Summary of Premiere #553: Beetlejuice 2, Kevin Costner, Terry Gilliam, Deadpool & Wolverine…
Tim Burton and his actors invite us behind the scenes of this sequel. A summer number to wake the dead!
Four actors from BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice are on the cover of the summer issue of First : Jenna Ortega, Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder And Catherine O’Hara. At the heart of our special file recounting the making of this sequel 36 years after the release of the original film, they are surrounded by Tim Burton, William Dafoe And Monica Bellucci. The filmmaker dives back in to First in his gothic filmography in a long interview, detailing the reasons which pushed him to find his crazy bio-exorcist.
Another unforgettable gothic figure of cinema, The Crow is the subject of our Classics decryption, while waiting for its new version with Bill Skarsgard. The editorial team also met Terry Gilliam during the last Annecy festival, the opportunity to take stock of his next directorial project (with Jeff Bridges as God) ; Kevin Costnerwho will not return in Yellowstone but who signs his own western saga, Horizonan incredibly ambitious four-film project; Matthew Delaporte And Alexander of the Patellièrewho staged the spectacular adaptation of Count of Monte Cristo with Pierre Niney, and Tomer Sisleyback in the costume of Long Winch for a third episode.
Beetlejuice: did you say cult?
This summer, First also offers you portraits of Megan Northamthe revelation of Greek saladby Cédric Klapisch, who returns in the surprising Meanwhile on earthby Jérémy Clapin (I lost my body) and D’Adam Bessa : the actor, already intense in Harkaplays a strong new role in The ghosts, by Jonathan Millet. Without forgetting our focus on Marvel’s next blockbuster, Deadpool & Wolverineor on the committed summer series, like The Boyswhich is still as successful on Prime Video or House of the Dragonwhose season 2 is off to a strong start.
In addition to the works cited above, the films to be discovered at the cinema in this month of July 2024 are entitled Les Plastic Guns, We Are Zombies, Jim’s Novel, The Hennedricks Family, Pompo the Cinephile, Only the Rivers Flows, City of Darkness, Kinds of Kindness, Despicable Me 4, Santosh, Like Fire… Streaming, zoom on King’s Landwith Mads Mikkelsen, Made in England: the films of Powell and PressburgerAnd Fancy Dance, worn by Lily Gladtsone. Finally, what are our current series to follow? Presumed innocentstarring Jake Gyllenhaal, coming to Apple TV+ alongside Sunnya futuristic tale led by Rashida Jones, or even Such Brave Girlsa crazy comedy to discover on Canal +.
For this number 553, it is Jérémy Clapinwhich lends itself to the game of “Film that…” Good reading !
Vote Burton!
It’s a bit of a coincidence, but it’s perfect timing. The new Tim Burton film on the cover of our summer issue couldn’t be better
to fall. A bit like Wes Anderson or Guillermo del Toro, Burton is an artist who has always seen cinema as an escape, a way to overcome the feeling of oppression he felt in the face of reality, and a way to engage. Even to militate. For the marginalized, the low-ranking and those left behind who don’t all have scissors at their fingertips. We can hear you from our office. Politics, Burton’s cinema? Really ? Yes if we consider that fighting against the totalitarianism of the beautiful, the blond, the normal is political. Yes, if we remind ourselves throughout the films that otherness is a wealth and not simply a curse. Even in a comedy as tight as Beetlejuice (the rest of which is coming, as you have understood), this kind poet of the bizarre made the guests of a macabre dinner dance to an anti-racist song (the famous Day-O by Harry Belafonte). For this strange summer ahead, some advice: vote Burton!
Gaël Golhen, editor-in-chief
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