Womb Movie

Watch Out, Mind Your Feet! Original Idea, Coming Through!

You Had Me At Eva Green / TK

Trade News | February 11, 2009 | Comments (35)

It’s not 100% original, but still… it’s not based on a book, or a graphic novel or a 1980’s toy line or a cartoon. To me, right now, that’s good enough. Hungarian director Benedek Fliegauf is set to direct Womb. It will be his first English-language film.

The premise, a science fiction love story/drama about a woman who clones her dead husband, is actually quite promising. And while I don’t have much more information than that, it can be taken in several interesting directions. Matt Smith (the next Time Lord) plays the deceased/cloned husband, and the wife is played by the excellent and brain-fryingly hot Eva Green (Casino Royale, The Golden Compass).

There’s vast potential here, in terms of ethical and moral discussions, visual effects, and plot developments. And if this was being produced by Fox and directed by Roland Emmerich, I’d immediately abandon all hope. But since it’s from the European production team behind Waltz With Bashir, we may well end up with something worthwhile.

Damn you, Eva, for your piercing eyes and interesting film choices. Stop giving me hope!

Hypnotic, no?

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Hypnotic YES. The Dreamers, anyone?

Posted by: Ryan at February 11, 2009 9:54 AM

OOOOOOOH! Me too. Me too. I would totally switch sides for Eva Green. Plus Matt Smith. This is panty-changing news.

Posted by: PaddyDog at February 11, 2009 9:54 AM

This sounds interesting.

However, now that women's terrifying eyes will haunt me forever. I think they may be x-ray eyes. I may have just been given cancer

(BLASPHEMER! -TK)

Posted by: Park at February 11, 2009 9:56 AM

Is there gonna be any Hungarian hookers in it? Or at least an under-aged actress dressed LIKE a Hungarian hooker?

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at February 11, 2009 9:59 AM

"I may have just been given cancer"

I may have just been given my first boner of the day.

* checks pants*

Yep. Thanks for the pix!

Posted by: bucdaddy at February 11, 2009 10:00 AM

Alright, you asked for it.

No.

But that's partly because it looks like she's trying.

The plot sounds a little like all the ghola nuttiness in the recent Dune books, but, yeah, it's certainly original enough.

(of course it is the curse of Pajiba that someone's gonna cite a movie already made)

Posted by: Jay at February 11, 2009 10:01 AM

Although the plot does raise the obvious question of what woman would actually clone her husband without making ANY modifications?

Posted by: PaddyDog at February 11, 2009 10:10 AM

"of course it is the curse of Pajiba that someone's gonna cite a movie already made"

So ... this is "Pet Sematary" with an adult?

Posted by: bucdaddy at February 11, 2009 10:13 AM

TK, She is quite hypnotic. Case in point, looking at the window title you gave this story scared me. I though "Womb Movie" was the next Seltzer/Friedberg atrocity, and Pajiba screwed up the link from the Eva Green picture. Soon after I realized there was, in fact, more Eva Green in the story and I was put at ease.

But perhaps the best picture I've ever seen of her was in the Bond on Set book they put out for Casino Royale. (You'll know which one I'm talking about when you see it...ok, maybe not. It's the one with her hair wrapped in a towel as if she's just gotten out of the shower.) She just has this smile...I swear I collapsed in the middle of Barnes and Noble with a smile on my face. The paramedics actually thought it was because I was in front of the section where they keep all the Playboys, but I set the record straight.

Posted by: Mike R. at February 11, 2009 10:19 AM

Sounds an awful lot like Creator with Peter O'Toole to me.

Posted by: jbrader at February 11, 2009 10:21 AM

Jay, the curse lives on, because to me this actually sounds like a mashup of Godsend and Birth. Hopefully it exceeds both films in quality.

Posted by: Mike R. at February 11, 2009 10:22 AM

Paddy, you know perfectly well that you can't change a man, radical reproductive science isn't gonna change that.

Posted by: Jay at February 11, 2009 10:24 AM

Oh and Pajiba is totally misandristic! Gawd!

Posted by: Jay at February 11, 2009 10:26 AM

Although the plot does raise the obvious question of what woman would actually clone her husband without making ANY modifications?

Mines, I'm sure.

Eva Green reminds me of my dad's reference to a woman being so hot you'd eat a mile of her, um, excreta to see where it came from. The accent just takes it to another place.

Posted by: rikkitikkitavi at February 11, 2009 10:42 AM

The Dreamers, anyone?

Yes please.

Posted by: Caspar at February 11, 2009 10:58 AM

The Dreamers, anyone?

I just keep certain parts of that film on a loop that plays on various monitors throughout the house while I walk around naked. Sort of Jamie Gumb meets Graham Dalton. I feel so healthy!

Posted by: rikkitikkitavi at February 11, 2009 11:08 AM

The Dreamers plays on a loop... in my head... constantly.

It makes the pants area happy. Uncomfortable, but happy.

Posted by: I Love Beets at February 11, 2009 11:10 AM

Eva Green is the definition of hot. I love The Dreamers, and not just because Michael Pitt is beautiful. I'm definitely interested to see whether this turns out good. God I hope so.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at February 11, 2009 11:14 AM

The Dreamers was hollow, self-indulgent, creepy shit from an aging avant-garde director, but she was super hot in it.

Posted by: Eep at February 11, 2009 11:20 AM

Oh, okay.. Now I know why my hand is in my panties. She is all sorts of hotness. Rawr.

Posted by: Janey at February 11, 2009 11:42 AM

Not trying to hate, but she just doesn't do it for me. Great body, but she needs a new head.

Posted by: stella at February 11, 2009 12:03 PM

I'm with you stella - I just don't see it. Even in Casino Royale it confused me why she was a Bond girl - meh.

Posted by: Popsi_zen at February 11, 2009 1:00 PM

Hypnotized by cleavage...

Can't...look...away...

Posted by: DarthCorleone at February 11, 2009 1:52 PM

*steals DarthCorleone's wallet while he's distracted*

Posted by: Melissa at February 11, 2009 3:17 PM

I'd watch any movie that picture's a still from. Even if I had to make it myself.

Posted by: karstark at February 11, 2009 6:28 PM

she may be hot, but honestly, she couldn't act her way out of a paper bag

Posted by: curious at February 11, 2009 6:35 PM

When my co-workers and I are floating around Batman casting ideas (work has been slow lately), Eva is my #1 choice for Catwoman.

Posted by: Mimi at February 11, 2009 7:40 PM

I really just want to nestle betwixt her love pillows and have a nap.

Posted by: admin at February 11, 2009 8:56 PM

Before I saw Casino Royale I thought I had reached a point in my life where I was comfortable with myself. Happy with my looks, my body, and overall confident in my appearance whether or not I had make-up on.

Then I saw Casino Royale.

I'm still not sure if i want to be Eva Green or fuck her.

Posted by: Genny (also Rusty) at February 12, 2009 1:10 AM

I'm still not sure if i want to be Eva Green or fuck her.

GaR, I think that we need to explore this inner conflict of yours in a much deeper and detail filled manner.

Perhaps with some roll playing.

Posted by: admin at February 12, 2009 9:17 AM

What, down a hill or something?

Posted by: Jay at February 12, 2009 10:26 AM

What, down a hill or something?

Posted by: Jay at February 12, 2009 10:26 AM

Jay,
I see what you did there...and I like it.

Posted by: jess at February 12, 2009 1:17 PM

I think in the hay, Jay.

Posted by: ed newman at February 12, 2009 1:18 PM

I'm passionate about homophone correctness, jess. Passionate.

Posted by: Jay at February 12, 2009 1:43 PM

Well played sir.

I got nothing.

Posted by: admin at February 13, 2009 1:20 AM

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