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[Tyler]

Variety (Showblitz; I can't access the full article, or fix the formatting, for some reason):

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Jesse Eisenberg

and

Dakota Fanning

are in talks to star in

Kelly Reichardt’s

indie thriller NIGHT MOVES, which will also star

Peter Sarsgaard.

Written by Reichardt (WENDY AND LUCY), story follows three eco-terrorists who plot to blow up a dam. Eisenberg

will play the ringleader, while Fanning will play a wealthy young girl who funds the plan. Sarsgaard will play the mastermind behind the bomb.

Links to Meek's Cutoff, Wendy and Lucy, Old Joy.

Edited by Tyler, 11 August 2012 - 01:32 PM.

[Timothy Zila]

Wow Doesn't seem like your typical Reichardt film (this from someone who, based on the first viewing alone, considers Wendy and Lucy) one of his favorite films.

Also interestingly similar to Coppola's new film starring Emma Watson. Seems like both directors are branching out a bit, in terms of subject matter.

Although, I have to say the word eco-terrorism here is quite bothersome. The after-taste of agenda is one of Reichardt's greatest weaknesses as a filmmaker - think of all the NPR radio she put into Old Joy for no justifiable reason.

[Peter T Chattaway]

Or the Stryper sticker and cross necklace that adorn the judgmental grocery-store people in Wendy and Lucy.

[Timothy Zila]

Peter T Chattaway, on 11 August 2012 - 08:31 PM, said:

Or the Stryper sticker and cross necklace that adorn the judgmental grocery-store people in Wendy and Lucy.

I didn't catch that. At least it was a moment, and it didn't ruin the film.

The talk radio, on the other hand, had a way of taking over whole portions of Old Joy in a way that seemed egregiously appropriate and out of place.

The way it was presented, the way it was mixed, left you with the definite impression that it was included not because it characterized the main character, but because it helped advance some kind of agenda.

Also of note, I remember seeing (or hearing?) Reichardt make a comment (either in an interview or the beginning of the commentary track for Meek's Cutoff) about the people in the nearest town, who were conservative and Christian. She said they were really nice people. So maybe she's learning?

[Tyler]

Night Moves is the subject of a plagiarism lawsuit.

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in a lawsuit filed Thursday in California federal court, Edward R. Pressman Film demands a halt to work on the film, including production, sales and promotion. The plaintiffs claim that the unproduced work is a blatant rip-off of the popular Edward Abbey novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang, which is about to be turned into an authorized film from the Catfish team of Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman.

[Persona]

Link to Catfish. I never heard how that lawsuit went down, but find it interesting that its makers can't seem to make their way out of the courts.