Coogan and John C Reilly to play Stan and Ollie

[amnesiac]

The problem is I can visualise the Coogan impersonation already and it's not very good. This project is DOOMED.

[biggytitbo]

Stephen Morris from New Order for Stan, please.

He has no chance, theyve already overlooked Nicholas Lyndhurst (yet again) so clearly Coogan has the role locked down.

[marquis_de_sad]

He has no chance, theyve already overlooked Nicholas Lyndhurst (yet again) so clearly Coogan has the role locked down.

I think it's more likely that Lyndhurst turned them down. He's a busy man.

[Swoz_MK]

I'm sorry (Ollie) its a bit big

[olliebean]

Blimey. They've actually put the names the right way round for once.

[Replies From View]

Looking forward to this.

[Maurice Yeatman]

It doesn't help that I've had a bad feeling about this film from the start, but that poster is horrible. Obviously the newspaper isn't supposed to be particularly authentic, but everything in it is so on-the-nose it's annoying. (Hard to tell but they do seem to have used Coogan and Reilly for that front page photo though.)

[Wet Blanket]

Obviously the newspaper isn't supposed to be particularly authentic, but everything in it is so on-the-nose it's annoying.

What particularly annoys me is that it has two front pages

[paruses]

From the looks of it those are the two centre pages.

F-

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

ARGH GOD I HATE THE TINY ELEMENTS OF ART PROVIDED TO US THUS FAR, ARRGH!

[paruses]

ARGH GOD I HATE THE TINY ELEMENTS OF ART PROVIDED TO US THUS FAR, ARRGH!

I'm really looking forward to this but that is a beyond terrible poster.

[PlanktonSideburns]

John C Riley is just a gorgeous human being isn't he?

[Depressed Beyond Tables]

I can see Coogan pulling this off more than any of his previous serious roles. You just need to powder whiten him up to Aunt Sally levels and he'll look like a doll.

[neveragain]

Nothing wrong with that poster.

Okay the newspaper looks a bit off but design-wise I think it's fine.

[Maurice Yeatman]

What's that "L.A.RAMS" doing in a British paper? An in-joke or something to interest an American audience? I demand an answer.

[Bazooka]

I mean both are stellar comedy performers, I don't really like biopics, I just don't see the point in a fictional sense, but I'll be happy to be proved wrong.

[petril]

would newspapers have said "U.K." in them days? or would they have gone with Britain or England?

[Wet Blanket]

Technically broadsheet newspapers in that era would have classified ads on the front pages anyway, not headlines in that style.

[Gulftastic]

I mean both are stellar comedy performers, I don't really like biopics, I just don't see the point in a fictional sense, but I'll be happy to be proved wrong.

At least this biopic is a part of their careers that is largely unknown, as opposed to their heyday. We won't have to watch scenes of them making Way Out West' or 'The Music Box'.

[paruses]

What's that "L.A.RAMS" doing in a British paper? An in-joke or something to interest an American audience? I demand an answer.

The newspaper content reminds of the birth scene in I, Partridge with people calling things out to fix the thing in time.

[Replies From View]

At least this biopic is a part of their careers that is largely unknown, as opposed to their heyday. We won't have to watch scenes of them making Way Out West' or 'The Music Box'.

Yes, and this pleases me a lot.  I'm not fond of biopics where they recreate fragments of existing work, and if you're obsessed enough to know the original very well you just end up noticing how different they are.  And it's distracting and takes you out of the film.

[olliebean]

What's that "L.A.RAMS" doing in a British paper? An in-joke or something to interest an American audience? I demand an answer.

It's an American paper. It just happens to have a lot of stories about the UK on its two front pages. But the stories are written from an American perspective (e.g., "over the pond in the UK.")

[Maurice Yeatman]

would newspapers have said "U.K." in them days? or would they have gone with Britain or England?

Agreed, particularly not "the UK", although obviously the United Kingdom did exist then.

It's an American paper. It just happens to have a lot of stories about the UK on its two front pages. But the stories are written from an American perspective (e.g., "over the pond in the UK.")

I didn't - still can't - see the "over the pond" bit. I presumed it was meant to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evening_News_(London_newspaper)#

[olliebean]

I didn't - still can't - see the "over the pond" bit. I presumed it was meant to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evening_News_(London_newspaper)#

End of the first paragraph of the "British Climbers Conquer Everest" story. But the big clue is "Bon Voyage" at the top of the L&H story - you say that to people who are leaving, not people who are arriving.

[Shaky]

Reilly looks the spit of Ollie. Coogan seems to be playing Frank Spencer, which is an interesting crossover I didn't foresee:

[Maurice Yeatman]

End of the first paragraph of the "British Climbers Conquer Everest" story. But the big clue is "Bon Voyage" at the top of the L&H story - you say that to people who are leaving, not people who are arriving.

Still can't make any of the text out at all, but looks like you're right in that case. I thought the Bon Voyage was British coverage of their departure, even though it doesn't make sense either way that it would be covered in the same edition that their tour success is. (And it means they're reading the paper having arrived back in America after the British tour and while still wearing their on-screen outfits.</allrightwegetit>)

Crap poster and the fact that Hardy hated being called Ollie in real life aside, I (as a lonely proud member of the Utopia tent of Sons of the Desert*) really do hope this is a good film and my natural pessimism is misplaced.

* never had a job interview since I started putting that on my CV

[paruses]

Reilly looks the spit of Ollie. Coogan seems to be playing Frank Spencer, which is an interesting crossover I didn't foresee:

That guy in the body warmer will be in the next Robert Webb Biggest Movie Mistakes show without a doubt!

Disappointed Steve coogan looks like Steve coogan / Frank Spencer in that but I think he is a good enough mimic to make me forget he's not Stan.

Had Oliver Hardy lost a load of weight by this point or is it too early for that?9

[sevendaughters]

think they look pretty good

[popcorn]

-bollocksed this post up-

[popcorn]

Toblerone, barefoot.