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Film School Rejects: Mickey Rourke Paints ‘Mona Lisa’ With Bullets

  • Rick Gershman · 6 months ago
    What a weird, weird film that will be. The original was a pretty good flick with a great performance by Bob Hoskins. Rourke seems a strange fit for the role (though I'm sure everything except the basic concept is being tossed. But Larry Clark, writing and directing? That's what makes it interesting. Seems a fair bet this will be 10 times as gritty and nasty as Jordan's original. I'd expect this will either be a pretty killer flick or a massive train wreck--no in-between.

    (And I'm sorry, but as great as Rourke was in The Wrestler, not to mention Sin City, I have my doubts about him sustaining this comeback too much longer. Though I'd love to be proven wrong.)
  • bb6640 · 6 months ago
    Very strange combination. Larry Clarke remaking Neil Jordan? WTF? I'm sorry, Clarke isn't a good director.He has yet to make a coherent film. He's like Gus Van Zant without the genius talent. I think he's great at shocking and/or pandering to his audience and critics but that's about it.
  • _Christopher_M · 6 months ago
    I enjoyed most of Lary Clarke's films...although Ken Park went a little too far in the WTF department...then he started experimenting with porn after that..the concept/cast sounds great but Clarke is still too odd for such a mainstream project...I can't see any studio actually wanting to hire Clarke
  • jack2jack · 6 months ago
    I would like to see Rourke pull this off. I think given the chance and the right director he could expand his roles. I'm a sucka for come back stories. I think Rourke has just begun to show us what he can do.
  • _Christopher_M · 6 months ago
    Mickey might be angling for nominations again...Bob Hoskins won best actor at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival and also a Oscar nomination for the original movie....