Warner Bros. Television is in talks to develop a series based on the silent film star’s life Buster Keaton. The project would be led by malek branches like Keaton.
Director of Batman, Matt Reeveswould direct the series and, according to reports from Varietywill produce it through its 6th label and Idaho Productions, which is under a master project deal with Warner Bros. TV..
The biography of James Curtis of 2022 Buster Keaton: The Life of a Director It could be material that will serve as the basis for a future adapted script for the series, as the studio is negotiating the rights to the book.
Keaton, lived from 1895 to 1966she is also considered one of the most important stars of the silent film era Charles Chaplin. He started out as a child in vaudeville shows with his parents, who were touring performers, before transitioning into movies in the late 1990s. 1910.
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Keaton’s first film was the silent comedy Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle The butcher boy. Working with creatives and senior executives, including Douglas FairbanksJoseph M. Schenck and Edward F. Cline, became known for performing over-the-top stunts and physical comedy with a blank facial expression.
After forming Buster Keaton Productions with Schenck he also started directing, and they are his best known films Sherlock Jr., Steamboat Bill, Jr. Y our hospitality, among others. Keaton also continued to work on contracts at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. and Columbia Pictures, as well as several independent producers.
The period dKeaton’s heyday spans five yearsCome in 1923 and 1928, in which he shot ten silent film classics. “I was practically born on stage,” Keaton said in an old interview.
“I grew up behind the scenes watching my father and his other colleagues work. Thanks to this experience, he was already a veteran by the age of 20.’ ‘A comedian does funny things; a good comedian makes things funny…was his maxim.
There was talk of a bad relationship with Chaplin. an interview of frames seemed to deny the rumor: “Charlie Was the Best” he said in 1965, when he had just attended Movieshort film directed by the playwright Samuel Beckett.
“Without a doubt we are talking about one of the inventors of cinema. Buster Keaton’s jokes worked thanks to the camera. Cinema itself has become a big joke,” he said. Quentin Tarantino. At the time of the film with Beckett, Buster Keaton was already very ill and shortly after, on February 1, 1966, he died of cancer.
From Freddy to Buster
Malek is best known for playing Elliot Alderson mister robotfrom 2015 to 2019, as well as for putting himself in the shoes of Freddy Mercury in the Bryan Singer biopic Bohemian Rhapsody.
The latter work earned him the best actor award at several award ceremonies, including the Oscars. Malek’s other works include The war at home Of fox Y The Pacificfrom HBO, as well as there is no time to die and the most recent Amsterdamnext to Margot Robbie.
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