JackThe Prestige Movie Trailer
September 15th 2006 06:13
The Prestige is a 2006 film based on Christopher Priest's award winning 1995 novel of the same name. The film is directed by Christopher Nolan and reunites the director with Christian Bale and Michael Caine, both of whom he worked with in Batman Begins. The Prestige also stars Hugh Jackman, David Bowie, Scarlett Johansson, Piper Perabo and Andy Serkis. It will be released on October 20th in the US and in late 2006 / early 2007 in the rest of the world.
Set in late 19th century London, the film tells of Rupert Angier (Hugh Jackman), a popular American magician, with his British mentor Harry Cutter (Michael Caine) and girlfriend and assistant Olivia (Scarlett Johansson), who is in a friendly rivalry with Cockney magician Alfred Borden (Christian Bale). However, it soon turns into a jealous rivalry, as Rupert tries to discover the secrets of Alfred's success. It soon emerges though he may have real magical powers...
Interesting facts:
• Bale and Jackman played two known comic book heroes, Batman and Wolverine, respectively. Coincidentally, in Amalgam Comics, their characters merged into the character known as Dark Claw.
• When the movie began filming, Batman Begins fans speculated that The Prestige was in reality the next Batman movie, with Bowie as The Joker, and Jackman as Two-Face. Since then, this film and The Dark Knight have been confirmed as two separate films.
• The trailer describes three parts of a magic trick:
The Pledge, where a magician shows his audience something ordinary, when it probably isn't.
The Turn, where the ordinary object does something extraordinary.
The Prestige, where the astonishment takes place as the audience cannot unravel a magician's secrets.
• The Prestige is one of three 2006 films to feature both the topic of magic and magicians as main characters. The other two are The Illusionist and Scoop, the second of which also stars Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johansson.
Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Produced by: Christopher Ball, Valerie Dean
Written by: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, David Bowie, Scarlett Johansson, Piper Perabo and Andy Serkis.
Cinematography: Wally Pfister
Distributed by: Touchstone Pictures - US; Warner Bros. - Elsewhere
Release Date: October 20th, 2006 - US
Rating: PG-13 - US; Violence and disturbing images
Budget: US $40 million
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article The Prestige (film).
Set in late 19th century London, the film tells of Rupert Angier (Hugh Jackman), a popular American magician, with his British mentor Harry Cutter (Michael Caine) and girlfriend and assistant Olivia (Scarlett Johansson), who is in a friendly rivalry with Cockney magician Alfred Borden (Christian Bale). However, it soon turns into a jealous rivalry, as Rupert tries to discover the secrets of Alfred's success. It soon emerges though he may have real magical powers...
Interesting facts:
• Bale and Jackman played two known comic book heroes, Batman and Wolverine, respectively. Coincidentally, in Amalgam Comics, their characters merged into the character known as Dark Claw.
• When the movie began filming, Batman Begins fans speculated that The Prestige was in reality the next Batman movie, with Bowie as The Joker, and Jackman as Two-Face. Since then, this film and The Dark Knight have been confirmed as two separate films.
• The trailer describes three parts of a magic trick:
The Turn, where the ordinary object does something extraordinary.
The Prestige, where the astonishment takes place as the audience cannot unravel a magician's secrets.
• The Prestige is one of three 2006 films to feature both the topic of magic and magicians as main characters. The other two are The Illusionist and Scoop, the second of which also stars Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johansson.
Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Produced by: Christopher Ball, Valerie Dean
Written by: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, David Bowie, Scarlett Johansson, Piper Perabo and Andy Serkis.
Cinematography: Wally Pfister
Distributed by: Touchstone Pictures - US; Warner Bros. - Elsewhere
Release Date: October 20th, 2006 - US
Rating: PG-13 - US; Violence and disturbing images
Budget: US $40 million
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article The Prestige (film).
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Comment by nagster
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Comment by JohnDoe
Film & TV on DVD
I think that the world of real life magic is the only through line between the Scoop, Illusionist and this. All 3 look like completly different stories.
Im not much of a Scarlett fan (except Ghost World) so I have no idea about her choice with period pieces. (Not that thers anything wrong with that)
Comment by Jack
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I agree with JD that the three 2006 magic films all seem to be completely different stories, all 3 have me intrigued and I look forward to seeing them.
Comment by JohnDoe
Film & TV on DVD
As for Ghost World its one of my favourite comedies and her performance is part of the charm.