Difficult to recognize Adam Driver behind the drawn features and the graying hair of his new character. The star of Star Wars changes register. We analyze it!
The start of the school year has been rather busy for Adam Driver. The sex symbol made a flash visit to the Venice Film Festival to present White Noise, available on Netflix at the end of the year. This adaptation of a novel by the sulphurous Don DeLillo (whose novel Cosmopolis had previously been adapted by David Cronenberg with Robert Pattinson) follows the story of an American family facing the conflicts of everyday life, each of its members exploring “the universal mysteries of love and death (…) in an unstable world“, says the synopsis. For Adam Driver, White Noise has the flavor of reunion. The film gave the star the opportunity to Star Wars to work once again with his favorite filmmaker, Noah Baumbach, who had directed him in Marriage Story three years ago. Driver also shares the poster for his new film with the director’s companion, actress and director Greta Gerwig, a longtime friend he met on the set of the very indie Frances Ha in 2012, a distant time when this one was (even) not yet one of the emblematic faces of the series Girls by Lena Dunham.
Today, Adam Driver flirts with the cream of Hollywood: Martin Scorsese (Silence), Steven Spielberg (lincoln), Clint Eastwood (J.Edgar), Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman), JJ Abrams (The force awakens), Terry Gilliam (The Man Who Killed Don Quixote)… The actor has just added to his hunting list another very famous name in American independent cinema: Michael Manna genius of his kind to whom we owe masterpieces such as The Last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day-Lewis, Heat with Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, Collateral with the unsinkable Tom Cruise or the biopic Ali with Will Smith. This summer, the filmmaker pointed his cameras at Adam Driver as part of the filming of his next film, Ferrari, inspired by the creator of the eponymous firm. Set in 1967, this fake biopic, according to Michael Mann, takes as its starting point the bankruptcy of Enzo Ferrari, then caught between a tempestuous marriage, the mourning of his son Dino and the recognition of another child. To recover, the entrepreneur then put everything on a race, the famous 1000 Miglia. First set photos reveal a Adam Driver unrecognizable in the lead role. With gray hair and drawn features, everything suggests that Michael Mann is about to deglamorize the face of Burberry.
This colossal project in which Adam Driver must participate after Ferrari
After Ferrari, Adam Driver will climb aboard another racing car. A behemoth of a completely different kind led by a Hollywood legend: Francis Ford Coppola. The actor is indeed expected this fall on the set of Megalopolisa project that the director of Godfather and by Apocalypse Now caress for many, many years. To bring his dream to life, Coppola pulled out all the stops. Unable to count on the help of majorsmore interested in franchises and superheroes, the filmmaker partly finances with his own money the filming of Megalopolis, a production destined to make a date in the history of Hollywood since it will use a cutting-edge technical device: “virtual” shooting, which an Atlanta studio has made a specialty of in recent years. Set in an alternative New York, this SF feature film is billed as a “story of love and deep introspection on the nature of Man”. Adam Driver will give the reply to Dustin Hoffman, Forest Whitaker, Zendaya, Laurence Fishburne and Cate Blanchett. What make you dizzy!