For … Originally written 2 years before 1995’s exemplary Se7en, Hancock’s film went through a plethora of filmmakers (Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, and Warren Beatty, to name a few) before he took the reins himself, resulting in a throwback-minded, stock standard film that mainly survives off its impressive casting. DEADLINE: Denzel started on TV, but once he pivoted from St. Warner Bros.’ “The Little Things” launches Jan. 29, marking the end of a 28-year journey for writer-director John Lee Hancock. The second is when Malek’s cop, still in shock and taking a necessary vacation to work out his feelings of guilt, receives an evidence envelope with a red barrette indicating that Leto’s character had killed the last, missing young woman, and Washington’s character had found the item in the guy’s apartment. That said, these are trying circumstances we are all in and I’ve tried my best to be Zen about it. The main difference between the two movies’ conclusions is that the suspect in Se7en is indeed the serial killer, but in The Little Things, the suspect (Jared Leto doing his best dramatic-phase Jim Carrey) is never proven to be the guy. When this happens to him and your two other Oscar-winning stars, what’s that conversation like? At least, outside the boundaries of morality and justice, that is. Writer-director John Lee Hancock peddles many of the tropes of David Fincher’s famous serial-killer police procedural — with an old cop working with a young cop, trying to outwit a seemingly implacable madman. I try to be as Zen as I can. Anybody could see that coming, but what I didn’t see coming was, no conversation about it. But is it the other way around? I thought: must the third act be just running around shooting at each other when the first two acts with all the clues were so interesting? A Perfect World had come out, with Clint Eastwood. In the earlier-produced film, the man they’re looking for winds up turning himself in and then takes the duo out to a field in the middle of nowhere to reveal a final victim, but (spoiler alert for the ending of Se7en) it’s all part of his master plan to turn the younger cop into a murderer representing the final deadly sin of wraith. The parallels are coincidental? Sometimes, you’ll have a thing where an actor just scratches his cheek in a way you like. Review (Đánh giá) The Little Things: Denzel Washington chói sáng trong phim mới của đạo diễn John Lee Hancock, phim có nét giống Se7en (David Fincher). Into all this steps Hancock’s January 29 release The Little Things, a terrific throwback thriller with three can’t miss performances. We’ve all had to adjust to it, and say, okay, if we’re going to do this, we have to get behind it. The people at MGM have brought on Saving Mr. Banks director John Lee Hancock … I had a little bit of a relationship with Jared Leto, who was a fan of a movie I’d directed, The Founder…, DEADLINE: The drama where Michael Keaton played steely McDonald’s pioneer Ray Kroc. It was worth the wait. Written and directed by John Lee Hancock and starring Denzel Washington as a weary professional with keen instincts and a battered conscience, … He read the script once and then re-read it over and over, making notes and notes. Even back in the ‘90s, you’d see a lot of crime movies that climax with everyone showing their colors and you know exactly who did it and why. When Courtenay said, let’s let everyone at Warner Bros read it, I asked for a week and a half to clean it up. It wasn’t the Hollywood of today, it was a lot more run down. She said, before we even consider giving it away in turnaround, we all have to read it. You had him after the Bohemian Rhapsody breakout role that won him the Oscar. HANCOCK: Jared transforms for every role, not only from his voice, to how he walks and what he wears and how he looks. Không. It was very internal, in the minds of these cops, and how they can become so focused and fixed on a suspect. HANCOCK: No. Battles big and small are being fought on numerous films: Legendary is in a big fight that might result in lawsuits after it financed 75% of tent poles Dune and Godzilla vs. Kong and was completely blindsided. Send us a tip using our annonymous form. Signup for Breaking News Alerts & Newsletters, Get our latest storiesin the feed of your favorite networks. HANCOCK: As the pandemic raged on, and appeared never-ending, and then the news came out about Wonder Woman, I can’t say the thought hadn’t crossed my mind that there might be some similar move for Warner Bros on The Little Things. A movie directed by John Lee Hancock ("The Blind Side") with Denzel Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto is by no means a … Whether it’s fulfilling is up for debate or merely up to the viewer, especially given that it’s open to interpretation what point it’s making. DEADLINE: What a surprise ending to a 30-year journey. Yet it’s otherwise a common crime for “hero” cop characters throughout film history. Then, Warner Bros read it; Courtenay Valenti was the only one who was still around from back then who read it before. Christopher began writing film criticism and covering film festivals for a zine called 'Read,' back when a zine could actually get you Sundance press credentials. I had a relationship because I’d done rewrites on Magnificent Seven and also, I’d been in South Africa with Denzel, doing rewrites on Safe House. This time, we travel back to 1990s Los Angeles to investigate the ending of The Little Things. HANCOCK: I was living in Hollywood at the time, and had some success. I don’t believe the movie aims to show them in a positive light. We all rolled up our sleeves, Mark Johnson, myself and the hard working people at Warner Bros. Over the last week, I’ve felt better and better at the prospect of people finding the movie and enjoying it. It may end up that it would have been better to have it at a studio, or better that it went to Netflix. It then falls on me to be sure the movie gels and is as good as we all think it can be. What if I don’t? They would carry around lots of quarters. Hancock was born in Longview, but grew up in Texas City. I would talk to him using his character’s name and give notes that way, between takes. And you wouldn’t see these guys hanging out. You could cast someone else and think, I could see them hanging out. I don’t believe Walker would have been aware of the script and then reworked it for his own. Big face-off, and the cop would seemingly be beaten down and would come back and kill the guy in some morbid fashion. Washington and Malek star as overly obsessed cops hunting a suspect in a series of brutal serial murders, zeroing in on a suspect who loves toying with his pursuers. I also took about seven pages out that were repetitive or overwritten. It was something I made up, and way back then, they didn’t pay me a lot to write it. The Little Things có ở cấp độ kinh điển như "The French Connection" hay "LA Confidential" không? ... As he explained to Deadline: " I wrote it before Se7en. HANCOCK: It’s pretty much the same. Before mapping the similarities between The Little Things and Se7en, it is important to understand the historical context of both pieces. HANCOCK: Well, nobody had read it for a long time. HANCOCK: That movie is a separate tragedy story with Harvey Weinstein. Then you draw the black bean. All Rights reserved. Maybe the victim looks like a kid you picked on in the schoolyard. I’m hopeful he’ll do some important pieces and I think Rami and Jared will, as well. That’s the other problem with all this was presenting it as a one size fits all declaration. Next thing you know, we’ve got three Academy Award winners and we set a production date and went into prep. Where do you go next as a filmmaker? Once he is that vessel for the character of Joe Deacon, he can’t make a wrong move. To make this grand statement with all these different movies for 2021, we are the test case. HANCOCK: It’s somewhat similar to The Highwaymen. Mark Johnson had always been the producer, and he would come to me every two or so years when someone was interested. Streamers don’t work with nearly the transparency that box office releases have. Here, Hancock discusses why it took so long for this chilling murder mystery to get made, and how he is reconciling the WarnerMedia blow as just the latest challenge in a three decade journey that came together with the best cast he could possibly have imagined. I’m a big student of behavior in actors. Hopefully, something will make. Unfortunately, Hancock doesn’t make it clear whether he is accepting of this or criticizing it. He’s a guy who will change things up and give you lots of choices. HANCOCK: The actors found out around the same time I did. There is also King Richard, the Will Smith-starrer that nearly went to Netflix and Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground. Both our doors were open and we sat for hours and talked. He would call and leave 30 second messages. Having a partner like Denzel, you don’t want to give him too narrow a lane. ... Hancock loses the grip he had on Deke. I felt I should give them a chance and listen to their complaints, because they weren’t at all happy about it, either. A slow-burn serial killer saga that leans into genre clichés like they haven’t been bludgeoned to death yet, John Lee Hancock’s “The Little Things” isn’t just set in 1990, it was also written in 1990. Then it had a life of its own after 30 years, and next thing you know we were making it. I’ve saved them all because they’re such a great look back. After the hotshot in The Little Things (played by Rami Malek) fatally whacks his suspect with a shovel, the act is covered up with the help of the veteran cop (Denzel Washington). We met at a conference room in a hotel and he said, I want to make this movie. I have high hopes that lots of people will sign up for HBO Max to watch this and other movies, so I’ve got fingers crossed. The biggest loss would be 30 years, and nobody sees this movie I’m very proud of. In the new movie, the main suspect taunts the younger cop, luring him out to the middle of nowhere to reveal a final victim, but the young cop similarly murders the suspect in a moment of rage. Universal owned it forever. Everybody was saying, he’s broke, he’s broke, and they kept moving and moving it, and then we found out later why he was broke. Now, all these years later, it’s a period piece; 1990, when the story was set, was pre-DNA. Netflix Hit ‘Bird Box’ Is Getting A Spanish Spinoff Movie; Others To Come. He said, Ok and his office was right next to mine, and he would come and go. There were myriad calls to agents and then to filmmakers and actors. I’ve got some other things, a script I wrote that’s an adaptation of a book called Dead I Well May Be, that Mark Johnson is producing and I’m co-writing a television show for Skydance and Apple + called Oklahoma!, loosely based on the Rodgers & Hammerstein play. But what are you going to do? Next step was, who’ll play Jim Baxter, and Denzel and I thought Rami Malek would be an interesting choice. 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I’ve been really impressed with the materials, the tack, the publicity and marketing stuff…they’re doing a great job and we are all hoping it can be promoted in a way that makes people understand it’s a really good movie they should see, in movie theaters where available, and if not, during the 31 day window on HBO Max. You always hear about Jared as a true method actor and that is true. I was proud of Warner Bros for making The Little Things. I guess that makes The Little Things seem to be influenced by Fincher’s Zodiac, as well. After all, how is the WarnerMedia bombshell any different than Disney just pulling three 2021 movies from theatrical release for Disney+ premieres, or Paramount selling the Eddie Murphy pic Coming 2 America to Amazon Prime, or Sony dealing the Tom Hanks WWII drama Greyhound to Apple TV+, or Universal selling foreign on Hanks’ News of the World to Netflix? He’ll go with whatever is in that moment, based on what the other actor gives him. Taking his cue from David Fincher's Se7en, the director, John Lee Hancock, has devised a clever, often ingenious alternative to the, by now, boring and predictable serial killer slasher. DEADLINE: How close was that 1993 script to the movie I watched? It’s Chinatown, Jake, and it’s every other part of the city. It is a curve ball. DEADLINE: What sparked your original idea? Many reviews of John Lee Hancock‘s The Little Things are calling the movie a rip-off of David Fincher’s Se7en (which was written by Andrew Kevin Walker). He’d ask, do you want to direct it? On Netflix, albeit, but so many people saw it that it was a win for that movie. Nowadays cell phones keep you connected all the time. But Jared was a big fan and he’d said, “I’m more interested in doing my music now, but if you have something…” Hat in hand, I went to Jared and said, “It’s not the lead, but an important part.” He read it, and said yes. He was completely open to trying anything and everything that I put in his ear. “Most of the movies about cops on the trail of a killer were really fun for the first two acts,” Hancock says in the Deadline interview when asked about the original script’s inception. At that time, most of the movies about cops on the trail of a killer, were really fun for the first two acts. He’s really interested in transformation. But in pre-COVID Hollywood, it was a seldom-seen, relatively little thing. When Warner Bros asked Mark Johnson and I, “Who’d you like to play Joe Deacon?” — we talked about it and said, “Denzel would be fantastic.” He read the script, we talked about it and he said, “Let’s do it.” It was too good to be true. This will be handled ad hoc, I think. Interestingly enough, the disconnect between Se7en and The Little Things makes the latter a bleaker and possibly more realistic version of the same situation. There are negotiations, and you hear about Legendary lawyering up and all those things. DEADLINE: And then WarnerMedia makes The Little Things the first of a 2021 slate it will release day and date on HBO Max. Then I had conversations with two friends, Scott Frank and Brian Helgeland, both were big fans of the script, and they encouraged me to direct it. Suddenly, you’re pinching yourself going, this is a lot, be careful what you ask for. All that prep work saves you because you have talked about the scene so much, you know what you’re doing. DEADLINE: The most important contribution with a great actor like that brings? Big face-off, and the cop would seemingly be beaten down and would come back and kill the guy in some morbid fashion. When I wrote it, it was a contemporary piece. That always disappointed me; I thought, must the third act be just running around shooting at each other when the first two acts with all the clues were so interesting? Have you ever had a journey like this before? You work the evidence and come up with zeroes. HANCOCK: I just finished my first draft of something for Netflix, a theatrical/streaming adaptation of the Stephen King novella Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, to write and direct. Lots of moody hues throughout, and great shots of cars and people lit my streetlamps. How did you feel when you heard? They’re wherever they are and you’re their angel; trying like hell to turn the ledger from red to black… Word to the wise, Jimmy. Maybe it’s just an early, less-than-refined script where he was trying to go against the grain. Copyright © 2021 Penske Business Media, LLC. After the hotshot in Se7en (played by Brad Pitt) shoots the killer John Doe, he’s presumably punished for his crime. You have his trust. All the work that has been done from that moment, forward, it was all hands on deck. I had little kids at the time and wasn’t sure I wanted to live in that dark a place for two years. JOHN LEE HANCOCK: I wrote it before Se7en. But writer/director John Lee Hancock borrows the most from David Fincher ’s Se7en (1995) and Zodiac (2007) in terms of tone and theme. While disappointed and in shock a bit, I felt bad for Courtenay, who had three more calls to make before the press release. I wanted it to be harder for these cops, who had to hit the streets and spend time driving around. I went back and culled out some of the CSI-type stuff that at the time was groundbreaking, and people hadn’t seen it before. It’s really entertaining, really good and I would hate for it to shadow away. A movie directed by John Lee Hancock ("The Blind Side") with Denzel Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto is by no means a modest production. That was a 15 year journey and that felt like a long time. “The Little Things,” directed by John Lee Hancock (“The Blind Side”), begins with fear and ends with a lie. We were in theaters, kind of like they did with Roma, a couple weeks before it dropped on Netflix. It’s an odd, weird time and I can’t wait to go back to the movie theaters and make them for movie theaters because there is simply no high like that. This flophouse, now a Whole Foods is there. A lot has happened with criminology. Even before the pandemic, “The Little Things” would have been a throwback. Then I can drop…” He comes at it in such a practical way, from staging to wardrobe, and says things like, “why am I doing this here?” He was around so much, I said, I’m going to set you up with an office, when we had prep offices at Warner Bros. It was probably 85-90% what was written in 1993, or ’92. “Little Things” Can’t Match “Se7en” There are three principal characters in John Lee Hancock ‘s The Little Things (theatrical + HBO Max, 1.29), a cops-chase-killer drama set … Finally, at the very end of the film, we see Washington throw away a bunch of barrettes he had bought, with one of them removed, revealing that the “evidence” was part of the cover-up and meant to make the hotshot think he was absolved of wrongdoing. But unlike Fincher, Hancock is unable to maintain narrative momentum. And go, what are you going to do after you’ve been thrown a curve ball? We started conversations early, and tried very different things. Denzel Washington is dazzling in director John Lee Hancock's new film, which has an eerie resemblance to David Fincher's Se7en. This was twice as long. But there’s something to the way The Little Things aligns its focus on the cop characters similarly to the way action movies and crime films did back then (Washington’s out-of-town character investigating a case in LA while on “vacation” is very Beverly Hills Cop). DEADLINE: They all seem so different. There are a few twists at the end that will both satisfy and not satisfy mainstream audiences. Watching Denzel, Rami and Jared work it out together, was really a master class. First is the death of Leto’s character, which means we’re not going to get a concrete confession or proof of guilt.
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