Perhaps it is due to this scene that the film went on to outshine its source, no matter how popular mute witness was upon its initial publication. As capable in a humorous mode as in a suspenseful one, he was an author whose works could not be contained under one moniker alone. Teaser for the first trailer of duncan jones mute screen rant. Mute, a netflix original film from filmmaker duncan jones. If mute director duncan jones was going to tackle a comic book movie, hed love it to based on a character from cult british comic 2000 ad. Warcrafts duncan jones to direct comic book adaptation next. A mute bartender goes up against his citys gangsters in an effort to find out what happened to his missing partner. Jones has been working on the film, a noirinflected sciencefiction thriller set in a. Duncan jones feature debut moon remains one of the best science fiction films of the 21st century. Duncan jones want to adapt a 2000 ad comic book series. Duncan jones mute is the weirdest witness fan fiction ive ever. Netflixs marvel shows vary wildly in quality, but jessica jones is one that.
Mute is a 2018 neonoir science fiction film directed by duncan jones, who cowrote the script with michael robert johnson. Duncan jones scifi noir mute mashes matters of the heart. Duncan jones scifi movie mute debuts on netflix february. Duncan jones, the director of the upcoming warcraft film adaptation, is moving forward with his longgestating passion project mute, with paul rudd and alexander skarsgard attached to star.
Unfortunately, it doesnt quite hit the mark until very late. When it was announced that mute, the latest film from director duncan jones, was to arrive on netflix. If netflix is the future of scifi streaming, we may be in trouble. Concept art for duncan jones mute, news on the shoot posted on tuesday, september 15th, 2009 by brendon connelly update.
Slight surface wear to covers which have browning around the outside of the reverse. In what seems like an age to learn anything more about the. The reason i mention that is because that scene seems to be at the heart of what duncan jones was trying to do with mute. His latest effort, the futurenoir mute, debuting friday on netflix, takes homage to an extreme and thats not necessarily a good thing. How a beaten and bruised duncan jones found himself. In honor of mute, paul rudds 10 best roles, ranked.
This is the second gay fiction book that ive read this month that really blew me away. Duncan jones says mute is in limbo, future city film is next. And having it released on netflix for the world to watch is just an added bonus. And then the whole film is bookended with another particular act of violence, when another characters throat is slashed. Unfortunately, for the time being, thats all hes really willing to tell us about it. The deeply dystopian story by duncan jones takes place in a gritty and cold berlin. Mute 2018 tvma 2h 6m scifi thrillers when his girlfriend vanishes, a mute man ventures into a nearfuture berlins seamy underworld, where his actions speak louder than words. Even before that blatant acknowledgement, mute has.
Mute, duncan jones latest scifi epic, fails in large part because it focuses on presenting blade runneresque style over actual substance. Director duncan jones has been blowing us away ever since moon was released in 2009. Duncan jones scifi noir mute mashes matters of the. From being hailed as a masterpiece to something that isn. The discussion ranged from his thoughts on smaller, more independent films finding a home on streaming services like netflix and amazon to the possibility of making a film based on the world of the comic 2000 ad. A pretty special one, he teased, promising another hint in the days to come. Printed encyclopedias and other books with definitions for mute witness. Feb 21, 2018 duncan jones latest is stuffed with detail and some lovely callbacks to his previous work. Duncan jones teases hell be directing a comic book movie.
As we approach the february 23rd premiere of mute worldwide on netflix promotion is moving up a gear. Fangrrls is about kicking down doors, breaking boundaries and celebrating female fans with fun, witty and entertaining content. Duncan jones latest film, mute, looks like a colorful. Mute witness kindle edition by fish, robert l download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Mute also known as moon ii in some countries is a 2018 neonoir science fiction film directed by duncan jones, who cowrote the script with michael robert johnson. I saw witness for the first time when i was about nine years old. When it becomes apparent that mute will not be a great achievement in the usual sense, which happens after five minutes or so. Filmmaker duncan jones, whose debut feature moon, starring sam. Director and cowriter duncan jones has been talking about making this.
Warcraft director duncan jones has revealed that hes directing a comic book movie as his next project. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading mute witness. Like george lucas before him, jones made a name for himself with a blazingly original scifi sleeper 2009s excellent moon which he then. A classic noir detective will always let the suspect or the witness talk more. Oct 12, 2016 mute, a netflix original film from filmmaker duncan jones, commences principal photography alexander skarsgard, paul rudd and justin theroux topline the futuristic thriller shooting in berlin beverly hills, ca october 12, 2016 netflix announced that principal photography commenced this week on filmmaker duncan joness warcraft. We chat with the director of moon and warcraft about his latest.
Well, now mute is here, beaming out to the world as the latest netflix original film, and it will be difficult for the duncan jones fans in the crowd of which i am most certainly one to. Mute witness is an oldfashioned detective story with an unusually highranking main character in sleepdeprived lieutenant clancy. Duncan jones reveals more of his plans for the final chapter in his moon trilogy. Duncan jones mute is the weirdest witness fan fiction i.
Filmmaker duncan jones, whose debut feature moon, starring sam rockwell, was a critical darling in 2009, has always been proud to wear his influences on his sleeve. Director duncan jones moon, mute, source code has revealed via twitter what his comic book film will be and it is an adaptation of the rogue trooper comic set duncan jones reveals his comic book movie is 2000 a. How a beaten and bruised duncan jones found himself again. Director duncan jones moon originally wanted to make his directorial debut with a bizarre and original scifi noir film. Jones wrote the script with his writing partner, mike johnson. The moon and warcraft director has revealed that his longinthemaking scifi film noire, mute, will. According to the director duncan jones, mute, his new film debuting friday on netflix, was not originally intended as a work of scifi. Sep 22, 2016 duncan jones, before delivering source code and most recently warcraft, first came to attention with moon, a clever sf film starring sam rockwell as the sole technician on a moon base holding some. Mute closes with a dedication to director duncan jones childhood nanny, and to his father, david jones, aka david bowie. In a recent interview, director duncan jones told us that despite what we thought, mute will not be his next film after source code. One story that caught my eye was that filmmaker duncan jones and 2000adpreacher artist glenn fabry will be collaborating on a graphicnovel. One story that caught my eye was that filmmaker duncan jones and 2000ad preacher artist glenn fabry will be collaborating on a graphicnovel. While there, she witnesses a brutal murder, and must escape capture. But to only associate rudd with this comicbook role is to overlook.
Support the guardian available for everyone, funded by readers. Duncan jones reveals his comic book movie is 2000 a. Concept art for duncan jones mute, news on the shoot film. On twitter, he announced his next project will be a comic book film, though he didnt specify which one. Witness meets blade runner seems like a compelling enough idea for a movie, especially when you throw in a splash of splash, but despite its fervid imagination, the new netflix movie mute is a.
The concept of hobbling your gumshoe in some way is a novel one, and. The beginning, and it was written by jones and michael robert johnson. How a beaten and bruised duncan jones found himself again through mute after the death of his father, david bowie, and the rough experience of adapting warcraft, jones made his most. Mar 02, 2018 duncan jones mute is the weirdest witness fan fiction i. Mute is directed by duncan jones which is a huge plus in my book.
One thing i like about duncan jones s scifi mystery mute which is now streaming on netflix is that it approaches the future in the way a movie. A conversation with writerdirector duncan jones about his film mute and a lot of other stuff movie duncan jones mute netflix warcraft source code moon about a year ago by kristian odland entertainment runs in the blood of writerdirector duncan jones. The film is set 40years in the future, in a land of immigrants, where a mute bartender searches for his missing girlfriend. Welcome to berlin 2052 where dreams come true and man comes undone. The spine has a very light reading crease and some edge rubbing. A scifi mystery directed by duncan jones who also helmed the hit scifi flicks moon, source code and warcraft. A mute makeup artist working on a slasher movie being shot in moscow, is locked in the studio after hours. Following suit of the other two, mute is a noir set to the backdrop of a technologically advanced, but atmospherically dark and seedy world. He also directed source code 2011, warcraft 2016 and mute 2018. Duncan jones mute adds paul rudd and alexander skarsgard. Even before that blatant acknowledgement, mute has obvious. Warcraft director duncan jones is about to enter the wide world of comic book movies.
Picture the scarlet pimpernell as a womandealing with murder before t. Netflixs mute isnt just bad, its almost unwatchable forbes. Duncan jones has now supplied us with a hires version of the same. In case youve never seen it, grumpy detective harrison ford has to go undercover in an amish community, and naturally falls in love with both barnraisings and kelly mcgillis, because who wouldnt. The movie takes place mostly within a moscow film studio and in a few shabby apartments and on dark night streets. Mar 16, 2018 one thing i like about duncan joness scifi mystery mute which is now streaming on netflix is that it approaches the future in the way a movie like winchester approaches the past. I dont think the film works, but there is a lot of. Mute witness takes place in a small town in pennsylvania. Jan 27, 2018 see the teaser for the first trailer of duncan jones mute.
Writings mute witness is a 1963 novel written by robert l. Feb 23, 2018 mute closes with a dedication to director duncan jones childhood nanny, and to his father, david jones, aka david bowie. The writing is clipped and gritty, evoking 1960s new york city in black and white and shades of gray. Mute has been described as a spiritual sequel to director duncan jones debut feature moon, but the connection between the two movies goes further than both being old school scifi dramas. Feb 23, 2018 mute is dedicated to his own father as david jones, his birth name and marion skene, the nanny who helped raise duncan after his parents divorced, both of whom died as jones worked on the. Being a big fan of jones previous works, like moon, source code, and even the flawed warcraft, i was looking forward to seeing his particular spin on it. I have a lot of mixed feelings about this book, but my most prevalent feeling is just being in awe. Duncan jones wrote the beginnings of mute fourteen years ago, and initially planned to make it before moon, but only worked out a distribution deal with netflix for this year. Alexander skarsgard as leo beiler, a mute man with a violent past. Moon and warcraft director, duncan jones is making a return to scifi this year with his passion project mute. Mute director duncan jones wants to adapt a 2000 ad comic book series. Duncan jones announced via twitter today that his new film, mute, will premiere worldwide on netflix on friday 23rd february 2018.
How a beaten and bruised duncan jones found himself again through mute in the past two years, duncan jones has faced the loss of his father, music legend david bowie, and his childhood nanny. Duncan jones turns david bowies berlin into a subblade runner scifi 2. After 16 years in development, duncan jones mute arrives on netflix tomorrow. Its been a long road to the screen for mute, as duncan jones had intended it to be his first film after completing its initial script in 2003. Jan 19, 2018 duncan jones next movie wont be coming to theaters its going straight to streaming. The best tv shows and movies new to netflix, amazon and more in. Despite the good acting and great music score and cinematography that recalls altered carbon, the promising storyline fails mainly because of the messy screenplay and the uninteresting lead character. Why duncan jones mute fails in a postblade runner world cbr. Mute is a slight detective story in search of a purpose. We have a few days to wait until the release of the full trailer, until then we have a 10 second trailer teaser shared on twitter on saturday by duncan jones and the official mute twitter account. Netflix has released a sneak peek teaser for duncan jones new scifi noir mute.
He is best known for directing the science fiction film moon 2009, for which he won the bafta award for outstanding debut by a british writer, director or producer. Warcraft director takes on mystery comic book movie. Sam rockwell is absorbing as sam bell, an offworld corporate caretaker who. Even references to color, such as clancys blue striped tie and dark blue hat, seem to fade from the page. According to duncan, mute is in a sort of limbo state and hes. His latest effort, the futurenoir mute, debuting friday on netflix, takes homage to. They are actually set in the same world, with several key aspects and characters from the 2009 film appearing in the netflix release. In a thread of tweets building up to the much anticipated announcement duncan gave us the back story to the development. Leo beiler, a mute bartender, searches for his missing girlfriend, naadirah, in the rolling city of immigrants where two american surgeons are the only recurring clues. The director duncan joness 2009 debut, moon, was that rare beast. It stars alexander skarsgard, paul rudd, justin theroux, robert sheehan, noel clarke, florence kasumba, and dominic monaghan, revolving around a mute bartender skarsgard searching for the love of his life seyneb saleh who has. Jul 12, 2018 warcraft director duncan jones is about to enter the wide world of comic book movies.
With marina zudina, fay ripley, evan richards, oleg yankovskiy. A tragedy with surprising depth how netflix is changing science fiction beyond big marketing gimmicks duncan jones mute is the weirdest witness fan fiction ive. Leo witnesses this from the bar and looks around the room for help. Duncan jones scifi noir mute mashes matters of the heart with a. Screen rant was able to sit down with duncan jones ahead of netflixs release of his new film mute, starring alexander skargard, paul rudd, and justin theroux. Feb 23, 2018 screen rant was able to sit down with duncan jones ahead of netflixs release of his new film mute, starring alexander skargard, paul rudd, and justin theroux. Tom jolliffe looks at the career of duncan jones, and where he can go next after his latest critical mauling if youre like me, and you see an exciting director breaking through into the. Mute witness kindle edition by fish, robert l mystery. It is the fourth film for jones, who made an outstanding debut in 2009 with moon, starring sam rockwell, and fol. Duncan jones mute is the weirdest witness fan fiction ive ever seen. Duncan zowie haywood jones born 30 may 1971 is a british film director, producer and screenwriter. Mute is a disappointing film by the cultdirector duncan jones. Prepare yourself for mute, a new netflix original film by visionary director duncan jones, starring alexander skarsgard, paul.
Feb 25, 2018 duncan jones had previous scifi hits with source code and moon, but his latest for netflix, mute, is an unequivocal, unwatchable disaster. While mute witness may not be as wellknown today as bullitt, the novel is no less exciting than the film. If netflix is the future of scifi streaming, we may be in. This friday on netflix, duncan jones returns to the scifi setting that launched his career.
But after horror, scifi is the genre in which the portal to that rarefied realm of transcendent awfulness opens widest. Mute closes with a dedication to director duncan jones childhood. While warcraft met with mixed results, duncan jones mute,moon is still one of the most interesting directors in science fiction these days and now is going to tackle a comic movie. Cactus works off the books as a fixer for the clubs russian owner. Feb 27, 2018 duncan jones mute couldnt work in a postblade runner world. Jan 30, 2018 netflixs mute trailer looks absolutely amazing. Mute, and jones plans for a third film as an end to the arc. Mute, duncan jones longawaited followup to moon, hit netflix last month, after a lengthy incubation period. Anthony wallers mute witness is one of those films, like halloween or blood simple, where a strong story and a skillful use of horror film technique causes you to forget the low budget and limited production values. Fans are on the fence with netflixs mute as duncan jones latest film has either been loved or hated by those who have viewed it. Feb 23, 2018 netflix is the place where dreams come true. Its part of netflixs current trend of producing andor acquiring somewhat esoteric genre movies, a trend which began with bright and continued with the cloverfield paradox and annihilation, up through imminent releases like the titan. Walking dead with muted neorealism and a touch of the twilight zone.
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