The brilliant and surreal French filmmaker Michel Gondry has recently completed production on his next film “Be Kind Rewind”, staring Jack Black and Mos Def, which is due to be released on January 25, 2008. Here’s the trailer for the film.
Jerry (Jack Black) is a junkyard worker who attempts to sabotage a power plant he suspects of causing his headaches. But he inadvertently causes his brain to become magnetized, leading to the unintentional destruction of all the movies in his friend’s (Mos Def) store. In order to keep the store’s one loyal customer, an elderly lady with a tenuous grasp on reality, the pair re-create a long line of films including The Lion King, Rush Hour, Ghostbusters, When We Were Kings, Back to the Future, Driving Miss Daisy, and Robocop , putting themselves and their townspeople into it. They become the biggest stars in their neighborhood.
Michel is currently working on “Master of Space and Time”, based on the 1994 science fiction novel by Rudy Rucker, with a screenplay by Daniel Clowes.
The real world is unbearable to madcap inventor Harry Gerber, so he uses his genius to twist the laws of science and create his own tailor-made universe. Master of Space and Time combines high physics and high jinks, blurring the line between science and magic.
Speaking of Michel Gondry, Motorola recently commissioned him to create a commercial spot for their new Razr2 phone.
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I have that paperback of Master of space and time – it’s one of Rucker’s best books, though it went out of print for some time. Despite having some basis in credible(-sounding) science, it’s much more readable and less dense than some of his more recent work (Frek and the Elixir comes to mind).
I’ve been looking forward to a movie of this for a while, though I really hope Jack Black isn’t the protagonist (as rumors claimed long ago). This movie calls for someone smarter and a little less… manic. I could see somebody making a case for him as mad inventor from Envy, but really the role needs someone else.
And of course the Gary-brain attack is just screaming out to be Gondry-ized.
Didn’t Jim Henson make a ‘Master Of Space and Time’ film? maybe a short? I remember seeing it and in it he plays the scientist. From what I remember he runs around the streets at incredible speeds shot stop frame with Jim moving large distances between frames. Anyone else remember this?
I believe you’re thinking of the “Wizard of Speed and Time”, a homemade film by Mike Jittlov that was an underground favorite in the 80’s. He’s got a half-built website at http://www.wizworld.com/
You can’t talk about Gondry without mentioning Gondry’s freakin’ amazing short in Tokyo!
Check out the trailer here: http://tokyothemovie.com/
I think the dvd comes out June 30th.
I also can’t talk about things that happen in the future. What you are referencing did not exist when I wrote this post in September 2007.