Elle Fanning to star in 'Galveston'
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jamiedaborn-68870 — 9 years ago(November 02, 2016 06:23 PM)
Elle's next two projects after The Beguiled are completely different but are superb choices that will increase her range as an actress. I Think We're Alone Now is a comedy where she can play light while Galveston seems like it will be a hard hitting drama the like of which we are used to from the creator of True Detective. This will shoot first maybe it is better if ITWAN comes after as a comedy maybe a good way for Elle to decompress after shooting this film. Also Ben Foster was very good as the hot headed brother in Hell or High Water so I hope he brings the same intensity to this project.
Finally the synopsis for the book is slightly different from the logline THR gives.
Roy Cady is by his own admission 'a bad man'. With a snow flurry of cancer in his lungs and no one to live for, he's a walking time-bomb of violence. Following a fling with his boss's lover, he's sent on a routine assignment he knows is a death trap. Yet after a smoking spasm of violence, Roy's would-be killers are mostly dead and he is mostly alive.
Before Roy makes his getaway, he finds a beaten-up woman in the apartment, and sees something in her frightened, defiant eyes that causes a crucial decision. He takes her with him on the run from New Orleans to Galveston, Texas, permanently entwining their fate along a highway of seedy bars and fleabag hotels, a world of treacherous drifters, pick-up trucks, and ashed-out hopes, with death just a car-length behind. -
pmfg_pan — 9 years ago(November 13, 2016 09:19 AM)
The film is about New Orleans hitman Roy Cady, diagnosed with lung cancer at 40. Before the cancer can do him in, however, he has more pressing concerns in the form of his mobster boss, who has decided to remove him from the business - and the world - via a set-up. Turning the tables, he goes on the run having rescued teenage hooker Raquel "Rocky" Arceneaux. He's persuaded to pick up her baby sister Tiffany, and with his new wards in tow, heads to his titular hometown to scheme revenge and redemption.
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pmfg_pan — 9 years ago(February 02, 2017 09:51 AM)
Adapted by Nic Pizzolatto (creator of HBOs
True Detective
) from his best-selling novel, Galveston is a gripping human thriller fuelled by hair-trigger tension.
Debt Collector and sometime-killer Roy (Ben Foster) senses that his boss, a dangerous, violent and pitiless loan-shark, wants him dead, and his next routine assignment is indeed a death-trap. Yet what the would-be killers do to Roy is not the same as what he does to themafter a smoking spasm of violence, they are mostly dead and he is just about alive. Before making his getaway, Roy discovers young prostitute Rocky (Elle Fanning) hiding in the back room, and he sees something in her frightened, defiant eyes that prompts a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he flees New Orleans to Galvestonan action as ill-advised as it is inescapable. Rocky is too young, too tough, too sexy and far too much trouble, especially when she makes a detour to liberate her 3 year old sister from the clutches of their seedy step-father. Like the smoke dancing upwards from a barrel of a gun, theres no way things are going to end well.
This fragile trio hides in the battered seascape of Galvestons country-western bars and fleabag motels, a world of treacherous drifters, rusting pickup trucks, and worn-out dreams. Any chance of a safe haven is soon lost. Rocky is a girl with secrets to hide, one that will pursue and damage Roy for a very long time to come in this powerful and atmospheric film noir.
Mlanie Laurent directs this incandescent vision of lost souls and redemption. Beautiful in its honesty;
Galveston
is an elegy to the broken and the damned.
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pmfg_pan — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 12:17 PM)
I am about a third of the way through. I am enjoying it so far it is a little slow and is set in 2 time periods which took me a little while to recognise but it is good.
Does Elle have a meaty role in this? -
jamiedaborn-68870 — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 03:45 PM)
The book is told from Roy's point of view and Roxy is the deuteragonist. In the book Roy, Roxy and Tiffany her sister have crossed over into Texas and are staying in a flea bag motel. The scene where Roxy tells Roy what happened when she rescues Tiffany from her step father is probably her biggest one yet but the story is only really developing.