Five Stills From Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely!

I seriously cannot wait for this. It sounds absolutely genius, but then I wouldnt expect anything less from Korine.

I think I read somewhere that he was planing to shoot some of this over here in Iceland but I guess that didn't pan out.

DENIS LAVANT!!!!!!!!

I look forward with interest to seeing this film but once again the movie establishment has missed a great opportunity to make a film about lookalikes using real members of the elite "dead ringer" professional perfoming lookalike-soundalikes who have studied their characters and make a living being virtually indistinguishable from the real thing.
There seems to be a jealous movie and TV "Mafia" who only expose the amatuer look-a-bit-a-likes for the purpose of ridicule. Maybe it's because the real cream of the celebrity impersonator industry would show how poor many celebrated actors are at doing our job?
Samantha Morton is a very lovely actor but compared with Suzie Kennedy (Ref the non-profit org www.lookalikes-unite.com )she is a very poor substitute for "the real thing"?

I totally agree with the above and it is a shame that professional impersonators(actors) are over-looked again. I would love to have seen The Queen played by the TOP Queen impersonator in the industry as this lady is SPOT ON whilst Helen Mirren a fine actress portrayed the Queen very well the effect of using the TOP Lookalike/soundalike would have been FANTASTIC effect!! what a shame ;-((..maybe sometimes people are too close to the real thing to dare try anything.....?

Wow. Now the real question is would the Spiderman in front of Mann's have been better than Tobey Maquire?

HaHa..This is one of the funniest postings i've read in a while. Almost as funny as the 'racism in film debate' on PooTube over the 1940's WB-cartoon'Coal Black & The Seben Dwarves' whereas various people made interesting or absurd comments, but one irrational voice kept repeating "But where the fuck was Bugs Bunny, they said he was supposed to be in it!!"...

Look, If you were to use professional non-actor/united-look-alike's for an exact visual resembalance(how do you spell that word/it does'nt seem right) it would focus the dynamics of the film mainly on those actual real-life people who are being impersonated & not the characters in the film who are impersonating them.

Instead of being impersonator's they would look strange in the sense of looking 'out of context' to how we are used to seeing them like the BBC series where you see the UK-Queen(Not Mine!) taking a dump or David Beckham playing a decent game of football... :P

So you have characters who have their own individual identity(themselves) co-existing alongside the second character or impersonation that they portray(Psychology enthusiasts can fill in this space). So a bizarre scenario of multi-dimensional characters interacting will ensue without focusing too-much on the exact visual representation of celebrity or famous people that we already know more than we need to anyway...

Each character having his or her own extra sub-character or twisted sub-plot for Korine to make interestingly playful on our mind...
It should be interesting at least, which is usually a good enough start & better than most...

If your worried about lookalike's getting recognition in the film world, send them to a bloody drama school or get them to hang out with filmmakers or better still, just get them to use some initiative...

As Woody says '80% of all success is just turning up in the first place!'.. :-j.

When you've got Werner Herzog playing Abraham Lincoln it's pretty clear that fidelity to the "real thing" isn't the point. You may as well complain that Philip Baker Hall doesn't look anything like Richard Nixon.

I think most directors are more worried about getting the best actor to do this rather than getting the person who looks the part most. And I think the main reason some people are stuck as impersonators is...well because they are not very good actors in the first place. I can only think of one man who I belive started as an impersonator and got juicy parts because of it, the dude who played George Bush in That's my Bush and then later played him again as a dramatic part in a TV movie made about him. Didn't he also appeare at the Presidential dinner where Steven Colbert shat all over the real Bush?

No I was talking out of my ass about Timoty Bottoms being an George Bush impersinator. Dude has been acting for decades as regular actor. Oh well.

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Dude's,

Werner Herzog & the Cigarette Wrestling scene in Julian Donkey Boy. HaHa!!...Crazy-Funny!!. You have to see the Documentary he made about Timothy Treadwell & the Bears in Alaska!.. Not a happy ending!...

I wanted to see that Bush Film thanks for reminding me!
Everyone needs to see (wheather they agree or not) 'The World According To Bush' a US/France Documentary on ALL the generations of the 'Bush Dynasty'. The bigger picture is quite scary. From the Nazi's to the Saudi's! Stranger than any fiction!

The last thing I'll say about Korine's films that make them interesting, is his use of modern digital techniques, non traditional-narrative structure & a kind of fucked up(in a 'good' rock n'roll way) style of Cinema Verite meets Dogma philosophy.It's not really important who the actors are or if there's a big shiny backdrop but rather, what works as character's or components needed to tell a story.Usually in a very strange but worthwhile way...

Anyway, I would recommend seeing the Dardenne Brothers 'L'Enfant'. Easily one of the best films of the last 10 Years & possibly the most affecting movie I have seen since watching Lynch's 'The Elephant Man' as a cheeky little-dude..... :-j.
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Madonna was played by a real life (professional) impersonator