What just happened will be opening in Theaters. Bruce Willis is Fat! He has a Beard.
Yet another take I dont agree with at all. But I am Biased.
Bruce Willis's Directorial Debut Shooting in October
September 23, 2008
by Alex Billington
Bruce Willis will be making his directorial debut on an indie film titled Three Stories About Joan. The psychological drama follows a young woman at three points in her life and the family tragedies that cause her to lose her grip on reality. Apparently the story involves her "faith in a love borne out of need, destroyed by a madness, and restored by a ghost." A ghost? Yes indeed. Willis has cast the lovely Camilla Belle as the lead in the film and will also star as her father. Shooting will start in early October in Shreveport, Louisiana under the production of Willis Brothers Films, which as you can assume, is the company run by Bruce and his two brother David. The budget is expected to between $10 and $25 million.
The screenplay for Three Stories About Joan was written by newcomers Christopher Alexander and Sam Applebaum. In addition to Belle and Willis, both Owen Wilson and Kieran Culkin will star in the film as well. It sounds like too much of a quirky story to actually turn out any good, but I don't know enough about all the details to really say. I'm more concerned about Willis' directing abilities than I am about the script. I'm sure this is going to be a big festival film next year, but I'm already worried that Willis won't be as good at directing as he is at acting. For some odd reason he doesn't feel like the kind of guy who knows how to work great behind-the-scenes, but then again, I haven't ever met him. I surely hope I'm wrong!
September 23, 2008
by Alex Billington
Bruce Willis will be making his directorial debut on an indie film titled Three Stories About Joan. The psychological drama follows a young woman at three points in her life and the family tragedies that cause her to lose her grip on reality. Apparently the story involves her "faith in a love borne out of need, destroyed by a madness, and restored by a ghost." A ghost? Yes indeed. Willis has cast the lovely Camilla Belle as the lead in the film and will also star as her father. Shooting will start in early October in Shreveport, Louisiana under the production of Willis Brothers Films, which as you can assume, is the company run by Bruce and his two brother David. The budget is expected to between $10 and $25 million.
The screenplay for Three Stories About Joan was written by newcomers Christopher Alexander and Sam Applebaum. In addition to Belle and Willis, both Owen Wilson and Kieran Culkin will star in the film as well. It sounds like too much of a quirky story to actually turn out any good, but I don't know enough about all the details to really say. I'm more concerned about Willis' directing abilities than I am about the script. I'm sure this is going to be a big festival film next year, but I'm already worried that Willis won't be as good at directing as he is at acting. For some odd reason he doesn't feel like the kind of guy who knows how to work great behind-the-scenes, but then again, I haven't ever met him. I surely hope I'm wrong!
Another Take on Bruce the Director
This news is exciting. Bruce has an amazing mind for conceptual things. This will be an awesome project to showcase that.
Bruce Willis Adds Hyphen, Now Actor-Director
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 10:01AM
Bruce Willis has been a movie star for 20 years or so and in that time, he's never stepped behind the camera. That's about to change with Three Stories about Joan.
According to the Shreveport Times (via Cinema Blend), Willis will direct Three Stories and co-star with Owen Wilson and Kieran Culkin. It's a psychological thriller written by Sam Appelbaum and Chris Alexander, and it will be shot in Louisiana, where every fourth movie is being made these days, or so it seems.
Here's the official thumbnail sketch of the movie, from AFM:
"At age seventeen, Joan loses her virginity. At age 21, she loses her virtue. At age 25, she loses her vices. Or did she lose nothing .... but her mind?
Three Stories About Joan interweaves the three phases of a young woman's struggle to retain her faith in a love borne out of need, destroyed by a madness, and restored by a ghost."
Willis has been down the psych-thrilla road, before, and Wilson technically has, too, with the awful The Haunting remake, but not so much since he's been able to choose roles. The linchpin, in my mind, is Kieran Culkin. If he's on his game, a la Igby Goes Down, take cover. That guy can be tremendous.
The movie is scheduled for a five week production in Shreveport, home of the Centenary Fightin' Centenarians, beginning on October 2nd.
Bruce Willis Adds Hyphen, Now Actor-Director
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 10:01AM
Bruce Willis has been a movie star for 20 years or so and in that time, he's never stepped behind the camera. That's about to change with Three Stories about Joan.
According to the Shreveport Times (via Cinema Blend), Willis will direct Three Stories and co-star with Owen Wilson and Kieran Culkin. It's a psychological thriller written by Sam Appelbaum and Chris Alexander, and it will be shot in Louisiana, where every fourth movie is being made these days, or so it seems.
Here's the official thumbnail sketch of the movie, from AFM:
"At age seventeen, Joan loses her virginity. At age 21, she loses her virtue. At age 25, she loses her vices. Or did she lose nothing .... but her mind?
Three Stories About Joan interweaves the three phases of a young woman's struggle to retain her faith in a love borne out of need, destroyed by a madness, and restored by a ghost."
Willis has been down the psych-thrilla road, before, and Wilson technically has, too, with the awful The Haunting remake, but not so much since he's been able to choose roles. The linchpin, in my mind, is Kieran Culkin. If he's on his game, a la Igby Goes Down, take cover. That guy can be tremendous.
The movie is scheduled for a five week production in Shreveport, home of the Centenary Fightin' Centenarians, beginning on October 2nd.
Bruce Willis the Director
This ones for you Linni. Linn and I were talking about this this morning. So here is my Blog update. Bruce Willis has done about everything else in Movies, why not Direct. He appears to be going in with his Brother David Willis, who has has been Producing since about 1990. This will be an exciting developement.
Bruce Willis to make movie in Shreveport
By Alexandyr Kent • akent@gannett.com • September 12, 2008
Buzz up! Bruce Willis, Owen Wilson and Kieran Culkin will star in “Three Stories about Joan.”
Willis also will direct the psychological thriller that will shoot in Shreveport
from Oct. 2 through Nov. 10, according to the Louisiana Office of Entertainment Industry Development.
Willis, an iconic action hero best known for playing John McClane in the “Die Hard” franchise, counts dozens of films among his credits. Enduring titles include “Armageddon,” “The Sixth Sense,” “The Fifth Element” and “Pulp Fiction.”
Wilson has made his mark in contemporary comedy in hits like “Wedding Crashers,” “Meet the Parents” and “The Royal Tenenbaums,” for which he shared an Oscar nomination with director Wes Anderson for best original screenplay.
Culkin’s screen credits include “Igby Goes Down” and “The Cider House Rules,” plus the “Home Alone” and “Father of the Bride” franchises. He’s brother of erstwhile child star Macaulay Culkin.
Another Article here:
BRUCE WILLIS
By Russ Fischer Published 09/16/2008 News
I'm not sure how it's taken so long for people to pick up on this story, because looking around now there's definitely some info that's been floating for a month or two. Our bad.
Why has this taken so long? You stick around in today's Hollywood long enough and you're bound to direct a vanity project or two. (And I guess if The Return of Bruno isn't a vanity project, nothing is.) I suspect that part of the reason Willis hasn't directed yet is -- and this is going to sound mean, but that's not the intent -- that he doesn't come off as the most...acute...guy on the planet. Other talents and skills, the guy's definitely got. But in interviews he's never displayed that particular sense of perception that makes a career director. Granted, he does display a singular ability to believe exactly what he wants to believe, which is a key component of a certain sort of filmmaker.
Regardless, the Shreveport Times reports that Willis is directing a flick in...you can probably guess this...Shreveport, LA. He's starring in the film, called Three Stories About Joan, with Owen Wilson and Kieran Culkin. The Louisiana Office of Entertainment Industry Development says the project will shoot in town from October 3 to November 10, perhaps a fairly whirlwind schedule if the film is primarily location-based, perhaps not if interiors are being built in a studio somewhere.
Nary an additional detail is to be had in the paper's article. No plot, no writer, no financiers, nuttin. They don't care about that shite.
But Three Stories About Joan was written by Sam Applebaum and Chris Alexander, and picked up by Willis's company only late this summer. The American Film Market's Film Catalogue provides a synopsis in addition to mentioning a $10-25m budget and produers Moshe Diamant, David Willis, Bruce Willis and Mark Damon working through Foresight Unlimited. Notably, no one mentions yet who might be playing Joan. (But YouTube has a couple amusing audition tapes.) Ze synopsis:
At age seventeen, JOAN loses her virginity.
At age 21, she loses her virtue.
At age 25, she loses her vices.
Or did she lose nothing .... but her mind?
THREE STORIES ABOUT JOAN interweaves the three phases of a young womans struggle to retain her faith in a love borne out of need, destroyed by a madness, and restored by a ghost. Bruce Willis character is the center of Joans life. He is egocentric, paranoid, tender, and brutal and madly in love with the Joan he wants her to be.
He is also her father. THREE STORIES ABOUT JOAN is a tautly structured fable that weaves in the surreal with the real, the supernatural with the unnatural, and the triumph of young love in all its exhaltation, and its desperation. And it is brilliant in its deception, as nothing ever is what it appears to be.
This will be Very Exciting to see this one! I know it will be probably 6 Months to a year before we see it probably, It will feel like forever!
Bruce Willis to make movie in Shreveport
By Alexandyr Kent • akent@gannett.com • September 12, 2008
Buzz up! Bruce Willis, Owen Wilson and Kieran Culkin will star in “Three Stories about Joan.”
Willis also will direct the psychological thriller that will shoot in Shreveport
from Oct. 2 through Nov. 10, according to the Louisiana Office of Entertainment Industry Development.
Willis, an iconic action hero best known for playing John McClane in the “Die Hard” franchise, counts dozens of films among his credits. Enduring titles include “Armageddon,” “The Sixth Sense,” “The Fifth Element” and “Pulp Fiction.”
Wilson has made his mark in contemporary comedy in hits like “Wedding Crashers,” “Meet the Parents” and “The Royal Tenenbaums,” for which he shared an Oscar nomination with director Wes Anderson for best original screenplay.
Culkin’s screen credits include “Igby Goes Down” and “The Cider House Rules,” plus the “Home Alone” and “Father of the Bride” franchises. He’s brother of erstwhile child star Macaulay Culkin.
Another Article here:
BRUCE WILLIS
By Russ Fischer Published 09/16/2008 News
I'm not sure how it's taken so long for people to pick up on this story, because looking around now there's definitely some info that's been floating for a month or two. Our bad.
Why has this taken so long? You stick around in today's Hollywood long enough and you're bound to direct a vanity project or two. (And I guess if The Return of Bruno isn't a vanity project, nothing is.) I suspect that part of the reason Willis hasn't directed yet is -- and this is going to sound mean, but that's not the intent -- that he doesn't come off as the most...acute...guy on the planet. Other talents and skills, the guy's definitely got. But in interviews he's never displayed that particular sense of perception that makes a career director. Granted, he does display a singular ability to believe exactly what he wants to believe, which is a key component of a certain sort of filmmaker.
Regardless, the Shreveport Times reports that Willis is directing a flick in...you can probably guess this...Shreveport, LA. He's starring in the film, called Three Stories About Joan, with Owen Wilson and Kieran Culkin. The Louisiana Office of Entertainment Industry Development says the project will shoot in town from October 3 to November 10, perhaps a fairly whirlwind schedule if the film is primarily location-based, perhaps not if interiors are being built in a studio somewhere.
Nary an additional detail is to be had in the paper's article. No plot, no writer, no financiers, nuttin. They don't care about that shite.
But Three Stories About Joan was written by Sam Applebaum and Chris Alexander, and picked up by Willis's company only late this summer. The American Film Market's Film Catalogue provides a synopsis in addition to mentioning a $10-25m budget and produers Moshe Diamant, David Willis, Bruce Willis and Mark Damon working through Foresight Unlimited. Notably, no one mentions yet who might be playing Joan. (But YouTube has a couple amusing audition tapes.) Ze synopsis:
At age seventeen, JOAN loses her virginity.
At age 21, she loses her virtue.
At age 25, she loses her vices.
Or did she lose nothing .... but her mind?
THREE STORIES ABOUT JOAN interweaves the three phases of a young womans struggle to retain her faith in a love borne out of need, destroyed by a madness, and restored by a ghost. Bruce Willis character is the center of Joans life. He is egocentric, paranoid, tender, and brutal and madly in love with the Joan he wants her to be.
He is also her father. THREE STORIES ABOUT JOAN is a tautly structured fable that weaves in the surreal with the real, the supernatural with the unnatural, and the triumph of young love in all its exhaltation, and its desperation. And it is brilliant in its deception, as nothing ever is what it appears to be.
This will be Very Exciting to see this one! I know it will be probably 6 Months to a year before we see it probably, It will feel like forever!
Wanna see politics in action?
If someone came to you with a Multi Million dollar gift, wouldnt you just take it? These people seem lost in what they should do. Well not really lost, just opposed to doing the smart thing. Its all about posturing. They arent confused at what to do, they are pissed Bruce makes perfect sense and the elitists(pretending its someone elses decision)of Blaine County certainly don't want Camas County to have their coveted airport.
Bruce Willis: here is a gift from me to you, 2000 acres of land for free, perfectly situated for an Airport to go right in. Free! You can stop raising money for land for your new Airport.
Friedman Memorial Airport Authority: Is it in Blaine County? Because if it isn't, screw the tax payers! We have an agenda here.
Bruce Willis offers land for new airport from Gary Stivers on Vimeo.
Bruce Willis: here is a gift from me to you, 2000 acres of land for free, perfectly situated for an Airport to go right in. Free! You can stop raising money for land for your new Airport.
Friedman Memorial Airport Authority: Is it in Blaine County? Because if it isn't, screw the tax payers! We have an agenda here.
Bruce Willis offers land for new airport from Gary Stivers on Vimeo.
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