MTV’s Josh interviewed Carey Mulligan & of course had to mention Rob – no surprise there. We do however get an update on the film from Carey in the video below, with her saying “we couldn’t get it together in time basically, we still hope to do it” Keeping everything crossed!!

Looks like Mars Distribution is the French distributor for Hold On To Me – not only is it listed on IMDBPro, but if you click on the link you will see it’s also been added to their website.

 

 Thanks to LeRPattzClub for tweeting us about IMDBPro.

I love the way the French always gets behind Rob’s films.

For those who don’t know, Brad Ingelsby is the screenwriter of Hold On To Me & he spoke to Go Into The Story which is the official screenwriting blog of the Black List. Although there’s no Rob mention in this snippet, we do get a great insight into the movie. How amazing does it sound.

Scott: You’ve got several other projects in the mix, one of them another Black List script, “Hold on to Me.” That’s based on an article written by Hillel Levine and Jimmy Keene. “A ruthless and money‑hungry woman uses a hapless man as a pawn in her criminal schemes.” Could you give some background on how that project evolved?

Brad: Yeah, sure. That was an article, as you said, that Jimmy and Hillel had written. It was supposed to be published in Playboy magazine though I don’t think it ever was. Alexander Milchan, a producer, gave me the overview of the article that was to be written at that time. It’s a true story. An almost unbelievable true story about a murder committed in Illinois in 1986 by this woman Nancy Rish and her boyfriend, Danny Edwards. We’ve fictionalized the story quite a bit, but in real life Nancy was this blonde beauty and former pageant queen who had aspirations of leaving her small-town life in Kankakee, Illinois. In an effort to escape the doldrums of small-town life she starts dating this guy, Danny, who is beneath her usual standards. But he’s a guy she can shape and mold and so she does. She introduces Danny to drugs, then gets him to deal drugs, then gets him to deal more drugs. And this ascension continues until Nancy gets the fancy estate home and fancy sports car and the big boat she always wanted. And just when she’s finally living the life she always imagined for herself, it all gets abruptly taken away when Danny is pinched and thrown in jail.

So she’s back at this lowly diner where she waitresses and she’s reading this article, I think it was in “Esquire” or “Vanity Fair,” about a young socialite who was kidnapped and buried alive and kept alive for three or four days. And a light goes off in her head. She says to herself, “This is how I can get my life back.” I won’t give away too much more, but it’s a truly bizarre and haunting story of greed and ambition.

James Marsh is going to direct it and Carey Mulligan is going to star. James is one of the smartest people I’ve ever worked with. And one of the kindest and most collaborative. So it’s been a truly great experience. I’m really excited about that one.

Oh yeah, 2013 is one AMAZING Rob year – so so excited 😀

According to FilmNation HOTM is in pre-production, although I’m not sure how much weight I can put on this since when clicking on “printer friendly” mode it looks like it was written on 14 November 2012 (see below) and in all honesty IMDBPro has had this in “pre production” for some time.  The other thing is when I click on The Rover it states pre-production and nothing else.  Anyway, I’m not trying to be a Debbie Downer – just wanted to say that I’m not sure how current the information is, but I like that the synopsis is the same as we posted here – and now I have visions of  *cough* Jimmy *cough* tied up in a chair.  I guess the old adage “any news is good news” applies:

“Hold On To Me

 

For those who don’t know – The Black List comes out December each year and celebrates great scripts and screenwriters.  It’s not a “best of” list, but more a list of scripts/screenplays that hopefully will be made into movies because at some stage during the year they were unknown scripts.  For instance, Hold On To Me is listed and we all know that that is definitely not “unknown”.  According to The Black List:

“The Black List was compiled from the suggestions over 290 film executives, each of whom contributed the names of up to ten of their favorite scripts that were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2012 and will not have completed principal photography during this calendar year.”

It’s worth nothing that scripts have to receive at least 6 mentions before it will be included on the list (hence why there is a 6 next to HOTM) – it’s not no. 6 in the list.

 

It’s great to see it on a list like this though.  Some of my fave films have been listed on The Black List over the last 6 years.

Click here to see the full list.

LOVE hearing any piece of news we can about this film.  James Marsh, the director of Hold Onto Me spoke with Cinema Teaser & had this to say about Rob & the movie:

…So if Marsh has turned this mini-series even without official title next summer, which is HOLD ON TO ME, her project with Robert Pattinson and Carey Mulligan? “This advance reassures Marsh. I think turning in early 2013 if funding is secured. “Often compared to ALL READY TO Gus Van Sant because of its pitch (a beauty queen kidnapped and buried alive a man for money), Marsh tells us that he finds suitable comparison, although” BOOGIE NIGHTS will also be a model in terms of tone. This is one of my favorite movies, because it goes to the dark humor in a second. HOLD ON TO ME is a dark comedy. Documentaries had my humor – at least I hope – as my fictions were heavier. There will be more exuberant. “An album that could change Marsh’s career, due to the presence in the cast of Robert Pattinson:” Robert is interesting: he knows where he wants to go and he wants to work on projects that help to make as COSMOPOLIS . He uses his fame and power to help people like me to make interesting films. It has a lot of potential. When we met, I loved his attitude towards cinema. He loved the script and told me so very intelligent. It will be a great asset to HOLD ON TO ME and I hope with him to suddenly casting this rameutera full of teenage girls in the rooms to corrupt! (Laughter.)

“Finally, Marsh has revealed the actor he wanted to complete the cast:” I would hire an actor in the series GIRLS, Adam Driver. It is a great actor, yet little known. This will form a great triangle with Robert and Carey. “A great actor indeed already seen in J. EDGAR, and soon to be in Steven Spielberg’s LINCOLN, Inside Llewyn Davis of Coen, THE F WORD with Daniel Radcliffe or FRANCES HA Noah Baumbach.

LOVE the praise he gives Rob here.  How great does the movie sound – SO exciting 🙂

Translated from original text in French via Google Translate.