Ben Affleck’s Gone Baby Gone Opens October 19th But Maybe Not in UK Theatres
September 13, 2007 – 8:30 amPosted Under: movies
I forgive him for the whole JLo thing and Gigli, Jersey Girl and even Daredevil. Seriously I do. And even though Reindeer Games and Good Will Hunting were his best performances to date–I’m going to be there at the first showing to see this movie. It reads like it has enormous potential.
Ben Affleck wasn’t sure the French would get the jokes in “Gone Baby Gone,” a story of two private detectives searching for an abducted 4-year-old girl in the seamy side of Boston, so he was almost speechless after the film got a standing ovation from the Deauville Film Festival audience.
“They really seemed to like it,” Affleck said Wednesday. “It was the first time anyone saw it, and I didn’t know how the jokes about parties in Lynn being better than parties in Everett would play subtitled in French. Or the ones about stealing jet skis and going up to New Hampshire. But even if they didn’t get it, they still seemed to appreciate it.”
The story is adapted from a Dennis Lehane novel about the kidnapping of a little girl from her home. Ben Affleck is apparently considering whether or not to release his film Gone Baby Gone in the UK because of the real life case of the missing, presumed kidnapped, child Madeleine McCann, which is eerily similar to the plot in Ben Affleck’s film Gone Baby Gone (which he co-adapted and directed). This is why he is considering the delay.
It co-stars Morgan Freeman and Ed Harris and is already being talked about and billed as one of the best films of the year. The Hollywood Reporter, after seeing it, predicted that it will be “remembered as one of the best crime movies of this decade”.
And it could well make a name for Casey Affleck, who towering lead performance comes off the back of solid supporting turns in the Ocean’s Eleven movies and Brad Pitt’s Western The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford.
Ben chose to cast Casey because he believed it would offer up more possibilities for his screenplay by making the central character younger than in the novel. It also removed the temptation to appear in it himself.
“‘Frankly, I didn’t think I could do it,” he told Entertainment Weekly. ‘‘It took everything I had to direct this movie, and there are still a lot of things in there that I think, If I could go back, I might shoot that scene differently.”
Beantown native surprised everyone by stepping behind the camera in a movie even his own wife Jennifer Garner brands as “deliciously good.”
Garner says, “I mean it. It’s not because I’m his wife. I want him to hire me!”
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