Benedict Cumberbatch wants to see real change.
04.11.2021 - 21:06 / etcanada.com
A new look at director Jane Campion’s cold-blooded Western “The Power Of The Dog” has arrived online.
Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee, “The Power Of The Dog” has already impressed critics ahead of its release on Netflix next month.
Set in 1925, the story follows charismatic and mean-spirited rancher Phil Burbank (Cumberbatch) who torments his brother’s (Plemons) new wife Rose (Dunst) and her son, Peter (Smit-McPhee). When he appears to take the
Benedict Cumberbatch wants to see real change.
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Radiohead biopic, after forming a friendship with guitarist Jonny Greenwood.The actor’s next film is The Power Of The Dog, scored by Greenwood, where he plays cowboy Phil Burbank who runs a ranch in Montana with his brother George (Jesse Plemons).Speaking to NME, Cumberbatch recounts his “weird” first meeting with Greenwood and Thom Yorke after they watched his performance of Hamlet at The Barbican in 2015.“[Radiohead producer] Nigel Godrich and Edgar Wright came to see me in Hamlet,”
Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons will be playing on-screen spouses once again in the Western film, .
Benedict Cumberbatch has a real knack for playing unique, oftentimes misunderstood egomaniacs. Whether it’s Doctor Strange, Sherlock Holmes, Patrick Melrose, Julian Assange, or Khan, the actor finds a way to ground his oftentimes sociopathic characters in a real emotional truth.
Jon Burlingame editorOne of the most intriguing, and certainly dark and disturbing, scores of this season is Jonny Greenwood’s music for “The Power of the Dog,” filmmaker Jane Campion’s Western starring Benedict Cumberbatch as a surly, complicated cowboy in early 20th-century Montana.It’s one of three scores the Radiohead musician-songwriter has in end-of-year awards contention.
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorNot only did Benedict Cumberbatch undergo dream analysis to prepare for his role in “The Power of the Dog,” but so did the film’s director and co-screenwriter Jane Campion.“It gives you so much confidence because whatever you find in that work it comes through you and it just feels grounded in something very real inside yourself,” Campion told me Thursday at the AFI Fest screening of her new Netflix film, “The Power of the Dog,” at TCL
Deadline’s Contenders L.A. returned for an in-person edition Sunday at the DGA Theater, with 31 buzzy awards-season titles showing off their wares in panels that featured the likes of Nicole Kidman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jennifer Hudson, Kristen Stewart, Javier Bardem, Adam McKay, Lady Gaga, Mahershala Ali, Ben Affleck, Kenneth Branagh, Pedro Almodóvar, Penélope Cruz, Simon Rex, Marlee Matlin, Andrew Garfield and Dakota Johnson to name a few.
Benedict Cumberbatch, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Kirsten Dunst are promoting their new project together!
Writer-director Jane Campion and star Benedict Cumberbatch said Paul Newman was one of the previous stars who tried to adapt Power of the Dog before them, relating the history of their new film based on Thomas Savage’s book during Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles panel Sunday at the DGA Theater.
The stars of The Power of the Dog are stepping out for the movie’s latest screening!
Benedict Cumberbatch has revealed that he was actually sick as a dog while filming The Power of the Dog.
Benedict Cumberbatch went all out to play Phil Burbank in his new film “The Power of the Dog”.
Kirsten Dunst opened up about how the coronavirus brought fear into her life.