Gerry gave an interview to WJZ TV and at the end of it he announced he will star with Ralph Fiennes in a screen adaptation of Coriolanus. Ralph Fiennes will play the lead. Others connected to the project are William Hurt, Vanessa Redgrave and Jessica Chastain. Filming will begin in 2010 in Serbia.
Watch the interview here.
A few of Gerry’s skits have been posted on youtube, when more show up we’ll add them. Unfortunately since we are a message board we can’t use html code to embed videos.
Enjoy!
Opening – Singing Music of the Night
Beauty and the Beast
New Secretary
Spartans
What Up With That? (Gerry shows up at 3:39)
SNL Update (translating Gerry’s “Scottish”)
Daveheart
Watch this video of an interview with Gerry and Jamie Foxx on ET Online.
ET’s Mark Steines is talking to A-list actors Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx, who star in the new action thriller ‘Law Abiding Citizen.’
In the film, Gerard’s character is out for revenge after his family is brutally killed and Jamie, who plays the lawyer who he believes betrays him, is his No. 1 target.
Gerard, who also produced the film, tells ET that he originally planned to play Jamie’s character: “We originally offered Jamie my character, and I was playing the prosecutor. I’d always been playing the prosecutor but I figured that we heard through the grapevine he was interested in the prosecutor and I thought, well I would like to try my hand at the other role. … We have a great chemistry together, and those scenes between us are gonna be electric.”
Jamie says he found Gerard to be a little bit shy, but that he told Gerard, “Don’t be afraid to let that go because when you do that, you’re gonna be the bad guy that everybody roots for.”
ET also spoke to the stars at the red carpet premiere last week in Los Angeles. ‘Law Abiding Citizen’ hits theaters October 16.
Review: Law Abiding Citizen
Posted by Dr. Cole Abaius (cole.abaius@filmschoolrejects.com) on October 15, 2009
The opening shot of Law Abiding Citizen swirls around the statue of William Penn, one of the most well-known pacifist thinkers of early American history, as he stands atop the courthouse in Philadelphia. The camera will return to him once or twice more during the film, an interesting reminder amidst the violence and willingness to sink well below the human base and deep into the realm where taking another person’s life seems the only logical recourse on which the film feeds. There are some interesting ideas here – What do you do to fight against a system? How can there be true justice? Was Denzel Washington busy?
Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) loses his entire world when two home invaders kill his wife and daughter. Instead of working the long hours and fighting for justice, rising legal star Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx) cuts a deal for a confession and preserves his conviction rate while one of the killers goes free after serving only five years. Ten years later, Clyde goes systematically hunting for the cogs of the system that let him and his family down.
While it may resemble some revenge flicks of the past – most notably Vigilante – it has something far more intellectual going on underneath its slick exterior. Instead of grabbing a shotgun and a van to go blow away the people who done him wrong, Clyde utilizes his background as an inventor (and some convenient time spent in what must be CIA black ops) to set a plan in motion so he can kill people even from behind the cold steel of prison bars. Imagine if a more sane version (and more charismatic version) of Jigsaw got sent up the river, but refused to quit murdering.
What I love about this film is its unwillingness to compromise, for the most part, on what one man might do if his loved ones were taken from him in vain. The opening scene of him tinkering with a motherboard alongside his daughter as she makes a bracelet is short, sweet, and creates all the bond you need to know before the catalyst sets the rest of the movie in motion. From that point, and while Clyde gets his revenge, the film does two things incredibly well. The first is making you question what you would do, staring down on your wife and daughter’s killer, helpless as he struggles against the table you’ve strapped him down to. The second is making you root for a man about to commit murder, a theme which continues, without you really being fully conscious of it.
Clyde loses it, and this film is unafraid of what that has to mean.
Filling the ethical gray area is Gerard Butler who nails his character about as completely as someone could. He chooses to play the darker parts under the surface, so he’s more method than outburst, but there’s something intensely scary about someone who knows they have the upper hand but chooses not to broadcast it. After all, finding out you’ve been bested is far more crushing than being told you’re outgunned. On the other side of the fence, Jamie Foxx continues to Denzel his career, and delivers a passable performance, but the deficit there comes more from problems in the third act than it does from Foxx himself.
So there’s that. While the movie delivers an ethical monologue hidden in tense writing and situations (and a little bit of the ultra-violence), it suffers in the third act mostly from the inactivity and idleness of Attorney Rice throughout the other acts. He’s more reactive than anything else, indicative of his character flaw of being generally lazy (or simply unwilling to fight all that hard), but while the character flaw adds a lot to the story, it also hurts the third act when it doesn’t exactly play out in an organic way. Ultimately, it’s disappointing, but it’s not enough to sink the movie altogether. It drags it from great to good, certainly, but the movie is still a great ride for the first bulk of its sleek 108 minute run time.
There are some great thrills and kills here for action fans – especially a jaw-droppingly awesome one that teaches an important lesson about answering your cell phone during a meeting. Law Abiding Citizen does not shy away from either displaying some harsh justice or hinting at it strongly enough to let the audience’s imagine spill the blood itself. To match, it has some great moments where shitty people get just as much damage to their egos as their bodies. The best is a courtroom scene, that seems to homage Vigilante directly, where Butler’s character (representing himself) argues successfully that he should be let out on bail, and then reprimands the moronic judge for agreeing with him considering he’s wanted for a double murder. It’s a solid segment that takes the frustration of the system, and the trusted people of that system, destroying Clyde’s life and shoves it right back in the face of an idiotic public official in front of a court room of members of the public and press.
In fact, that’s probably what this movie does best – balancing out all of its elements. Whereas most revenge films are fairly stupid, here is one that fits somewhere in the center of a Venn diagram between revenge, drama, and murder mystery. It’s smart and smartly acted, and only really suffers from what seems like a studio-written ending.
The Upside: A little bit to think about in an action flick, great acting, some smart dialog and cathartic moments.
The Downside: A third act that seems tacked on and drags the success of the film down considerably.
On the Side: Law Abiding Citizen director F. Gary Gray also has an MTV Music Award for Best Video of the Year for T.L.C.’s “Waterfalls.”
Grade: B-
Gerry is scheduled to appear on MTV’s It’s On Alexa Chung on Monday, October 19. The show airs at 3:30 p.m.
Whew! Gerry is wearing me out trying to keep up with him! 
Law Abiding Citizen: A serial killer in solitary with oddly unlimited resources
Oct 13, 2009
by Roger Ebert
Ebert Rating: *** (3 stars)
“Law Abiding Citizen” is a taut thriller about a serial killer in reverse: He’s already in prison when he commits all but one of his many murders, and in solitary for most of that time. So the story is a locked-room mystery: How does he set up such elaborate kills? Does he have an accomplice outside the walls, or what?
Jamie Foxx stars as Nick, the Philadelphia district attorney, and Gerald Butler is Clyde, the ingenious killer. Clyde begins the film as a loving husband and father, but then his wife and daughter are savagely murdered. Nick arranges a plea bargain: One of the guilty men will be executed; the other, in return for his testimony, will get a murder conviction but not death.
Clyde can’t believe this. He saw his family murdered. Both men are guilty. On this everyone agrees. Why is one allowed to live? Because, Nick explains, the case isn’t airtight without the testimony, and if they lose, both men walk free. That’s not good enough for Clyde, who has 10 years to plot, plan and simmer in his hatred. That’s the prologue. I won’t go into detail about what happens next, except to observe that Clyde’s first killing involves his penetration of the Death Row execution chamber itself — and that’s before he’s in prison. Is this guy Houdini, or does he have supernatural powers?
As his methods are uncovered, it’s clear he’s a non-magical human being, but a clever one with remarkable resources. So remarkable, in fact, that they fly in the face of common sense. Movie supervillains have a way of correctly predicting what everyone will do and making their plans on that basis. The explanation of Clyde’s methods is preposterous, but it comes late enough that F. Gary Gray, the director, is first able to generate considerable suspense and a sense of dread.
Foxx and Butler make a well-matched pair in their grim determination. Colm Meaney is underused as Nick’s police partner; we suspect he might be the accomplice, given the Law of Economy of Characters, but perhaps he has a different role to play. Leslie Bibb works well as Nick’s prosecutorial partner, with Regina Hall as Nick’s wife, Annie Corley as the judge who experiences some surprises in her courtroom, and the powerful Viola Davis as the city’s mayor.
“Law Abiding Citizen” is one of those movies you like more at the time than in retrospect. I mean, come on, you’re thinking. Still, there’s something to be said for a movie you like well enough at the time.
Gerard Butler Dons Bodybuilder Apron
Gerard Butler literally wears a pair of bodybuilder pecs and a six-pack stomach while wearing a silly apron on The Bonnie Hunt Show, airing this Friday (October 16).
The 39-year-old Scottish stud reveals on the show how he cheats on his diet (his trainer/nutritionist must be thriller). And Gerry really blows his diet when he eats a deep friend Mars bar. Watch a preview of Gerry’s appearance on Bonnie Hunt below!
Gerry’s Law Abiding Citizen is out this Friday and he’s hosting SNL this weekend.
A few more pictures from the show can be found in the PGN Gallery.
Watch a clip from the Bonnie Hunt show on JustJared!
If at all possible, do not miss this show!! The promo for it is fantastic and hilarious. It looks like Gerry had a great time! He is shown eating and laughing during the cooking segment. LOL
To see the promo, go here and then click on Friday.
Gray days in Philly for “Law Abiding Citizen”
Mon Oct 12, 2009 12:31am EDT
By Martin A. Grove
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – So many films take tortuous years of dealmaking to reach the screen that it’s reassuring to find a project that came together practically overnight.
Such is the case with “Law Abiding Citizen,” a psychological thriller starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler opening Friday via Overture Films.
“It was a call from Jamie Foxx,” said director F. Gary Gray (”The Italian Job”), when asked how he got involved. “We’ve always wanted to work with each other. He told me it was a project he thought I should strongly consider.”
After Foxx called last October, Gray read Kurt Wimmer’s screenplay. “I loved the concept and thought it was really unique.”
Next step: Meeting with Mark Gill, the CEO of indie production company Film Department, and “Citizen’s” producers, including Lucas Foster (”Mr. and Mrs. Smith”).
Gray (explaining): “The rest is history. We had a lot of meetings in-between. I put together my visions for the material. It was relatively simple.”
Butler plays the title’s upstanding citizen who’s terrorizing Philadelphia from behind prison bars to avenge his family’s murder 10 years ago. Foxx is the assistant D.A. who gave one killer a plea bargain deal and now finds his own life in danger.
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