Salma Hayek, Owen Wilson to star in Amazon’s Sci-Fi Drama ‘Bliss’

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Source Variety

Salma Hayek and Owen Wilson have signed on to star in Amazon’s science-fiction drama “Bliss,” with Mike Cahill directing from his own script.

Wilson portrays a recently divorced man whose life is falling apart when he meets Hayek’s character, a woman who lives on the streets and is convinced that the polluted, broken world around them is not real. She believes they are living in an ugly, harsh simulated world inside of the beautiful, peaceful “real” world of bliss.

Endgame Entertainment’s James D. Stern is producing, with the company’s Lucas Smith serving as executive producer. Marsha Swinton will also executive produce. Production began this week in Los Angeles.

Cahill directed “Another Earth” and “I Origins,” which were released by Fox Searchlight. Both films won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the Sundance Film Festival where they premiered.


Hayek will next star alongside Tiffany Haddish and Rose Byrne in Paramount’s comedy “Limited Partners,” which will be released in January. She most recently appeared in “The Hummingbird Project” alongside Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgård, as well as 2017’s “Beatriz at Dinner.”

Wilson most recently starred in “Wonder,” with Julia Roberts and Jacob Tremblay, and “Father Figures,” which also starred Ed Helms, Christopher Walken, J.K. Simmons, and Glenn Close.

[Socko]

Sci-fi Salma! I’m game for that.

[puddy77]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHtP...ature=youtu.be

[Rodney-2187]

Looks interesting. I'll check it out.

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[Foggy]

Ah finally, that cross between Total Recall and Click I never knew I never wanted.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3kysiMPAGs

[Canada]

Nick Allen's review for rogerebert.com

[y2jman]

I watched it last night pretty good

[mastadge]

Well that was terrible. It's just a hot mess of ideas without characters or relationships or motivations to carry them. Some of the ideas are fine, but the filmmakers don't seem to know what to do with them, or how to put them together, and in the end it all just feels empty. Like there and complicated or mind-bendy movies that have heft, where the high concept is in service to theme or character, and then there's this, where it just feels like it was just layers piled on top of each other just for the sake of having more layers. The actors work valiantly to sell it but there's just not much there there for them to sell.