Accord�ing to the Wrap, Robert Pat�tin�son just stole the lead role in the movie, an adap�ta�tion of 74-year old post�mod�ern author Don Delillo�s book, Cos�mopo�lis, from Colin Farrell.
The details:
Described as a study of cap�i�tal�ism in a slightly futur�is�tic metrop�o�lis, the drama will find Pat�tin�son play�ing Eric Packer, a finan�cial wun�derkind who risks his entire for�tune to bet against the yen on a tumul�tuous trad�ing day. The young man�s deci�sion back�fires and he becomes a pos�si�ble assas�si�na�tion tar�get dur�ing a 24-hour odyssey across Manhattan.
If the movie is any�thing like the book the movie�s based on, it should be awe�some. First of all, the lead is a 28-year old bil�lion�aire who enter�tains �highly sexed women� while his wife is merely an extra he sees out�side the limo he�s rid�ing around in all day (one thing we hope they change � please don�t let this be another Phonebooth).
His bet against the rise in the yen appar�ently �par�al�lels his own fall,� as he loses his clients mil�lions of dol�lars, and inter�est�ingly, he enjoys it; �rel�ish�ing being unbur�dened by the loss of so much money.�
This brings us to another rea�son why we like the idea of this movie. The book is writ�ten as a mod�ern re-interpretation of Ulysses, so it could be smart. Also, John Updike wrote a scathing review of the book in the New Yorker, and Wal�ter Kirn (who wrotethe book, Up in the Air) had an equally crit�i�cal take in his New York Times review.
Their crit�i�cism is pri�mar�ily that:
- �barely cor�po�real cere�bral enti�ties occupy the pages� (Kirn)
- �the sounds they pro�duce are so monot�o�nous� that it�s a mys�tery why they�re even both�er�ing� (Kim)
- �DeLillo�s sym�pa�thies are so much with the poor that his rich man seems a mad�man� (Updike)
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