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Al Pacino: Christopher Nolan is 'miffed' with me
Posted: October 6th, 2014, 7:14 am
by oracle86
Although Al Pacino starred in Christopher Nolan’s Insomnia, relations between the pair have since cooled.
“He hasn’t offered me a film in a while, you know why? I’ll tell you why,” the Scarface actor says at a BFI event. “He asked me to be in this movie and I didn’t do it.”
While Pacino won’t divulge the film in question, he thinks he annoyed the Batman Begins director. “I think that might have miffed him a little bit, but I’m being presumptuous myself.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film ... th-me.html
Interesting. Since he doesn't mention the film, we can't really speculate on the role he was offered. Would loved to have gotten a bit more info on this.
Re: Al Pacino: Christopher Nolan is 'miffed' with me
Posted: October 6th, 2014, 7:37 am
by Robin
It must have been for Batman Begins. My bet is Carmine Falcone or maybe Ra's Al Ghul.
Re: Al Pacino: Christopher Nolan is 'miffed' with me
Posted: October 6th, 2014, 8:17 am
by oracle86
Robin wrote:It must have been for Batman Begins. My bet is Carmine Falcone or maybe Ra's Al Ghul.
Yeah, I was thinking of Falcone as well. If it was for Ra's, then I'm glad he didn't take it as I can't see anyone other than Liam in that role now - he was so charismatic and totally nailed it.
Re: Al Pacino: Christopher Nolan is 'miffed' with me
Posted: October 6th, 2014, 9:34 am
by Pratham
Maybe it was Jim Gordon?
Re: Al Pacino: Christopher Nolan is 'miffed' with me
Posted: October 6th, 2014, 9:39 am
by DoubleD
Pratham wrote:Maybe it was Jim Gordon?
This gets my vote.
Re: Al Pacino: Christopher Nolan is 'miffed' with me
Posted: October 6th, 2014, 11:41 am
by Insomniac
It's funny that Joe Pantoliano said the exact same thing pretty much.
Does Nolan cut you off if you turn him down?
I think not, because didn't Ledger turn him down prior to TDK? Same with Leo I think.
Re: Al Pacino: Christopher Nolan is 'miffed' with me
Posted: October 6th, 2014, 11:44 pm
by HorrorBiz
Insomniac wrote:It's funny that Joe Pantoliano said the exact same thing pretty much.
Does Nolan cut you off if you turn him down?
I think not, because didn't Ledger turn him down prior to TDK? Same with Leo I think.
Aaron Eckhart turned down the lead role in
Memento all those years ago.
Re: Al Pacino: Christopher Nolan is 'miffed' with me
Posted: October 7th, 2014, 1:32 am
by Panapaok
Pratham wrote:Maybe it was Jim Gordon?
Yeah, maybe Pacino didn't want to commit for a possible franchise.
Re: Al Pacino: Christopher Nolan is 'miffed' with me
Posted: October 8th, 2014, 12:12 pm
by shauner111
Im pretty sure it was Maroni (if it was a Batman film). Gordon was offered to Chris Cooper who turned it down. Oldman was asked to be Ras after Nolan toyed with the idea of having a younger Ras (Guy Pearce was to play that role). After Gary declined, he was offered Gordon and i read that both Daniel Day Lewis & Viggo Mortensen were in the running for Ras Al Ghul.
Re: Al Pacino: Christopher Nolan is 'miffed' with me
Posted: October 15th, 2014, 2:42 pm
by Insomniac
Remember that Nolan was originally going to make The Prestige after Insomnia. It might have been Cutter?