genre the movie has. This should be worth watching.
I wish the trailer was out already.