Warren Beatty Called in a Few Favors
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 at 5:30PM The new trailer to the Howard Hughes whatsit Rules Don't Apply starring Lily Collins and Alden Ehrenreich has arrived. It's written, directed, and produced by co-star and Hollywood royalty Warren Beatty as the eccentric billionaire previously played by Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator.
Have you heard from people that I'm crazy?
Why yes, Warren we have. We see you've called in a few favors, too...
That cast list does read a bit as if someone drew it up in 1998 just after Warren Beatty's last directorial effort Bullworth. If the old saying "if you rest you rust" is true than Rules Don't Apply will be horrible. Warren Beatty also hasn't starred in a motion picture in 15. In pop culture years he basically doesn't exist anymore (sigh).
On the other hand, Warren Beatty is an icon and legend for a reason. What's more he has only directed four other movies in his career (Heaven Can Wait, Reds, Dick Tracy, and Bulworth) all of which were nominated for at least one Oscar (their average Oscar reception comes to about 7 nominations + 2 wins per picture which is quite a record of approval, you must agree). And it's worth noting that all of them were pretty damn good films.
We shall see.
Rules Don't Apply is the opening film for this year's AFI Fest (November in LA), the festival that tends to launch the hit-and-miss crop of last second Oscar contenders (in recent years that'd be films like Selma, American Sniper, The Big Short, The Gambler, and By the Sea)
Reader Comments (20)
Rules Don't Apply is the most AFI Premiere movie anybody could ever think of. "This is the only thing nobody else got (for good reason)"
Hope Alec Baldwin doesn't play the same person he played in the Aviator!
TRUMBO, BIRDMAN, ARGO, THE ARTIST - Oscar voters certainly like their movies about the movie business, and I don't think there's anything else this season catering to that crowd. So there's a good chance for a nomination here or there, if it is at least good (or even merely "not bad" but catering to nostalgia, as THE ARTIST truly proved).
Could go either way for Warren let's hope all goes well for Annette's movie.
Any trailer that offers the title as profound dialogue several times..... :/
If this movie's only purpose is to boost Annette Bening's 2016 profile to help her gain a Best Actress nomination, then thank you, Warren Beatty.
Travis C: Trumbo and Argo are the "not bad, but catering on Nostalgia" entries there. The Artist wasn't "BP Winner Good TM" but it was good enough to justify a nomination.
@catbaskets That sums it up for me too
CANDICE BERGEN!!!!
Who knew Dabney Coleman was still alive?
@ /3rtful
Viewers of Ray Donovan and Boardwalk Empire.
I think it's kind of a good omen that in the 15 (?) years Beatty's been working on this, that his character of Howard Hughes moved from the central character to the fringes of the action. So maybe what he's focusing on is what he sees as actually interesting and fresh. He's certainly chosen a good cast.
Beatty's vanity always ruins his movies, at least for me.
I didn't realize Dabney Coleman was still alive! :-/
Beatty is a creep ... in my HO ... he is so past tense...
if nothing else, maybe this'll remind voters how sensational alden ehrenreich was in hail caesar
"you are a gifted young woman with a wonderful future; nobody's getting any younger" - why wasn't the bening's character giving advice to the bening in early 90s?
Looks, um, fanciful...
I am annoyed that all the furniture, the walls, the clothes, etc. are so overly fresh and starched and clean (even if they are meant to look dirty) that they look completely fake. It is distracting. If you are going to shoot the film in digital, you have to take a bite out of the old "method acting" mantra and get some "lived in" stuff for the movie. Don't find the super pristine excellent condition version of some 1950s lamps. Dag, yo. Also, that whole lighting through the curtain or the blinds behind the actor is very Bugsy. It is sooooo Bugsy. And that was like 1991.
This looks terrible, but Beatty is one of my all-time favorites, and with him directing in addition to starring-I'm likely there regardless of reviews.
Travis C. - La La Land is about an aspiring actress and an aspiring musician and also caters to nostalgia. This will certainly pale in comparison.