REMINISCENCE : Promotion and Release (SPOILER ALERT)

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Jul 26, 2021 5:35:43 GMT -5 jo said:

I bet this will be the start of personal reminiscences stories, as led by the reminiscing Hugh

The clip was published on Daily Mail.

Cute response --

A.u.d, A city, United Kingdom, about 7 hours ago

Wow, I swoon at Wolverine. Lovely couple. My first movie was The Thief of Baghdad. I sat on our rug for hours willing it to fly. I hate rugs. Especially non flying ones.

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This type of action thriller vs the superhero movies

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Collider usually has in-depth coverage of Hugh Jackman's film projects.

You may want to submit your question as soon as possible ( presumably within 24 hours).

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It looks like the usual media tour is being done online, in these health-uncertain times.

http://instagram.com/p/CR4O7AhDL7H

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Lisa Joy is Eurasian - part-British and part-Chinese.

According to her, while she loved writing and poetry, she never took writing seriously until her then boyfriend Jonathan Nolan gave her as a gift a scriptwriting software. Before that, after graduating from Stanford ( majored in English Literature and Chinese) she continued with her studies at Harvard Law School and was admitted to the California Bar, she worked as a professional consultant with McKinsey ( IIRC). She wrote the script of REMINISCENCE during her pregnancy of their first child.

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http://instagram.com/p/CR4UZ5UJvoD

From that long-ago Deadline.com interview with Lisa Joy --

The one person who was always in my mind, from the first day, was Hugh Jackman. It’s this crazy love story and it’s totally unreal to me. I drew his costume on him, I have all these sketches and I thought, it has to be him. This is a man who, whatever character he inhabits, whether it’s in Prisoners, or The Greatest Showman, he has a range that’s like that of a character actor. You always believe his characters. He has so much heart. Even if he’s playing a flawed character. You can just see that heart underneath that and you forgive him because you see in his flaws, your own.


Then you couple that with, my God, he’s Wolverine. The most charismatic, handsomest movie star. The idea he’s all those things combined, with the sensitivity and the action, the sheer physicality to pull off this physically demanding role. He was all I could picture. I didn’t talk to anyone else. I sent him an email and went out to meet him and we talked about the script. I stayed so long, they were like, you want to have dinner here? We were in his living room that long. I decided to leave him to dinner with his family and not encroach anymore. It was an instant connection in that way. He totally viscerally understood and inhabited that character.

I just recorded some voiceover with him and it was so moving to see him say these words that I’d imagined in my head so long. The life he brought to them was even better and more nuanced than I had imagined. That’s my lead.

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http://instagram.com/p/CRzEEnOp2zG

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Best seen on IMAX!! --

http://instagram.com/p/CQOWW2RJcaD

http://instagram.com/p/CQOWMQop2fo

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http://instagram.com/p/CRcMRsuJDUl

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From Lisa Joy's Twitter Page --

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From the early interview with Lisa Joy --

A little bit about the characters and the love story. The beating heart of this, is the love story. For me, there’s a reference within the film, but it’s loosely inspired by that myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Orpheus is this man who’s a wonderful singer, and the love of his life, Eurydice, dies. She’s bitten by a snake and goes down to hell and Orpheus’ grief is so extreme that he descends into hell, of his own volition, to try and barter with the devil and get his love back. And the song that he sings, is so beautiful and pure of heart, that it even moves the devil himself. He says, you can have your life back, you can take Eurydice back to the world, on one condition: don’t look back. As you’re descending up to the mortal realm, you can’t look back at her. The struggle is, will he or will he not look back. It started me thinking about love, itself. Both my philosophy on love, and there’s this meta-philosophy about film.

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Billboard!

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Poster for Japanese market --




Releases in Japan are usually a month late, presumably to get the dubbing done.


Except for LES MISERABLES -- released on the same week as the USA. Premiered with the then Crown Prince, now Emperor Naruhito sitting next to Hugh Jackman. It was the 2nd largest box office success overseas, after the UK ( where the English version of the stage musical originated).




"I drank champagne with kings and queens..."



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http://instagram.com/p/CR7C9SCpfpi

The huge billboard was at Warner Bros Studio.

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http://instagram.com/p/CR681NZp5mq

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This is from an Instagram post on Lisa Joy and husband Jonathan Nolan ( brother of Chris Nolan and co-wrote the script of The Prestige).

http://instagram.com/p/BK1Bd8dDR4H