First Photo from The Invasion
Yesterday we had a look at a scientific short film which may be used in the upcoming Invasion of the Body Snatchers remake. Today we bring you the first production still, direct from ShoWest.
The above photo shows Nicole Kidman as Carol, with two unidentified actors looking out the window at, one can only assume, some kind of alien invasion. We also get our first glimpse at the film’s logo, which looks exactly how we would expect it to look.
The official synopsis reads: A mysterious epidemic is sweeping the world, but it takes one Washington DC psychiatrist (Kidman) to discover that the disease is extraterrestrial in origin. When her son (Jackson Bond) becomes infected, she and a colleague (Daniel Craig) must work together to find a cure, before the entire world is lost
The Invasion will hit theaters on August 17th 2007.
Source: LatinoReview
Video Footage: The Wachowski Brothers Help Remake Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Wired.com has an interesting report on a short film that shows the inner workings of a white blood cell. Not interested? Here’s the hook - The Wachowski Brothers are looking to use parts of the cell film in their remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. You can watch a version from YouTube after the jump.
“A couple of days before TED we got a call from Warner Bros. Pictures. Apparently the Wachowski brothers, the guys who did The Matrix, are doing a remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and they had come across our animation and they wanted to know if we’d be interested in re-rendering it at film resolution so it could be included in some way as (part) of the special effects they’re planning for the movie,” Bolinsky told Wired. “So right now their lawyers are talking with the Harvard lawyers about the possibility of this.”
The Wachowski Brothers have been brought in to re-work the film’s ending, but are NOT directing the project. Oliver Hirschbiegel, director the the highly acclaimed Hitler film The Downfall helmed the new remake which is titled “The Invasion.” Producer Joel Silver was the one to bring the Brothers in on the project.
David Bolinsky screened a three-minute version of a computer-generated film, The Inner Life of the Cell, that he and colleagues at his company Xvivo created for Harvard’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. The film was shown in 3D at Siggraph last summer and caused a huge stir.
The Invasion stars Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig and Jeffrey Wright.
The official synopsis reads: “A mysterious epidemic is sweeping the world, but it takes one Washington DC psychiatrist (Kidman) to discover that the disease is extraterrestrial in origin. When her son (Jackson Bond) becomes infected, she and a colleague (Daniel Craig) must work together to find a cure, before the entire world is lost…”
The movie, which has already undergone massive reshoots, is scheduled to be released by Warner Bros on August 17th 2007.
Jack Finney’s 1955 science fiction novel The Body Snatchers was adapted into three films (1956, 1978 and 1993) and inspired the 2005 television series Invasion. Don Siegel’s 1956 version is probably the most revered (8.0 imdb rating). The Invasion will be the fourth film adapted from Finney’s novel.
Veronica Cartwright Biography
Accomplished character actress Veronica Cartwright has been particularly adept at– and oft typecast as–hard-nosed, even nasty or bitchy, characters, whether they be mothers of career women. Born in England, she began acting as a young girl after her family moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1950s. During that decade, Cartwright toiled in guest appearances and smaller roles while her younger sister Angela earned her place as a trivia question by playing Danny Thomas’ daughter on “Make Room For Daddy”. Veronica landed good feature roles, however, ranging from her debut in “In Love and War” (1958) to the kleptomaniac forced to lie about her teachers in William Wyler’s “The Children’s Hour” (1961). In 1963, she was also the daughter of the family terrorized by Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” and Henry Fonda’s child in “Spencer’s Mountain”. Although her sister had become the TV regular, from 1959, Cartwright had the recurring role of the bullying Violet Rutherford (who gave Theodore his first kiss) on ABC’s “Leave It to Beaver” and she spent two seasons (1964-66) as the frontiersman’s daughter Jemima, on the NBC series “Daniel Boone”.
Like many child performers, Cartwright hit an awkward stage and the acting jobs were not forthcoming. By the end of the 60s, her career had all but petered out so she returned to her native Britain. After nearly a decade, with only one feature appearance (in the dreadful “Inserts” 1975), Cartwright returned to the USA and resumed her acting career with a fresh outlook. Beginning slowly, she made a guest appearance on an episode of “Serpico” (NBC, 1976). Jack Nicholson cast her as his ex-lover in his directorial debut, “Goin’ South” (1978). Cartwright then appeared in back-to-back sci-fi classics: Philip Kaufman’s remake of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (1978) and Ridley Scott’s “Alien” (1979). During the 80s, she continued to find interesting roles, notably as the shrill wife of astronaut Gus Grissom furious she can’t meet Jackie Kennedy after his space capsule is lost on his return in Kaufman’s “The Right Stuff” (1983) and as the town harpy who denounces “The Witches of Eastwick” (1987). By the 90s, however, she could be seen in the unnecessary horror sequel “Mirror, Mirror 2: Raven Dance” (1994) and as the grand dame of a New Orleans family terrorized in “Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh” (1995).
In the 80s, her small screen roles improved. She was wife to cult leader Jim Jones in “Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones” (CBS, 1980) and portrayed Ethel Kennedy in the 1985 CBS miniseries “Robert Kennedy and His Times”. Cartwright was a reporter covering the presidential campaign in Robert Altman’s spoof of American politics “Tanner ‘88″ (HBO, 1988). The actress had her best exposure in the recurring role of prosecuting attorney Margaret Flanaghan in the NBC legal drama “L.A. Law” from 1989-1992. In particular, she was the assistant D.A. who came head-to-head with Michael Kuzak (Harry Hamlin) during the prosecution of Earl Williams (Carl Lumbly), a college professor who is accused of murdering a student he was having an affair with, but was, in fact, found to be not guilty. Several years before the nation got to see Marcia Clark prosecute O J Simpson, they saw Cartwright do anything to get her conviction, including, as it turned out, subvert the law. Cartwright is also remembered as a mother in denial that her daughter was being sexually abused by her husband in “Abby, My Love”, a 1991 “CBS Schoolbreak Special”. She was the blindly ambitious wife of a vice president who would do anything to become First Lady in the USA Network movie “Hitler’s Daughter” (1990) and a local society woman with lustful impulses in the USA Network original “Dead in the Water” (1991). During the 1996-1997 season, Cartwright made several appearances on “ER” (NBC) as the hard-edged mother of a teenager who wants to disconnect from his life support, a role for which she earned an Emmy nomination as Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series.
- Born:
on 04/20/49 in Bristol, England - Job Titles:
Actor, Perfume salesperson, Waitress
Family
- Sister: Angela Cartwright. born September 2, 1952
Significant Others
- Husband: Richard Compton. married October 1982
- Husband: . divorced c. 1977
Milestones
- 1956 Moved to the USA at age six and soon after began appearing in TV commercials (date approximate)
- 1958 Made feature film debut in “In Love and War”
- 1959 Had recurring role as Violet Rutherford on “Leave It to Beaver” (ABC)
- 1961 Cast as one of the gossiping schoolgirls in “The Children’s Hour”
- 1963 Appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”
- 1963 Played a schizophrenic child in “My Name Is Judith, I’m Lost You See” on NBC’s “Eleventh Hour”
- 1963 Starred in the locally produced “Tell Me Not in Mournful Numbers”; aired in L.A. on November 7; Cartwright won a local area Emmy Award for her performance
- 1964 Last feature for over a decade, “One Man’s Way”
- 1975 First feature in over a decade, “Inserts”
- 1978 Initial screen collaboration with Jack Nicholson, “Goin’ South”
- 1980 TV miniseries debut in “Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones” (CBS); played Marcy Jones the wife of the cult leader
- 1981 TV-movie debut, “The Big Black Pill” (NBC)
- 1983 Played wife to astronaut Gus Grissom in “The Right Stuff”
- 1985 Portayed Ethel Kennedy in the CBS miniseries “Robert Kennedy and His Times”
- 1987 Appeared as the town harpy in “The Witches of Eastwick”, starring Jack Nicholson
- 1988 Played a reporter in episodes of Robert Altman’s HBO series “Tanner ‘88″
- 1996 Appeared as the mother of a terminally ill son in episodes of “ER” (NBC); earned Emmy Award nomination
- 1998 Had recurring guest role as Cassandra Spender on “The X Files”; earned Emmy Award nomination
- 1999 Guest starred on “Will and Grace,” playing the role of Judith McFarland
- 2001 Cast as Megan’s mother in “Scary Movie 2″
- 2003 Played Mrs. McNerney (Pussy) in the romantic comedy “Just Married,” which starred Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy
- 2004 Guest starred in the HBO series “Six Feet Under,” created by Alan Ball
- 2004 Starred in Bill Condon’s “Kinsey” opposite Liam Neeson, who portrayed Alfred Kinsey, a pioneer in the area of human sexuality research
- Family moved to Canada when Cartwright was three years old (date approximate)
- Had recurring role as prosecutor Margaret Flanagan on the NBC drama “L.A. Law”
- Moved to London in the late 1960s
- Played Jemima Boone on “Daniel Boone” (NBC)
- Returned to the USA in the late 1970s
Gabrielle Anwar Biography
Svelte English ingenue of Hollywood films who became widely noticed when she teamed with Al Pacino for a memorable tango in “Scent of a Woman” (1992). Anwar made her English TV debut at age 15 in the BBC miniseries, “Hideaway”. After working in a number of English and American TV projects, Anwar made her American feature debut as the lead in Disney’s girl-and-her-horse story, “Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken” (1991), playing real-life stunt rider Sonora Webster famous for diving into a tank of water while on horseback. Anwar next starred opposite Michael J. Fox in the romantic comedy, “For Love or Money” (1993) and acted in “Body Snatchers” (1994), Abel Ferrara’s bloody remake of Don Siegel’s cold-war horror classic “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (1956).
- Born:
on 02/04/70 in Laleham, England - Job Titles:
Actor, House cleaner
Family
- Daughter: Willow Anwar. born in 1993
- Father: Tariq Anwar. was nominated for Oscar for “American Beauty” (1999) and received a BAFTA Award for the same film
Significant Others
- Companion: Craig Sheffer. met in London in 1989
Milestones
- 1987 US TV acting debut, “Fearnot”, a TV movie
- 1988 Feature acting debut, “Manifesto”
- 1991 First film in a lead role, “Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken”
- Professional acting debut in the BBC miniseries, “Hideaway”