For those of you who like reading the scripts to Josh's films, here the July 22, 2006 polished production draft by Steve Niles (based on the graphic novel by Niles & Templesmith) revisions by Stuart Beattie and Adi Hasak.

 

A five-minute promo (sorta like the Speed Racer 5-minute trailer) for Tran Ahn Hung’s “I Come with the Rain” has appeared online via TwitchFilm. The film stars Josh Harnett as an ex-cop turned private investigator who goes to Asia looking for a billionaire’s missing son. He ends up in Hong kong, where he has to deal with a gangster played by Lee Byung Hyun (soon to be seen in “G.I. Joe”) and a cop played by Shawn Yue who may be more trouble than he’s worth. The video is five minutes long and pretty much spells out the whole movie for you, so yes, there are probably some SPOILERS, but it’s official.

Check it out below

(Be warned this is R rated stuff, some shocking images).
or have a look here.. & here... 

 

Some clips from the '30 days of night' dvd extra's.

STUNTS

GET IN THE TRUCK

THE LOOK

GET OUT

 

A very good version of the August teaser/trailer...

 

Producer-actor Josh Hartnett's dot-com drama "August" is being picked up by First Look Studios for a July release.

First Look is acquiring North American rights to the Sundance Film Festival premiere, which centers on a high-rolling Web startup founder (Hartnett) struggling to resuscitate his company and personal life on the eve of Sept. 11.

Austin Chick's New York-based feature also stars Naomie Harris, Adam Scott, Robin Tunney, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Rip Torn and David Bowie, who plays a corporate raider.

"August" is one of several star-driven projects to slowly emerge with distributors from January's disappointing Sundance market.

Charles Corwin, Hartnett, Elisa Pugliese, David Guy Levy and Clara Markowicz produced the film, a 57th & Irving presentation of an Original Media production made in association with Periscope Entertainment. Howard A. Rodman wrote the screenplay.

First Look has tentatively set a limited July 11 theatrical release. CAA is repping the filmmakers in the deal.

Josh Hartnett’s career continues to take a strange path.

The once popular studio actor has just finished post on the Asian gangster movie I COME WITH THE RAIN where he plays an L.A. Cop who moves out to Hong Kong in search of a missing billionaire and now comes word from Variety of another upcoming project straight out of left field.

This time it’s BUNRAKU, where Hartnett will play an un-named, revenge-seeking loner in an alternative universe. Bunraku is a type of Japanese puppet show but the movie is "a live-action telling a classic story of a stranger coming to town in the tradition of spaghetti Westerns, samurai movies and gangster flicks." Drifter's story is revenge gone bad. He's out looking for retaliation but finds himself involved in a fight bigger than what he prepared for.

"It's not fantasy. Well, I mean, it's fantasy in that it's not reality, but it's not 'Narnia.'" - Josh on "Bunraku"

"It's out there." - Josh on "Bunraku"
Watch the inteview-video with Josh

source: MTV

"It's in the vein of 'Sin City" or something like that, where the world doesn't look like reality at all,' - actor says from Sundance.

Much like Brad Pitt and Robert Redford before him, Josh Hartnett is becoming increasingly intent on lending his leading-man looks to the edgy, artistic scripts that are his true passion. Now, following his efforts that helped get "Sin City" made, the 29-year-old star is involved in what could be cinema's next great leap forward.

"I'm going to Romania to shoot this film called 'Bunraku,' " Hartnett revealed to MTV News, invoking a title based on a 400-year-old form of Japanese puppet theater. "All the cast isn't set yet, but it's going to be a lot of really interesting actors, in this weird kind of papier-mâché world."

As Hartnett's fans remember, the heartthrob was approached in January 2003 by Robert Rodriguez, who was intent on showing "Sin City" creator Frank Miller that Hollywood could film his material without sacrificing its quality. After lending his time for nothing more than a test, Hartnett's scene got the film made and eventually was reused as the opening take of the revolutionary 2005 flick. Now, Hartnett is once again breaking new visual territory with "Bunraku" — a trippy film with a puppetry-meets-Origami look, which the actor compares to Alfred Hitchcock's "Rope," in that it will play out (or at least appear to play out) in one long, unedited take.

"I don't even know how to explain it," Hartnett grinned. "It's odd; it's out there. I've been trying to do as much artistic fare as I can and things that are compelling to watch as well."

He'll hope to accomplish exactly that in a few months, when he relocates to Southeastern Europe to film the 21st-century tale of an old-fashion man with no name. "It's a story of revenge," the "30 days of Night" star explained. "My character is called 'The Drifter,' and he comes into this world that doesn't look like anything like you've ever seen before. It's in the vein of 'Sin City' or something like that, where the world doesn't look like reality at all."

The flick will mix CGI and practical sets to create the world of "Bunraku," a style of Japanese storytelling that uses 4-foot-tall puppets with highly detailed heads, each operated by several puppeteers who blend into the background wearing black robes and hoods.

"Some of the scenes are gonna be more Michel Gondry-like I guess," he said, citing some degree of influence by the "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" visionary. "But a lot of them will be green screen as well."

"[The script] has a lot of fight sequences in it, but it's more about these crazy characters," Hartnett explained. "Like my character, he's a gypsy and he's coming into town and he's got something to prove — and no one really knows what he's about."

During his attempts to describe the defiantly indescribable look of "Bunraku," Hartnett kept hearkening back to that groundbreaking Frank Miller film he lent himself to several years ago. "It's not fantasy. Well, I mean, it's fantasy in that it's not reality, but it's not 'Narnia,' " he said. "It's a film that, I don't know how to stick it into a genre, but I would say it's more a film like 'Sin City' than anything else."

At the Sundance Film Festival last week to promote his upcoming dot-com drama "August," Hartnett revealed that "Bunraku" has shuffled his upcoming film schedule considerably. In addition to "August," he'll soon continue his film-festival tour with a trip to Cannes to promote the Hong Kong private-eye flick "I Come With the Rain." He also revealed that his indie football drama "Endzone" won't begin filming until 2009 at the earliest.

Source; MTV

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