NEWS: Tykwer's Next

CULTURE: Tykwer's Next

Tom Tykwer will begin on his next film, Perfume: The Story of a Murder. Dustin Hoffman and Alan Rickman will star with a relatively unknown British actor in the lead.

Orland Bloom was originally at the top of the production companies' list, but it was thought that a movie with Alan Rickman and Orlando Bloom would cause female audience members to instantly and collectively orgasm; thus ruining the movie for male viewers.

you mean his next since 'the princess and the warrior' and 'heaven'? 'lola' was six years ago

Damn them for taking all the joy out of my life!

yay!

scentless apprentice?

I can't remember the last time a female orgasm ruined anything for me, ever.

Hm, I remember way back when Ridley Scott was going to direct this.

-Billy Billy

I always pictured Grenouille to be rather repulsive -- somewhat similar to The Penguin in Batman Returns. It's good to know it won't be Bloom.

Although my sister will be sad about that.

Orlando Bloom? Grenouille is suppoed to be a small strange little man that nobody would look twice at.

huh. that's funny. if you'd have asked me if i thought a bunch of men in a movie theater would like it if the women they were surrounded by just all of a sudden had simultaneous orgasms, i would've said yes.

seems like some guys would pay extra to get in that movie.

I've read the book, "Perfume", and it's -not good-. The only thing keeping it from being a complete bomb is the way it's written, as the descriptions of some of the scents and his methods are quite elaborate.

As a movie, this is going to suck ass.

I really enjoyed the book but I do have doubts about whether it would translate onto the screen all that well.

Maybe I'll have to hit Barnes & Noble on my way to work today.

i liked the book too, but i have tried repeatedly and often to imagine what a movie based on it would be like. And can't.
I think I'll just keep watching Quills instead. It gives me the same feeling, and IS a good movie.....