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Contents #273
This issue
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56 mission: impossible – fallout Tom Cruise and co leak the insider intel of their sixth impossible mission.
11 skyscraper The Rock scales another action-packed blockbuster.
68 incredibles 2 Could this be a Parr-fect sequel? Pixar finally brings our favourite superfamily back to the big screen… 74 terminal Margot Robbie gets trippy in a film noir fairytale unlike anything you’ve ever seen.
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78 shailene woodley TF catches up with the Adrift and Big Little Lies star, who’s tackling Hollywood on her own terms. 82 tv special Luke Cage heads up our small-screen spesh, which also looks at Sharp Objects, Cloak & Dagger and Alan Partridge’s big comeback.
every issue 3 editor’s letter Popping round Pixar’s place and hanging with film types at Cannes. 7 dialogue Chatter this month on Phillip Schofield’s The Greatest Showman, plus your Infinity War stories. 92 Total Film interview Rupert Everett reflects on his many adventures in filmmaking.
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14 mackenzie davis Why the Tully and Blade Runner 2049 star is so hot right now. 17 mamma mia! here we go again Are you ‘Head Over Heels’ and willing to ‘Take A Chance’ on this sequel? 18 ant-man and the wasp The buzziest Marvel movie since Infinity War. Speaking of... 27 can we talk about ...that Avengers: Infinity War ending? 33 IT SHOULDn’T HAPPEN TO A FILM jOURNALIST All the film’s Jamie’s “desperate” to see – until he isn’t. 35 TF hero Doug Jones, aka the god of monsters on film.
total film buff 116 Is it bollocks? Johnny Utah’s leap of faith. 117 romantic monsters The top 10 sexy beasts. 125 Is it just me? Or are the best sequels the belated ones? 129 60-second screenplay Going on the Rampage.
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38 hereditary Does scary run in Toni Collette’s family? 40 solo: a star wars story We Chewie over the latest Star Wars offering.
happy hunt-ing Tom Cruise and co brief TF on Ethan Hunt’s sixth outing, Mission: Impossible – Fallout.
42 the endless Say hello to your new cult favourite. 44 deadpool 2 Is the second coming as explosive as the first?
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46 leave no trace Ben Foster rivets in the new film from the director of Winter’s Bone. 48 super troopers 2 It’s been a long 17 years since the first film... 50 avengers: infinity war Yes, it was huge. Yes, there were feels.
small screen 102 black panther The King of Wakanda prowls onto home ent.
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104 the shape of water Is this the greatest fish/ woman romance ever? 106 my own private idaho The Keanu/River classic is a timeless beauty… 108 extras Together at last: Solo and porgs! 111 cargo Martin Freeman vs the end of the world. And himself. 112 surround sound The best 5.1 system buys. 113 games A crafty invention awaits.
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DEAR WINGMAN,
Following the release of The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society, I’m thinking of opening a restaurant with a menu of culinary delights based on film titles. For starters we have a choice of duck soup, fried green tomatoes or chicken little (wings). Mains you can have: mystic pizza, American pie, ratatouille or a good burger. For dessert? Chocolat. Drinks: milk, whisky galore or a rather vague cocktail. Should I open my restaurant or, like the film that inspired it, will it likely be a lot more boring than I think? TOM, VIA EMAIL
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Go for it – what could go wrong? Aside from landing yourself a Ready Player Oneesque rights-clearance nightmare. How about a movie-themed timetable, from breakfast club to dinner for schmucks? Count us in for a naked lunch – but maybe hold the spaghetti (western). Want more food for thought? Email The Wingman!
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I suppose today’s sanitised digital cinema experience has its benefits. However, call me oldfashioned, but I preferred the usually slightly dishevelled bloke in an attic space surrounded by boxes, loading the reels and peering out over the audience. There was something magical and satisfying about a scratched, worn or out-of-focus film and the opportunity to (gently) heckle a real person. I wonder what other aspects cinemagoers miss? Intermissions, maybe? Or the ice-cream lady at the front of the auditorium? LILLY FARRAR, VIA EMAIL Dialogue’s love for the ice-cream lady was forever sullied when she broke out the Cornettos right in the middle of Yoda’s dying gasp. And she only had ‘original flavour’, no strawberry. On another note, please don’t heckle cinema
staff. Though we did have a few words for the numpty projectionist who made Speed’s Sandra Bullock look like she was not only trying to keep the bus above 50mph, but was doing it sitting on her head… Lilly and everyone with a letter printed here will receive a copy of WW1 stunner Journey’s End, on Digital Download 1 June and Blu-ray/DVD 4 June via Lionsgate UK. Didn’t send an address? Email it! Or your prize won’t start its journey, never mind end it.
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ROYAL CAKE OF THE MONTH
Mum’s new tactic for shutting up the kids was working a treat… times(!) – that I decided to go and see it for myself. Unfortunately, I was informed at the cinema that it was no longer showing! Typical – these movies are here one minute and gone the next! Anyway, very helpfully he offered me an alternative solution; he suggested I return to my car, tune the radio to Corny FM and then repeatedly slam the car door on my head. Wow! Who said customer service is dead? ELLIE PALMER, VIA EMAIL 08
Got to admit, for a film whose poster looks like Phillip Schofield work-shadowing a circus for This Morning, The Greatest Showman has certainly become a full-blown thing. But readers, please don’t try any head-slamming at home. Or at least get Hugh Jackman to do it in your stead; if there’s anyone who could bring irresistible charm and flair to a shattered skull, it’d be him!
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here’s been a lot of darkness and negativity coming out of the movie industry over the past year, but I want to talk about the power of movies. I have suffered from depression for 12 years now and I find movies work better than any
medication or therapy. Being able to escape into a movie for a couple of hours a day has a huge effect on my mental state, especially when watching Richard Linklater’s work. So thanks everyone in the movie industry for making my day easier. BOB STUTTLE, SUFFOLK Thanks for sharing your experience with us, Bob – it’s lovely to hear how much movies move you, and we’re sure your director of choice would be touched to hear this, too. Maybe we need to coin a new phrase: “Linklater is the best medicine.”
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ou asked in issue 272 for ways in which traditional cinemas could win back their audiences. Well, here’s how: 1) we need automatic ejector seats for those who decide to use their phones at any time during the film. 2) And let’s get some of those nasty aliens from A Quiet Place to sit at the back of every cinema, waiting patiently for any crunches of popcorn, any phones ringing, or any people chatting through the film. There you go. Problem solved. Unless you laugh loudly during a comedy. In which case I’m sorry. PETE, BRACKNELL
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Chatter ‘gems’ overheard in the Total Film office this month…
* “I’d rather have a shit straw than choke Nemo” * “I prefer watching dogs on screen. You don’t have to smell them” * “‘The royal penis is clean.’ One of the defining moments of my childhood” * “Why are we still discussing our Twilight rankings?”
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bit.ly/2IyIdhH To mark the oh-so-timely release of Meghan Markle movie A Random Encounter, we were gifted this oh-so-yummy cake. More people flocked round it than lined the streets of Windsor last month…
MAY THE ROAR BE WITH YOU bit.ly/2KTASHO Star Wars Day, 2018: in support of Lucasfilm’s new Unicef initiative #RoarForChange, our Jamie eagerly donned the Chewie mask and let rip. Mouse droids across the galaxy scarpered to their hidey-holes.
OUR NEW FAVE DIRECTOR bit.ly/2wxPjOL “The #JurassicWorldFallenKingdom roaring cover of @totalfilm is the coolest thing ever!” tweeted none other than the movie’s director J.A. Bayona – and who are we to argue? Five stars for the video, too.
THE PREDATOR TRAILER bit.ly/2KT0JzG “Going to be epic,” reckons Sam Garabi, while Chris Hands opines “Ohhhhh my daaaaaayz…” Some had misgivings: “Why the hell would they put kids in a movie with Predators?” (Gary A. Valenzuela).
L’APPARTEMENT HUNTING bit.ly/2KjqQi4 Proving that TF eats, sleeps and breathes cinema, we found a Cannes apartment with filmic vibes. Reminded us of Rear Window – though for @BaldrickB it looked “suspiciously like the courtyard from Taken”.
RAMBO’S BACK! bit.ly/2rB20TU Our men in Cannes felt like they’d been shot by an explosive arrow when they saw this teaser ad for Rambo V. “Yerse!” tweeted @CapnNeil, while @koolada asked, “[Is] Banksy doing film posters now?”
MARBLE CINEMATIC UNIVERSE bit.ly/2rBRhbT Also in Cannes: a marble statue of Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon touting The Spy Who Dumped Me. “Too bad Sam Heughan wasn’t a part of it,” said @CherylW54985317. “I’d be trying to… umm… steal it!”
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blockbuster, we tend to associate dust ut what cinemas should do is look fter watching Infinity War, which with horror and sadness everlasting at their pricing, or perhaps offer brought together story threads (well, till next April, at least). It’s like better incentives. How about offering that have been running for 10 years, Toy Story 3 – before that movie came a free instant stream for a given film I began thinking about other attempts along, we’d frolic happily in the local that’s good for one viewing, one month at shared universes that didn’t work incinerators. Now, though… after release for 24 hours, so you can out so well. While the MCU has had catch up with what you might success beyond even Stan Lee’s have missed? And then, imagination, others such as the if you want to add it DCEU and Universal’s Dark Universe o, Avengers: Infinity War: your collection, you get a have been unable to muster the the internet was quick discount on the film when same appeal. Is this perhaps just to warn me it would be it gets its official homeMarvel catching lightning in a bottle, emotional, but why did entertainment release. or is there something behind their nobody warn me how • videos • reviews MICHAEL, VIA EMAIL approach that makes it so magical? funny it would be??? • trailers • news KEVIN MAGUIRE, GLASGOW The Marvel movie Phase 4 desperately needs Mark Ruffalo, n response to your reply to If Dialogue really knew Marvel’s Tom Holland and Dave Bautista as my letter, some things that could secret, it’d be richer than Tony a touring stand-up comedy troupe. perhaps be done to get people away Stark, instead of wandering around You heard it here first. from living rooms and back into in ragged, Bruce Banner trousers. EDWARD COOKE, BRADFORD cinemas are: 1) every ticket comes with But it’s likely down to a combination a free foot rub or head massage. Or 2) of canny casting, careful universecinemas could even try selling the pick trange, isn’t it, how movies building (heroes giving it a while ’n’ mix at a reasonable price; after can be so different on a second before bashing the super-shit out all, who wants to take out a second viewing. Take Avengers, for example of each other) and control of tone mortgage for a mini Snickers? As for – I enjoyed my first viewing, for (and not just the bloke inside Total Film coming round with their sure. However, I was left slightly the Iron suit). As for upping beanbags for film night… you guys underwhelmed. Then on second enjoyment on second viewing, are more than welcome, just ring first viewing I felt as if I saw something let’s open the floor. Dialogue so I can run a duster round and put totally different and LOVED it! Anyone will read each letter twice and down some coasters! else get that after rewatching a movie? debate on WhatsApp before OWEN HOLLIFIELD, BARGOED MATTHEW ROBERTS, deciding how it feels. MERTHYR TYDFIL OK, thus far we’ve tackled cost, confectionery and cacophony… how do people feel about the actual audio-visual experience? Is the big screen too big? Too loud? Or just the right level of ear-battering? And savings on the cover price * Massive seating: enough leg room? Can you * Subscriber-only magazine content usually find your chair without having * Two Jurassic Park Pop! Vinyls to ignite your phone or crack a glow * Exclusive subscriber-only covers stick? And Owen: ta for the invite, Visit www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/TOFsubs but thanks to a certain recent
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Skyscraper I Fresh from Rampage, Dwayne Johnson returns to duty. Rawson Marshall Thurber raises the stakes for the action star…
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his movie is not as good as Die Hard,” laughs writer and director Rawson Marshall Thurber. “But only because nothing ever is! As soon as I came up with the concept I knew it would be compared. But you just have to wear that and own it because that’s absolutely what Skyscraper is – it’s Die Hard meets The Towering Inferno with the biggest action star in the world at its centre.”
Just like Die Hard, Skyscraper sees a grizzled cop trapped in a building when it’s attacked by terrorists, and just like The Towering Inferno, most of the film is spent trying to get out before it burns down. Except this building is almost a mile high, the cop’s wife and kids are stuck on the top floor, and Dwayne Johnson
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plays him with one leg. That’s how you one-up the classics. “I’d wanted to make an action movie since I was eight years old,” says Thurber, a director previously best known for comedies such as Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, We’re The Millers and, also with Johnson, Central Intelligence. “I got close on
a couple of superhero movies but I was always a bridesmaid and never a bride, so I just thought, ‘Screw it. I’ll write my own damn action movie!’ So I crammed all of my eight-year-old boy ideas into one script.” Thurber religiously re-watched the ’80s and ’90s movies he grew up on, then wrote “a love letter to [vertiginous Sylvester Stallone-starrer] Cliffhanger” with the intended feel of a throwback. After several summers filled with high-octane superhero action and low stakes, he wanted the China-set Skyscraper to seem as if something real was on the line. And that meant
sky’s the limit Dwayne Johnson is John McClane. No, wait, sorry, he’s Will Sawyer.
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chipping a few cracks in The Rock, who had somehow managed to emerge largely crack-free from encounters with tumbling masonry in San Andreas, magical videogames in Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle and mutant monsters in Rampage. “I wanted to show Dwayne Johnson in a way that nobody has seen him before,” he explains. “Everybody knows he can pick up a dump truck and throw it through a brick wall – he actually can do that, by the way – but in most of his movies, he’s bulletproof; there’s not a lot of jeopardy. When I sat down to talk to him about this, I said, ‘I want this to be your most vulnerable role. I want people to actually worry about whether or not you’ll survive.’ I also talked a lot about Harrison Ford, specifically his roles in Patriot Games and The Fugitive, and wanting to see Dwayne be a thinking man’s hero. You can’t out-punch a giant building. It’s a puzzle, you have to solve it and you have to use your wits. He was really excited about that. The one thing Dwayne loves more than anything is a challenge.” It was a challenge that slightly softened Johnson’s $200m grin, as suggested by the star’s confession that he actually took a few days off (four in total) after filming Skyscraper. One video from the set showed him intently listening to jazz to try and calm his nerves before one particularly insane stunt. It didn’t help that he had to do the whole film on one leg, either. Losing everything below his left knee in the film’s cold open, Johnson’s former FBI hostage negotiator Will Sawyer spends the rest of the story with a prosthetic limb – which isn’t the easiest thing to deal with when you’re hanging 3,500ft off the edge of a burning building by your feet. “That was a really fascinating world to research,” says Thurber, who put Johnson in touch with Jeff Glasbrenner, the first American amputee to climb Everest. “Also, what was so cool for me was that I’ve never
seen a lead hero in an action movie be an amputee before. We’ve shown the script and bits of the film to real wounded veterans and their response has been everything you’d want it to be – they’re just so excited that an amputee hero is going to be shown in this light. We’re the first, and it’s long, long overdue.” Neve Campbell plays Johnson’s onscreen wife, Sarah, who is stuck in the burning tower but “absolutely not the damsel in distress”, says Thurber. Meanwhile, Ghost In The Shell’s Chin Han, Noah Taylor, Roland Møller, Byron Mann and American Gods’ Pablo Schreiber fill the other floors with evil executives, dastardly terrorists and clueless cops. To add another complication to the story, Johnson’s hero must escape the fire while being blamed for starting it – a plot point that led Thurber to think up an interesting way for him to get inside the building from above the fire line. “If you can’t go up from the inside, the only way in is obviously going to be coming in from the top. So that led me to one of the very first ideas I had for this movie in terms of a big, hopefully iconic-looking set-piece.” Cut to the shot that wowed the Super Bowl crowds when the trailer dropped in February, with Johnson running (with one leg) the length of a giant construction crane and making an Olympic-sized leap to the top of a flaming skyscraper. Filmed mostly on a soundstage, with the dizzying drops added digitally by ILM, the stunts were still 20ft in the air and the jumps were all real. “They exaggerated the distance a bit in the trailer and on the poster,” laughs Thurber, “but the jump is still barely achievable. I guess that’s what I want out of a movie when I pay my 15 bucks at the cinema, though – I want to see something impressive and silly and fun. Something I haven’t seen before. Something huge.” PB
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high flying The Rock’s up to his usual death-defying tricks… but with just one leg this time; Neve Campbell (below) plays Johnson’s wife, trapped in the tower.
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