Spy vs. Spy?

Is Jake chasing Matt Damon ?

First it was David Fincher's movie Torso, which has had both Matt and Jake's attached to it. Torso is the story of Eliot Ness chasing a serial killer who held Cleveland captive as the killing continued. Matt and Jake were both in London this past December at the same time director David Fincher was, and speculation was that maybe they were negotiations and meetings before time ran out on the option.

Matt's acting has been an influence on Jake's performances and he has mention many times how he would like a career like Matt's.

Promoting Rendition, Jake mention he turned more to movies about C.I.A. for inspiration than talking to actual field agents to find the emotion for play Douglas
Freeman. Saying, "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, which is a merging of the alcoholic and the spy, literally and in the movie. And then also, The Good Shepard actually, which I think, just a little shout out to Matt Damon, that’s a pretty incredible performance. More about the less he does, then the more he does and that’s the kind of performance that I look up to. So, I just tried to copy it."

So after the picture of Jake meeting with Steven Gaghan yesterday, got someone at /Films (Slash Films)to wonder this: "the only announced project that Gaghan is currently working on is an adaptation of the Jon Stock spy novel Dead Spy Running, the first of a possible trilogy of films/book about a newly trained spy who goes on a globe trotting adventure to exonerate his father. Gaghan is writing the screenplay for McG to direct. It is more than possible for an interested star to be involved in the development of the screenplay. And I’m not sure about you, but I can certainly picture Gyllenhaal in a Bourne-style spy action thriller."

Talk about being Bourne. You can see why Jake would want have a career similar to Matt's. But have ever realize how much they do have in common?

Matt Damon vs Jake Gyllenhaal

Blue Eyes
Great Grins

Red Sox Fan
And walked the walk in NYC

Been to Martha's Vineyard

Have BFF's who are actors
and they're know together by just first names

Dropped out of Ivy League School
(Matt- Harvard Jake - Columbia)

Known for supporting charities

Played CIA agents

Played a character who's gay.

Subject of many Datalounge discussions

Played soldiers in movies about Desert Storm

Co-starred with Heath Ledger

Co-starred with Gwyneth Paltrow

Played a guy named Donny

Have donned the Spandex.

There is just one thing that Matt has,
that no amount of work Jake does
he'll always be a little behind. ; )

To play yesterday's fanmix. Just press play on the Ipod player in yesterday's post and enjoy.

A Serious Serial Relationship?

David Fincher showed why you should never take the box in Seven. He did show how to take a punch in Fight Club. But do you take the part if he gives it?

Despite the tough love working relationship, and then a bit of mutual admiration in Interview Magazine, are Fincher and Jake ready to make another together? Movie that is. Or will Jake get passed over for Matt Damon to take on Eliot Ness?

Talking Torso here, and Jake showed his interest way back when, showing up with Torso "tattooed" on his arm in the Summer of 2006 (aka the Summer of Sad Wolfie). Now really Eliot Ness would never do that. But maybe the killer would?

Torso is a historical fiction limited series published by Image Comics. The story focuses on the "Torso Murderer," an actual serial killer in the 1930's who left behind only the torsos of his victims, making them very difficult to identify for police without DNA testing. The investigator on the case and protagonist of Torso is Eliot Ness, Cleveland Chief of police and one-time head of the Untouchables, the police task force that enforced Prohibition and went after crime lord Al Capone.

Of course the talk is about Jake playing Eliot Ness, that's such a given. But what would be more interesting would be to see Jake play the killer. Not as big of a part, but then again a bigger challenge. Talk about stretching. Jake's done the disturbed before with Donnie Darko, but this is different. This is a killer. It is sometimes those dark parts that are the juiciest to tackle. Tapping into something they didn't know they are or had in them. Jake has started to get a little darker with Brothers and Nailed - but both have an element of redemption to them. Playing a serial killer there is no redemption or remorse. It is a part of pure darkness, feral, animalistic, disturbing provocation. Could Jake's fans handle seeing him take on such a part? Will they always look as him for the good guy role? Would playing a killer kill his career?

If anyone could make Jake get to his darkest, suspect it is Fincher. His relentlessness of perfection and pushing drive could alone take someone over the edge. He bullied Jake on the set of Zodiac, what would he do if Jake did became a Fincher killer?

But then again Jake may just end up on the good side of the law yet again. Guess we will have to wait and see.

ComicMix: Torso Grows Legs


Now for: From the sublime to the ridiculous:

Don't think there are any costume options for two or three in the family? Think again. And Ted's to blame. If Goose is grimacing why not just be Grimace this year. And who would hang with the big purple man? Hamburglar. Jake's already got the shirt. Change the hat and add a cape. And hey Grimace and Hamburglar held hands and no one ever made a big deal.






And how to make it a threesome ?- add some fries. Well a maybe just a wee Fry Guy.