Charlie Kaufman

MTV Movies Blog Just another WordPress site Jack Black Sings Praises Of Charlie Kaufman's 'Frank Or Francis' Apr 26th 2012, 20:16 When we think of actors most likely to be in a musical, Jack Black, Steve Carell, Nicholas Cage, Kevin Kline and Elizabeth Banks don't initially come to mind, but a musical is exactly the project they've all signed on for. Charlie Kaufman's new comedy "Frank or Francis" is a satire of Hollywood that follows a rivalry between director Frank (Carell...Read Full Story

Charlie Kaufman may not be the obvious choice to adapt a young adult trilogy being tipped as the basis for the next Hunger Games, but he is certainly a disquieting one. The maverick screenwriter and director, whose previous work includes transforming the non-fiction book The Orchid Thief into the mind-bending, Oscar-nominated Adaptation, has been hired by a Hollywood studio to take on the first book in Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking trilogy. Lions gate, which owns rights to both the Twilight...Read Full Story

Lionsgate has announced, through Deadline , plans to adapt the Patrick Ness Chaos Walking trilogy of novels for the screen. What’s more, they’ve attached screenwriting auteur Charlie Kaufman ( Being John Malkovich , Adaptation ) to provide the screenplay for the first book, The Knife of Never Letting Go . Released in 2008, that book is officially described as follows: Todd Hewitt is the last boy in Prentisstown. But Prentisstown isn’t like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else’s...Read Full Story

rrhobbs: #indieWIRE #news: Charlie Kaufman Working on an HBO Series to Star Catherine Keener: How amazing does this sound... http://t.co/OjgRQMW3Read Full Story

Director: Charlie Kaufman, 2008. (R)Kaufman's directorial debut is a challenging film that will leave some viewers scratching their heads and wondering what the point was. Others will see a deep exploration of life and death from a unique perspective; it is not a superficial film, although the surface is at times bizarre. A few will list it as one of their favorite films; critic Roger Ebert named it the best film of the 2000s. I found it intriguing if overlong, but not interesting enough to...Read Full Story

Described as a musical satire that takes on Hollywood, Charlie Kaufman (Synecdoche, New York) has been casting a whole bunch of actors for his latest film Frank or Francis.  The latest to join are Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Banks and Catherine Keener.  Other actors already signed include Steve Carell, Jack Black, Nicolas Cage and Kevin Kline. Here’s a quick take on Frank or Francis: The story centers on a contentious dispute between Frank, an intellectual film director (Carell) and Francis, an...Read Full Story

By Sean O’Connell Hollywoodnews.com: Elizabeth Banks hasn’t been busier. Her latest movie, “Man On a Ledge,” just opened. She has “The Hunger Games” on the horizon. And she continues to add extremely engaging projects to her acting radar.The blonde beauty has joined the cast of one of our most-anticipated films, “Frank or Francis,” from the twisted mind of Charlie Kaufman. The writer of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and “Being John Malkovich” has penned a musical satire about...Read Full Story

synecdoche [sih-NECK-doh-kee], noun. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole, as in the screen for movies. From Charlie Kaufman, perhaps the most distinctive screenwriting voice of our generation, comes a visual and philosophic adventure of epic proportions. Much as he did with his groundbreaking scripts for Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Kaufman twists and subverts the form and language of film as he delves into the mind of a man...Read Full Story

I know how to do it now. There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They’re all the leads of their own stories. They have to be given their due. – Caden Cotard Charlie Kaufman’s indecipherable directional debut, Synecdoche, New York has been discussed, examined and picked apart since it came out in 2008. I knew the bare essentials about the plot before watching one frame of the movie. I wanted to love this movie. I wanted to like the movie. I...Read Full Story

So we've had Shane Black's shoe box, David Lynch's sugar rushes, and Paul Schrader's charts. All interesting approaches to writing a script. But perhaps none as personal and iconoclastic as Charlie KaufmanHere are excerpts from three interviews available online. The first is from Indie Wire in 1999 regarding the release of the movie Being John Malkovich:Q: How much research do you do, for example into characters, before jumping into the actual script?Kaufman: I think about things for a long...Read Full Story