Tuesday, November 22, 2011 3:00PM - By Damon Houx
The sex lives and interactions of Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) seems a ripe topic for David Cronenberg. It sets expectations that A Dangerous Method cannot meet. His film – adapted from the play by Christopher Hampton – rarely goes for some of the beautiful discomfort that one would expect from the old genre master. Instead you got a modestly engaging piece about how both lives were changed by the work of Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), a patient turned psychologist and not-so-secret lover of Jung.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011 1:22PM - By Damon Houx
One of the great modern working relationships is Viggo Mortensen and David Cronenberg. A Dangerous Method is their third film together, and while Eastern Promises was solid but minor Cronenberg, this looks like the master in full-on kink mode. Mortensen plays Freud, while Michael Fassbender plays Carl Jung, who obviously gets in over his head with paitent Keira Knightley. Check out the trailer…
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Monday, March 28, 2011 10:59AM - By Damon Houx
Over the course of Hollywood history, we’ve seen a number of competing, similarly themed projects, be it about disaster, asteroids, or going to mars. Right now there are at two competing Snow White projects in the work (thank the billion dollars made by Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland). Viggo Mortensen was in talks to play the Huntsman for the version called Snow White and the Huntsman, but he’s dropped out, while Armie Hammer has now signed on for The Brothers Grimm: Snow White.
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Thursday, January 27, 2011 8:30AM - By Krystal Clark
We just reported that Kristen Stewart was in the running to play Snow White in the upcoming adaptation Snow White and the Huntsman. Now, according to Variety, the second part of the duo has been revealed as Viggo Mortensen. The trade claims that he’s currently in talks to play the male lead.
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010 11:36AM - By Krystal Clark
Ever since it was announced that Ron Howard would direct the big screen adaptation of The Dark Tower, fans of the books have been voicing their opinions about who should play the lead character. If you’re one of them, don’t worry because Howard has heard your cries and he’s taking them into consideration. According to the LA Times, a few names have come to his attention, one of them being Viggo Mortensen.
The protagonist in the series is Roland Deschain, and he’s a lean, mean, gunslinging machine who would be the perfect fit for Mortensen. Howard himself even admitted to reading the various websites devoted to the books and he’s seen his fair share of Mortensen campaigning. Even though Daniel Craig, Jon Hamm, and Hugh Jackman have been mentioned, Howard claims that on all the sites he’s visited “they’re all about Viggo.”
There’s something about the character and The Dark Tower world that drew Howard to the property.
“It’s one of the things that really fascinated me about the challenge. We love Roland the Gunslinger but we also like coming back to these worlds and these places. On one hand it is grounded and relatable but on the other hand it’s scary and strange and mind-blowing. There’s this dream quality to it and the mystery in that is what it’s all about – being compelled forward without all the answers.”
Howard has big plans for the series which includes a film trilogy and a television series that bridges the gap between theatrical releases. A September 2013 release date has been set for the first film and with 2011 literally a couple weeks away we’re wondering when he plans on buckling down and hiring an actor?
Who do you think should play Roland?
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 9:40AM - By Krystal Clark
A trio of photos have appeared online from David Cronenberg’s latest film, A Dangerous Method. They feature its talented cast which includes Viggo Mortensen, Keira Knightley, and Michael Fassbender. As you can tell it’s a period piece due to the wardrobe and the fact that Knightley is in it. Aren’t 90 percent of her movies period pieces? Check out the photos below…
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Saturday, March 27, 2010 7:54PM - By Laura Aguirre
Viggo Mortensen and David Cronenberg are doing it again, and this time it comes in 2s. The dynamic duo who brought you A History of Violence and Eastern Promises are getting together for a sequel and a Sigmund Freud biopic. Continue Reading
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 12:00PM - By Krystal Clark
This past Sunday, Christoph Waltz walked away with a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as a Jew-hating Nazi in Inglourious Basterds. According to Deadline Hollywood he’s decided to leave a promising role in an upcoming film that would have had him playing one of the most influential Jewish men in history, Sigmund Freud.
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Monday, October 19, 2009 8:19AM - By Mali Elfman
The main subject of The Road press conference at The London Film Festival was that everyone from the writer and director to the grips and the make-up team, all stayed true to the book. With a copy of Cormac McCarthy’s novel in their back pockets, director John Hillcoat, screenwriter Joe Penhall, and the star of the film Viggo Mortensen all gave themselves to the honesty and the truth of McCarthy’s dark and dreary world.
With no intentions of changing anything, Penhall spoke about how he did his best to simply rewrite the novel into a different format, Hillcoat placed his crew in situations that were not unlike the book in order to make it feel as real as possible, and Viggo, being the ever intense actor that he is, had to open up to the vulnerability, fear, and danger of living in post-apocalyptic world where man and nature are no longer wanted.
Here’s what they had to say below….
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