Willem Dafoe

The Idiot Savant asks Marie, "Am I no longer capable of saving us from magic words?" In turn, she asks him, "What makes chosen words — magic?" And they're off and running, in the surreal immersion that is Richard Foreman's "Idiot Savant," an absurdist comedy premiering at the Public Theater. Foreman wrote, directed and designed this play, which, like most of his work, has no conventional narrative. Events unfold in a dreamlike, disjointed fashion, taking any number of departures from reality. Willem Dafoe is fascinating as the Idiot Savant. Dressed in Samurai-inspired skirts, paired with gartered white hose, his hair pulled into a defiant ... Read Full Story

Lionsgate has released this cool new poster for the upcoming vampire thriller, Daybreakers , starring Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe. Two-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world’s population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race. Watch the Trailer here. Tags: Daybreakers , Daybreakers Film , Daybreakers Movie Trailer , ... Read Full Story

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment released on the 1999 film The Boondock Saints on high-definition Blu-ray February 10th. Written and Directed by Troy Duffy, the movie is a graphic and action-packed story about an FBI agent, Paul Smecker (Willem Dafoe), a pair of Irish brothers (Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus), the mob, and vigilante justice. Connor McManus (Flanery) and Murphy McManus (Reedus) are out to rid the world of evil - at least evil based on their own awkward moral judment, beginning with the Russian mob. However, as the brothers take on Boston's underworld, they must also outmaneuver the odd FBI man, Smecker. ... Read Full Story

We have been keeping our eye on Disney’s production of John Carter of Mars , their adaptation of the classic novel from Edgar Rice Burroughs. Now there has been 2 more gentlemen cast in the film and that is Sherlock Holmes ‘ villain, Mark Strong and Solomon Kane ’s, James Purefoy. They have both joined the cast of the Andrew Stanton directed feature. Created by Burroughs, John Carter first appeared in 1911’s A Princess of Mars , the first Burroughs novel set on the fictionalized version of Mars. Carter encounters both formidable alien creatures resembling the beasts of ancient myth and various humanoids and ... Read Full Story

Willem Dafoe has revealed that he was nearly cast as Batman. But not THAT Batman, Michael Keaton’s Batman way back in 1989. Yep, back when Tim Burton was looking for his Batman, Dafoe’s name was considered. Take a read of what Dafoe had to say about it… “Very early, they talked to me about playing Batman. I hate to [...] Read Full Story