REEL NEWS

Rip It Up, Issue 213, 1 May 1995, Page 41

REEL NEWS

Quentin Tarantino’s next directorial project will be a big-screen version of the American Sixties spy series The Man From UNCLE, in which he’ll also act ... John Travolta, with his newly acquired ‘hot property’ status (thanks to Pulp Fiction), will be earning $8 million in his next movie, a romantic comedy called The Lady Takes An Ace. Sharon Stone co-stars ... speaking of Stone, apparently her next film, Last Dance, bears a remarkable resemblance to the story Richard E Grant’s character pitched to Tim Robbins’ Griffin Mill in The Player ... Pamela

Anderson’s first major debut will be in a film called Barbed Wire ... Johnny Depp’s next role (after his fabulous portrayal of ‘the worst director in the world’ Edward D Wood Jr. in the movie Ed Wood) is about the story of a man who thought he was the best lover in the world and the people who tried to cure him of this affliction. Don Juan De Marco reunites Depp with Arizona Dream co-star Faye Dunnaway, and they are joined by Marlon Brando ... Brad Pitt plays a cop on the trail of a serial killer in his next movie Seven. A cast and sling had to be written into his part after he slipped and put his hand through the window of a car ... Hal Hartley’s newie is called Amateur. It is

the tale of a post trauma amnesia victim (Martin Donovan) who is taken under the wing of a nymphomaniac exnun (Isabelle Hupert). Add a bunch of assassins on the trail of Mr Memory Loss, and you’ve got Hartley’s most franticly paced film to date.