First Image of John Malkovich from ‘SENECA’ – Deals with the relationship between the famed Stoic philosopher, Seneca and Nero, the infamous Roman Emperor he mentored since childhood, and who accused him of plotting his assassination
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[Teaser]
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So glad we’ve turned off the discussion generating self posts so we can get space back for the advertising & marketing cycle that *really* matters…
That trailer is incredibly fucking strange
I’m sold! We need more movies about Rome
Immagine wasting years of your life in An effort to create the perfect philosopher emperor, just to get a maniac fixed with theatre and boys that look like his dead wife
My sister worked with malkovich and he is as weird in real life as on screen. Should be a fun watch.
There needs to be a caption with:
> “But what I had been through. I am hungry as the winter. I am sick, anxious, poor as a beggar. Fate has tossed me hither and thither.”
[I’d castrate you and marry you in a heartbeat](https://twitter.com/succession/status/1458166754060890112?s=20&t=K_iG3yOaYj0k6CGpoAAO4Q)
Damn it. Fascinating subject wasted on tired meta hijinks and whacky postmodernism. Why can’t people just make movies about history?
I imagine this is what Ketamine feels like!
“The sponsors were so happy with me, they’re now naming me the new celebrity face of wool”.
Eh. Just give me historical movies without gimmicky modern crap.
Teaser looks like absolute trash. What a waste.
Malkovich seems to be doing whatever interests him which is cool, good for him and all that. But I would love to see him in more higher profile movies with big time directors like Scorcese or Nolan.
For me, Malkovich is in that same category as Willem Dafoe were you can put them in a supporting role that has only 15 min of screen time and they make it incredibly memorable. I’d love to seem him direct another movie too. He’s done it only once and it was really good.
Is that Louis Hofman aka Jonas Khanwald from Dark??
Cannot watch the trailer…is the young boy in the still dark’s main actor???
Ah yes, the famed Stoic philosopher Seneca and Nero.
Commas in the title are not used judiciously.
There’s not enough movies about philosophers. Given their centrality to western culture, the number of movies about them is pitifully small (and most of them obscure):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_about_philosophers
That looks so stupid.
Nero: “Osbourne Cox… ?”
To be fair, Seneca probably *did* plot to kill Nero and become the emperor. The fact that he de-facto ruled the empire when Nero was younger, and that Nero went batchit crazy, killing his own mother and brother, shows why that particular plot was so widespread.
There is an account of Seneca’s death, where the guard that delivered the sentence (he literally brought the paper to audience, including Seneca) first went to his superior and basically said “what are we going to do? They are going to kill the guy who lead our plot to kill the emperor”.
It’s Jonas Kahnwald!
Great to see Louis Hofmann getting international roles. Amazing actor and practically carried Dark on his shoulders.
Has John Malkovitch ever looked more like John Malkovitch than in this picture?
Might be a good introduction to the Stoics, of whom I think Seneca was the least likeable because of his ambition. Check Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, himself an emperor, and also Epictetus, a slave on a crutch, but somehow respected and remembered. See if they have anything to say to you.
Another Malkovich movie that’s pretending to be avant-garde while feeling like a high school play, pass.
r/titlegore
I miss the cold, menacing Malkovich performances from the 90’s.
Man, I hate Malkovich.
The trailer looks like this could be the worst movie ever made.