Top Anticipated Films of the Fall and Summer Face-Off

Six interesting trailers hit the Net this week, which make up this week’s RFP buzz. The fall season is winding down and heating up at the same time. Most of the big Oscar buzz films have yet to hit screens. December looks packed. A movie fans’ dream. Getting Buzzed this week has our first peeks at films just around the corner and some highly anticipated films of 2009.
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The classic TV series GET SMART from Mel Brooks and Buck Henry gets a modern redux for the big screen. Having been a spoof of James Bond to start, the TV series seems like a perfect one to bring into the 21st century now that we have Bond and Bourne battling it out for box office supremacy. Peter Segal’s feature GET SMART not only takes some nice pokes at those super spies, but at modern espionage in the real world as well.

Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell, THE 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN) is the top analyst for CONTROL, a U.S. government spy agency in competition with the CIA. He dreams of becoming an agent like the brawny and handsome Agent 23 (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, SOUTHLAND TALES). However, the Chief (Alan Arkin, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE) likes Max right where he is. However when Siegfried (Terence Stamp, SUPERMAN II), the spokesperson for the terrorist org KAOS, obtains the identities of all CONTROL agents, Max gets a promotion and is partnered with the beautiful Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway, RACHEL GETTING MARRIED), who recently had major plastic surgery to hide her identity. Their mission is to stop KAOS from blowing up the Walt Disney Concert Hall in L.A. on the day that the President (James Caan, THE GODFATHER) plans to attend.

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Takashi Miike is a director I have been intrigued with for some time. I’ve liked all the films of his that I have seen, up to this point, even if they’ve left me perplexed sometimes. At least they got me thinking. He often works in extremes such as in the morally ambiguous, yet fascinating, ICHI THE KILLER, and the provocative unaired episode of MASTERS OF HORROR titled IMPRINT. You know you’re pushing the boundaries when a pay cable channel thinks your work is too risqué to air. So I was excited to see what he would have in store when tackling his first English language feature in the style of a spaghetti western with an Asian infusion. After what I was served I should have settled for SpaghettiOs.

A gunslinger (Hideaki Ito, THE PRINCESS BLADE) rides into the town of Yuta where two rival gangs have been waging war against each other. The leader of the red gang Kiyomori (Koichi Sato, RASEN) brought his men into town to raid the gold miners. Yoshitsune (Yusuke Iseya, CASSHERN) brought his white gang into town to steal from the red gang. The gunslinger is unwilling to take sides, but does take an interest in the Romeo & Juliet-like tragic story of Yoshitsune’s slave Shizuka (Yoshino Kimura, BLINDNESS). With his mysterious motives, the gunslinger can’t trust anyone especially the corrupt sheriff (Teruyuki Kagawa, HERO) and the raspy voiced bar owner Ruriko (Kaori Momoi, MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA). Other shady characters will play roles as well, including the American gunman Ringo (Quentin Tarantino).

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