Francis Ford Coppola’s 'Twixt' with Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern and Elle Fanning
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The first image has been released from Francis Ford Coppola’s upcoming Gothic film Twixt. Rather surprisingly, fans will get their first look at the film at this week’s Comic-Con in San Diego, as Coppola will be bringing the film for a panel in Hall H. The image gives us a look at Coppola and star Elle Fanning on set. Twixt focuses on a hack horror novelist who has ghostly visions that lead him to explore a young girl’s ghostly murder. The film stars Fanning, Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, and Ben Chaplin.
Wow. Old Francis is still doing it. It's interesting that Elle Fanning has worked with Sophia and now Francis. She must have really left an impression. I'll be keeping up with this one.
Francis Ford Coppola Plans 30-City Tour for 3-D Horror 'Twixt'
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Francis Ford Coppola hasn't been to Comic-Con to promote one of his projects since Bram Stoker's Dracula, in 1992. But the helmer took the stage in Hall H again, Saturday morning, to discuss his latest horror pic, Twixt, a self-produced pic that stars Val Kilmer, Ben Chaplin and Elle Fanning, and is a story based on a dream he once had.
In the horror flick, "A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V. He's unsure of her connection to the murder in the town, but is grateful for the story being handed to him. Ultimately he is led to the truth of the story, surprised to find that the ending has more to do with his own life than he could ever have anticipated."
See some choice quotes from Coppola inside, courtesy of Variety.
"I don't like watching 3D with glasses," said Francis Ford Coppola during his presentation for horror pic "Twixt." He admitted to watching "Avatar" much of the time without the 3D glasses, wanting to only put them on when he thought the scenes required to be seen that way.
"I was taken back when all studios said they would make all movies in 3D as if it's the magic fix. No," Coppola said. Instead, technology enables directors to experiment in other ways.
"Films are digital files and if the director wanted to he could change the experience to suit the audience," including the music, which Coppola wants to do for a live audience when he travels the country in October. Coppola essentially wants to rollout the pic as a live concert-like tour in 30 cities, where he alters the music as the film plays on the fly.
In a "dress rehearsal," Coppola used an iPad and computers to demonstrate performance for auds in the 6,000 seat room wearing Edgar Allen Poe masks with built-in 3D glasses. The author appears as a character in the pic, which does not yet have distribution.
"Imagine this for 30 nights," joked the composer after a number of starts and stops.
When a fan asked if Coppola could promise no one would remake "The Godfather," "I was 29 when I made 'The Godfather' and have no legal control over it."
"When they remake old films it's a pity because that money could go into making new films with new stories," Coppola said.
looks interesting, wish Val would become skinny Val again
Strangely it never looks like he's gained much weight, but his face always reflects a much different body then we're seeing. His weight isn't an issue for me, but he always looks run down and tired in just about every role he's done for quite sometime. The last movie he looked good in and seemed to give it his all was 'The Salton Sea' which was a damn good movie, btw.
The Comic-Con panel links I provided are really informative (although the uploader seems to cut some q&a bits out as well as the movie footage). Coppola explains how on the tour there will be different variations of the movie, in which he can edit on-the-fly. It's also hilarious seeing him try to operate the software.
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