Emma Stone - Sam (Birdman) #1: Because Emma will play Michael Keaton's troubled daughter

heart devoured · 04-11-2013, 06:35 AM

Birdman

The film will follow a once-great actor best known for portraying a superhero, who is trying to relaunch his career with a Broadway play. It will apparently take place over three days in one location. Stone will play Keaton’s troubled daughter, fresh from rehab and now his assistant, Galifianakis will be the play’s producer, and Watts will portray an actress.

DIRECTOR
Alejandro González Iñárritu

CAST
Emma Stone
Edward Norton
Naomi Watts
Andrea Riseborough
Zach Galifianakis
Michael Keaton
Amy Ryan

Filming on April 10

**pink velvet** · 04-11-2013, 09:58 AM

thanks for starting the thread

so awesome that it's filming

heart devoured · 04-11-2013, 10:03 AM

No prob Rae.

Apparently they filmed with an iPhone. I wonder what kind of scene that will be.

**pink velvet** · 04-13-2013, 09:13 AM

really? that's kind of cool. maybe

zoar63 · 04-13-2013, 11:34 AM

Emma’s character making a video of her at the flower shop to later be posted on her facebook page

**pink velvet** · 04-14-2013, 06:54 AM

is that your guess or do you know?

heart devoured · 04-14-2013, 09:40 AM

Yes is that a guess or what?

I'm pretty sure it must be some kind of home made video segment anyway, because of the iPhone & handheld camera and in some pic(s) she's holding the cameraman's hand so the video would look like she shot it.

**pink velvet** · 04-15-2013, 07:54 AM

that would make sense

tranquility · 11-09-2013, 10:17 AM

This site has Birdman as one of the must-see movies of 2014.

Quote:

4. Birdman

Looking for an actor to play a one-time big screen superhero who's fallen out of the public eye? We're curious if Michael Keaton actually had to audition for Birdman, the new film from Alejandro González Iñárritu, and we certainly wouldn't be surprised if he didn't.

Birdman, billed as a comedy, sees Keaton as Riggan Thomson, once the man who played Birdman, but now desperately trying to put on a Broadway play (in this instance, Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love). Barriers to him doing so? Ego, family, insecurity. On top of the usual stuff.

Emma Stone, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Zach Galafianakis, Naomi Watts and Amy Ryan co-star. But the wildcard here might be Iñárritu himself - it looks, on paper, like a change of tone from the man who brought us the amazing Amores Perros, and films such as 21 Grams and Babel.

If nothing else, the chance to see Keaton in a big, major lead role is comfortably enough to sell us a ticket. It's been too long...