Our favorite castaway has been busy this summer! He has visited Spain, England and attended the Monte Carlo TV Festival. I have been on vacation and missed everything, but the good folks over at Matthew’s section of The Lost Forum has got it all covered! I will archive his appearances shortly, but until then, please have a look at all the new goodies at Foxy’s section of lost-forum.com.
LOST creators CARLTON CUSE and DAMON LINDELOF have given the show’s star MATTHEW FOX the greatest references as he gets set to wrap up the desert island drama - they’re convinced he’ll be an Oscar nominee within four years.
Both feel sure the Vantage Point star will turn his back on TV and concentrate on making challenging movies. Cuse says, “He has that cocktail of dangerous and charming. He has a leading man’s good looks, and heroic qualities as an actor.” And Lindelof tells Details magazine, “He has the potential to be a leading man, but I think he’s interested in those quirky transformative roles. “Three, four years from now I can see him getting a Supporting Actor nomination… He wants acting to be hard, to be torture. He does not want to ski the bunny slope.”
You can read the entire article here in the archive or at Details.com.
Matthew Fox smell’s WB’s ‘Smoke’
Actor in talks to star in comic adaptation
By DAVE MCNARY
Matthew Fox is in negotiations to star in Warner Bros.’ “Billy Smoke,” based on the Oni Press comic about a hit man seeking redemption.
Project’s produced by Basil Iwanyk at Thunder Road and Eric Gitter at Closed on Mondays Entertainment. Oni’s Peter Sherwin will exec produce.
Story centers on an elite hit man who’s nearly killed during a botched job and realizes that his only way to find redemption is to rid the world of all assassins.
The comicbook series, written by B. Clay Moore and illustrated by Eric Kim, will be published by Oni Press next year. Moore recently wrote the comic “Leading Man,” set up at Universal.
Oni’s other titles in development include DreamWorks’ “Return of King Doug,” which will star and be produced by Ben Stiller, and Universal’s “Scott Pilgrim,” to be directed by Edgar Wright and star Michael Cera, with a fall start planned.
Fox is repped by ICM and Management 360 and Oni’s repped by UTA.
LAS VEGAS — Warner Bros. unleashed candy-colored, neon-bright footage from a supercharged “Speed Racer,” promised an epic crime story in its latest Batman movie, “The Dark Knight,” and welcomed George Lucas back to the studio after a nearly 40-year absence as it previewed its summer line-up at ShoWest on Thursday.
Alan Horn, Warner Bros. president and COO, presiding over the show-and-tell, drew applause from exhibitors when he announced “Warner Bros. is committed to theatrical distribution in the theaters, period,” as he reviewed recent developments at the Burbank studio.
Acknowledging that Warners will take over distribution of the New Line slate, he said Time Warners’ decision to fold New Line into Warners was so recent that “we’re sort of figuring it out.” He added, though, that “New Line will remain a freestanding company, with its own label and own set of films.”
Producer Joel Silver was drafted to introduce a fast-paced four minutes and 10 seconds from “Speed Racer,” the Wachowski Brothers’ big-screen adaptation of the TV toon set for a May 9 release.
Silver explained that the Wachowskis took on the project because they wanted to make a PG-rated movie their nephews and nieces could see and also because they viewed it as a formal challenge, in which they proposed always keeping foreground, middle ground and background in focus.
The high-octance footage left the movie’s three stars — Emile Hirsch, Matthew Fox and Christina Ricci, who were then called to the stage at Paris Hotel’s Theatre des Artists — repeating virtually the same words. Each admitted to being “blown away.”
Hollywood Reporter