Do you believe in ghosts or or known someone who has had an experience?
I’m sure I know people who have had experiences with them. I don’t believe in them, but I know people who think they have. No, I’m not a believer myself so I find it unlikely that I will see one.
Daniel Radcliffe’s first movie post-Harry Potter, The Woman in Black, finally sees release tomorrow, Feb. 3, and The DLB recently sat down with him to discuss the film and his post-Potter career.
Tell me about choosing this script.
One of the first things [director James Watkins] and I talked about and what attracted me to the script was that it was a horror film but it felt unusual within the genre because a) it was so character-driven, b) had such great themes of loss and what happens to us if we can’t move on from a loss.
The DLB recently spoke to André Øvredal, the director of the Norwegian monster movie Trollhunter which opens at The Royal in Toronto Aug. 19 before debuting on DVD and Blu-ray next Tuesday (Aug. 23). The mockumentary, which sees a group of Norwegian film students shadowing Norway’s only troll hunter (Otto Jespersen) as he deals with a number of wayward trolls, was a hit upon its release in Norway last year and has seen limited releases worldwide. Its success has also prompted an American remake, spearheaded by Home Alone director Chris Columbus’s company 1492, which is currently in the scripting stage.
Øvredal is currently reading a bunch of Hollywood scripts (“A lot I don’t like but some I really like”) and is also working on his own monster comedy script about American mythology which will likely become his next directorial effort. “That has potential to be an amazing movie.”
RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
Starring Andy Serkis, James Franco and Freida Pinto
Directed by Rupert Wyatt
Written by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver
20th Century Fox
Warning: don’t go into Rise of the Planet of the Apes this weekend thinking you’re going to see some sort of sci-fi action movie like the original 1968 Apes film. Pamela, the woman sitting beside me at last night’s preview screening, made that mistake and left before the end of the first act, unable to stomach the idea of animals in danger. I suspect she would have had a heart attack had she stayed until the end.
