Johnny Cash, the movie!

[ComeBackChick]

Wow, this looks like ONE TO SEE!!! Will premier Nov. 19th. Hope it will hit theatres in Europe too!! Great choice, Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash! And that poster is a WORK OF ART!!!!!

Pic of the Million Dollar Quartet (Quintet?), must be E. (played by Tyler Hilton) on the left!


"Wait a minute, there is something with my lip...." (sorry couldn't resist, love Joaquin, honest!!!)


With Reese Witherspoon as June Carter.


From IMDB:

Cast overview, first billed only:

Joaquin Phoenix .... Johnny Cash
Reese Witherspoon .... June Carter
Ginnifer Goodwin .... Vivian Cash
Robert Patrick .... Ray Cash
Dallas Roberts .... Sam Phillips
Dan John Miller .... Luther Perkins
Larry Bagby .... Marshall Grant
Shelby Lynne .... Carrie Cash
Tyler Hilton .... Elvis Presley
Waylon Payne .... Jerry Lee Lewis
Shooter Jennings .... Waylon Jennings
Sandra Ellis Lafferty .... Maybelle Carter
Dan Beene .... Ezra Carter
Clay Steakley .... W.S. 'Fluke' Holland
Johnathan Rice .... Roy Orbison

Trivia for Walk the Line (2005)

Joaquin Phoenix performed all of the songs himself without being dubbed and learned to play guitar from scratch.
Reese Witherspoon sang all of Carter's vocals for the film herself.

June Carter died before production began on the film, so Reese Witherspoon's research included looking through Carter's closet for inspiration.

Johnny Cash chose Joaquin Phoenix to play him in the film. June Carter reportedly chose Reese Witherspoon for her role in the film also.

Sony, Universal, Focus Features, Paramount, and Warner Bros. all passed on the project.

Reese Witherspoon did her own singing. She also had to learn to play the auto-harp.

It took four years for the producers to secure the rights to the story from James Keach who is a friend of Johnny Cash and his family. After Keach agreed, it took another four years to get the film made.

Columbia Pictures passed on the project.

Official filmpage:
http://walkthelinethemovie.com/

Link to page with filmstills!
http://www.walkwithjoaquin.com/walktheline.html

[ComeBackChick]

Never heard of this guy before (Paris Hilton's bro???), so did some searching:



From Ellegirl.com:

Singer-songwriter and One Tree Hill actor Tyler Hilton was interested in music from an early age. His musical family encouraged him to play guitar, sing, and perform. By the age of seventeen, he was writing his own songs, and had become an open mic fixture in his hometown of Palm Springs, California. Signed by Maverick Records in 2000, his career began to take off. Hilton joined the cast of the WB's One Tree Hill in 2004, as the troubled singer Chris Keller. He recently landed the coveted role of Elvis Presley alongside Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix in the 2005 Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line. Tyler's engaging blend of pop-rock, husky voice, catchy lyrics and mellow demeanor place him alongside John Mayer and Gavin DeGraw, musically speaking. And he's pretty sweet to look at too! (But you already knew that.) If you haven't heard his first album or his tunes off of the One Tree Hill soundtrack, you'll definitely want to check them out now.

http://www.tylerhilton.com/tyler/

[Sonny]

This will be one cool movie!

Curtis, my friend, where are you?

Joaquin sure looks the part, doesn't he (besides from the lip) that is...

Sonny

[ComeBackChick]

Bump!

Took me a while to get this post together, so I am not just gonna let it sink like that.....

[Memphisgurl]

tyler i dont think is related to paris. ugh i hope not hahah i saw this film a few times i loved it, it was brilliant, i loved tyler as elvis, he didnt have a lot of parts though. i loved the humor, there was very little but it was great, i thought reese witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix did a tremendous job as johnny cash and june carter, i mean, i couldnt believe it was THEM singing, i was blown away, reese has amazing talent, all in all this film should be nominated for an oscar.

[ComeBackChick]

Finally it premiers overhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Think I will see it this weekend!!!! Yihaaa!!!!

[P.S. Annie]

He chickie did you see the movie? Hope to go soon to!

[ComeBackChick]

He chickie did you see the movie? Hope to go soon to!

No still haven't!!! Think it will be this weekend!!!

[Mez]

I went to see it when I was in Memphis in November and I really liked it

[ComeBackChick]

Finally saw it, and its GREAT!!!!

You could hear a pin drop in the cinema, and I actually heard someone sobbing!!! Wasn't me, I cry in silence...

[elvisdownunder]

i will see this when it comes out on dvd, looks great, and has been given FIVE star ratings in my local newspaper, so its got to be good! i love Cash's music, i'd love to cover a song of his someday

[Menwithbrokenhearts]

It is a great movie, even if the Elvis part is a bit off. Joaquin does a great job and so does Reese. It's a fascinating portrayal of Johnny Cash from his beginnings through the drug years and out again married to June and clean and on top of the Country scene!

[polksaladhasie]

I think here exists another post about this theme

I loved the movie but the part of Elvis was horror! I posted it at the other thread