Frank Langella Talks The Box, Frost/Nixon & Superman Sequel!
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By Kara Warner on
November 07, 2007
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We were lucky enough to sit down with Frank Langella today to talk about his new film, "Starting out in the Evening," co-starring Lauren Ambrose, Lili Taylor and Adrian Lester, during which he spoke to us briefly about a few of his noteworthy upcoming projects: Frost/Nixon, The Box and the next Superman film.
On the Ron Howard directed Frost/Nixon: "Ron changed the opening and I think he'll go back and forth between whether it should open right at the resignation or if we should give the audience a little history as to what happened and when. My guess is he'll go for the latter [but] I was happy with the experience, beginning to end."
On preparing to play a "creature from outer space" in Richard Kelly's The Box: "I don't know he's from outer space, I have a feeling he is. It's a movie by Rich Kelley who did Donnie Darko. It's about a young couple, Cameron Diaz and James Marsden who are visited by this mysterious man from somewhere, who gives them this mysterious box. It's based on a Richard Matheson short story called Button, Button. I would say this is the first thriller/genre/horror film I've ever done.
On meeting the rest of the cast and starting production:"James Marsden and I know each other because we worked together on Superman, I've not met Cameron. I'll meet her next week. I've done all the physical casts, with the plaster in creating the face. We've done all the costume fittings but we start Monday. No, it's going to be light makeup, actually, but I'll look, through digital mastery, as if I've done a wild tremendous change to my face, but they will have done it to me digitally. They painted me half green with digital dots."
On his character in The Box: "He has to look very elegant in a beautiful Humberg and a gorgeous grey suit. He's a wonderful, wonderful character. He's a man who was struck by lightning a number of years ago and used to work for NASA and has suddenly become this strange, otherwordly figure, we don't know who he works for. He brings a box to Cameron and Jimmy and says 'If you press the button inside the box, I'll give you $400,000 cash, no questions asked,' and it's in 1970, so that's a lot of money, 'But someone will die if you press that button, you just won't know who that someone is.' The movie goes from there, it's a great premise and my character is around all the time, throughout the film."
On coming back for the next Bryan Singer Superman film:"Yes. We're going to do another one next year. Not this year, but the next and with the writer's strike it could be into 2009. There's no script."
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