Green Book (2018)

[Darth Marcus]

Source: Deadline

Universal Dates ‘Green Book’, Shifting ‘Welcome To Marwen’ To December
by Patrick Hipes - June 25, 2018 6:03pm

Universal has set a November 21 release date for Green Book, the Participant/DreamWorks road trip movie starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali and directed by Peter Farrelly. The studio’s Steve Carell-starrer Welcome to Marwen, which had been on that date, now moves to December 21, the Friday before Christmas.

In the true story Green Book, Mortensen plays Tony Lip, an Italian-American bouncer with a seventh-grade education who is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Ali), a world-class pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South in 1962. They must rely on the “Negro Motorist Green Book” to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African Americans on the Mason-Dixon line. Linda Cardellini co-stars.

The studio dropped the trailer for the Robert Zemeckis-directed Welcome to Marwen last week. Based on the 2010 documentary Marwencol, it centers on Mark Hogancamp (Carell), who survives a vicious assault by a group of “Nazi thugs” that wipes away all of his memories and leaves him physically shattered. Instead of giving up, he put together pieces from his old and new life and meticulously creates a wondrous town where he can heal and be heroic.

Leslie Mann, Diane Kruger, Falk Hentschel and Janelle Monae co star in Imagemovers film presented by Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures.

Green Book will open the day before Thanksgiving, a huge date for movies with the opening of big-time franchise properties Creed II and Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 as well as Otto Bathurst’s iteration of Robin Hood with Taron Egerton and Jamie Foxx and the Jennifer Lopez rom-com Second Act.

Welcome to Marwen will be in the company box office draws on Dec. 21 including Robert Rodriguez’s Alita: Battle Angel, DC’s Aquaman, the Transformers spinoff Bumblebee, and Holmes and Watson, the comedic take of Sherlock Holmes starring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly.

[Foggy]

*Reads Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali

Sweet!

*Directed by Peter Farrelly

[DenOfEarth]

Sounds interesting

[sandman slim]

Originally Posted by Foggy

*Reads Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali

Sweet!

*Directed by Peter Farrelly

Pretty much my exact reaction. "Oh cool, that sounds aweso-- ah, nevermind..."

[Hoke Moseley]

Sounds great!

Hopefully a return to form for Farrelly (who has co-directed some of the best comedies ever).

[DenOfEarth]

Originally Posted by Hoke Moseley

Sounds great!

Hopefully a return to form for Farrelly (who has co-directed some of the best comedies ever).

Hopefully be as delightful as Dumb and Dumber or Kingpin or There's Something about Mary and not like crap like Dumb and Dumber to.

[Creed]

[pikeman1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkZxoko_HC0

[Foggy]

Performances look strong, the film seems a little hallmarks-y, but it look entertaining and well-written enough. Farrelly seems to have done well.

[sandman slim]

So... Driving Mr. Daisy?

[Hoke Moseley]

Looks goofy but fun.

Will watch it for Viggo and Mahershala.

[Cremildo]

The movie won the People's Choice Award in Toronto.

Which means it's very likely this is gonna be a Best Picture Oscar nominee.

[imsounoriginal]

Never heard of this til I read about it winning the Audience Award, but those two actors have me sold. And yes, Audience Award = legitimate Best Picture contender. Seemingly out of nowhere, considering the names that have been talked about up through this point.

[Lord Method Man]

Are those faces shooped in? That poster looks horrible.

[imsounoriginal]

TBH the poster looks pretty good by modern standards. Everything these days is Photoshopped but at least this isn't some over-crowded disaster.

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by Cremildo

The movie won the People's Choice Award in Toronto.

Which means it's very likely this is gonna be a Best Picture Oscar nominee.

Yeah, sounds like the one that seems to come out of nowhere.

[Lord Method Man]

Originally Posted by imsounoriginal

TBH the poster looks pretty good by modern standards. Everything these days is Photoshopped but at least this isn't some over-crowded disaster.

Something just isn't right. Mahershala Ali's face looks like Bruce Lee from Game of Death.

[Rodney-2187]

This looks really great.

[Chaotic]

I wonder if the controversy with Viggo will hurt this.

[Jennifer Lawrence Fan]

Originally Posted by Chaotic

I wonder if the controversy with Viggo will hurt this.

Cause he said the N word during a Q&A for the film?