The first book of the popular series, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning, hit the shelves in September of 1999. Five years later, Paramount Pictures released the film A Series of Unfortunate Events. This film starred Jim Carrey, Liam Aiken, Emily Browning, Kara/Shelby Hoffman and Jude Law. Fast forward to 2017 when Netflix released the series starring Neil Patrick Harris as the vile Count Olaf, Malina Weissman as Violet Baudelaire, Louis Hynes as Klaus Baudelaire and Presley Smith as Sunny Baudelaire. The show did well enough to be renewed for a second season.
With that news, we knew that new actors/actresses would be added to the show. Thanks to The Wrap, we know that the latest star to join the show is Nathan Fillion. He is set to play Lemony Snicket's brother. Along with Fillion, Tony Hale, Sara Rue, Lucy Punch and Roger Bart have...
With that news, we knew that new actors/actresses would be added to the show. Thanks to The Wrap, we know that the latest star to join the show is Nathan Fillion. He is set to play Lemony Snicket's brother. Along with Fillion, Tony Hale, Sara Rue, Lucy Punch and Roger Bart have...
- 6/13/2017
- by Emmanuel Gomez
- LRMonline.com
Five years after "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" hit the big screen, words on potential sequel are rushing in. Asked by CineFOOLS at the premiere of "Land of the Lost" whether or not a sequel is looming, director Brad Silberling seemed optimistic that a follow-up movie is likely to be happening.
"It was a co-production between Paramount and Dreamworks and there were studio politics and I actually think it's going to see the light of day," the filmmaker gushed. "[Name removed for privacy reasons] and I, he's the writer of...is very friendly with Mr. Snicket I should say, we stay in constant touch about it, because I would love nothing more than to do that and we've been hoping to, so I think there will be a chance it may take a wildly different form but I think it will probably happen."
The first movie, "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events...
"It was a co-production between Paramount and Dreamworks and there were studio politics and I actually think it's going to see the light of day," the filmmaker gushed. "[Name removed for privacy reasons] and I, he's the writer of...is very friendly with Mr. Snicket I should say, we stay in constant touch about it, because I would love nothing more than to do that and we've been hoping to, so I think there will be a chance it may take a wildly different form but I think it will probably happen."
The first movie, "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events...
- 5/27/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Are you still patiently waiting for more Count Olaf? It’s been five years since the adaptation of “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events” hit theaters, a reasonable enough amount of time to assume that a sequel probably isn’t going to happen. Of course, that doesn’t stop author Daniel Handler (aka “Lemony Snicket”) and adaptation director Brad Silberling from occasionally giving hope to fans. Silberling, whose new film “Land of the Lost” opens next week, recently had the following to say to CineFOOLS on the subject:
“I actually think it’s going to see the light of day. [Handler and I] stay in constant touch about it, because I would love nothing more than to do that and we’ve been hoping to, so I think there will be a chance it may take a wildly different form, but I think it will probably happen.”
Even “wildly different form...
“I actually think it’s going to see the light of day. [Handler and I] stay in constant touch about it, because I would love nothing more than to do that and we’ve been hoping to, so I think there will be a chance it may take a wildly different form, but I think it will probably happen.”
Even “wildly different form...
- 5/26/2009
- by Christopher Campbell
- MTV Movies Blog
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events demonstrates what happens when you take a clever idea and run it into the ground. One's delight with the first act gives way to seat shifting in the second and gazing at one's watch in the third. What should have been an utterly beguiling exploration of the dark side of fantasy and the universal appeal of gothic wickedness devolves into a repetitive comedy that squanders a hugely talented cast. Nevertheless, given the popularity of the book series by Lemony Snicket, the pen name of Daniel Handler, and the clowning of Jim Carrey as the story's flamboyant villain, the movie appears headed for the boxoffice stratosphere.
The droll idea behind the books is that all those "extremely unpleasant" events that occur in fairy tales are the very things that attract young readers in the first place. Kids -- and the kid in all of us -- love sinister villains and cruel fate. So in the stories and now in this movie, Snicket -- a gravely funny voice-over by Jude Law -- constantly warns against impending calamities about to befall his young heroes, even to the point of suggesting that the viewer flee to a next-door cinema where a much happier film is playing.
Those who stick it out encounter the unfortunate adventures of three plucky orphans (played by Emily Browning, Liam Aiken and the infant duo of Kara and Shelby Hoffman), who must cope with the tragic deaths of their parents and then a collection of eccentric relations who take stabs at being their guardians. The worst of the bunch is wily Count Olaf (Carrey), who plots to bilk the children out of their inheritance.
The film is jammed with amusing gags, one of the best has the youngest orphan, the toddler, speak in cackles, giggles and grunts that the other two understand perfectly well. The rest of us make do with subtitles.
Their unfortunate journey begins at the count's gloomy-looking mansion, continues to the greenhouse-like home of Uncle Monty (Billy Connolly), then to the cliffside home of Aunt Josephine (Meryl Streep) and culminates in a circus performance where the count and his troupe of ne'er-do-well thespians conspire to get the count married to the 14-year-old girl to steal the money.
Unfortunate, too, is the inability of director Brad Silberling and writer Robert Gordon to turn a literary conceit into a cinematic adventure. Events are merely strung together rather than allowed to build to a climax. And the events themselves possess a discouraging sameness: Count Olaf plots to eliminate the orphans. No adult heeds the orphans' pleas. The trio escape his clutches through their own devises.
A viewer never develops much confidence in the film's dark side. The villainy of Count Olaf and his crew is cartoon villainy, lacking real menace. This throws off the balance between comedy and tragedy and denies Lemony Snicket of the very thing it wishes to wallow in -- the horrors in kiddie literature.
Carrey is again the master at physical comedy, contorting his body at gravity-defying angles and slipping chameleon-like from disguise to disguise. Yet there is something a bit hammy to his approach, a kind of wink to the audience that the wickedness is all play-acting.
Streep is quite funny as the unstable aunt, irrationally afraid of everything including objects and furniture in her own home. Connolly steals all his scenes as a herpetologist who wears a python around his neck while other reptiles wander his house. This is such a larger-than-life character that one rues his demise.
Working with production and costume designers Rick Heinrichs and Colleen Atwood, cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki gives Lemony Snicket a stylized look that bleeds all primary colors from the scenes in favor of blacks, grays and browns. The sets are most wonderful with all their Dickensian melancholy exaggerated to reflect a child's point of view. If only the movie had adopted that tone.
LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS
Paramount Pictures
Paramount and DreamWorks Pictures present a Parkes/MacDonald-Nickelodeon Movies production
Credits:
Director: Brad Silberling
Screenwriter: Robert Gordon
Based on the books by: Daniel Handler
Producer: Laurie MacDonald, Walter F. Parkes
Executive producers: Scott Rudin, Julia Pistor, Barry Sonnenfeld, Jim Van Wyck
Director of photography: Emmanuel Lubezki
Production designer: Rick Heinrichs
Music: Thomas Newman
Costume designers: Colleen Atwood, Donna O'Neal
Editor: Dylan Tichenor
Cast:
Count Olaf: Jim Carrey
Aunt Josephine: Meryl Streep
Voice of Lemony Snicket: Jude Law
Violet Baudelaire: Emily Browning
Klaus Baudelaire: Liam Aiken
Sunny: Kara Hoffman, Shelby Hoffman
Mr. Poe: Timothy Spall
Uncle Monty: Billy Connolly
Detective: Cedric the Entertainer
Bald Man: Luis Guzman
White Faced Woman: Jennifer Coolidge
MPAA rating PG
Running time -- 107 minutes...
The droll idea behind the books is that all those "extremely unpleasant" events that occur in fairy tales are the very things that attract young readers in the first place. Kids -- and the kid in all of us -- love sinister villains and cruel fate. So in the stories and now in this movie, Snicket -- a gravely funny voice-over by Jude Law -- constantly warns against impending calamities about to befall his young heroes, even to the point of suggesting that the viewer flee to a next-door cinema where a much happier film is playing.
Those who stick it out encounter the unfortunate adventures of three plucky orphans (played by Emily Browning, Liam Aiken and the infant duo of Kara and Shelby Hoffman), who must cope with the tragic deaths of their parents and then a collection of eccentric relations who take stabs at being their guardians. The worst of the bunch is wily Count Olaf (Carrey), who plots to bilk the children out of their inheritance.
The film is jammed with amusing gags, one of the best has the youngest orphan, the toddler, speak in cackles, giggles and grunts that the other two understand perfectly well. The rest of us make do with subtitles.
Their unfortunate journey begins at the count's gloomy-looking mansion, continues to the greenhouse-like home of Uncle Monty (Billy Connolly), then to the cliffside home of Aunt Josephine (Meryl Streep) and culminates in a circus performance where the count and his troupe of ne'er-do-well thespians conspire to get the count married to the 14-year-old girl to steal the money.
Unfortunate, too, is the inability of director Brad Silberling and writer Robert Gordon to turn a literary conceit into a cinematic adventure. Events are merely strung together rather than allowed to build to a climax. And the events themselves possess a discouraging sameness: Count Olaf plots to eliminate the orphans. No adult heeds the orphans' pleas. The trio escape his clutches through their own devises.
A viewer never develops much confidence in the film's dark side. The villainy of Count Olaf and his crew is cartoon villainy, lacking real menace. This throws off the balance between comedy and tragedy and denies Lemony Snicket of the very thing it wishes to wallow in -- the horrors in kiddie literature.
Carrey is again the master at physical comedy, contorting his body at gravity-defying angles and slipping chameleon-like from disguise to disguise. Yet there is something a bit hammy to his approach, a kind of wink to the audience that the wickedness is all play-acting.
Streep is quite funny as the unstable aunt, irrationally afraid of everything including objects and furniture in her own home. Connolly steals all his scenes as a herpetologist who wears a python around his neck while other reptiles wander his house. This is such a larger-than-life character that one rues his demise.
Working with production and costume designers Rick Heinrichs and Colleen Atwood, cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki gives Lemony Snicket a stylized look that bleeds all primary colors from the scenes in favor of blacks, grays and browns. The sets are most wonderful with all their Dickensian melancholy exaggerated to reflect a child's point of view. If only the movie had adopted that tone.
LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS
Paramount Pictures
Paramount and DreamWorks Pictures present a Parkes/MacDonald-Nickelodeon Movies production
Credits:
Director: Brad Silberling
Screenwriter: Robert Gordon
Based on the books by: Daniel Handler
Producer: Laurie MacDonald, Walter F. Parkes
Executive producers: Scott Rudin, Julia Pistor, Barry Sonnenfeld, Jim Van Wyck
Director of photography: Emmanuel Lubezki
Production designer: Rick Heinrichs
Music: Thomas Newman
Costume designers: Colleen Atwood, Donna O'Neal
Editor: Dylan Tichenor
Cast:
Count Olaf: Jim Carrey
Aunt Josephine: Meryl Streep
Voice of Lemony Snicket: Jude Law
Violet Baudelaire: Emily Browning
Klaus Baudelaire: Liam Aiken
Sunny: Kara Hoffman, Shelby Hoffman
Mr. Poe: Timothy Spall
Uncle Monty: Billy Connolly
Detective: Cedric the Entertainer
Bald Man: Luis Guzman
White Faced Woman: Jennifer Coolidge
MPAA rating PG
Running time -- 107 minutes...
- 12/23/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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