MARLOWE starring Neeson, Lange, Kruger, Cumming, Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Huston, Hart and Meaney

Alan Cumming needs to go away. What a ham.

The book is a page turner. Lange’s character is aces.

The Suicide Squad breakout Daniela Melchior and The Moodys star François Arnaud are the latest to have joined Liam Neeson movie thriller Marlowe, which is currently filming in Ireland and Spain.

The film is being shot in Ireland apparently. The description makes it sound like a Chinatown esque L.A. noir but I can't imagine anyone is dumb enough to think the Emerald isle could stand in for California.

This is an excellent cast.

Wow this looks great, I can’t wait to see it! Love a good noir. And not just the Pinot kind!

R4, That's probably why they were shooting in Barcelona, which has a temperate Mediterranean climate like California.

Part of this story is set in Ireland, too.

Please send a grease fire to the table of R1

Alan Cumming is fabulous.

The entire cast sounds enticing.

Vintage cars were on the streets of Manresa last week, and the exterior of the Catalan restaurant Miami was transformed into Schmidt's Liquor, while the building next door read "Bank of Bay City." Bay City is Raymond Chandler's pseudonym for Santa Monica.

Only 3 reasons I'd watch the film: Lange, Huston & Cummins and they probably will all have only small roles.

Wasn't Liam Neeson cancelled?

A little snippet of a scene from the novel between Lange and Neeson’s characters.

Another snippet…

I love the word snippet. Well it sounds promising for sure. Neil Jordan can be great. Liam Neeson is beyond sexy.

Never realized it before but Jessica Lange and diane kruger actually look pretty similar enough to be believable as mother and daughter

Neeson? Ugh.

I’m ready, with my crotchless panties on.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is so damn sexy.

R18 He was delicious in Oz.

Liam is hot big nose and all

Sad Lange Loon 🤡

R20 I bet he’s got cock for days.

R21 Is that a Nicole Kidman emoji…?

R22, he's pretty old. I wonder if it works?

R24 I’d make it work…

Diane Kruger is a nothing actress. I saw J.T. Leroy and I didn’t even know who she was.

R26, second movie with Liam. I wonder if they're lovers?

There was a movie in the late 1960s called Marlowe with James Garner and DL anti-fave Rita Moreno, who I thought did a really good job. It wasn't as edgy as it really should have been, especially since it was based on the short story "Little Sister," which is grim.

I had assumed this was going to be a remake of that story but I'm glad to see it's not. Sounds more like the Gene Hackman Night Moves, so I'm seriously interested in watching this.

[quote]In Marlowe, when private detective Philip Marlowe (Neeson) is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress

Hmmph. If Liam Neeson isn't searching for his daughter, the film is not worth watching.

R26, Kruger is excellent as Marie Antoinette in Farewell My Queen (2012).

Filming wrapped!

Is Lisa Mordente in this?

Dec 2nd release.

R14 snippet, snippet good.

You'd think they'd try to make this a franchise and select a younger actor besides the wooden, 70-yr. old Neeson, who has never lost his Irish brogue.

"Chandler is not consistent as to Marlowe's age. In The Big Sleep, set in 1936, Marlowe's age is given as 33, while in The Long Goodbye (set 14 years later), Marlowe is 42. In a letter to D. J. Ibberson of April 19, 1951, Chandler noted among other things that Marlowe is 38 years old and was born in Santa Rosa, California"

The film is premiering in competition at the San Sebastian International Film Festival later this month (Sept. 24):

Marlowe, directed by Neil Jordan and written by William Monahan, will have its world premiere at the closing gala of the San Sebastian International Film Festival (SSIFF, September 16-24).

Screening in official competition, Marlowe stars Liam Neeson as the titular private detective asked to hunt down the ex-lover of a mysterious blonde woman, played by Diane Kruger, in 1930’s Los Angeles. It is inspired by John Banville’s novel The Black-Eyed Blonde, based on the character of Philip Marlowe from the novels of Raymond Chandler.

Jessica Lange, Ian Hart, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Alan Cumming also star. Kruger will join Neeson and Jordan in attending SSIFF for the premiere on September 24.

The film is produced by Alan Moloney, Gary Levinsohn, Mark Fasano, Billy Hines, Philip Kim and Patrick Hibler. Filming took place in both Barcelona and Dublin in a co-production between Parallel Films, Hills Productions and Davis Films, with support from Screen Ireland.

Open Road Films has North American rights to Marlowe and is planning a theatrical release in December.

Jordan was previously president of SSIFF in 2019 and his film The Good Thief opened the festival in 2002.