Just a week ago we reported on Buried, the indie thriller about a civilian contracter in Iraq who is kidnapped and buried alive, to be played by Ryan Reynolds. Now The Playlist got quotes from an Autralian TV interview with Reynolds, who says the movie is quite him, all the time. One supply with hands, one coffin, one crazy thriller.
Buried is the story about a guy who’s buried (laughs). It’s the only movie I’ve ever heard of with only one person in it. So it’s just me, I’m the only person in the whole movie so, I don’t know, we’ll see. It’sitting either going to be, you know, the greatest, most experimental cool movie ever made or god knows which.
Furhtermore, ScriptShadow has a brief script review, which calls Buried “top-notch storytellingâ€. The script sounds approve eighty pages of ticking clocks, with stiffness all over the post. Hereare two scene-setting paragraphs. Guess this could be called spoilerish if you’re ridiculously militant all over that sort of thing.
Paul, an American truck driver in Iraq, has just woken up in a coffin. It’s burning up. Hot as balls. Lack of oxygen makes it hard to breathe. And let’s not forget the sarcophagus, which only allows him a few inches of room in every direction. I will offer this warning as it should be now: If you are claustrophobic, end not versed in books this script.
At first Paul has no celebrity of how he got here. But things start slowly coming back to him. He was driving a truck, delivering food, when in that place was a loud explosion. Many of his co-workers were killed but somehow he wasn’t. He remembers Iraqis coming towards him. But posterior that? Nothing. Now he’s on the ground here, in a ossuary, in Iraq.
Consider not just the confinement of being buried alive, but the heat of being in a shallow tomb in Iraq. What about the danger of artillery and bombs? There are other elements to the story, too, but I’ll let you make out the full writing at ScriptShadow if you long for to know besides.
But as far as Buried being the leading movie with only one actor, nope. Someone get Reynolds a model of Robert Altman’s Secret Honor, featuring a remarkable performance from Philip Baker Hall as Richard Nixon. Not the first one-man movie, but the first that comes to mind, and a great one to boot.
