March 28, 2001
"Ripley's Game" Behind the scenes
APTN

SHOTLIST, January, 2001,Venice region (including transcript):-


1. GV LOCATION

2. PAN FROM HOUSE TO BARN WITH FILM SET

3. VS B-ROLL PEOPLE ON SET

4. WS MALKOVICH AND DOUGRAY SCOTT ON SET

5. MS MALKOVICH

6. DOUGRAY SCOTT

7. SOT JOHN MALKOVICH - "I don't even know for instance how much Liliana has ever seen me do. I think probably more than anything I was picked by Leylene Mayzelle who I worked with on Les Liason Dang‰reuses, probably more than anything because she probably thinks I can be a good influence in making a difficult thing more than anything."

8. B-ROLL - REHEARSAL

9. B-ROLL DIRECTOR

10. MALKOVICH TALKS TO STUNT MAN

11. DOUGRAY SCOTT AT MALKOVICH'S FEET

12. SOT MALKOVICH - "He is obviously older, his life has changed, he becomes quite bourgeois in a way which is what he always aspired to. In the books he has a French poodle-type wife and he just enjoys his life and he occasionally has to kill people or do his little frauds or little scams when the need or opportunity present itself and he can benefit from it."

13. CU CLAPPER

14. MS OF TAKE OF GUN SCENE

15. CU INTO MALKOVICH, SCOTT IS SHOT

RIPLEY RETURNS

John Malkovich and 'Mission: Impossible 2's' bad guy Dougray Scott have started filming the follow-up to the 1999 hit thriller, 'The Talented Mr. Ripley.'

'The English Patient director Anthony Minghella cast Matt Damon as Ripley in "The Talented Mr. Ripley," which was based on a series of books by British novelist Patricia Highsmith.

It told the story of a young American social climber. On the one hand he is artistic and sensitive on the other, willing to do anything, including kill, to carve out the life he had always dreamt off.

Now, Italian director Liliana Cavani (whose background is in Italian television production) will direct "Ripley's Game," picking up where the first film left off.

The sequel sees the amoral Ripley character (played by Malkovich) decades after he got away with the first series of murders , living in Paris, married and enjoying an affluent bourgeoise lifestyle funded by nefarious dealings on the art market.

When Ripley requires two of his rivals to be killed, he enlists the aid of a sickly picture-framer, who undertakes the assassinations to support his family.

The situation soon spins out of control, Ripley's Game has begun once again....

Production began in the Venice region in January.

Description:  On set in Italy with John Malkovitch shooting his latest movie

Length:  2:32    In Time:  13:33:33

Date:  20010328