Very little is known about Christopher Nolan’s (The Dark Knight) new science fiction thriller, Inception. You will find very brief descriptions online, and a short teaser trailer. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page – and one of my new favorites, Joseph-Gordon Levitt.
A contemporary science fiction tale set within the architecture of the human mind.
Film star Ellen Page is adding a TV writer-producer credit to her resume.
Page has teamed with HBO for “Stitch N’ Bitch,” a single-camera comedy she will write with two other young actors, Alia Shawkat and Sean Tillmann.
The trio will executive produce the project, which follows two painfully cool hipster girls as they relocate from Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood to Los Angeles’ Silver Lake enclave in hopes of becoming artists — of any kind.
Page, Shawkat and Tillmann might also star, but a decision about them acting in “Stitch” will be made later.
The three worked together on the Drew Barrymore-directed “Whip It,” which is in theaters. Page plays the lead and Shawkat co-stars. Tillmann has a small role.
Page, an Oscar nominee for her breakthrough role in “Juno,” is filming “Inception” opposite Leonardo DiCaprio. She is repped by WME, manager Kelly Bush and attorney Kevin Yorn.
“Arrested Development” alumna Shawkat, repped by UTA and Kipperman Management, recently wrapped “The Runaways” and co-starred in “Amreeka.”
Tillmann also is a musician who goes by stage names Har Mar Superstar and Sean Na Na.
After a private Mediterranean cruise with 12 pals that sailed from Aug. 12 through 16 along the French Riviera, Leonardo DiCaprio got an early jump on Labor Day by going back to work Monday in Paris for his latest movie, Inception, directed by Dark Knight’s Christopher Nolan and which started shooting in London last month.
Trade reports have described Inception as a contemporary sci-fi action thriller set within “the architecture of the mind.” But for DiCaprio and his costars, La Vie En Rose Oscar winner Marion Cotillard and Juno Oscar nominee Ellen Page, the setting was one of the more recognizable bridges on the Seine.
The bridge itself – the Pont de Bir-Hakeim – is no stranger to the screen, having recently been seen in 2007’s National Treasure 2. Steven Spielberg also used it and its above-ground Metro line and distinctive view of the Eiffel Tower in his 2005 Munich, while Marlon Brando walked across it in the groundbreaking 1973 Last Tango in Paris. Now it’s DiCaprio’s turn.
After 7 a.m. makeup and wardrobe call, the star was on the Bir-Hakeim by 8:15 and worked until 12:15, as did Page. Cotillard was into makeup and wardrobe at 7:30 and at the bridge by noon.
Monday’s scene on the closed set utilized two giant mirrors, each the size of a storefront and slowly rotating and reflecting each other. The leading man – dressed in a grey-green Armani jacket, black trousers and looking very tanned and blond – stood between them, creating a funhouse-mirror effect of a thousand reflections before the mirrors pulled away to reveal him walking the bridge with Ellen Page amid a sea of extras.
An argument develops between them and Page turns violent, shoving him, knocking him down. What followed were shots of the extras, standing as still as statues, as though they were frozen in time.
