THE HANGOVER star Bradley Cooper is turning out to be very versatile.
Here is a first look at the poster for his upcoming Sundance mystery-romance THE WORDS. Quite different from your usual movie poster, it depicts 2011’s Sexiest Man Alive in silhouette; with lines from it’s screenplay flowing through the poster, a nod to the movie’s themes about how our use of words defines us.
Cooper stars as a struggling writer whose wife, played by Zoe Saldana, buys a valise for him in an antiques shop. But the valise contains a manuscript for a lost masterwork by a Hemingway-esque writer, depicted by Jeremy Irons. Things take a bad turn when Cooper’s character does the unthinkable and decides to publish it as his own work. According to the movie’s writers, Olivia Wilde also stars in the movie as ‘someone who wants to be a great writer, and also wants to know the truth about what happened with this book.’
THE WORDS will take centre stage as the closing night movie for the Sundance festival, which runs from 19th – 29th January. Its co-writers and co-directors Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal said they originally wrote the script 12 years ago, and thankfully never lost it.
‘We started talking about writers and their lost work. What if you lost all your work? How long would it take you to move on?’ says Sternthal. ‘This led us to a questions, what if you found the work?’ Klugman adds.
Though many of us probably cannot imagine someone sitting at a keyboard and trying to write a book as very dramatic, Klugman and Sternthal describe THE WORDS as almost a heist film. This probably relates to their idea of how easily good writing can be done, and also stolen. ‘When you’ve been in this industry and try to be an actor or a director – to be anything – you need so many elements to come into place. You need money. You need someone to say, basically, “It’s ok, you can do this.” But to be a writer, to work with words, you need a pen and paper,’ says Klugman.
‘And the best thing about it is, if it sucks, you can just throw it out,’ Sternthal adds.
Source: EW.com
