While we wait impatiently to see beloved Belgian beefcake Matthias Schoenaerts tackle the iconic role of the gunslinger Django (originally given gorgeous life by Franco Nero) in a series hitting UK's SkyTV sometime this year (here's the trailer), here is some new news on his next project to get us by -- he's re-teaming with his Bullhead and The Racer and the Jailbird director Michaël R. Roskam to make a movie called Le Faux Soir (which translates to "The Fake Evening"), a retelling of a true-life tale from WWII "when the Belgian resistance secretly produced a spoof version of the country’s leading newspaper, Le Soir, which had become a propaganda tool of the occupying Nazi forces." (thx Mac) It's reminding me a little bit of Paul Verhoeven's Black Book, but probably just because...
... that movie was the first place I ever noticed Matthias. But also he was playing a resistance fighter in WWII, so. God I need to watch Black Book again, it's been a little while. What a perfect goddamned movie Black Book is. Anyway it's a little hypocritical of me to say that Matthias re-teaming with Roskam is an instant win from me because this loser typing at you here has somehow still not gotten around to watching The Racer and the Jailbird. I don't know how that is. I think I heard it was just mediocre and I didn't want to be disappointed. Anyway I need to get on that -- perhaps this weekend a Racer and the Jailbird and a Black Book double-feature will be on the books.
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