Rome

Chris Milk to Direct Movie Based on Danger Mouse Album ROME and THE REAPERS ARE THE ANGELS

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: October 4th, 2011 at 9:10 pm

The concept behind this summer’s Danger Mouse album Rome was a neat one, especially for Collider readers.  Danger Mouse and Italian composer Daniele Luppi were inspired by the music from spaghetti westerns.  They recorded the album using vintage equipment, often with musicians from the era who worked on spaghetti western soundtracks.  The process is about to come full circle, as Rome will soon be turned into a movie.  First, though, things will take a sharp left into a post-apocalyptic wasteland.  Music video director Chris Milk will helm the project, based on the Alden Bell novel The Reapers Are the Angels.  The story centers on a young girl who “can’t remember a time before the zombies”; she struggles to survive as she wanders the desolate landscape, plagued by inner turmoil.

I don’t know the album or the book enough to tell you how they fit together.  Maybe you can deduce the link yourself after the jump with the full book synopsis and a few cuts from Rome.

Pay Tribute to Paul Giamtti as King John in IRONCLAD

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: September 17th, 2009 at 11:28 pm

Paul Giamatti has just been cast as King John in the upcoming medieval action flick “Ironclad”.  King John is the villain* and he’s throwing down against a “Seven Samurai” (except knights instead of samurai) led by a formidable Knights Templar played by James Purefoy.  Hit the jump to find out who would win in a fight.

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