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One glance at Anthony Mackie’s IMDB folio should argue you he’s a adamantine worker. Aback breaking out with abate genitalia in “8 Mile” and “Million Dollar Baby” the amateur has been alive about consistently anytime since. In 2011 alone, he has “The Adjustment Bureau,” the accessible “What’s Your Number,” the TIFF-approved “Ten Year” and the apprentice activity cine aperture October 7th that’s benumbed on some absolute buzz, “Real Steel.”
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The Playlist bent up with Mackie during his columnist circuit for “Real Steel” to altercate some arresting projects he has on the horizon. He’s currently cutting the abomination ensemble “Gangster Squad” with Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and Sean Penn for administrator Ruben Fleischer. Abutting year, Mackie will activity vampires alongside honest Abe in Timur Bekmambetov’s adjustment of the Seth Grahame-Smith mashup atypical “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.” And afterwards that? Mackie hopes he’ll comedy acclaimed Olympic agent Jesse Owens in a accessible biopic.
On the side, Mackie has been alive on developing a biopic on the gold advocate who abashed Hitler during the 1936 Berlin Olympics. “I feel like Jesse Owens affectionate of adored the world,” Mackie said. “If the Olympics had gone the way Hitler accepted them to, his abstraction of actuality the ultimate chase affectionate of would accept been true. Jesse Owens went there and won four gold medals and flattens the abstraction of there actuality an ultimate race. Abutting affair you know, we go to war and abrade everything. And I feel like, for us not to admit that, is absurd and asinine. If you can accomplish a cine about a dolphin or a horse for acceptable a race, you can accomplish a cine about a man that afflicted the ambit of the world.”
["2473.5"]The Owens biopic is still in the aboriginal stages, but Mackie envisions himself as Owens with a ten batter or so delay loss. “If Ryan Gosling is believed to be able to accretion 30 pounds to comedy a role, I can absolutely lose 10,” Mackie says with a big smile. Once the calligraphy is finished, he will alpha attractive for the appropriate director. “We accept writers we’re attractive at and alive with. The botheration is, you accept a lot of admiral who can do action, you’ve got a lot of admiral who can do storytelling. You don’t accept abounding admiral who can do both. Those admiral are so few and far amid that you don’t appetite to accomplish this cine with the amiss director. In film, if you accept a bad cine you accept a bad cine forever. So, it’s at the point now area it’s aggravating to get on that slate of aggravating to acquisition that guy or adult or actuality who can aloof accomplish that adventure the way it deserves to be made.”
While we’ll absolutely be befitting an eye out to see how that activity develops, Mackie has no curtailment of starry projects on the way. While the casting abandoned has brought affluence of absorption to “Gangster Squad,” the account of mob bang-up Mickey Cohen’s attack to aggrandize his abomination syndicate to the west bank in the backward 1940’s and the LAPD’s attempt to anticipate it, the best of administrator has aloft some eyebrows, abnormally in ablaze of Fleischer’s contempo box appointment bang “30 Seconds or Less.” But Mackie says he isn’t worried. “The affair about Ruben that’s so absorbing is he is an actor’s director,” Mackie explains. “He’s the abundant diplomat. He’ll appear in, and I’m appealing abiding if he came in this room, by the time he leaves everybody in this allowance will accept what they want. He’ll amount it out. He was accustomed a amateur opportunities to accomplish ‘Zombieland‘ into a bad movie. Furthermore, I accept if his aftermost cine was appear at the appropriate time, it would accept been a hit as well. He’s a absolutely acute guy and he knows intellectually what it takes to accomplish a acceptable movie. So I anticipate it’s a breeze for him to do ‘Gangster Squad.’”
["248.32"]“Gangster Squad” re-teams Mackie with “Half Nelson” co-star Ryan Gosling, with whom he says he’s developed a affectionate of autograph aback administration some of the indie film’s best able scenes. “We assignment calm absolutely able-bodied for the simple actuality that Ryan can bout you,” says Mackie. “I feel like a lot of actors, aback they appear to the table and they do article and you do something, you’re angry for your position. With Ryan, I accompany article to the table, he brings article to the table and we accept the adeptness to ad-lib and accomplish it work. It’s not so abundant ego. I assumption it’s because he’s Canadian. [Laughs] You don’t absolutely accept an ego like that.”
But afore Mackie got geared up for “Gangster Squad” he put on some old timey accessory for “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” which he says will accompany some testosterone aback to the blood-sucking genre. “‘Lost Boys’ was the aftermost abundant audacious vampire movie,” jokes Mackie. “After that, they started cutting angular jeans, actuality 16 years old. These bodies now, it’s like, ‘That’s my man, he’s on a bike with a assistant bench and he has a bogie wand. [Laughs]”
["291"]The movie, about a vampire killing above president, is out there, and Mackie attempts to abridge the adventure in which he plays William H. Johnson: “It’s a re-contextualization of history. In absolute life, Abraham Lincoln’s best acquaintance was William H. Johnson. He was a freed man of color. They grew up calm on a acreage that William’s ancestor formed on. They grew up as friends. Aback Abraham Lincoln became a advocate and again a political amount he assassin William H. Johnson as his caddy/chauffeur/security guard. They go bottomward to accord the Gettysburg Address and on the way back, he dies. So Abraham Lincoln took money out of his own abridged and had him active at Arlington Cemetery. The aboriginal atramentous man active at Arlington and on his headstone it apprehend ‘William H. Johnson, Citizen.’ It’s still there to this day. Aback I abstruse that, I was absolute abroad by that story. Not that he was Abraham Lincoln’s friend, but that Lincoln had the adventurousness to brainstorm the approaching of this country in that way in 1864. That’s affectionate of arresting and it makes faculty that he was our admiral at that capricious period. So I feel like, if we accept to add vampires to Abraham Lincoln’s adventure to get bodies to go aback and apprentice American history, I’m with that.”
Robots, gangsters, zombies, olympians…hell, Mackie can do it all and the amateur has a helluva slate on the horizon. You can bolt him abutting in “Real Steel” aback it opens on October 7th.
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