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QuoteLady Gaga, Ridley & Giannina Scott Team On Film About Assassination Of Gucci Grandson Maurizio; Gaga To Play Convicted Ex-Wife Patrizia Reggiani

EXCLUSIVE: Ridley Scott has committed to direct a film about the tumultuous Gucci family fashion dynasty and the murder of the grandson of founder Guccio Gucci. Lady Gaga is attached to star as Patrizia Reggiani, the ex-wife of Maurizio Gucci, who was tried and convicted of orchestrating her ex-husband's assassination on the steps of his office in 1995. She served 18 years before being let out of jail in 2016.

It is the first project Lady Gaga has attached herself to since her Best Actress nomination in a breakout turn opposite Bradley Cooper in A Star Is Born. She won an Oscar for writing the song Shallow, one of a number of hits on the soundtrack. The combination of actress and director is already starting to draw interest but the first stop will be Fox/Disney, where Scott Free has its first look, and where Scott will next direct The Last Duel, with Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer and Ben Affleck in a coproduction between Scott Free and Pearl Street.

The Gucci murder tale is scripted by Roberto Bentivegna, based on the Sara Gay Forden book The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed. Scott plans to move quickly to direct the film after he first helms The Last Duel. He will produce the Gucci saga with Giannina Scott, and Scott Free Productions.

It was Giannina Scott who fashioned the into a compelling drama that is framed around the rise of a family business that denigrated into squabbles over control of the business and greed, at a time when Gucci was being corporatized, and the brand's relevance restored by CEO Domenico De Sole and creative director Tom Ford.

Maurizio had two daughters with Patrizia Reggiani, but he left her for another woman. She'd had a brain tumor removed, and her children blamed it for her actions; the media took a darker view of her during a sensationalized affair, depicting her as a hot blooded woman scorned and dubbing her Black Widow. She was originally drew a sentence of 29 years.

Giannina Scott, the actress/producer best remembered onscreen for playing the wife of Maximus (Russell Crowe) in the Scott-directed Gladiator, has produced with him a number of passion projects that include the Peter Landesman-directed Will Smith-starrer Concussion, as well as the Liam Neeson-starrer Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House, also directed by Landesman. She originally brought the project to Scott. They have been companions since meeting on his film White Squall and they married in 2015. She also co-produced Matchstick Men and producer on Tristan & Isolde.

Scott most recently covered the inner workings of the super rich when he helmed All The Money In The World, about the Getty kidnap drama that won an Oscar nomination for Christopher Plummer as patriarch J. Paul Getty.

Lady Gaga is repped by CAA and Grubman Shire; Scott is WME.

https://deadline.com/2019/11/lady-gaga-ridley-scott-movie-maurizio-gucci-patrizia-reggiani-murder-gucci-family-giannina-scott-1202774518/ (https://deadline.com/2019/11/lady-gaga-ridley-scott-movie-maurizio-gucci-patrizia-reggiani-murder-gucci-family-giannina-scott-1202774518/)

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Nov 01, 2019, 07:11:56 PM
Yeah, I'm thinking we should rather create a "Ridley Scott's Unrealized Projects" master thread and post any new upcoming stuff from him in there. And then if by some miracle it actually does become an actual film we can just split it off into it's own thread.  :laugh:

QuoteWong Kar Wai is to take on directorial duties on a long-gestating drama about the murder of Maurizio Gucci, grandson of company founder Guccio Gucci. (...) Originally, the film was to have been directed by Ridley Scott, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Angelina Jolie set to star; Margot Robbie is now rumoured to be taking the female lead. The most recent writers to have worked on the script were Andrea (World Trade Center) Berloff and Charles (The Big Short) Randolph.

Quote from: Ingwar on Nov 01, 2019, 07:31:55 PM
News from 2016:

QuoteWong Kar Wai is to take on directorial duties on a long-gestating drama about the murder of Maurizio Gucci, grandson of company founder Guccio Gucci. (...) Originally, the film was to have been directed by Ridley Scott, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Angelina Jolie set to star; Margot Robbie is now rumoured to be taking the female lead. The most recent writers to have worked on the script were Andrea (World Trade Center) Berloff and Charles (The Big Short) Randolph.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/17/wong-kar-wai-return-maurizio-gucci-fashion-murder-movie

QuoteThe Hollywood Reporter has learned that MGM is acquiring Ridley Scott's Gucci — a true crime drama about the murder of fashion trailblazer Maurizio Gucci — and is in negotiations for Lady Gaga to star. The studio beat out Netflix and at least one other streamer for the project about the machinations behind the fabled fashion house. MGM won out partly because it offered the opportunity for a theatrical release, a key appeal for Scott, according to sources.

Gaga would star as Patrizia Reggiani, Gucci's ex-wife who was convicted of orchestrating his hit after he had an affair. The script by Roberto Bentivegna is based on The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed, written by Sara Gay Forden and published by William Morrow in 2001. The book used the murder to delve into the complex yet dishy family history, filled with infighting, corporate intrigue and gobs of money. Maurizio Gucci was the grandson of Guccio Gucci and ran the company in a declining period in the 1980s after wresting it out of an uncle's hands.

"This project has long been a labor of love for both Ridley and me," says Giannina Scott, who will produce with husband Ridley via the couple's Scott Free banner. "The story is so epic, the stakes so high and the characters so richly drawn that we were determined to get it to the big screen. To say we are thrilled to be teaming with Mike De Luca and his brilliant film group at MGM is an understatement. We can't wait to see this come to life next year."

Scott was in the middle of shooting The Last Duel, a drama set in the Middle Ages with Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Adam Driver, but that movie is on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic. The plan is for Scott to restart work on that when Hollywood and the world returns to work, and then dive into Gucci after.

MGM is so ready to wear Gucci that it has set a Nov. 24, 2021, release date. "Nothing typifies bold, audacious originality more than a film by Ridley Scott," says De Luca in a statement. "All of us at MGM are incredibly excited to be in business with Ridley, Giannina, Kevin and the whole team at Scott Free."

QuoteAlthough Ridley Scott still has to finish shooting his period drama The Last Duel, his follow-up is looking to land a monster cast. We are hearing that Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Jack Huston and Reeve Carney all are in talks to join MGM's Gucci. Lady Gaga is attached to star as Patrizia Reggiani, the ex-wife of Maurizio Gucci who was tried and convicted of orchestrating her his assassination on the steps of his office in 1995. She served 18 years in jail before being let out in 2016.

Quote from: Ingwar on Aug 21, 2020, 04:20:42 PM
Pacio and De Niro in one movie together? Yeah man, fingers crossed it's going to happen. Ridley has never worked with them before, so I'm intrigued and cannot wait to see the final result. I downloaded yesterday The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed by Sara Gay Forden, a book which screenplay is based upon. I'm planning to read it once they start shooting, because you never know. It might end up as another unfinished Ridley's project ;D.

QuoteWhile most are hunkered down due to the pandemic, Scott is moving like a locomotive. The filmmaker is set to start production in Italy next March on Gucci, the MGM drama that will star Lady Gaga as the murderess Patrizia Reggiani alongside a killer cast including Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Adam Driver and Jared Leto. Scott and Giannina Scott are producing.

Quote from: Ingwar on Oct 16, 2020, 04:27:22 PM

QuoteWhile most are hunkered down due to the pandemic, Scott is moving like a locomotive. The filmmaker is set to start production in Italy next March on Gucci, the MGM drama that will star Lady Gaga as the murderess Patrizia Reggiani alongside a killer cast including Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Adam Driver and Jared Leto. Scott and Giannina Scott are producing.

https://deadline.com/2020/10/ridley-scott-joaquin-phoenix-napoleon-epic-kitbag-wraps-the-last-duel-today-1234597342/

Quote from: Nightmare Asylum on Oct 20, 2020, 06:19:53 PM
That would be one hell of a turnaround. Especially given that we don't have any clue what the state of the world is going to be by mid-late 2021.

Quote from: RidleyScott99 on Oct 20, 2020, 06:30:41 PM

Quote from: Nightmare Asylum on Oct 20, 2020, 06:19:53 PM
That would be one hell of a turnaround. Especially given that we don't have any clue what the state of the world is going to be by mid-late 2021.

Italy is a little better now and by March it would be even safer. All of the Editing could be done in different Countries

Quote from: Nightmare Asylum on Oct 20, 2020, 06:55:14 PM

Quote from: RidleyScott99 on Oct 20, 2020, 06:30:41 PM

Quote from: Nightmare Asylum on Oct 20, 2020, 06:19:53 PM
That would be one hell of a turnaround. Especially given that we don't have any clue what the state of the world is going to be by mid-late 2021.

Italy is a little better now and by March it would be even safer. All of the Editing could be done in different Countries

That doesn't necessarily mean theaters (or public spaces in general) are going to be operating in full swing.

And even in normal circumstances, that would be an incredibly quick turnaround after shooting.

Quote from: RidleyScott99 on Sep 28, 2020, 04:41:41 AM
Incredible. So, Adam Driver is The new Russell Crowe or/and Michael Fassbender. And Adam Driver worked with Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.

Quote from: T Dog on Oct 21, 2020, 05:57:26 AM

Quote from: RidleyScott99 on Sep 28, 2020, 04:41:41 AM
Incredible. So, Adam Driver is The new Russell Crowe or/and Michael Fassbender. And Adam Driver worked with Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.

I wouldn't look into it quite like that, I'd say Adam Driver is just the hot property of the moment and that can help projects get funding. Good actor though.

Quote from: Stolen on Dec 08, 2020, 06:50:04 AM
Great choice.
I think he's going to replace Robert de Niro?

Quote from: Ingwar on Dec 08, 2020, 05:13:06 AM
Jeremy Irons? Man!

Quote from: Ridlazz921 on Dec 08, 2020, 09:58:40 AM
I always would have loved to se Bobby in a Scott film. But they way Scotts process in later years might not match how the actor likes to work. I was a bit worried tbh. But Scott knows how to adapt to actors as well. But Bobby doesnt strike me as a 7 cameras 2 takes actor, i think he likes to just use more time and test thing out maybe.

Quote from: Nightmare Asylum on Dec 07, 2020, 11:20:50 PM
Academy Award nominated actress Lady Gaga

Quote from: Ridlazz921 on Dec 08, 2020, 09:58:40 AM
I always would have loved to se Bobby in a Scott film. But they way Scotts process in later years might not match how the actor likes to work. I was a bit worried tbh. But Scott knows how to adapt to actors as well. But Bobby doesnt strike me as a 7 cameras 2 takes actor, i think he likes to just use more time and test thing out maybe.

Quote from: Kradan on Dec 07, 2020, 11:19:37 PM
"Lady Gaga in Ridley Scott movie" still doesn't sound quite right to me

Quote from: Kradan on Jan 10, 2021, 05:31:07 PM

Quote from: Kradan on Dec 07, 2020, 11:19:37 PM
"Lady Gaga in Ridley Scott movie" still doesn't sound quite right to me

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Jan 10, 2021, 08:15:08 PM
They seemed to manage okay on The Last Duel, no positive cases. Scott probably has it down to a science by now. The crowd scenes (if any) will probably be the tricky part.

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Jan 10, 2021, 08:15:08 PM
They seemed to manage okay on The Last Duel, no positive cases. Scott probably has it down to a science by now. The crowd scenes (if any) will probably be the tricky part.

Quote from: Kradan on Jan 10, 2021, 05:31:07 PM

Quote from: Kradan on Dec 07, 2020, 11:19:37 PM
"Lady Gaga in Ridley Scott movie" still doesn't sound quite right to me

How about David Bowie in Ridley Scott ad?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVbZ28H7USs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVbZ28H7USs)

Quote from: KiramidHead on Jan 12, 2021, 12:52:07 AM
Scott loves to bring up the fact that he's directed 10,000 TV commercials. I've also snagged the script for this, dunno if I'm gonna read it or wait for the movie.

Quote from: Kradan on Jan 11, 2021, 09:12:04 PM
Eh, whatever. Haven't seen any of his commercials anyway

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Jan 12, 2021, 04:26:39 PM
I imagine that script is probably from the 2016 Wong Kar Wai attempt? Or earlier?

Quote from: Ingwar on Jan 12, 2021, 04:39:27 PM

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Jan 12, 2021, 04:26:39 PM
I imagine that script is probably from the 2016 Wong Kar Wai attempt? Or earlier?

Roberto Bentivegna, 2019. I'm reading it right now.

@KiramidHead
Questions: where do you take scripts from? and how do you know they're legit?

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Jan 12, 2021, 04:26:39 PM
Next thing you'll be telling us that you've never played Half-Life before.  :P

Scott's "1984" is arguably one of the most famous commercials ever made.

Quote from: Kradan on Jan 13, 2021, 05:16:36 PM
https://youtu.be/2zkLh_QMFdQ (https://youtu.be/2zkLh_QMFdQ)

Quote from: Ingwar on Jan 18, 2021, 07:55:52 PM
... and invented selfie.

https://media1.tenor.com/images/9a7458f9300b5656808104322d375a3e/tenor.gif

QuoteJared Leto is confirmed to play "Paolo Gucci, grandson of the legendary Italian designer in Ridley Scott's tentatively titled "Gucci"alongside Adam Driver (Maurizio Gucci), Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons (Rodolfo Gucci) & Lady Gaga (Patrizia Reggiani)

Quote#JaredLeto confirms he will play Paolo Gucci alongside Adam Driver in #GucciMovie. Leto describes Paolo as "kind of a frustrated designer who feels underappreciated."

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Jan 28, 2021, 05:42:46 PM
Yeah, they say Irons will play Rodolfo.

QuoteLeto said he is getting ready to film Ridley Scott's "Gucci," which is currently set for a November release. Based on Sara Gay Forden's book "The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed," the film will explore the story around Maurizio Gucci's assassination that took place on the steps of his office in Italy in 1995.

"We haven't started shooting yet, so we're just in the preparation phase," Leto said. "I think we start in about 40-something days in Italy, so yep, exciting and interesting. Ridley Scott's one of my favorite directors, and Al Pacino plays my dad. So it's another fun one."

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Feb 04, 2021, 04:54:55 PM
So Paulo Gucci (Leto) was/is Aldo Gucci's (Pacino) son?

QuoteGucci: Casting figures for Ridley Scott's film to be shot in Tuscany and Lombardy
Casting is open for the new film directed by Ridley Scott which tells the story of the fashion house, following the events of three generations with a focus on the murder of Maurizio Gucci.

Casting Film 2021 Lombardy / Tuscany
film project Start of shooting: March 2021 Title: Gucci Genre: Drama Director: Ridley Scott Cast confirmed: Jared Leto (Paolo Gucci), Al Pacino (Aldo Gucci), Adam Driver (Maurizio Gucci), Lady Gaga ( Patrizia Reggiani), Camille Cottin, Jeremy Irons. Casting is open for the new film directed by Ridley Scott which tells the story of the fashion house, following the events of three generations with a focus on the murder of Maurizio Gucci.

The production is looking for figures for men and women aged 18 and over. Specifically, we are looking for people with looks and hairstyles compatible with the time setting (70s / 80s), therefore with long or medium-length hair for men and "normal" colors for women, people with too modern or particular haircuts
The protagonist of the film will be Lady Gaga in the role of Patrizia Reggiani, the ex-wife of Maurizio Gucci convicted of being the instigator of the murder of her husband in 1995.
The release of the film is expected, except postponements caused by the health emergency, for 24 November 2021.
Filming is scheduled for Milan, Como and Florence.
ALL DETAILS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE RESERVED AREA...

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Feb 12, 2021, 03:24:17 PM
Does the script also start with the murder of Maurizio Gucci and then jump back in time like the book?

QuoteFilming for #Gucci at Lake Como Eyes:
"...it was director Ridley Scott who chose some villas on the lake to be able to start shooting in our territory towards the end of March, at the latest in early April."

Quote from: Ingwar on Feb 16, 2021, 10:43:38 PM
Was there a yacht scene with Peter Weyland in Prometheus draft?

Quote from: KiramidHead on Feb 16, 2021, 10:38:26 PM
Ridley finally gets to put a yacht scene in a movie.

Quote from: Ingwar on Feb 16, 2021, 10:43:38 PM
Was there a yacht scene with Peter Weyland in Prometheus draft?

QuoteWeyland's Dream
A scene cut before filming was to show David waking Weyland before the Prometheus reaches LV-223 and informing him that they were nearly there. Weyland tells David not to wake him again until they have found what he is looking for (a live Engineer) and then goes back to sleep, at which point we enter Weyland's dream — David walks along a beautiful tropical beach, wearing his jumpsuit and a pair of sunglasses. He looks out to sea and watches a speedboat pull up to the shore. The bikini-clad woman on board asks David if he is "here to see him", which David confirms, and the boat then takes David out to a huge luxury yacht where he finds five more beautiful women feeding a young Weyland grapes. The two men then have a brief conversation in which Weyland curses David for waking him prematurely. The scene explains why Guy Pearce was hired to play an aged Weyland, as he was originally going to be seen as a younger version of the character as well.

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Feb 17, 2021, 04:01:29 PM
He already made a whole bloody, squalling movie about a yacht. Should have gotten it out of his system by now.  :laugh:

QuoteSeems #Gucci filming starts March 6 in Gressoney, Valle d'Aosta region, "ski instructors, children, men & women between 20-70 years old for ski & snow scenes" were sought. "The production was also looking for vintage ski equipment dating back to the 70s/80s"

Locations rented such as "a prestigious villa from the early 20th century [..] in addition to the Weissmatten ski slope, [..] there would be the recreation of a phantom border w/ Switzerland (the Gucci family owns several houses in St Moritz)"

"production also appears to have rented 2 villas,one w/ a swimming pool, to house the cast & a chalet on the slopes to keep the actors warm during filming. But it is not certain that the actors will sleep in Gressoney,they could arrive here by helicopter just to shoot the scenes"

These could be for scenes where Maurizio Gucci fled to Switzerland amidst a legal battle with other Gucci family members

QuoteAccording to a local magazine, Lady Gaga and the cast of Ridley Scott's 'Gucci' will film at Villa Balbiano in Italy, on the second week of March.

The same location has been recently used by Elettra Lamborghini e Afrojack for their wedding, and for Versace pre-fall collection.

QuoteJared Leto says that #GucciMovie has the Gucci stamp of approval and will prep for filming at the Italian country home of
@Gucci - Creative Director Alessandro Michele.

QuoteItalian newspaper reveals picturesque #Mezzegra #PiazzadellaMagnolia is set to be yet another filming location, probably late March.

QuoteLady Gaga is in Rome right now to begin filming #RidleyScott's #Gucci murder thriller where she plays the part of #PatriziaReggiani. Gaga is staying in a private penthouse overlooking the #ForiImperiali before moving on to Milan in March.

Quote from: Ingwar on Feb 25, 2021, 05:25:27 AM
Movie is currently tilted as House of Gucci.

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Feb 25, 2021, 03:52:05 PM
Same as the book then but without the "The" in front?

I'd update the thread title but I've run out of characters. Couldn't even squeeze Jared Leto's name in.

QuoteThe surroundings of "Villa Loubono" will be recreated to look like Saint Moritz, where the Gucci Family used to spend their hollidays.

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Feb 27, 2021, 06:51:25 PM

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Tax evasion and adultery? Maurizio wasn't exactly an innocent little angel then.  :-\

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Quote from: KiramidHead on Feb 27, 2021, 07:51:45 PM
Wolf of Milan Street

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Feb 27, 2021, 06:51:25 PM
Paparazzi hounding Gaga in Rome. Looks like they set up a little temporary tunnel between her transport and her hotel entrance: 

QuoteAccording to this Italian report, #LadyGaga is expected to be in Milan on March 10 for #HouseOfGucci.
Local police headquarters confirm giving permission to film in city locations incl Corso Venezia where #MaurizioGucci was shot dead.

Quote from: Ingwar on Feb 27, 2021, 06:08:39 PM
If I remember correctly from the script, St. Moritz in Switzerland, is the place where Maurizio Gucci

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ran away to and hid from Italian tax police, then met his former lover (portrayed by Camille Cottin I suspect) which at the end let to his murder from jealous wife.

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QuotePer IMDb, Camille Cottin is confirmed to play Paola Franchi, girlfriend of Maurizio Gucci played by Adam Driver

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Mar 08, 2021, 09:22:44 PM
Camille Cottin as Paola Franchi

Quote from: Ingwar on Mar 08, 2021, 09:33:35 PM

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Maurizio arriving at St. Moritz and meeting with his old lover Franchi is critical moment in the plot. Everything starts slowly going south so to speak from that moment.

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Quote from: Ingwar on Mar 10, 2021, 02:51:11 AM
Milan turning into New York

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Mar 10, 2021, 07:07:58 PM
What happens in New York, Ingwar?

Quote from: Ingwar on Mar 11, 2021, 04:04:12 PM
Question: are we gonna notice any difference in the look of NY if scenes were shot in Milan? I assume the background it's gonna be heavily depended on CGI.

Quote from: Ingwar on Mar 11, 2021, 04:04:12 PM

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Maurizio and Patrizia fly to NY to see Rodolfo Gucci (hence we could see Pacino in Milan) and talk business.

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Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Mar 13, 2021, 03:44:49 PM
From today's shoot. Looks like they were filming a funeral scene?

Quote from: Ingwar on Mar 13, 2021, 03:52:58 PM

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Mar 13, 2021, 03:44:49 PM
From today's shoot. Looks like they were filming a funeral scene?

This must be

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Rodolfo's (Jeremy Irons) funeral. He dies in the first act.

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Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Mar 13, 2021, 06:55:24 PM

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Was Maurizio the son of Rodolfo?

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Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Mar 13, 2021, 07:15:16 PM
Turns out he was a very wise man then.

QuoteThree-quarters of Italians entered a strict lockdown on Monday, as the government put in place restrictive measures to fight the rise in infections.

A more contagious variant first identified in Britain, combined with a slow vaccine rollout, led to a 15 percent increase in cases in Italy last week, a worrisome picture for the government run by Prime Minister Mario Draghi.

"I am aware that today's measures will have an impact on children's education, on the economy but also on the psychological state of us all," Mr. Draghi said on Friday. "But they are necessary to avoid a worsening that will make inevitable even more stringent measures."

Most regions in northern Italy, as well as Lazio and Marche in central Italy and Campania and Puglia in the south, have shut schools and barred residents from leaving their homes except for work, health or necessity. Among business activities, only supermarkets, pharmacies and a few other stores will stay open, but restaurants are closed.

In the rest of the country, residents are not be allowed to leave their municipality without reason involving work, health or other necessities, but schools and many stores will stay open.

The entire country will be on lockdown for the Easter weekend in early April to prevent the usual large family reunions. As with restrictions in place over Christmas, people will still be allowed to leave their homes once a day.

QuoteA few local outlets confirm that on Mar 17 #HouseOfGucci will film a big party scene in Villa Balbiano with the entire 'Gucci family' present. 3 boats called 'inglesine' have been placed on what should be the access to the lakeside set.

QuoteFilming at Lake Como's Villa Balbiano starts March 17 for 1 week! Scenes will go from the park, to the landing stage & the lounge overlooking the lake, also on the Statale Regina/around Mezzegra. Plus scenes on the Lecco part of the lake & Lariana road as background

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Mar 15, 2021, 03:44:07 PM
PS. I see Dariusz Wolski got an Oscar nomination for 'News of the World'. Hopefully that will inspire him for Gucci as well.

Quote from: Ingwar on Mar 15, 2021, 05:32:27 PM
Jared Leto

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Mar 16, 2021, 05:10:47 PM
Jared Leto is almost 50 but looks more like late 30's.

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Mar 17, 2021, 03:39:40 PM
Apparently this is from a Rugby game scene (in tailored Italian suits no less) filmed at lake Como.

This looks like Jeremy Irons:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwsdT7dWgAES4nP?format=jpg&name=900x900

Quote from: Ingwar on Mar 17, 2021, 05:35:34 PM
It's Al Pacino for sure, not Irons as

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Rodolfo (Irons) didn't attend the party (I don't remember if he was dead already or not)

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Speaking about Irons ...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ewsc-ieXAAsDSvv?format=jpg&name=900x900

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ewsc--uW8AQgkfY?format=jpg&name=900x900

Quote from: Ingwar on Mar 17, 2021, 06:27:29 PM
Doesn't say but I assume he's being prepared for the scene with

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Maurizio where he rejects Patrizia as his daughter in law which results in Maurizio moving home and staying at Patrizia's family house.

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Quote from: Ingwar on Mar 18, 2021, 07:53:14 PM
(cough cough)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwyNOgdWQAMfKHy?format=jpg&name=900x900

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Mar 21, 2021, 03:42:56 PM
So Gaga will "narrate" the movie? And it will basically be told through Patrizia's perspective?

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Mar 22, 2021, 04:57:24 PM

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Apparently Al Pacino (Aldo) bails Gaga (Patrizia) out of jail in this scene:

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Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Mar 22, 2021, 05:18:22 PM
What is Sophia Loren's role in the story? She looks like she's hanging out with Aldo.

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Mar 22, 2021, 04:57:24 PM
Madalina Ghenea who plays Sophia Loren:

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Quote from: Ingwar on Mar 22, 2021, 10:03:36 PM
Just realised she's from Sorrentino's Youth. Ridley likes him as a director.

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Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Mar 23, 2021, 03:44:07 PM
You haven't perhaps got a pic of her in the same scene but from the other side?  ;D

That also looks like  Harvey Keitel, another Scott connection.

From today's shoot, looks like plainclothes detectives putting the hitman (or another of Patrizia's accomplices) into their vehicle.

Quote from: Ingwar on Mar 23, 2021, 04:05:50 PM
Here you go! Full clip ;D

QuoteRegarding the hitman:

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looks like Pacino to me. He ends up in the prison for ... tax evasion ;D.

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QuoteThe set between The Heaven Gym and local art

QuoteHouse of Gucci, Patricia Gucci against the film: "Daddy's memory slandered"

"After having seen the preview images of 'House of Gucci', which will be released in November, I cannot stand and watch. My father - Aldo Gucci, who transformed Gucci from a single store in Florence to a global phenomenon during his 30 years as President - is portrayed as a tiny, overweight thug, when in reality he was tall, thin and blue-eyed. He was the personification of elegance, applauded by royalty, heads of state and legendary Hollywood stars ".

"In the film - writes Gucci - he is played by Al Pacino, the actor known for his role in The Godfather as a gangster and Scarface as a drug dealer, in which he stigmatizes generations of Italians and Latins. The screenplay is based on a book by an author who has never met my father and centers on Patrizia Reggiani - a doomed murderer - and my cousin Maurizio Gucci, who ruthlessly sidelined her uncle in a hostile takeover before sending to air the activity. Seeing them glorified by Hollywood Olympus and acclaimed director Ridley Scott is incomprehensible.

Maurizio Gucci, Patricia continues, "owed everything to my father, who as a young man took him under his wing and treated him like a son. Aldo Gucci was not flawless. He had a legendary character and ruled with an iron fist. His tenacity was equal to an eternal loyalty to his family, and he earned the respect of everyone who worked with him, including myself. Many people owe their careers to him. The success of Gucci, and of the Made in Italy franchise that has helped launch countless brands over the years, is largely due to him ".

"My father's memory is too precious to be slandered - Aldo Gucci's daughter regrets - He is no longer here to defend himself from this apparent denigration. To carry on his legacy, I published my memoir in 2016 and turned down many offers to make a film adaptation, for fear that real events and characters would be distorted for profit. " The story, concludes the heir of the fashion house - "should not be revisited in the interest of selling more books and streaming services. 2021 is Gucci's 100th anniversary as a brand, 70 of which as a family business. None of this would have been possible without the genius of Aldo Gucci ".

Quote from: Ingwar on Mar 27, 2021, 12:04:53 AM

QuoteHouse of Gucci, Patricia Gucci against the film: "Daddy's memory slandered"

"After having seen the preview images of 'House of Gucci', which will be released in November, I cannot stand and watch. My father - Aldo Gucci, who transformed Gucci from a single store in Florence to a global phenomenon during his 30 years as President - is portrayed as a tiny, overweight thug, when in reality he was tall, thin and blue-eyed. He was the personification of elegance, applauded by royalty, heads of state and legendary Hollywood stars ".

"In the film - writes Gucci - he is played by Al Pacino, the actor known for his role in The Godfather as a gangster and Scarface as a drug dealer, in which he stigmatizes generations of Italians and Latins. The screenplay is based on a book by an author who has never met my father and centers on Patrizia Reggiani - a doomed murderer - and my cousin Maurizio Gucci, who ruthlessly sidelined her uncle in a hostile takeover before sending to air the activity. Seeing them glorified by Hollywood Olympus and acclaimed director Ridley Scott is incomprehensible.

Maurizio Gucci, Patricia continues, "owed everything to my father, who as a young man took him under his wing and treated him like a son. Aldo Gucci was not flawless. He had a legendary character and ruled with an iron fist. His tenacity was equal to an eternal loyalty to his family, and he earned the respect of everyone who worked with him, including myself. Many people owe their careers to him. The success of Gucci, and of the Made in Italy franchise that has helped launch countless brands over the years, is largely due to him ".

"My father's memory is too precious to be slandered - Aldo Gucci's daughter regrets - He is no longer here to defend himself from this apparent denigration. To carry on his legacy, I published my memoir in 2016 and turned down many offers to make a film adaptation, for fear that real events and characters would be distorted for profit. " The story, concludes the heir of the fashion house - "should not be revisited in the interest of selling more books and streaming services. 2021 is Gucci's 100th anniversary as a brand, 70 of which as a family business. None of this would have been possible without the genius of Aldo Gucci ".

https://www.affaritaliani.it/entertainment/house-of-gucci-patricia-gucci-contro-il-film-calunniata-la-memoria-di-papa-730921.html

Quote"My father's memory is too precious to be slandered"

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Mar 27, 2021, 04:04:16 PM
Isn't this the guy who spent more than a year in prison for tax evasion?

QuoteI am rather annoyed at the fact that Lady Gaga is playing me in the new Ridley Scott film without having had the consideration and sensibility to come and meet me

Quote from: Ingwar on Mar 28, 2021, 09:03:52 PM

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Quote(I suspect she's playing Pina Auriemma. For those who don't know, Pina was Patrizia's "spiritualist", astrologer, best friend, and helped Patrizia find a hitman to murder Maurizio.)

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Quote"House of Gucci" set is currently being built in "Quartiere Talenti" in Rome.

Quote from: Ingwar on Apr 02, 2021, 10:31:20 AM
Salma Hayek joins the show. She will portray Pina Auriemma, Patrizia's clairvoyant friend.

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Or rather "friend" and "clairvoyant" as she was bullshitting Patrizia during spiritual sessions and milking her of money.

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Quote"Every movie is a different thing. You start a movie like you've never done it before, and that's the best way to think. Of course, it's easy for me to say because I've done enough, so some stuff becomes subconscious. This film, because it's high fashion 80s and 90s, it's going to be a little different. I'm still trying to find a look for it. The 80s weren't a particularly good-looking period. The fashion world or these fashion shows, they were not that great looking. You look at the big coats and stuff and [go] hmm... So it's a bit of a kitschy, funny, tragic tragedy––like a high-end soap opera. With a crazy cast as well." Nodding to The Godfather, Wolski adds with a laugh, "I've called [Al Pacino] Michael five times by mistake."

Quote from: Ingwar on Apr 02, 2021, 04:00:20 PM
Dariusz Wolski:

Quotehigh-end soap opera.

Quote from: Ingwar on Apr 02, 2021, 06:43:55 PM
One of these nuns is smoking ;D

Quote"I'm so happy that my good friend Salma is joining our wonderful cast," said producer Giannina Scott. "I've been talking to her about this Gucci project for 20 years. Now it is happening and she is a part of it. Rid and I are thrilled. "

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Apr 07, 2021, 03:40:00 PM
Jared Leto's character is from another planet altogether (see photo below).

Quote from: Ridlazz921 on Apr 08, 2021, 09:56:23 AM
Not having read the script, is there some Violence in this?
Can we expect some moments of hardcore Ridley violence?
Like the ear scene in All the money in the world.

Quote from: Ingwar on Apr 08, 2021, 11:14:00 AM

Quote from: Ridlazz921 on Apr 08, 2021, 09:56:23 AM
Not having read the script, is there some Violence in this?
Can we expect some moments of hardcore Ridley violence?
Like the ear scene in All the money in the world.

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It's non-violent film except the ending when Maurizio gets shot.

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Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Apr 08, 2021, 03:34:50 PM

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That scene was pretty violent and graphic in the book, the hitman not taking any chances, shooting him multiple times. At least Maurizio didn't suffer long, it was over quickly.

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Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Apr 08, 2021, 04:10:58 PM
He's probably just chuffed to be starring in two Ridley Scott movies back to back. The new Russel Crowe/Michael Fassbender perhaps.

Quote from: Ingwar on Apr 08, 2021, 04:19:21 PM
I wonder if Scott's gonna hire him again.

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Apr 04, 2021, 04:32:37 PM
Ridley consoling Gaga after her emotional scene with Jack Huston above:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyHtl7cU4AkeNF0?format=jpg&name=large

Quote from: Ingwar on Apr 08, 2021, 09:51:21 PM
Seems like rehearsals.

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Apr 09, 2021, 03:53:46 PM
Jared Leto is really looking like a clown from Mars:

Quote from: Ingwar on Apr 15, 2021, 08:03:00 PM
I thought Maurizio was

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shot inside the building. Not like it matters anyway.

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Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Apr 17, 2021, 03:52:28 PM
They did a night shoot with artificially created rain last night:

Quote from: Stolen on Apr 17, 2021, 04:33:16 PM
Already 6 weeks of filming, I presume it will be finished in 2 weeks  ;D

Quote'Short, fat, ugly': Gucci family lashes out at cast appearance in new film

Patrizia Gucci, one of Maurizio's second cousin's, told Associated Press the photos of Leto with a bald head dressed in a lilac suit were "horrible, horrible. I still feel offended."

Of Pacino's portrayal of Aldo Gucci, she said: "My grandfather was a very handsome man, like all the Guccis, and very tall, blue eyes and very elegant. He is being played by Al Pacino, who is not very tall already, and this photo shows him as fat, short, with sideburns, really ugly. Shameful, because he doesn't resemble him at all."

She said the family was "truly disappointed. I speak on behalf of the family. They are stealing the identity of a family to make a profit, to increase the income of the Hollywood system ... Our family has an identity, privacy. We can talk about everything, but there is a borderline that cannot be crossed."

QuotePatrizia Gucci, one of Maurizio's second cousin's, told Associated Press the photos of Leto with a bald head dressed in a lilac suit were "horrible, horrible. I still feel offended."

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Apr 07, 2021, 03:40:00 PM
It's almost as if Scott is subtly caricaturing the real people involved in the affair. Driver's Maurizio is almost goofy looking, Gaga's Patrizia also has an almost over-the-top feel, Al Pacino's character has a stereotypical, sleezy Italian gangster feel (which Aldo Gucci's daughter doesn't much fancy) and Jared Leto's character is from another planet altogether.

Quote from: Ingwar on Apr 17, 2021, 05:13:01 PM
Smoke. Scott's signature.

Quote from: Ingwar on Apr 17, 2021, 05:13:01 PM
Smoke. Scott's signature.

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...the hitman getting out of his car. Looks a little like Leon from Blade Runner. "Only way to hurt him is to kill him".

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Quote from: Ingwar on Apr 17, 2021, 09:25:10 PM
Something is burning there (police car?) but I don't recall anything like that from the script.

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Apr 19, 2021, 06:47:04 PM
The mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi expressing her concern over the rising levels of smoke pollution in her city:

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Apr 21, 2021, 04:46:33 PM
Goofy Maurizio:





Not sure what's happening here, maybe a football game again?







https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzgnfYPWEAARgwT?format=jpg&name=small

QuoteLady Gaga arrives in the Supreme Court. The set of the new Ridley Scot t film, House of Gucci , which chronicles the life and murder of the fashion entrepreneur Maurizio Gucci (played by Adam Driver ) , has now been set up 'Palazzaccio', seat of the Court of Cassation.

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Apr 30, 2021, 03:50:59 PM
Variety predicts House of Gucci as Best Picture for Oscars 2022:

Quote from: Ingwar on Apr 30, 2021, 11:54:07 PM
Utterly weird prediction by Variety. Completely omitted The Last Duel not to mention they haven't even seen those two Scott's movies yet. On what do they base their predictions on? Seriously :)

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on May 03, 2021, 03:30:28 PM
Is Wolski hinting at his next project here?  ;D

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on May 04, 2021, 03:32:33 PM
I don't know, probably just coincidence.

Interesting that there is also an elephant head on the street sign.

Does David + Elephant head = David is the Space Jockey?  :laugh:

https://i.imgur.com/CXjWBpW.gif

Quote"Till the next time Cinecitta"

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on May 06, 2021, 04:18:58 PM

Quote"Till the next time Cinecitta"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0o4tHQWEAYhy-z?format=jpg&name=900x900

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on May 07, 2021, 04:21:22 PM
43 days of shooting on House of Gucci apparently.

Quote from: Ingwar on May 08, 2021, 06:45:16 PM

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on May 07, 2021, 04:21:22 PM
43 days of shooting on House of Gucci apparently.

43 days equals 6 weeks. They started shooting at the end of February and finished at the beginning of May, which gives 8 to 9 weeks. Does it mean they didn't shoot at weekends? Is that common practice? I always thought shooting a movie happens without days off, unless necessary.

Quote"That's a wrap, Rid #HouseOfGucci" Lady Gaga via Instagram

QuoteHouse of Gucci script burning after wrap

Quote"We were talking on the phone and she was already Patrizia. ... Her accent was perfect," Hayek says. "I think we had a lot of fun reliving scenes that are not even in the movie and she is the ultimate professional, and I could not wait to get on that set. We really couldn't wait to get on the set and just do it and do it together and play off of each other."

"Gucci" marked Hayek's return to work last month after battling a near-fatal case of COVID during the early days of the pandemic. "It was the perfect job to just get back into it," she says.

Working with Gaga sounded perfect, too.

"She is incredibly talented, incredibly smart. And she has on top of all that, extra abilities that not every brilliant actor has, which is she's good with the accent," Hayek says. "Of course, she has an amazing ear. She is extraordinary improvising, and not everybody has that. She really embodies the character. Her level of commitment — I've only seen maybe once or twice somebody commit to a character like she does. And she's also a great team player."

Hayek said "it was a dream" to work with Scott. "I was expecting nothing but the best from Ridley, so it would have been hard to be surprised in any way, but what I was not expecting is how much fun it is to work with him," she said. "I was expecting it of Lady Gaga, but he is a lot of fun on the set. And how much freedom, you feel a lot of freedom and you feel so safe. His attention to detail, nothing misses his eye — nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing. From before doing the scenes and also during the scenes, he misses nothing."

Hayek also enjoyed putting on some weight for the role. "I was in Italy and it was like a dream come true," she remembers. "You're in Rome and you're in a movie and it's the rounder you are, the better it is for your character. That to me was nirvana. I swear I would order with a smile on my face: 'I'll have the pasta again.' I love pasta. And it would come and it would be like guilt-free and — Oh, my God — it was delicious."

Quote from: Ingwar on Jun 18, 2021, 01:28:50 PM
Newest Q&A with Ridley Scott and Aaron Guzikowski

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQtpPpoDZDs&t=208s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQtpPpoDZDs&t=208s)

Quote"Al Pacino — who is the nicest, sweetest man — came to me and said: 'Hey, I hear you only give two takes. Can you give me three if I need it?' I said, 'Al, dude, you are the master of the universe, you can have as many as you want.' The actor is the virtuoso of who they are. Not you. So if the actor feels like playing their instrument, if he or she could hit a slightly better, higher or lower note, let them do it! Let them do it!"

Quote from: Stolen on Jul 23, 2021, 07:12:03 AM
Trailer on July 29.

Quote from: Stolen on Jul 23, 2021, 07:12:03 AM
Trailer on July 29.

QuoteNovember. House of Gucci , the new Ridley Scott film starring Adam Driver, Lady Gaga, Jared Leto, Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons . The trailer of this is not shown, because the international launch will take place on July 29.

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Jul 29, 2021, 03:31:45 PM
Some new info on those posters is that the music will be by Harry Gregson-Williams who will also be scoring The Last Duel.

Quote from: Ingwar on Jul 29, 2021, 07:51:17 PM
By the way, where is that bloody trailer?

Quote from: Some Old Dude on Jul 30, 2021, 10:35:15 AM
I'm guessing the entire Gucci dynasty wont come out looking great to say the least.

Quote from: Nightmare Asylum on Jul 30, 2021, 11:26:34 AM
I think the family is already upset. :D

QuoteThe Prince of Tides was nominated for an Academy Award and WGA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and Under the Cherry Moon received a Razzie nomination for Worst Screenplay.

Quote from: Ingwar on Aug 01, 2021, 12:44:24 PM
Becky Johnston (The Prince of Tides, Seven Years in Tibet, Under the Cherry Moon) added as a screenwriter.

Wikipedia:

QuoteThe Prince of Tides was nominated for an Academy Award and WGA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and Under the Cherry Moon received a Razzie nomination for Worst Screenplay.

QuoteAll of this to say, a "House of Gucci" test screening will be happening tomorrow night in the West Coast. I'll be on the lookout for reactions.

QuoteFAKE: After an inquiry, it was verified that the information 'HOUSE OF GUCCI' is having recordings in Milan is FALSE. There is only ONE video of this alleged recording in Milan and there are no articles about the footage. Jared Leto is attending an event and Salma Hayek is in the US.

QuoteA test-screening for Ridley Scott's "House of Gucci" occurred during the summer. The cut shown had no score attached with a source absolutely falling head over heels in love with it, claiming it had a "satirical sting to it".  She also elaborated that the audience was laughing quite hard during some of the scenes and that even detractors of Gaga's acting will like her take on Patrizia Reggiani Gucci ("her accent is so ridiculous it works").

However, much more intriguingly, to my eyes and ears at least, was that the cut shown at this screening ran around 2 hours and 45 minutes in length. Scott has been wrestling with different cuts for the film, but the rumored runtime does go well with the fact that Gucci is set in the span of three decades.

Quote from: Stolen on Sep 28, 2021, 06:08:38 PM
Thelma & Louise and Matchstick Men are really funny at times.

QuoteHaute history

Yates created approximately 1,000 outfits for the film, including around 55 for Adam Driver's Mauricio Gucci (the ill-fated head of the fashion house, whom Reggiani hired a hitman to kill in 1995), approximately 20 for Al Pacino as Aldo Gucci (the brand's chairman), and around a dozen for Jared Leto's balding businessman (and label VP) Paolo Gucci. The biggest accomplishment, as Yates estimates, were between 75 and 100 total looks she assembled in collaboration with Gaga.

Many pieces were from the star's personal collection as well as the Gucci archives — like the vintage trouser suit and fur coat above, worn for an "irate" exchange. In addition to visual beauty, much of the clothing was selected for its potential to enhance emotional moments.

"She wears that when she's absolutely horrified after coming in from shopping to find that her cleaner has exactly the same handbag that she has!" Yates recalls of the assertive ensemble. "She goes down to 42nd street [in Mahattan] and berates the seller. She's horrified that all the bags selling for $100 down there, and she has this big confrontation with Aldo.... she picked up a load of things, mugs pens, just rubbish with Gucci [designs] on them, and threw them at Aldo!"

Jet sets

Work began months before filming, with Yates shipping an entire "closet for Gaga" to L.A., fitting the star over Zoom sessions from Italy and the U.K. The glam team then spent hours on makeup and "chopping wigs" to match each creation. Yates remembers an "assiduous" commitment from Gaga, with meticulous attention to detail — and unparalleled invitations into Gaga's own collections acquired over the years — across all facets of Patrizia's look.

"We bought off eBay, we had access to Gaga's archive, which is enormous. It's slightly outré for what we were looking for, but she was so kind, generous, and helpful, all the time. She's very on it. She's going, 'I'd like to wear this,' but I'm going, 'it's not period correct,' but it doesn't matter because it's so insular. It looked great," Yates says. "Everything was a big discussion, and everything was very directed to who she was interacting with on that scene."

Gaga's connections with the accessory brand Tudor also came in handy, as Yates says the company provided a period-specific watch to the production, while other hardware came from Boucheron, Bulgari, and Gucci.

Hats off

Yates edited this Gina Lollobrigida-inspired look — which originally included a black bolero hat and belt — that Reggiani wears for Aldo Gucci's birthday on Lake Como. "We could hardly see" the 5' 2′′ singer in the original outfit, says Yates. "[They] had to go!"

Pattern boldness

Gaga insisted on a loud Yves Saint Laurent dress from the Tirelli archive, with "big hair" to match the "over-the-top" ferocity of a tense spat with Leto's Paolo Gucci. "She basically wanted to be so out there," Yates explains. "She just went straight up to the trail and said, 'I want to wear this when I'm confronting Paolo.'"

Fashion summit at the peak of excellence

When the House of Gucci trailer dropped in July, fans lost their minds (to put it lightly) at the sight of Lodge-y Gaga in a crimson bodysuit on snow-capped mountain. And Yates feels that Gaga had an early idea that the look would turn up the heat on the ski slopes.

"Ridley wanted them all to be in ski suits, to all be wearing white," she says of the scene, which follows the central cast as they gather at a mountainside resort for a 20-year reunion. Yates ultimately added color to Scott's initial vision after seeing a yellow option at the Annamode costume rental service in Rome, which she then redesigned in the final piece's signature red.

"Gaga wanted to be the only one to wear the fur hat. We had black, we had white, she nicked them for herself!" Yates exclaims. "The glasses, which had been a huge success, funnily enough, we got these on eBay early on, they were three different colors: Turquoise, red, or orange. They're all Christian Dior. It just all worked!"

Mamma mia!

A real-life Black Widow, Reggiani dressed "like a Christmas tree," as Yates describes, but Gaga resisted camp in favor of a sincere embodiment of elegance.

"She introduced the whole fact, saying 'I want to look like my mother,'" Yates says with reference to Cynthia Germanotta. "[Gaga's] mother is an elegant Italian woman who'd wear something, just to shop.... She carried a certain flair, and [Gaga] wanted to look like her."

... don't forget about the father, son(s), etc.

Gaga wasn't the only actor who had fun with fashion; Yates decked Pacino, Driver, and Jeremy Irons in custom, crisp suits, blazers, sport jackets, and cashmere coats. She also ordered around 100 ties, with around 40 going to Driver alone. But it was Leto's character, Paolo Gucci, whose looks demanded particular attention.

"We'd go down to Naples and choose fabrics," she said of working with the Cesare Attolini, the menswear brand that contributed fabulous work to Paolo Sorrentino's 2013 drama The Great Beauty. "I had to go back down there to revamp [some] fabrics because they weren't 'dandy' enough! Jared was the dandy's dandy!"

QuoteSpeaking with The Wall Street Journal this week, Gaga details her new album Love for Sale with legend Tony Bennett and how she got into character for her cinematic follow-up to her Oscar-nominated performance in A Star Is Born.

"I knew I was about to play a murderer. I also knew how Tony feels about Italians being represented in film in terms of crime. I wanted to make a real person out of Patrizia, not a caricature," explained Gaga, who said she spent six months perfecting her Italian accent, before spending another six months staying in the accent.

"I felt the best way to honor Maurizio and Italians was for my performance to be authentic, from the perspective of a woman. Not an Italian-American woman, but an Italian woman," she added.

"Choosing to work in a film that's set in Italy is where my heart lies. When I went over to film this year, every day I was able to plant my feet on the ground and know that I was in a place where my family lived before coming here and working hard so I could have a better life," she told WSJ.

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Oct 11, 2021, 09:11:07 PM
Better have an intermission then so we can go and take a piss...

QuoteDAMAN: Were there any special characteristics of Tom Ford that you had to prepare for?
Reeve Carney: It's always important for me to find the character's voice, so to speak ... as it communicates so much of what is in between the lines. That and their gait, and manner. Other than that, it's important to find the places in which my inner life connects with that of the character. And in that way, it's about the more invisible work for me. But you certainly want the audience to feel as though they are watching Tom, rather than watching an actor "playing" him. But yes, creating a truthful amalgamation of my voice intertwined with his was an important thing for me to aim for.

DAMAN: And how does it feel being part of such a star-studded cast?
Reeve Carney: It was quite an exciting moment for me seeing my name in the press release alongside all of these legends, whom I have studied and admired for so many years. And the work itself was quite thrilling. I am a huge admirer of Ridley Scott's process, as he directs with a fierce confidence, all the while instilling a deep trust in his actors.

DAMAN: What did you learn from playing the role of Tom Ford? And did you get the chance to meet him in person too?
Reeve Carney: I have yet to meet Tom, and would absolutely love to. Didn't have the opportunity prior to filming. And would also like to extend my deepest sympathies to him for the loss of his dear husband, Richard Buckley.

DAMAN: Any particularly memorable moments from the filming that you can share with us?
Reeve Carney: I didn't expect there to be so much improvisation, which was very exciting! So, I'm excited to see what ends up on the screen.

QuoteYeah flashy, a lot of flashes. Because it's a fashion world so it's a lot of flash photography.

Quote from: Ingwar on Oct 25, 2021, 02:33:33 PM
Seems like second trailer coming soon

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCexaN_XMAQlci0?format=jpg&name=900x900
According to Wolski movie will be flashy which is complete opposite to The Last Duel.

QuoteYeah flashy, a lot of flashes. Because it's a fashion world so it's a lot of flash photography.

QuoteGaga, the film starts with a line about people staring into the windows at Gucci, wishing they could buy even the second cheapest item in the store. What was it like once you were not only able to afford all those things, but even have them offered to you?

LADY GAGA As soon as you ask me that question, I'm catapulted instantly to when I said those words on set. I remember thinking I was the second cheapest item, that Patrizia was the second cheapest item in the store, that she would never be the best.

I also thought of when I was finally able to buy things that were nice or have them offered to me, that there was something always inside me, scratching at my heart, telling me that it didn't belong to me. But I think part of being an artist is just this endless idea that we're not good enough. Material things are wonderful, but we see in this film how power and privilege can be inherently evil.

Patrizia is ambitious in the way she pursues Maurizio, but you're initially rooting for them as a couple.

GAGA One of the first things I said to Ridley was "I don't know that she had really loved Maurizio." And he said, "Yes, she did."

RIDLEY SCOTT The key thing for me was that however bad it gets, there was something that you liked about these people. She goes after him by design, but I think she is enchanted by his gentlemanly behavior, and it evolves into affection and love. Love is a powerful bond, but you've got to be very careful, because love can turn easily into hatred in a flash.

GAGA As soon as Ridley said it was love, I abandoned this idea that she was a gold digger and I investigated every possible article that I could find, any interview about her. I did not read the book.

Why not?

GAGA I started the book and it was filled with opinions, so I threw it out. I didn't want anyone to shape my thinking. Even the idea of meeting Patrizia Gucci, once I watched her in her interviews, I thought, this would certainly be a bad idea, because she would have an agenda and want me to tell the story in the way she wants it to be told.

Talk to me about staying in Patrizia's accent for so many months. Was that tiring?

GAGA I think it would have done more of a number on me had I not practiced it so much. I would be talking like this with my mother, with friends, so that I, Stefani, could speak like this and it would be totally natural. It's like muscle memory, so that when you're in the scene, the accent is not in the way of the visceral quality of what's happening in the room.

If I had a jazz show next week, if I don't rehearse ahead of time, my voice is not ready for the show. My approach to this was not different than my commitment to music. But I want to be clear: I don't think it's about sensationalizing method acting or being in character as the only way to do things. It would have been harder for me to go in and out of character on set than to stay in it.

SCOTT There was a moment where I thought, "Wait a minute, was she always like this? I've forgotten." The very first meeting we had, she was being, dare I say, American ...

GAGA I am American! I'm Italian American.

SCOTT But then, I thought, "I'm not going to question this, because it's working for me."

Gaga, how did you come up with Patrizia's body language? In the way she saunters and the way she dances, she seems to have a much lower center of gravity than you do.

GAGA In some techniques of acting, they call it "using the animal." I used three different animals for Patrizia. I began as a house cat, which has this kind of alluring quality but also can be a bit aloof, and I used that with her physicality. Then she transforms when she sees Aldo embrace Maurizio. She thinks to herself, "Maybe I can convince Maurizio to become closer with the family, be part of the family business." In that scene, I made the choice to transform from a cat into a fox.

Then, when [a Gucci lawyer] comes to my daughter's school to serve me divorce papers — meaning Maurizio didn't have the courage to do it himself — I transform from a fox into a panther. It's something that I worked on, studying the panther. What are the ways in which the panther seduces its prey? What are the ways in which the panther is slow before it pounces? What happens when the panther is so enraged with starvation and hunger that it goes into survival mode? I always felt like Patrizia was surviving her whole life.

How so?

GAGA She was never as prestigious or shiny or tailored as the Guccis. There was always something about her that was a little bit embarrassing and a little bit off. This is a woman that wants more for herself, but in my opinion, all of her power is really an illusion, the way patriarchy is endlessly an illusion. It's the way that as a woman, I can feel like I have power, but as soon as a man tells me no, then my entire world crumbles. She's simply disposed of, over and over, and I believe that's what compelled this murder.

How did you rationalize that act?

GAGA I believe with everything in my being that this woman is walking around Milan deeply regretting what she did. I think she was so traumatized that she made a big mistake. I didn't try to make her lovable, but I think that Ridley allowed her to be lovable because he empowered me as a woman.

I have to say this, Ridley: There's not a lot of men that are directors who would empower a woman to be ugly on camera. When I aged and had scenes where I was in this embarrassing, desperate state, he embraced the ugliness of this character and that should be commended, because it is ugly to be disposed of for your looks, it is ugly to be left for a younger woman. So I appreciate that Ridley took something that was sort of a "sexy murder" and he let it be ugly.

Ridley, not a lot of directors have been able to make major movies during this pandemic. You've made two, including "The Last Duel," which experienced a Covid-related shutdown last spring. How have you managed to weather that storm?

SCOTT My team is the best in the business. I remember I was making the first one in a rather beautiful place [in the French countryside], and I'm not a great countryside guy because it's deep-green and damp and I start thinking about that vodka martini around about three in the afternoon, which is fatal. Suddenly, there was this monster coming at us called Covid, so I said, "We're going to close down." That helped a lot because it enabled me to edit where I got to, but also to get full prep of two months storyboarding "Gucci."

GAGA I don't know if you felt this way, Rid, but because Covid was happening and the actors were either in our rooms or we were on set, life kind of floats away. I think it's part of why I liked to stay in character because what else am I going to do when I go back to my hotel room? How could I possibly turn it off? I have no interaction with the world other than with my actors and my director.

Ridley, how did you feel about the box office performance of "The Last Duel"? It got strong reviews and boasted big stars in Matt Damon and Adam Driver, but still underperformed in theaters.

SCOTT It was exceedingly disappointing. The fatal thing is when you think you've got it, you haven't — I thought I'd got it on "Blade Runner" and I hadn't! I was crucified by a big critic at the time called Pauline Kael. It's why I never read critiques, ever. You have to be your own decider — if you worry about what the audience is thinking and what they may want, that's fatal. A good film will find itself, and now "Blade Runner" is in the Library of Congress.

But still, it must add some wind to your sails when people are excited about your work. Even while you were making "House of Gucci," the pictures from set caused an online sensation.

SCOTT No, totally. There's nothing like success to make you feel good in the morning, right? At the same time, if you get some kind of clip or hit, don't let it get to you. If you like what you did, move on.

GAGA I can't agree more. When you are making art to please people or seek praise, this is not sustainable. You're essentially passionate about getting people to love you as opposed to being passionate about the work. I know I lost my way as an artist for a while when I started to care about what would make people like me. Then I rebelled, because why should I follow a North Star that keeps moving?

My whole career, I've had ups, I've had downs. When you were talking about "Blade Runner," I was thinking about my record "Artpop" and how they put out critiques before it even came out. Because of freedom of speech, people can write whatever they want, even if it's lies, but years later, it's one of my most critically acclaimed albums.

We have no idea what this movie's going to do after it opens, but it doesn't matter because we know we made something great. When you get to be lucky like me and be in one of his movies, you know that no matter what, this is going to last a lifetime.

You look at Ridley with a lot of affection.

GAGA I love Ridley so much. I felt he was watching over me. He saw me falling into this character more and more all the time, and he used to say, "You good, dude? You OK?" I would reply with whatever the truth was and he would always say to me, "Whatever this is, I hope you leave it here."

So how did you feel when you left Patrizia and all of that behind?

GAGA To be honest, I was really ready to let go. She's a tremendously complicated individual and when you're living in survival mode all the time — and she was always in survival mode — it creates such a sentiment of trauma constantly. When I got on that plane back from Italy, I threw out my cigarettes. I threw out the booze, I landed in L.A. and cleaned my life up because I couldn't live that way anymore. It was killing me because it was killing her.

And how does it feel to be yourself again?

GAGA It's really emotional. I joke with Ridley all the time, but I really experienced some type of attachment panic when I left set, I missed him so much. I felt the way Patrizia felt, a life without Gucci was not a life worth living. The greatest time in her life was being a Gucci, and I can say to you, being done with this film, that the greatest time in my life was being a Gucci. That's how art and life line up. Ridley's life is a masterpiece, and you're lucky if you get to be a part of it.

Quote from: DeadlineRidley Scott Won't Let Age Or Pandemic Slow A Storytelling Appetite That Brought 'House of Gucci' & 'The Last Duel;' Napoleon & More 'Gladiator' Up Next

EXCLUSIVE: As his House of Gucci cast premiered the awards season entry in Europe in concert with the 100th anniversary celebration of the fashion brand, Ridley Scott stayed back in Los Angeles. Glimpsed through the limited lens of a Zoom call, Scott obviously lives well. But he's quick to say that where he'd rather be is the getaway home in France where he suddenly finds himself at the center of a fledgling winemaking business that manufactured its first batch of reds and roses from grapes grown on his estate in Provence. He shares the place with wife Giannina Facio, a driving force as producer on House of Gucci along with Scott, Kevin Walsh and Mark Huffam. And you might remember her as Maximus' wife in those Gladiator flashbacks as Russell Crowe's character was dying.

"I didn't want to get into it when I bought this manoir, this jewel of a place 29 years ago," Scott said. "It had 23 acres of vines but I used it as a holiday house. Then by accident, somebody said, 'you know, your grape is excellent, you've made a very lucky purchase.' Now, everyone thinks our rose came out the best." I tell him that fellow iconic director Francis Coppola also fell into winemaking when he bought his first Napa Valley vineyard as a vacation home, and now makes more from grapes than from The Godfather, Scott said, "Francis has what, 1000 acres while I have 100. I am thinking small and letting it grow slowly, because I am too busy."

When it comes to films, Scott never thinks small and this year's bumper crop marks as ambitious a two-year period as any director, especially one turning 84 at month's end. In his last Deadline interview when he directed the Best Picture nominee The Martian, Scott said his refusal to slow down is explained simply. He'd rather be out in the world somewhere shooting a movie than walk his spaniel. Scott's two films this fall show that his storytelling ambition and ability to move seamless between genres is sharp as ever, and even more impressive given Hollywood and the world shut down during the global pandemic for much of the process of making both films.

Scott began the fall with The Last Duel, a fact-based #MeToo tale set during the Middle Ages. The wife (Jodie Comer) of a knight (Matt Damon) said she was raped by a politically well connected scoundrel squire (Adam Driver), and the knight brings his appeal for justice directly to the king. Told Rashomon-style in three acts, The Last Duel culminates in a bloody mano a mano battle that was the final sanctioned fight to the death in France.

Coming November 24 from MGM is House of Gucci, a star-studded film that begins as patriarch brothers Aldo (Al Pacino) and Rodolfo (Jeremy Irons) confront who'll lead the family business. That pits their sons Paolo (Jared Leto) and Maurizio (Adam Driver) as rivals, the latter bringing into the fold his voraciously ambitious new wife Patrizia (Lady Gaga). By the end of all the backstabbing, lawsuits and power grabbing that ensue, the family's stake in Gucci went from 100% to zero; Aldo served a jail stretch for tax evasion, and Maurizio was found dead in a pool of blood in the marble and mahogany lobby of his tony office. Robbed of her status as a Gucci when her husband kicked her to the curb for serving as the catalyst for the family implosion, Patrizia was tried and convicted of hiring the hitman who killed her estranged husband. The Becky Johnston & Roberto Bentivegna script has light moments, and there are remarkable performances all around including Driver, Pacino and Leto, capped by a murderess turn by Lady Gaga that shows her Oscar-nominated turn in A Star is Born was no fluke.

Scott has as strong a film resume as any director alive. Is this the year that he finally gets a Best Director Oscar, denied him the year Gladiator won Best Picture? Here, he answers all questions before heading back into prep on Kitbag, another period epic about Napoleon's tempestuous love affair with Josephine that drove him to distraction as he tried to conquer the world.

DEADLINE: You have been working on House of Gucci since 2006. You were going to direct it, Leo and Angelina were circling, there was Wong Kar-Wai, and then your own daughter, Jordan. What made you keep at it so long, and why now?

RIDLEY SCOTT: Oh, what do you think? It's Giannina, my wife. She has made four movies. She's a lot slower making movies than I am, but she has pretty good taste, and she got her teeth into this thing. She's partly Italian and lived in Italy for seven years, and I believe she might've been there in her middle to late 20s when the murder of Maurizio Gucci happened. This was shocking, like having the Prince of Whatever assassinated. The murder occurred six years after the divorce and so it almost felt random. In between, clearly there was a form of harassment going on, which I think he tried to ignore and avoid. That probably made her more and more obsessive about having to settle the matter. Quite what the matter was in her own mind, no one knows, except she made a horrible judgment. If you marry a Gucci, you are not necessarily a Gucci. Except by name. Gaga put a very nice spin into that. She felt that she was a woman being ignored in terms of her perceptions and cleverness. Maybe she had business acumen, but the more she tried to engage at an intelligent level, it became intrusive, and that starts the irritation. When irritation starts with both sides, it gets worse, and what happens is the abscess festers and develop into hatred. And that's what you have in the movie.

DEADLINE: You could have presented this as more of a murder mystery, but the marketing puts it right out there that Gaga's Patrizia is hiring a hitman to kill her estranged husband. What was the strategy behind that?

SCOTT: Well, don't get it out of proportion. Don't say it's a murder mystery. It's not.

DEADLINE: There is so much backstabbing among the Guccis, it could have been done that way...

SCOTT: I didn't want to make it into a thriller drama because it's not. I saw it more as a satire. Satires are frequently examples of the 'like.' This might be likened to Medici or Borgia. So, suddenly I thought, you know what? This is a satirical view of a 20th century family that has gone into a self-destruct mode by...you want to put a simple word on it, but you can't. I don't think you can say it's greed. I think from the Gucci point of view, they wanted to protect their name. That became hard when two time bombs came into the story. One was the character Paolo Gucci. It's wrong to say he was a loose cannon because he believed he was talented, and the problem is, they didn't, and they did not want his name on the brand. So, right there you have a crack in the armor. You've got Maurizio finding out that his uncle had been making cheap knockoffs and selling them all for a very high-end profit. I mean, in those days, $400 million is a lot of money. Today, I think $400 million is still a heckuva lot of money, but when you look at Jeff Bezos, or Apple, these are two and a half trillion dollar companies. So, it's gone grotesque; it makes no sense whatsoever. They can't measure their genius by that amount of money. It doesn't make sense, right? They found a window with a genius item [holds up his cell phone] and I think the f**ker who made this has f**ked up probably this entire millennium new generation. So, with this, you think you're a f**king genius, right? If I asked a 20-year-old, what's 12 times 12, they can't tell me. They have to get onto the f**king calculator mode on this thing. Maybe this is simplistic, but I am very concerned about the next generation.

DEADLINE: One of those moments came when Maurizio and Patrizia are outraged about Gucci knockoffs, and when they vent their discovery to Uncle Aldo, he sets them straight with a reveal that puts him in danger. While these newcomers to the business think they know what's best, he tells them Gucci is secretly making these knockoffs which creates a big profit margin. Secretly mass merchandising and discounting your upscale product, while charging the upper crust big prices in tony showrooms is deceptive but shrewd. Why shouldn't a woman in a blue collar home have a Gucci bag she can afford? My question: why is it that people either born into or marry into a dynasty they didn't build, believe they have all the answers?

SCOTT: I think two things. First, [Aldo] should've declared that money. He didn't. That's his first mistake, and as you know, the IRS on revenue, if they start to find there's a problem, they'll go after you. So, that was naïve that he had kept dark black records of profits and he hadn't declared them. He hadn't declared the profit because he didn't dare because he knows his family would've disagreed with that and said, this is not correct, and therefore you are bringing down the company, you know? So, that was the first thing, and secondly, I think when a generation takes over a company, it can...what's the saying? The father makes the company and the success, the next generation brings the company down, and if you're still surviving, a third one struggles to bring it back up to the surface. That's a generalization but I think there's an element of truth in it because the dangerous thing about having offspring who are from a group which is very wealthy is, it's nearly a disadvantage. Unless you recognize and acknowledge the advantages it's giving you. So, respect that. Do not disrespect it, and do not assume that you're a genius because your father was really clever. Because usually dad started with nothing and has certainly grown something, and you never witnessed what that took. It's a bit like kids being frustrated that they're not stars when they watch a rock and roll band in their mid-20s, not realizing they f**king worked at it in the garage since they were probably 11, and then did all the shit and dirt and filth and crappy venues and things, and that's how it happens. They don't experience that...apprenticeship. What has happened to apprenticeship?

DEADLINE: Bruce Springsteen said you need to put in 10,000 hours of not being good before you're any good.

SCOTT: Picasso said it's 10 percent talent and 90 percent hard work. Do it constantly, and then it can be quite good.

DEADLINE: You and your late brother Tony built RSA and Scott Free, and you've got family members coming up. How do you manage having everyone know their place, and that you are boss?

SCOTT: Well, my oldest is older than you, and my second one who's running the company is older than you, too. My daughter is 42, has just written her next film, and I'm still shocked at what a good writer she is. I wish I could write like her. Jordan is probably not interested in being a hands-on person as part of the corporation. She's just passionate about making movies. The middle one turns out they have a very good brain in terms of perception, adjustment, balance, and Jake is already now starting his next movie in January with Daisy Ridley, and he just did this year a great documentary on Oasis. It's a good one. He actually did some of the first videos with Oasis. So, they're all busy, and the key from my point of view is being in constant contact. I have already called my daughter today, and I'm giving her notes on her script because I can read it and use my experience to help. I don't write, but I'm quite good with writers. I'll say you're going on a bit, you're rambling. It's bit like writing a book, where a great book editor is quite valuable.

DEADLINE: Sounds like you don't have a Paolo Gucci in the bunch, at least the one we see in the movie who fancies himself a gifted designer, and his father and uncle think he has no talent...

SCOTT: No, thank goodness. But if Paolo was anything like Jared Leto, he was really a sweetheart.

DEADLINE: Al Pacino and Jared Leto's scenes as Aldo and his son Paolo are often quite humorous, but really touching as well. Seeing Pacino with a clueless and resentful family member whose talent doesn't match his ambition conjures images of The Godfather with Michael and Fredo Corleone. And then there is Patrizia's relationship with the TV fortune teller Pina, played by Salma Hayek, who becomes her confidante and secures the assassin to murder Maurizio. A lot of levity here. Did you feel that would help make the story of marital disintegration and corporate backstabbing more palatable?

SCOTT: No. I'm actually quite a funny guy. When I did Thelma & Louise, the writer, she told me she was shocked that I made it into a comedy.

DEADLINE: Callie Khouri won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for that film...

SCOTT: And I really think she probably didn't like the movie because Callie is a very serious person. I just saw it as quite amusing, which evolved into an epic final journey, and their ending was a statement of where they felt they were. You have three acts, and it doesn't have to be all serious. The master of this was Kubrick. He decides he's going to make a film about the end of the world, and he gets into it and realizes it's so f**king ridiculous that the political platforms that meet and set us all on fire when we don't even know they're talking is f**king insane. I think that's where we are today because we really want to get on with our lives and do what we need to do, and hopefully, the people we vote for don't f**k it up, and mostly they do.

DEADLINE: You just worked with Adam Driver in The Last Duel, and given his height and physical resemblance, you can see why he makes a terrific Maurizio. But this movie hinges on Patrizia's social climbing and ambition and the consequences of her being cut out of that Gucci clan. How did you settle on Lady Gaga? She got an Oscar nomination for A Star Is Born, but that was in a musical venue she knows so well. This is different...

SCOTT: Yeah, she can certainly f**king sing. Wow. If I'd been doing this 40 years ago, it would've been Elizabeth Taylor. Patrizia looked like Liz Taylor, and she was small, and her husband was 6-foot-4. Adam Driver's 6-foot-f**king-4. It's almost like Adam is the straight man and Patrizia gets all the laughs, but you need the straight man for the laughs to work, and her evolution is a shock, when she steps across the line, certainly as you get into the end of the first act, and you start to sense that this may be going somewhere I didn't expect. Now, I believe when she set eyes on Maurizio, she knew he was a Gucci. Define love. Does love come with the trappings of a crown? She was 23 or 24, and she wasn't a gold digger yet, but she was getting there. I had a funny feeling that if your father's in transportation in the late '60s, early '70s, do you think he's connected in Italy? I don't want to say it, but it's feasible. On the perimeter of connected? How could he not be? So, she moved in kind of flashy circles where aristocrats love to f**k around at that level, don't they? Have you noticed that?

DEADLINE: Yes.

SCOTT: They love to f**k around with the bad boys, don't they? And so, I think she was always on the lookout for a special boyfriend, but I think what was surprising was, Maurizio was so polite. She had never been treated with such respect, and so, at the bar when he meets her, he [introduces himself] and says 'Maurizio, Maurizio Gucci.'

That is when they meet, he is behind I said, don't say Gucci. Let her discover in the newspaper who he was. Let her be impressed by the fact he's so polite and so nice, and say I'll make you the drink, but charming, and can he dance? No. I mean, he's also very honest. There's nothing worse than a guy who can't dance, pretending he can. Nothing worse. There's no way I will go near a dance floor, and my wife is Costa Rican. What can I tell you? I look like a f**king idiot, right? So, it's best not to dance. So, that's how it started, and then their relationship evolved.

I think Adam is maybe one of the finest actors we have today. Because he moves from being a bad boy in The Last Duel where my investment in the orgies in that film was done for a reason. It showed a social order that at these houses of great wealth and privilege, post-dinner wouldn't be a cigar and cigarettes and some brandy. It might be, let's adjourn to the bedroom and anybody who comes in the bedroom had better partake in what's going to happen, an orgy. That was quite common. So, that's the investment in that, and therefore because Adam is playing a guy who was used to this state of play, who assumes that any woman will faint and f**k him and do what he has to do and open her legs and that's it. And where he got it wrong was...he even says it in a sentence. He says, in awe, to Ben Affleck playing Pierre, he said well, were there objections? He said 'well, she's a woman. Of course she pretended to object. Of course she objected. She is a woman.' That's the way he put it. You go, what? One wonders how much we've learned historically from where we are today.

DEADLINE: I mean, that's a, you know, that's another fair point, but you know, the interesting thing is, you know, Adam Driver as Maurizio, he starts out as somebody who basically doesn't want to be part of the Gucci clan, really. He's a little bit estranged from his father, and then he ends up the embodiment of exactly what he seemed to stand against. Patrizia and her father took him in, even after he said, I have nothing, I have been disinherited by my father. Once back in the Gucci fold, Maurizio embraces wealth, spending the company into the ground. Did you see Patrizia as the catalyst for the ruthlessness toward his family that was to come?

SCOTT: No. I think what she saw was a franchise which everyone had respected at the time for its design and its style, going off the rails because it was made accessible by cheap knockoffs for people who could afford to pay for cheap knockoffs. Believe me, I know a lot of wealthy people who would pay for cheap knockoffs today. Why are you going to pay $20,000 for a handbag when you can actually get it for $200 and it's exactly the same.

I think she had business in her mind. I think she felt that she had acumen and style, and she even tried to design some jewelry for the line herself, much to the embarrassment of the Guccis. They were embarrassed by the fact that she suddenly got in very quickly with a line of her own, and she overstepped the mark very fast. Her assumption that marriage will give you everything is not true. There are a couple of moments in between, but he said, it's my family name, and she said, mine too, sweetie, pointing at the ring. Right there, the jug was cracked and it would never be repaired. She called him a cretin. Because he's a nice guy, he says, don't call me cretin, sweetheart. She says, I didn't call you cretin; I said, don't act like a cretin. She keeps putting a foot in her mouth, and he gradually adjusts into deep hatred, and in doing that he realizes she's dangerous to his plan, because he was not being left 50 percent of the Gucci empire by his father.

He's then approached by his uncle, who is corrupt, who says, let me run the company, and you come to New York and I will show you the ropes. What he doesn't tell him is, I'm doing knockoffs, which is highly illegal and would bring the company to its knees. So, Maurizio is suddenly invaded with all the problems of running a corporation that he's never been trained to do because he didn't want to. He wanted to be a lawyer, right? So, it's all there. Don't misunderstand him. I always got amazed that people thought that Joaquin Phoenix was an evil man in Gladiator, because he killed Russell [Crowe] at the end. They forgot the scene which was maybe the best in the entire movie, where his father said you will not be Prince of Rome. And he gives him a beautiful speech and scene, saying, which older, wiser man will take my place? It's crushing. Don't forget those scenes, right?

DEADLINE: I saw that character as bad, through and through.

SCOTT: There's a lot of shit in there. It's a toboggan ride. No one's totally bad, and no one's totally good. In ; is Frank a bad guy? Yeah, but Frank had the balls of a f**king rhinoceros to go drive around Vietnam when the war is happening, and do a deal with the Chinese to bring heroin directly back into the US.

DEADLINE: In the caskets of slain U.S. soldiers...

SCOTT: Is he evil? Yeah, but f**k me, he should be a politician. He's so brilliant, right? So, it's a double-edged sword.

DEADLINE: What most surprised you about Lady Gaga and the work she put into this character?

SCOTT: Oh. I mean, I work like a f**king demon, but she and I were really very good for each other because she keeps up. She's on everything. It became more and more enjoyable because, singers can be a bit fragile. This is a big movie, and some singers have not made that transition. They make it in music, they do it quite well. I'm not going to name singers, but when a singer goes onto film, they can evaporate. Somehow, they haven't got the presence. Not her. She's right there, and she knows the camera. She's used to that, from being a performer on stage. Have you ever seen one of her shows?

DEADLINE: Not in person.

SCOTT: Well, you'd have to go to Las Vegas, but it's like that. And then there is the jazz show she does with Tony Bennett, who loves her like a dad. But this other show is from an entirely different universe, and the Las Vegas crowd flocks to see her. So, she's a multitalented, multifaceted producer, really, apart from being a performer. My hat came off to her, because I could see she knows exactly what she's doing. And I know exactly what I'm doing. It was a very good marriage. She loved the fact we moved like lightning. We did the film in 42 days, and came in $5 million under budget.

DEADLINE: How do you shoot a big film in foreign locales, so quickly?

SCOTT: What she loved was because she's used to being on the boards, on stage, what I tried to do with actors is...and I'm the only one who does this, which is bizarre...I shoot a minimum of four cameras, all the time. It means that a scene, scheduled for a day or two days will be done in half the time. A scene scheduled for a day, I'll be finished at 11 o'clock. A two-day schedule, I'll be finished on the first day. So, right there we start catching myself up and getting ahead of where the schedule was. The key of why this was done by me was, when an actor is supporting another actor off camera, it's up to them to be very supportive and act up a storm for them on camera. Well, what you're doing is you're using up your juice. You're telling the joke again and again. Now, I've gotten to be a two take Charlie. I'll say, you want to go again? They go, no, we got it. I say, good, let's move on. But the people who have to do it 90 f**king times? The person off camera is dying. And by the time [the camera] comes around on him, he knows he is done, and it's a bit flaccid. So, I devised this as a norm to save the actor, keep them fresh. And she loved that. So did Adam Driver. So did Al Pacino, who is the master of 90 takes. I said, I only want to give you two takes, but if you want more, I'll give you four. And he was honestly one of my best experiences I've ever had.

DEADLINE: He is a warm patriarch until you cross him. Particularly touching are his scenes with Jared Leto, who so disappears into this role that I found myself trying to figure out the actor playing Paolo. This guy is movie star handsome, and yet it seems the last thing he wants to show off.

SCOTT: He wants to hide in the character. I produced on Blade Runner 2. His character was blind, and he played his scenes that way. He goes way inside, and conceals himself inside the part.

DEADLINE: He created many of the lighter moments in the film, but doesn't take you out of a narrative building toward murder. How do you thread that needle?

SCOTT: Well, you just have a cautionary note that says, don't allow the comedy to overtake the drama. And so he plays it dead straight. We don't have a lot of information on Paolo, but Paolo looked like that, and he was very weird, talked with hands like a lot of Italians do. There was enough information for Jared to dig into and find out who he might be.

DEADLINE: Did he like your two take rule?

SCOTT: [Nods]. Making this movie in 42 days is just a bit slower than TV.

DEADLINE: Members of the Gucci family have been critical of House of Gucci, even though they haven't seen it. They are no longer associated with the company, which is owned by Kering, whose chairman/CEO is Francois-Henri Pinault. He happens to be the husband of Salma Hayek, who plays an important role in the film as Patrizia Gucci's confidante and fortune teller. How helpful was this connection with the man who controls Gucci in helping you make this film?

SCOTT: I've known François for a number of years through my wife, who's had a 20-year friendship with Salma. That's how I met him. I warned him this was coming up the pipe. He says, okay. I said no, I want you to read it. So, he read it. I kept my f**king fingers crossed, and he wrote back one note. He said hey, Ridley, and then he wrote 'sensational.' That was it.

DEADLINE: Wow. And your follow up?

SCOTT: Can I use the word Gucci? François is probably maybe the biggest, one of the biggest art dealers in the world, and you don't just buy art and not know what you're doing. He's a very, very astute and sensitive man. So, I think when he gave me a fundamental thumbs up, it means that he got it and he knows its use and most importantly, it's artistically acceptable for him.

DEADLINE: Gucci celebrating its centennial during the launch of this film seems fortuitous. They certainly aren't running from you...

SCOTT: There was like a fashion shoot...On Hollywood Boulevard the other night. It reminded me of Blade Runner. I was on the street actually with him, and we're opposite the Chinese [Theatre], and then this music was blasting out, and maybe 400 models walk out of the Chinese, walk down the far side of the street for about a quarter of a mile, turn around, came back up the other side. So, in a way, you get a fashion platform. It was a very good way of doing it.

DEADLINE: You seem like you have the visual sensibilities to be a fashion designer. You are knocking down big movies one after another, moving seamlessly from one genre to the next. How is it you didn't direct until you were 40?

SCOTT: Well, I did make one little movie before that which cost 65 pounds, which will barely buy your breakfast, and it's now at the National Theater. It's got a little guy in there who was 15 and it's called Boy and Bicycle. I was 21. I wrote it. I managed to borrow a camera. My brother Tony was the little actor, and what neither of us realized, was that he and I were preparing life's plan together. Just him, and me. I storyboarded it of course, and planned it out. I'd say to him, get me a pack of cigarettes, and make it quick, and that was what we did, and he was the actor on camera. And he ended up doing Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop, Man on Fire, all that stuff.

DEADLINE: That last one is such an underrated film.

SCOTT: Denzel, man. He's the best, one of the best out there. I only worked with Denzel once, but it was quite an experience. I loved him to death because he's so f**king committed. It's just what I like about Russell. He's so f**king committed.

DEADLINE: You started and then stopped and re-started The Last Duel in the pandemic. You directed House of Gucci, and you have Kitbag ready to go with your Gladiator star Joaquin Phoenix and Last Duel star Jodie Comer. All while we had a modern day equivalent of a worldwide plague. What's the biggest challenge you had to overcome to make this kind of showing during that difficult period?

SCOTT: You don't do the job if you don't like stress. You have to embrace stress. So, nothing compared to one of the most stressed times for me, trying to work out f**king Black Hawk Down on the streets of Salé. Which was teeming with people. We finally took over the neighborhood, and I got 11 cameras turning at once. Storyboard was crazy but we have a battle plan every morning, and then after the battle plan has set in, all the 11 cameras are around all talking about what we're going to do, and I do this with a great cameraman called Sławomir Idziak. When I say, do you want to do it? He said yeah, I only work one camera and I hate sunshine. We ended up in f**king Morocco with 11 cameras, and he nearly had a f**king heart attack, but he did a great job. But there I was super stressed, but you learn to deal with it. I hope I answered the question. You can't let it get to you. You can stew in it or not stew in it.

DEADLINE: You were squarely into filming The Last Duel when the pandemic hit. How did you make the most of the down time?

SCOTT: We edited pretty quick. You can only do this with a great editor, and I'm working right now with probably the best editor in the business, Claire Simpson, and so, when I'm shooting, she's already cutting. I don't sit back and say, don't touch a frame until I'm ready. You've seen all that bullocks and it's ridiculous. In fact, what a director should...if I was teaching, I'd say separate yourself from what you're doing. Let someone run with the ball for a bit, if they're good, so then you can see what you've got, and you can step back. You need to step back. When you paint, the thing you've got to constantly do is stop and step back and look at what you're doing. If you don't and you get too detailed, you go oh, f**k. I f**ked it up. You have to constantly step back, and so, in filming or writing, you've constantly got to step back.

DEADLINE: So you don't preside over that process?

SCOTT: When they're mixing, I don't even see it. So, they'll mix it and go...they'll say we've mixed a reel. When are you coming to see it? So, by then, I'm clean. I go in and I watch it, and then, wait a second. I'll say there, there, there, there. When you sit in the room mixing, all that happens is the film gets louder and louder, but if your ear closes down, you think was that loud enough? It's very important but it's a matter of who you are. You create your own method.

DEADLINE: You will next shoot Kitbag, with your Gladiator star Joaquin Phoenix, and Jodie Comer, who played the wronged woman in The Last Duel and will portray Josephine, whom Napoleon was obsessed with. Why them?

SCOTT: Well, I think you got to land on a talent. When I chose Joaquin for Gladiator, everybody wondered why. I chose him because of a body of work that was so special and so personal. I also found that he was a very fragile kind of guy at that particular point, and I wanted to capture the fragility which would give me that scene with the father, Richard Harris, saying I'm not going to give you the big job, dude. Sorry about it. He is elegant enough to contain his rage and say, what older, wiser man can do this instead of me? So, it's almost Shakespearean, and I think, you know, Joaquin can do anything. So, when he then does something like Joker, there are moments in the Joker that I've never seen before. There are reactions in the Joker which are silly. You can't just say they're not evil. They're coming from a damaged soul. And that's what I'm looking for, What will Joaquin's version of Napoleon be? He will be the painter of his own portrait, and I'll be there to monitor it as best I can because that's what I do. I make sure I cast great. If I cast great, half my work, there's that part, for me is done on the day, and after that I'm tagging along as their partner. Meanwhile, I've got a few other things to think about as well, right?

And oh, Jodie Comer. I became the biggest fan of Jodie because I kept watching Killing Eve, which I think was always fantastic. The interplay between her and her nemesis, Sandra Oh, was so comedic and marvelous. I just watched every show after that. Then I watch her evolve into this kind of Russian vernacular. She's genius. I think she can do anything. So, I want to be in her painting class.

DEADLINE: Stanley Kubrick is one you hold in such high esteem that you credited his 2001: A Space Odyssey for inspiring George Lucas' Star Wars, which led you to drop the film you were going to make, and find Alien. He had an epic Napoleon film he wanted to make it right after 2001 when he was at the peak of his powers. He couldn't do it. How are you able to?

SCOTT: It was birth to death, the entire story of Napoleon Bonaparte. I think what Stanley would've done is made the whole f**king thing, birth to death, and then he'd reorganize the whole f**king thing once it was all on cinema.

DEADLINE: He did recut several of his films after they were released.

SCOTT: I also think the script was too straightforward. There was no dimension in the story. Mine, I developed it. I had this idea of saying what I want to do next is Napoleon, and I usually choose what I want to do next anyway. Sometimes something falls in front of me, and The Last Duel was that. Matt Damon called me and said we got this thing we want to do. Are you interested? You've done the duel already with The Duellists, but this is a different. He told me about it, and I was in. and I got a screenplay in about six weeks. Sorry, what was your question?

DEADLINE: I was asking what you learned from Kubrick's approach to Napoleon, and it seems like you've broken off a piece of the story instead of taking the whole bite like Kubrick did.

SCOTT: No, you can't. You'll bore the ass off of everyone. Have you ever watched Waterloo? Holy f**k. That's just doing one battle. I'm sorry, Sergei Bondarchuk. You've got to be very careful in battle films that you understand what's going on. Otherwise they very quickly wear out and get boring. I don't care how majestic it is. I don't care how many uniforms you got. It gets boring. Napoleon had about 61 battles. Bondarchuk tried to do it with one. You can't tell Napoleon in one either, because we're meeting him at the end of his life as a leader, and he would go on another six years after Waterloo when he was in prison on Saint Helena. I feel you can't do Napoleon in one battle. So, I narrowed it down to this. Almost always, the best films are driven by the characters, and we'll come to superheroes after this if you want, because I'll crush it. I'll f**king crush it. They're f**king boring as shit.

DEADLINE: Your main gripe about superhero movies?

SCOTT: Their scripts are not any f**king good. I think I've done three great scripted superhero movies. One would be Alien with Sigourney Weaver. One would be f**king Gladiator, and one would be Harrison Ford...

DEADLINE: Blade Runner...

SCOTT: They're superhero movies. So, why don't the superhero movies have better stories? Sorry. I got off the rail, but I mean, c'mon. They're mostly saved by special effects, and that's becoming boring for everyone who works with special effects, if you've got the money.

DEADLINE: Your take on Napoleon?

SCOTT: I narrowed it down to what was so needful of Napoleon to this woman, and what became so needful for this woman to Napoleon Bonaparte. Why this connection? You can't say sex because sex wears out, right? That would be way too simple. By the time he set eyes on her, she was already a courtesan, which means she was definitely a high-end lady in the courts where she was on the lookout for the next guy who had enough money that could cope with her.

But also, she was vulnerable, which was key. She was mid-30s, and she knows beauty doesn't last forever, and she knows she had to find something in her life to give her some kind of sense of permanence. Napoleon is very interesting because we think he might've been, and I don't want to use the word because it sounds too simplistic, but slightly dysfunctional, very lacking in social graces, and it's certainly a bit like one who doesn't think things absolutely through, but just goes for it. Actually, he sounds like me. I just f**king go for it. I don't give a f**k what happens, but he just goes for it, that works. That Napoleon is a very interesting character we're building. In fact, I'm seeing Joaquin in an hour. We're talking about how we dare waltz with an accent, and you can't do that. You've got to find the rhythm. Like, in Gucci you find the Italian rhythm.

DEADLINE: You aren't a stickler for accents...

SCOTT: In The Last Duel, there's no French accent. That would've been a disaster, and yet, it's all French. Who cares? Like, shut the f**k up, then you'll enjoy the movie.

DEADLINE: You continue to line up the directing projects. I'd revealed your Gladiator sequel focusing on Lucius, the young ruler Maximus saved by killing his uncle Commodus. At the time, Peter Craig was on it, but now your Kitbag writer David Scarpa is on it.

SCOTT: Oh, it's been written. It's already been written. We have a good footprint, a good, logical place to go. You can't just do another Gladiator type movie. You've got to follow...there's enough components from the first one to pick up the ball and continue it.

DEADLINE: The last one won Best Picture, one of five Oscars. What is it about that Gladiator world that warrants a return?

SCOTT: First of all, I love doing period films. I love the research. I love to create sort of smells of the period. I think what we did with the first Gladiator...I don't like being critical of other things that have happened before, but I wasn't the biggest fan of Hollywood Roman epics, honestly. They felt artificial and so, when I was asked to consider a script, the script was not very good. But the person who gave it to me said, I want to show you one thing, and he picked up an illustration, this is true, it's called For Those About to Die by Gérôme. He holds it up. It's a picture of this big painting of the Coliseum, and in the corner there is this guy, about to tuna fork this poor bastard. He's got this thing in his neck, and he's looking up for permission to kill. I went, bloody hell, that's never been done properly before. Never. I said, I'll do it. He said you will? I said yes. Did you want to read the script? I said no, and we went off and hit the ground running around the table, and evolved the new material.



DEADLINE: One image?

SCOTT: It's one image that got me. It was the smartest thing to do, for them to show me an image because I'm an image man. I went, yeah, what a good idea. I'll do it. That was it. To be fair to the writer at that moment. There was a lot of work to be done on that script, and we reworked it.

DEADLINE: I recall you telling me of a lunch you had with Clint Eastwood about how much you loved Rawhide. Is a Western on your wish list?

SCOTT: I'd love to do a Western. You know when I mentioned that to Clint, he'd forgotten he'd done f**king Rawhide.

DEADLINE: Really?

SCOTT: I said I watched this show called Rawhide on TV. He said, really? I said, you were in it. He said really? I said yeah, you were playing a guy called Rowdy Yates. He went 'oh, f**k.' Well, that was 60 years ago, man.

DEADLINE: You got a Western in mind?

SCOTT: There's a couple of Westerns that circle the wagons. I think Kevin Costner had the right thing going where he wanted to respect what has happened to the Native American. I'd like to go down that route because the Western should be about the wilderness. I love the wilderness, going that far back. Jeremiah Johnson was another I've watched several times with Bob Redford. That was a story of evolution, how a man comes in to try and make his way in an unforgiving territory, and fundamentally, people who didn't quite understand why they were there. But they weren't bad people. You've got to sort that out. Who did what to who, and it's a massive case of xenophobia, right?

DEADLINE: Is there like a dream project that you are building towards?

SCOTT: No. I haven't seen it yet.

DEADLINE: But it won't be a superhero movie because you've done three of those.

SCOTT: Harrison Ford was one superhero but everyone was confused because he got the shit beaten out of him at the end by the other superhero, who they thought was the bad guy, but turned out to be a good guy. I think that's pretty cool.

DEADLINE: Thanks for being so generous as always, and good luck in this Oscar season with two movies worth boasting about.

SCOTT: Thank you very much. You bring out the worst in me.

DEADLINE: I take that as the highest compliment.

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Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Nov 12, 2021, 05:30:28 PM
DEADLINE: You got a Western in mind?

SCOTT: There's a couple of Westerns that circle the wagons. I think Kevin Costner had the right thing going where he wanted to respect what has happened to the Native American. I'd like to go down that route because the Western should be about the wilderness. I love the wilderness, going that far back. Jeremiah Johnson was another I've watched several times with Bob Redford. That was a story of evolution, how a man comes in to try and make his way in an unforgiving territory, and fundamentally, people who didn't quite understand why they were there. But they weren't bad people. You've got to sort that out. Who did what to who, and it's a massive case of xenophobia, right?

QuoteDEADLINE: Your main gripe about superhero movies?

SCOTT: Their scripts are not any f**king good. I think I've done three great scripted superhero movies. One would be Alien with Sigourney Weaver. One would be f**king Gladiator, and one would be Harrison Ford...

DEADLINE: Blade Runner...

SCOTT: They're superhero movies. So, why don't the superhero movies have better stories? Sorry. I got off the rail, but I mean, c'mon. They're mostly saved by special effects, and that's becoming boring for everyone who works with special effects, if you've got the money.

Quote from: Nightmare Asylum on Nov 15, 2021, 04:24:31 PM
Yep. :-\ Got excited when I saw him trending the last couple days

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Nov 15, 2021, 04:19:00 PM

QuoteDEADLINE: Your main gripe about superhero movies?

SCOTT: Their scripts are not any f**king good. I think I've done three great scripted superhero movies. One would be Alien with Sigourney Weaver. One would be f**king Gladiator, and one would be Harrison Ford...

DEADLINE: Blade Runner...

SCOTT: They're superhero movies. So, why don't the superhero movies have better stories? Sorry. I got off the rail, but I mean, c'mon. They're mostly saved by special effects, and that's becoming boring for everyone who works with special effects, if you've got the money.

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Nov 16, 2021, 04:24:04 PM
Those dodgy Italian accents are so thick, they're gonna hafta provide English subtitles.  :-\

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Nov 16, 2021, 04:24:04 PM
Those dodgy Italian accents are so thick, they're gonna hafta provide English subtitles.  :-\

Quote from: Ingwar on Nov 15, 2021, 03:08:46 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxeQ1GMdOj0&ab_channel=MGM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxeQ1GMdOj0&ab_channel=MGM)

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Nov 18, 2021, 05:36:11 PM
Might be. There was another Ridley Scott movie that Harry Gregson-Williams scored that also had a David Bowie song.

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Nov 18, 2021, 05:36:11 PM
I am also beginning to wonder...

Spoiler

...how exactly Rodolfo died? He was very opposed to Patrizia

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Quote from: Ingwar on Nov 18, 2021, 05:56:22 PM
According to Wikipedia the budget was $75 million.

Quote from: Kradan on Nov 18, 2021, 05:46:41 PM

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Nov 18, 2021, 05:36:11 PM
Might be. There was another Ridley Scott movie that Harry Gregson-Williams scored that also had a David Bowie song.

I don't remember any songs in Prometheus

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Quote from: Ingwar on Nov 18, 2021, 05:56:22 PM
According to Wikipedia the budget was $75 million.

That's actually quite high for this type of film. Consider that The Counselor only cost $25 million and that it also had an absolute killer cast.

Wonder where all the money went? All those Gucci handbags?

Quote from: Ingwar on Nov 18, 2021, 09:24:04 PM
More glamorous locations (The Counsellor looks posh but locations are ordinary in comparison with HoG) + Lady Gaga I think.

Quote from: Local Trouble on Nov 22, 2021, 04:29:44 PM
What is this movie's helmet?

QuoteRidley Scott has a secret weapon as a filmmaker and it probably has a lot to do with his career longevity and versatility. As a young boy, he would draw everything, and to this day he still storyboards every one of his films with his own drawings. That helps him deliver the finished product efficiently, often under schedule and under budget. Marc talks with Ridley about how he worked his craft on films like Blade Runner, Thelma and Louise, Black Hawk Down, Gladiator, American Gangster, and his two most recent films, The Last Duel and House of Gucci.

Quote from: Nightmare Asylum on Nov 22, 2021, 04:35:39 PM

Quote from: Local Trouble on Nov 22, 2021, 04:29:44 PM
What is this movie's helmet?

Jared Leto's makeup/facial prosthetics.

QuoteEverything in "House of Gucci" is over the top. The accents. The performances. The fashion. The settings. The runtime. The music. The greed. This movie knows exactly what it is and, sweetie, it is gloriously decadent, ridiculous fun.

Quote from: Ingwar on Nov 24, 2021, 04:58:20 PM
I'm not surprised at all. Some people just don't get that it's far-fetched satire, campy soap opera and deliberate parody in disguise. It's as "cheap" as fake Gucci products. Ridley is basically taking a mickey out of rotten fashion world.

Quote from: Ingwar on Nov 25, 2021, 08:09:29 AM
That good?

Quote from: Ingwar on Nov 25, 2021, 01:50:04 PM
Good to hear you enjoyed it. Now I'm puzzled because some critics say it's too long, boring, messy (probably plot and editing) and the third act seems very rushed. But then you say it's best editing this year. I cannot wait to see it on Saturday.

Quote from: Ingwar on Nov 25, 2021, 04:53:13 PM
Critics don't like it as much as The Last Duel but at least Gucci is doing much better at the box office than medieval drama. It has grossed an estimated $4.21M in US in two days (Tuesday previews + Wednesday) and is on track to gross $17-20M in the opening weekend.

Quote from: Ingwar on Nov 25, 2021, 05:05:03 PM
I find it ironic that his upcoming Kitbag will be produced by Apple.

Quote from: Ridley ScottToday, I think $400 million is still a heckuva lot of money, but when you look at Jeff Bezos, or Apple, these are two and a half trillion dollar companies. So, it's gone grotesque; it makes no sense whatsoever. They can't measure their genius by that amount of money. It doesn't make sense, right? They found a window with a genius item [holds up his cell phone] and I think the f**ker who made this has f**ked up probably this entire millennium new generation. So, with this, you think you're a f**king genius, right? If I asked a 20-year-old, what's 12 times 12, they can't tell me. They have to get onto the f**king calculator mode on this thing. Maybe this is simplistic, but I am very concerned about the next generation.

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Nov 25, 2021, 04:18:11 PM
NA knows more about films than most professional critics. Not to mention that he actually does editing. I'll take his word over theirs in this case.

Quote from: Kradan on Nov 27, 2021, 08:02:56 PM

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Nov 25, 2021, 04:18:11 PM
NA knows more about films than most professional critics. Not to mention that he actually does editing. I'll take his word over theirs in this case.

Now I'm interested, could you elaborate on that ?

Quote from: Ingwar on Nov 27, 2021, 09:21:05 PM
It was packed.

Quote from: Ridlazz921 on Nov 25, 2021, 08:53:46 AM
I wonder when the HGW Soundtrack will be out.

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Nov 28, 2021, 03:45:16 PM
How was Leto? I have concerns...

QuoteOther scenes in the latter half of the film were shot in late May and early June at the Villa del Balbianello on the shores of Lake Como.

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Feb 03, 2022, 03:56:19 PM
Yeah, although Last Night in Soho only cost $43 million to make, so it's not quite the box office nuke that The Last Duel was.

Last Duel made $30 million on a $100 million budget.

But I don't care about awards, I can like or dislike a film irrelevant of how many Oscars it won. :)

QuoteBEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Coming 2 America (Mike Marino, Stacey Morris and Carla Farmer)
Cruella (Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne and Julia Vernon)
Dune (Donald Mowat, Love Larson and Eva von Bahr)
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh)
House of Gucci (Göran Lundström, Anna Carin Lock and Frederic Aspiras)

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Feb 08, 2022, 08:31:41 PM
Just shows you what a farcical shitshow the Academy awards have become.

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Feb 18, 2022, 06:35:19 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4e57xjAirI