The Bombers, a biker gang from another part of town called the Battery, led by Raven Shaddock, crash the concert and kidnap Ellen. The sound of the tarp flapping in the wind interfered with the actors dialogue. The structural advantage of the old studio system we didn't have. [140] Using motion-capture acting technology, Dafoe co-starred alongside Elliot Page in David Cage's video game Beyond: Two Souls (2013) as a paranormal activity researcher who acts as the surrogate-father-figure to a girl who possesses supernatural powers. The version of "Never Be You" that was featured on the soundtrack album was performed by Maria McKee. [158] In the same year, Dafoe reprised his voice role as Gill, a Moorish idol fish, from Finding Nemo in its sequel Finding Dory. The film delves into fiction when, over the course of Nosferatu's production, the cast and crew come to discover that Schreck is actually a vampire himself. *Real* dumb if you think you can pull this off. But our commitment to be stylized was thorough and conscious and maybe too extreme for the mainstream audience. We learned later that, I believe, Eisner rejected it on the grounds that it was too similar to Indiana Jones. The Spider-Man: No Way Home star recently spoke about his willingness to return once again as Norman Osborn/Green Goblin . [162] Also in 2016, Dafoe appeared in another Super Bowl commercial, this time for Snickers, recreating Marilyn Monroe's iconic white dress scene from the film The Seven Year Itch. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. Maybe if we'd had Tom Cruise, we might have had a success. Streets of Fire - Wikipedia I wasn't ready for that kind of crap. The first to be released, White Sands, saw Dafoe a play small-town sheriff who impersonates a dead man after finding his dead body and a suitcase containing $500,000 to solve the case, resulting in an FBI investigation. Se7en's taking place in another world. The film garnered a poor reaction critics, with a reviewer for Paste stating "there's only so much depth [Dafoe] can bring to such a shallow character". McCoy enters and is led upstairs by one of the Bombers, where she then knocks him out and holds Raven and some of his gang members at gunpoint. (Laughs)[15]. Upcoming Willem Dafoe Movies: The French Dispatch, The Northman And [141] The game polarized reviewers, although Dafoe and Page's performance were widely praised. [53] Next, he played a Canadian Intelligence Corps operative in the romantic war drama The English Patient, which starred Ralph Fiennes as desert explorer Count Lszl Almsy. He played an eccentric, gay FBI agent assigned with investigating a series of murders committed by the MacManus twins (played by Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus) who are acting as vigilantes in Boston, Massachusetts after an act of self-defense. We would stage it and shoot it. Film critic Peter Bradshaw noted the physical similarities between Dafoe and Pasolini, although felt Dafoe had too little screen time in the film. "Were in the world of Cocteau, were in the world of Beauty and the Beast. Spider-Man's Willem Dafoe Is Open To Returning To Marvel Movies - Game Rant I always said whenever someone says fantasy they immediately think of more Disney-esque. Ellen performs on stage, while Tom rides off with McCoy. [54] In the period drama Victorywhich was filmed in 1994 and premiered in Europe in 1996, but was not released until 1998Dafoe played a European living on an island in the Southeast Asia who becomes the target of redemption after preventing a woman, played by Irne Jacob, from being raped. The movie screened very, very well. [70] The Chicago Reader critic Jonathan Rosenbaum opined felt the film's "only redeeming quality" was Dafoe's "enjoyably over-the-top, eye-rolling performance". [90] Also in 2004, Dafoe narrated the documentary Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate, chronicling the production of Heaven's Gate and co-starred as a neuropharmacologist in the direct-to-video thriller Control (2004) alongside Ray Liotta and Michelle Rodriguez. The revered filmmaker and accomplished actor . He was born on July 22, 1955 in Appleton, Wisconsin as William James Dafoe. [121] Dafoe reprised his role from The Boondock Saints in The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, making a brief cameo appearance. I think that bothered Walter. He's like John Ford. "[25], Gary Arnold wrote in The Washington Post that as "romantic leads, Par and Lane are pretty much a washout", and that "most of the action climaxes are treated as such throwaways that you begin to wonder if they bored the director. Joined by Ellen's manager, Billy Fish (Rick Moranis, Ghostbusters), the trio plunges headfirst into a world of rain-splattered streets, hot cars, and deadly assassins. During an interview, he said that half of his family puts the emphasis on the first syllable of the surname while the other half emphasizes the second syllable. The group, along with the Sorels, ditch the bus and take a train back to the Richmond. [60] Following a villainous supporting role in the romantic mystery drama Lulu on the Bridge,[61] Dafoe starred alongside Christopher Walken and Asia Argento in Abel Ferrara's cyberpunk drama New Rose Hotel in 1998. The film received mostly negative reviews, although the performances were generally praised. The two movies that came out in the years after that are completely saturated in the iconography of Streets of Fire are RoboCop and Se7en. While there are thus two versions of the song, only Hartman's version was released commercially. Dafoe recalled in 2010, "We were having lunch and I said, 'Do you want to get married tomorrow?'" [36] While the film was negatively received, Dafoe's performance was lauded by some critics; Peter Travers of Rolling Stone felt he gave a "disciplined performance" and Janet Maslin thought he was "harrowingly good". "[29], Streets of Fire was intended to be the first in a projected trilogy titled The Adventures of Tom Cody, with Hill's tentatively titling the two sequels The Far City and Cody's Return. [23] After 10 days, it made $4.5 million, while fellow opener Star Trek III: The Search for Spock grossed $34.8 million in the same time. [95] Along with his wife Giada Colagrande, Dafoe co-wrote and starred in Before It Had a Name (2005), which Colagrande directed. News Features Television Interviews Reviews Podcasts Trailers Awards Got a Tip? I'm just not that handy with that. For Hill, the subways and their look was crucial to the world of the film and represented one of three modes of transportationthe other two being cars and motorcycles. Gross published a diary from the shoot of 48 Hours which had an entry dated 12 August 1982, the night before filming on that movie started: Walter presents me with a page of notes he's prepared for a new script. Streets of Fire (1984) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb He asks me if I'm interested in writing the script with himI ask him is the Pope Catholic? [3] However, this presented unusual problems. There's this whole wave of insult comedy. The story took place in Chicago, so they built Chicago in LA.[19]. So we said here's what's going to be weird about the world of our movie: No one's going to be over 30.