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Taken from an old article, July 4,2000
I haven't seen this article, it explains a little about who is behind Joaquin's new film - in - production, 'Buffalo Soldiers'
FILMFOUR LTD � NEWS
BUFFALO SOLDIERS
FilmFour advances with Buffalo Soldiers.
FilmFour has boarded as majority financier of Buffalo Soldiers, a project which was hotly pursued by US companies, it was announced today by Paul Webster, Chief Executive of FilmFour Ltd. Directed and co-written by Australian director Gregor Jordan, the film is a Gorilla Entertainment/Odeon Pictures Production.
Buffalo Soldiers is based on the critically acclaimed, cult novel of the same name by Robert O Connor described as "an M1 tank of a novel, fast and powerful and dangerous... way nasty and blindingly funny". The film is the blackly comic story of a group of young US soldiers in the West Germany of 1989. Lacking an enemy, but little else in the way of sex, drugs and military hardware, it follows their misadventures against the backdrop of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Principal photography will commence in Autumn 2000 in Germany.
Gregor Jordan's first short film Swinger won Best Short Film at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. His debut feature Two Hands picked up five gongs at the 1999 Australian Film Institute Awards, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Writer.
Producers are Rainer Grupe and Ariane Moody for Gorilla Entertainment. Executive Producers are James Schamus for Good Machine (US) and Reinhard Klooss, Chairman of Odeon Film AG (Germany).
FilmFour will co-finance the project together with Odeon Film AG. Odeon take German rights and FilmFour Distributors distribute in the UK. MFG, the German subsidy board of Baden/Wuerttemberg, will co-finance the picture.
Good Machine International are selling the rest of the world on behalf of FilmFour. Good Machine's Amy Kaufman serves as Associate Producer.
"I read this script on the 'plane down to Cannes" commented Paul Webster. "Two hours later we were shaking hands with the filmmakers and David Linde at Good Machine. That's how much I love this film. It's MASH for the new millennium. Gregor is a firecracker of a director. A true original."
Rainer Grupe said " FilmFour, Odeon Pictures and Good Machine are the perfect partners for us to bring Buffalo Soldiers on to the big screen"
Bobby Allen, Head of Acquisitions, brought the project into FilmFour and will oversee the production with Deputy Head of Production James Wilson. The agreement was brokered by Douglas R. Stone of Stone, Meyer and Genow LLP for Gorilla, Kai May for Odeon Pictures and Andrew Hildebrand for FilmFour.
(Translated from the German Magazine)
Set attendance with " Buffalo Soldiers "
Joaquin Phoenix, OD Harris and Anna Paquin turn in Karlsruhe
By Filmstadt Magazine
Tanks thunder, Trucks roll and march off to troops on and. Which in such a way looks, as if the cold war would again have broken out, the input sequence is to the film 'Buffalo Soldiers'. In American barracks with Karlsruhe soldier " slot ear " Ray Elwood ( Joaquin Phoenix 'Gladiator' ) in its office sits and drives themselves out the time also few black market �naturally behind the back of its superior Wallace Berman ( ED Harris 'Apollo 13 ' ). When he gets a new commander before the nose set, the experienced Sergeant Robert Lee (Scott Glenn), other strings are drawn up. Elwood comes additional into distress, because its new friend Robyn (Anna Paquin 'The piano' ) is the daughter of Sergeant Lee. The crew will remain until January 2001 in the Rhine hitting a corner AR region, afterwards the film goes into post office production " somewhere between Sydney, Munich and London ". We threw at the set of " Buffalo Soldier " a view behind the window blinds of international production and to have both with producer Klooss of the Odeon film AG and with leading actor Joaquin Phoenix about the project spoke. The Hollywood star prepared well for the actionreiche project: " I ate much and slept still more." And that is with the stress of the work also.