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posted 22 years ago by Chaz-38
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Thought we could use a thread where we could post any news/info that we see in the media on TSD :)

The NY Daily News has TSD as one of "the major films opening this season" (in their Fall Preview)

Drama, war, lust & pixie dust

Your guide to the major films opening this season

By JAMI BERNARD, JACK MATHEWS and ELIZABETH WEITZMAN

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THE SINGING DETECTIVE

Opens Oct. 17

Robert Downey Jr. stars as crime novelist Dan Dark in the late Dennis Potter's adaptation of his six-part miniseries, which aired in the U.S. in 1988. Like Potter's earlier BBC series "Pennies From Heaven," which was adapted as a movie by Herb Ross in 1981, "The Singing Detective" often pauses in its drama for some stylized lip-synching to catchy period standards. Keith Gordon directs.

Potter relocated the novelist from London to Chicago where he's bedridden with a debilitating skin disease and passes time fantasizing himself as one of his fictional characters, a detective who moonlights as a band singer.

Mel Gibson, bald and wearing Coke-bottle glasses, plays Dark's shrink. Katie Holmes is his nurse, Adrien Brody is a thug chasing him in his fantasy, and Robin Wright Penn triples up as the women in Dark's real and imaginary lives. The film received mixed reviews at its Sundance premiere, but is still one of the fall's event movies.

J.M

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/story/111332p-100569c.html

[–] Chaz-38 21 years ago

The screening dates/times for TSD at the Toronto Film Festival have been announced.

It can be accessed at the following link at the festivals website (as well as a small write-up on the film and a lil bio of our fav director)

http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/2003/filmsandprogrammes/description.asp?pageID=film&id=279

[–] Chaz-38 21 years ago

MCN has posted some new pics:

http://www.moviecitynews.com/arrays/singing_detective_photo.html

[–] platosdream 21 years ago

Thanks Chaz, those are really great pictures. With every new tidbit, I grow more interested. Katie looks awesome too.

[–] Chaz-38 21 years ago

A RDJ clip (with lil snippets from the movie( from "Extra"

http://demand1.stream.aol.com/ramgen/aol/us/highspeed/extratv/dailynews/robert0909.rm

Thanks to sugarfist from MediaBlvd :)

[–] Chaz-38 21 years ago

A review from "Dark Horizons"

http://www.darkhorizons.com/reviews/t030912a.htm

[–] webrageous 21 years ago

Singing Detective: Pics & Preview
A look at Downey Jr., Katie Holmes, Mel Gibson and more.

September 15, 2003 - The trailer for Paramount Classics' The Singing Detective has just been released online over at IFILM. In case you missed our exclusive first look at the film's poster, check it out. You can also scroll down and check out some stills from the flick...

The Singing Detective, a big-screen remake of Dennis Potter's hit BBC mini-series, Robert Downey Jr. plays Dan Dark, a crime novelist who is bedridden with a grotesque skin ailment. Dan occupies his time by mapping out a screenplay in his head about a cynical private investigator who doubles as a singer in a dance band. His lead is slowly drawn into a web of intrigue during the murder investigation of a prostitute in 1950's Los Angeles. Heavily medicated, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur for Dan. The plot is gradually interwoven with his own painful childhood memories and soon he is living in a fevered film-noir hell of his own construction, where everyone is out to get him and no one can be trusted.

Mel Gibson plays Dark's hospital psychiatrist Dr. Gibbon. Robin Wright Penn, Jeremy Northam, Katie Holmes, Carla Gugino, and Adrien Brody also star.

Keith Gordon (Waking the Dead, A Midnight Clear) directed the film. Potter personally adapted the mini-series into a proper feature-length screenplay. Of his intentions with the film, Potter says, "I wanted to make an odyssey in which a man in extreme pain and anguish tries to assemble the bits of his life."

Fans of the original BBC mini might be wondering why they'd even bother remaking it as a theatrical feature. Helmer Gordon explains, "The biggest danger in the world is remaking something just to remake it. Potter found new thematic things to explore by changing where the story was set and how it was told. He re-conceptualized his own work."

The MPAA has given the film an "R" rating for strong sexual content, language and some violence. The Singing Detective debuts in theaters on October 24th.

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/438/438317p1.html?fromint=1