Indholdsfortegnelse for November 2023 i Total Film

Total Film|November 2023

TOTAL FILM THE SMARTER MOVIE MAGAZINE

If you ever wanted to feel that you could achieve more, just read our chat with Ridley Scott – who, at 85, is as prolific as ever. I needed a lie-down just chatting to his collaborators as they described the energy and massive brain power of the visionary director, and that was before we tracked back through his résumé of game-changing, world-building iconic movies with the man himself. That's why we've dedicated our issue to a man whose cinematic imprint is huge and who is still creating more with this month's epic-scale Napoleon and the incoming Gladiator 2 (yes, we will be entertained). And he's already prepping his next movie – to paraphrase that impressed onlooker in When Harry Met Sally…: ‘I'll have what he's having.’ Elsewhere, we leaned into…

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Total Film|November 2023

HOT RIGHT NOW

TEASERS The strikes may have meant actors hiding away, but the star of Elvis is everywhere right now thanks to his swaggering ad campaign for YSL's new fragrance. Striding around in black while sniffing orange blossom and talking (in interviews and ads completed pre-strike) about his multifaceted self-expression, Butler will be showing that his range extends considerably further than his award-winning portrayal of the King. He should have been following the rockandroll wiggles with the murderous moves of a ‘psychotic Mick Jagger’ as bald Big Bad Feyd-Rautha in Dune: Part Two, which he told TF flexed similar acting muscles in terms of presence and ‘when you need to own a room with your energy’. But since Dune moved its release date into next year, the 32-year-old's next turn is as…

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Total Film|November 2023

YOU TALKIN’ TO ME?

You talkin’ to me? That very much depends on the future tone of your questions. At this rate, no. You've got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk? The question, rather, is do you feel lucky, punk? Because, believe me, junior, you should. I am the greatest, if not the only truly great horror writer of both the 20th and 21st centuries (plus the 19th and 18th, if you include my previous incarnations). Yet here I am, spending valuable time away from my writing and dreaming schedule to answer the second of these extremely vague and borderline insulting ‘questions’. I note, also, that you have failed to provide me with an answer to my question. How much can you know about yourself if you've…

DEPUTY EDITOR MATT MAYTUM @MATTMAYTUM Loved liaising with Christopher Nolan on a tribute to Ridley Scott – work days don't get much better than that! CONTRIBUTING EDITOR JAMIE GRAHAM @JAMIE_GRAHAM9 Ridley Scott's Zoom setup was as cinematic as you'd hope. No peering into a laptop here. He sat at a boardroom table, shot by an eye-in-thesky camera as he talked Napoleon and his sixdecade career. NEWS EDITOR JORDAN FARLEY @JORDANFARLEY Had a cracking time at the UK premiere of The Creator held in London's Science Museum. No striking cast in attendance, so Gareth Edwards sent a video of the audience to a cast text chain, filmed in IMAX widescreen, naturally. REVIEWS EDITOR MATTHEW LEYLAND @TOTALFILM_MATTL The A Haunting in Venice screening had a spirited intro by Agatha Christie's great-grandson James…

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Total Film|November 2023

PILGRIM'S PROGRESS

TEASERS EXCLUSIVE How can you live up to that trailer?’ ponders Eli Roth with a literal stroke of his fetching moustache. ‘It's just so nuts and so fun and goes so far into the boundaries of bad taste. How do you extend that for 90 minutes, and still make a real movie?’ He's talking, of course, about his 2007 Thanksgiving trailer, one of four promos for fake exploitation movies that served as added (coming) attractions in the Grindhouse double bill by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. Set in Plymouth, Massachusetts over the titular holiday, slasher film Thanksgiving promised ‘no leftovers’ as masked killer The Pilgrim offed nubile teens. It included a scene in which a topless, trampolining cheerleader does the splits and lands on The Pilgrim's upturned knife. Shot for $100,000…

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Total Film|November 2023

SNOW PATROL

TEASERS @JORDANFARLEY Let the games begin!’ screamed the headlines when The Hunger Games arrived in 2012, kickstarting a filmic quadrilogy based on Suzanne Collins’ trilogy of bestselling YA books. But prequel movie The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes gives us the real start, showing how Panem's Capitol rises from the ashes of war to become a shiny, soaring powerbase, and how the Games progress from rudimentary violence to mass entertainment. Set 64 years before The Hunger Games, we meet an 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) as he's assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler) for the 10th annual Hunger Games. The future tyrannical president is initially alarmed, given that Lucy is a tribute from impoverished District 12. But when she defiantly sings during the reaping ceremony,…

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Total Film|November 2023

PITCH PERFECT

TEASERS EXCLUSIVE If you're more into films than football, you still might be aware of American Samoa's historic 31-0 loss to Australia in a World Cup qualifier in 2001, which is the starting point for 2014 documentary Next Goal Wins and Taika Waititi's loosely adapted film of the same name. Like the doc, Waititi's new comedy follows the hapless South Pacific team's fortunes as they try to qualify for the 2014 tournament under the leadership of US-based coach Thomas Rongen, played here by Michael Fassbender. Next Goal Wins’ premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival in September had been a long time coming; shot at the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020, the film was delayed by both the pandemic and Waititi's Marvel Cinematic Universe commitments. ‘After [the…

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