Proof: The Movie

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 8/14/04 at 12:34pm

http://imdb.com/title/tt0377107/

What do you guys think about it?

[zoran912]

Posted: 8/14/04 at 12:38pm

I think that it will be great. The cast looks amazing.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 8/14/04 at 12:39pm

Gwyneth (sp) is supposedly giving yet another Oscar worthy performance while Jake is getting RAVE reviews as well (from the people that have seen the dailys).

[BWayBoy88]

Posted: 8/14/04 at 12:41pm

Looks like a good cast.

[Mamie]

Posted: 8/14/04 at 2:15pm

I loved this play. It'll be great to have a 'keeper'.

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 10/28/04 at 1:15pm

Damn the delay! Damn it!


http://www.playbill.com/news/article/89257.html

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 10/28/04 at 1:22pm

Idiots! There goes the Oscars for that movie. Apparently they want to open the Cannes Film Festival with it next May. I HATE Miramax.

[pab]

Posted: 10/28/04 at 1:36pm

Looks interesting. Too bad that Mary-Louise Parker was not a big enough name to get the part in the movie. She was GREAT in the play but I expect that Gwyneth will deliver.

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 10/28/04 at 1:37pm

It's just gonna get lost during the crush of summer movies, unless they try and hold the general release until the late Fall of 2005...

[Glebb]

Posted: 10/28/04 at 1:39pm

I like Jennifer Jason Leigh as well. I guess Paltrow is now a bigger name?

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 10/28/04 at 1:39pm

Gwyneth will deliver. I saw her play Catherine in London and she was top notch. Not as good as Mary Louise Parker who will always own the role, but top notch all the same.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 10/28/04 at 2:09pm

Mary-Louise was considered to be too old to play the role screen by the project's original director, Nicholas Hytner, which is why it went to Paltrow (though Hillary Swank was rumored to have been cast before Paltrow received great notices for the London production).

I wonder why it was delayed -- it's not a good sign at all that they shifted the film's release away from high profile December Oscar season (when all of the studios trot out their best "artistic" films) and now appear to be randomly dumping it on the market "sometime in 2005." Obviously, Harvey Weinstein must not have been too terribly impressed with the early cut of of the film because it appears there has been a loss of confidence in the project on the part of Miramax, after having touted it repeatedly over the last couple of years.

[diva007]

Posted: 10/28/04 at 2:11pm

Gwynie the "miramax muse". I am unimpressed.

[pab]

Posted: 10/28/04 at 2:22pm

"Mary-Louise was considered to be too old to play the role screen by the project's original director, Nicholas Hytner, which is why it went to Paltrow"

You are correct and she was not too thrilled about that either but she does admit that she was too old.

Question: On the other side of coin, do you have any interest in seeing the movie of Proof?

Answer: I don't. I'm not even curious. Not to be bitchy or anything, but I know what happens in Proof. I did it every night for a year and a half. I had my experience and I loved my experience. If you offered me the movie over the play, even if you told me I was going to win an Oscar for it, I would pick the play. That's so much more rewarding to me. I had the experience of taking it from its very first reading around a table to Broadway, which nobody thought was going to happen. One of my agents literally laughed at me when I said, "This got good reviews; do you think it will move?" I just felt it would have been nice if David [Auburn, the playwright] had come to me and said, "I'm selling the rights." I have zero bitterness now, but it hurt me that he didn't bother to tell me he had sold it because I was so close to it. They weren't going to produce it on Broadway without me. [Playwright] Robbie Baitz said, "You can do [a movie of] The Substance of Fire, but only if you use Ron Rifkin." I felt like because I had so much to do with getting the play done, it would have been classier if David had said something to me. But I was too old for [the movie] anyway.
Interview

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 10/28/04 at 2:32pm

Well, Miramax had money in the London run of Proof and acquired the rights specifically as a vehicle for Gwyneth on the big screen, or at least that was my understanding. Maybe Hilary Swank was considered for the stage run in London (the Kates Winslet and Beckinsale were also considered for the London run).

And diva007, you can be unimpressed all you like. But if Gwyenth is giving the same performance in the movie as she did on stage, then she'll be incredible.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 10/28/04 at 2:43pm

She's absolutely right that the ONLY reason Proof went to Broadway was because of her. He was a totally unknown playwrighting student at Julliard when the script for Proof made it to Parker's hands. Her name is what attracted commercial producers to the project and her dedication to the play is one of the main reasons it had one of the longest runs for a non-musical on Broadway in decades (it made Auburn a wealthy man by playwright standards). It certainly would have been a classy thing for him to at least give her a call before he sold the rights (even to tell her he was selling them to someone who wouldn't want to use her in the movie) and thank her for everything she did for his career. For her to have to find out from her agent or from the trades instead of from Auburn himself is pretty lousy -- but hey, that's show biz for you.

[diva007]

Posted: 10/28/04 at 2:43pm

I honestly hope you are right popcultureboy.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 10/28/04 at 2:45pm

No, it was announced prior to the London run that Proof was going to be made as a film to be directed by Nicholas Hytner and starring Hilary Swank. That project fell through for whatever reason and THEN Weinstein acquired the rights for Paltrow.

[broadwaygiant19122]

Posted: 10/28/04 at 4:54pm

I read recently, i believe it was INFOCUS(a film) magazine that it was possible that Proof could be delayed because of a slew of layoffs involving Miramax distribution staff. And now it has..... But there is still alot to look forward to, POTO, Closer, etc. Personally, I think Stage Beauty delivered the goods.

[Taryn]

Posted: 10/28/04 at 8:33pm

Nooooo! Stupid delays. >_< I'm looking SO forward to this movie.