Marilyn Manson and Nick Nolte to Star in Metaphysical Spaghetti Western
With Marilyn Manson’s new album about to drop, it looks like his hopes of breaking into the movie industry still haven’t quite panned out. His proposed Lewis Carroll biopic is stuck in limbo as far as I know, and he reportedly turned down the lead role in the upcoming remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He did manage to play the character of “Bartender” in Rise: Blood Hunter though, and now he is apparently set to star alongside Nick Nolte in a wacky project being described as a “metaphysical spaghetti western”. Trust me… you can’t make this stuff up.
Screen Daily reports that Chilean auteur Alejandro Jodorowsky will return to the director’s chair for the first time in 20 years with a movie called King Shot. The movie has picked up financing at Cannes and will likely shoot in Spain this October. The cast also includes Asia Argento and Udo Kier, and one of the producers is (who else?) David Lynch. The Hollywood Reporter adds that Marilyn Manson will “play a prophet in the Sin City-style film”, which “has enough sex and violence to guarantee an NC-17 rating”. I don’t know anything about Jodorowsky’s previous work, but based on the trailer for his movie Holy Mountain (embedded below), I’d say we’re in for something awfully disturbing!
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Watch El Topo immediately its one of the best psychedelic westerns to come out of the 70’s. Its on Netflix.
Posted by Me on May 25th, 2009Absolutley. The Holy Mountain is a brilliant flick too. El Topo single handedly created the “midnight movie”.
For something a bit more linear, watch Santa Sangre as well.
Cheers
Posted by Daemon on May 25th, 2009Agreed — I saw The Holy Mountain and immediately bought the Jordowosky boxed set (which sadly doesn’t include Santa Sangre, but you can download that).
Interestingly enough, The Holy Mountain has been referenced in a couple music videos recently… both Santogold’s “L.E.S. Artistes” (http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/musicvideo/1013-santogold-les-artistes-downtown-atlantic) and MGMT’s “Time to Pretend” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVnRzEjpUmE).
Posted by Derek on May 26th, 2009man…I can’t believe you have a film blog, yet you don’t know of probably the most spoken about underground writer/director of all time.
In the end, I guess you’ll have the pleasure of watching his stuff for the first time.
Posted by Soop on May 26th, 2009El Topo is amazing. I nearly turned it off in the first ten minutes, it was so bizarre but i kept on with it – all of a sudden, it all clicked into place and is now one of my favourites. Truly an awesome and unforgettable film.
Manson was attached to a proposed sequel to El Topo (Sons of El Topo i think) a few years back but it all fell through. I kinda get the feeling this may go the same way. Hope not this time tho’
Posted by Judge Onions on May 27th, 2009Seriously what kind of movie nerd hasn’t ever heard of El Topo? FAIL. I kid, but seriously…wtf? Losing some major filmjunkie points on that.
Posted by jrsuicide on June 1st, 2009Everithing by Jodorowsky is good, “Tusk” and “la cravate” are week wen compared to the others, but there was a very tight budget and are very watchable.
Never saw “Rainbow Thief”, is it good?
Also love and recomend Jodorowsky comics, espetialy the violent “Metabarons” saga and “the Incal” saga.
(sorry for my band english)
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