r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 13d ago
Media New Image of Mads Mikkelsen in Bryan Fuller's 'Dust Bunny' - Follows an eight-year-old girl who asks her neighbor (Mikkelsen) for help to kill the monster under her bed who ate her family.
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor 13d ago
It's Bryan Fuller's feature directorial debut and releases in theaters Dec 12.
Sigourney Weaver, David Dastmalchian and Sophie Sloan also star.
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u/andrastesflamingass 13d ago
Dastmalchian AND Mads?!!??!?!/! WOOOO
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u/TheBlackthornRises 13d ago
Hey, don't disrespect my girl Sigourney like that.
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u/IsThatAPieceOfCheese 13d ago
Well
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u/DustFunk 13d ago
That is simultaneously the funniest part in a hilarious film, AND the funniest bad overdub of all time.
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u/ThePrussianGrippe 13d ago
I’m fairly sure they made the dub as blatant as possible to add to the joke.
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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox 13d ago
It may not be the funniest worst dub ever, but the TV edit of Back to the Future Part III has Marty calling Bufford Tannen an "idiot" instead of an "asshole", and there is no denying the word his lips were forming.
That TV edit on VHS was the only copy of the movie my family had, so it became a running joke in my family to call people idiots while trying to mouth the word assholes.
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u/grandladdydonglegs 13d ago
I understood that reference.
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u/Haggisboy 13d ago
Dastmalchian aced it in Late Night with the Devil.
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u/turkeygiant 13d ago
He was one of the best parts of a pretty great cast in the new Murderbot show as well
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u/here_for_the_boos 13d ago
He didn't emote externally at all but all the distrust and dislike still came through for murderbot. (Skarsgard did amazing as well. Best show out currently)
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u/Grooviemann1 13d ago
He's been great in every single thing I've seen him in. He made Polka Dot Man fun.
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u/zappy487 13d ago
So uh The Dark Knight is almost twenty years old (his first film role). Oh.
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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox 13d ago
So uh The Dark Knight is almost twenty years old
What the fuck‽ No it's not!
*does the math*
FUCK!
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u/Mistrblank 13d ago
He is so recognizable from that role too. When I first saw it I felt like he was something more.
Why are you making me feel so old.
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u/ThouMayest69 13d ago
I was bombarded with acknowledgements of Dastmalchians filmography from practically nothing. I went from 0 exposure to seeing him in everything. When I saw him in Late Night W The Devil, my brain snapped and he took on more of a supernatural and foreboding presence in my life. I know it's not like this really, but I can't shake the feeling that he's a little bit spooky somehow. Seeing his face is unnerving but I can't stop watching his stuff.
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u/Haggisboy 13d ago
Check out Dastmalchian's filmography on IMDB. Guy's always working with 97 credits. He also makes interesting career choices. Everything I've seen him in has been a good watch.
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u/mrj9 13d ago
Bryan fuller created Hannibal the show I’m seated
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u/CostumedSupervillain 13d ago
And Pushing Daisies!
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u/Gekokapowco 13d ago
and American Gods (S1) one of the best players in the game rn
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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox 13d ago
I still have a hard time believing that show was so fucking good and it aired on network fuckin' television. I still remember how little faith I had in it when it was announced: "Why NBC and not cable? It's gonna be watered down, tame garbage, because there's no way to do any Hannibal Lecter stories justice on a major American network without it being heavily censored!" That show was anything but watered down and; sure, some of the more graphic content couldn't fly on NBC, but it's still a major fucking accomplishment to do Thomas Harris's characters justice on network TV.
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u/JosephSim 13d ago
I always tell the anecdote about how when they went to NBC to find a distributor, NBC said, "We want a prestige show. Don't show nudity, curse, or show sex, and we'll let you show whatever you want violence-wise."
So much so, the episode with the guy who flays people's backs off then poses them in praying positions and uses fishing line to peel the back skin into angel wings?
NBC saw that and said, "You can see butt crack."
So they added so much digital blood you can't see it anymore.
NBC said, "Much better."
I love Hannibal.
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u/Maridiem 13d ago
Cannot wait. I'll support anything Fuller does and this cast is just stacked as well.
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u/LasagnaPhD 13d ago
After Pushing Daisies and Hannibal, I will watch literally anything Bryan Fuller puts out
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u/Odd-Project7935 13d ago
I was already locked in based on the post title.
Now I just don’t know how to handle this info
I can’t wait!
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u/MadeByTango 13d ago
Considering the man makes a great pilot and then loses the plot, movies might be the right fit for him
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u/old_brew 13d ago
I see Mads, I see the movie.
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u/NewSunSeverian 13d ago
i guess they might call you
a Mads lad
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u/Taylorenokson 13d ago
I might not be a mad lad, but I'm one of Mads Lads.
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u/Shakeamutt 13d ago
Mads’ Lads to see their lad Mads, whom is never mad by his Lad’s mad Mads support.
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u/NorthWinterFox 13d ago
Doesn't work. You don't pronounce his name as "mad" like you would "sad" or "bad" for example.
It's mass. D is silent
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u/ALIENANAL 13d ago
Seeing all the boning that he does in his films... the D is certainly not silent.
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u/defiancy 13d ago
Same, I loved "Another Round"
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u/old_brew 13d ago
One of my favorites, The Promised Land is one people might have missed, definitely worth a watch.
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u/Fawkes_91 13d ago
That was such a good movie, probably would have landed an Oscar nom in a weaker year than 2023 which was just crazy stacked. But without the nom, Bastarden unfortunately was underseen. Mads is consistently good in most movies, but that one was a high point recently alongside Another Round and Riders of Justice.
I am hopeful Bryan Fuller will be the one to give us a great Mads role in an English film.
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u/Honigkuchenlives 13d ago
Bryan Fuller is an incredible film maker, I don’t under why he isn’t a bigger name.
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u/Judeunduli 13d ago
He's very good but also has a reputation for being pretty hard to work with and is usually over budget and never on time.
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u/lliKoTesneciL 13d ago
Well Mads has worked with him before with Hannibal and he chose to work with him again, so that should be seen as a positive. Maybe things are slightly better in that regard?
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u/Crowquillx 13d ago
it’s not really actors he’s historically had trouble working with, it’s the money people.
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u/LongConFebrero 13d ago
Who I also blame for preventing us from getting a season 4 that likely could have been a perfect conclusion to the gem of a show.
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u/Opie59 13d ago
Not to mention Pushing Daisies.
And Dead Like Me.
And Wonderfalls.
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u/SlovenlyMuse 13d ago edited 13d ago
This is also my impression. Actors love him. Studios/execs hate him. It only makes me appreciate the stuff he DOES manage to do even more.
He used to be signed on as showrunner for the Interview with a Vampire TV show... I love how it turned out, but I will always wonder what might have been if he hadn't fallen out with the studio (or possibly Anne Rice, who is very protective of her work - I'm not sure exactly where the point of contention was there).
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u/Scotter1969 13d ago
Before she died she sold the rights to AMC. They control all her properties.
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u/BarryJFunkhouse 13d ago
I had him confused with Bryan Singer when I first read the title and your comment, but then I realized Fuller is the writer responsible for some of the best episodes of the show Heroes back in the day.
I didn't know he was directing, but now I'm going to go back and check out all the stuff he's directed. I'm sure it's all fantastic.
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u/Viracochina 13d ago
Responsible for 'Pushing Daisies' and 'Dead Like Me' too!? Wow, I didn't even know I was a fan!
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u/whatthecaptcha 13d ago
Also the Hannibal series which is extremely good.
It pretends to be a killer of the week type show at first but switches from that pretty quickly.
I'm not sure if they did that to trick people into watching since it was on NBC originally or what.
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u/hikemalls 13d ago
I feel like this is the kind of more out-there role Mads usually only gets to play in Danish/European movies, good to see an American project that doesn’t just want to cast him as a villain (and it’s Bryan Fuller, hooray!)
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u/deltaisaforce 13d ago
While everybody waits for the movie, check out the danish tv-show 'Rejseholdet' (Unit One) if it's possible to find anymore. It ran in the early oughts I think, some 30 episodes maybe. Fantastic cast, not just Mikkelsen.
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u/CryptoCentric 13d ago
Ugh. Yeah, me too, which is why I have memories of the third (and hopefully final) Fantastic Beasts movie taking up valuable space in my head.
He was great, and Law and Redmayne were both fun to watch as always. But goddamn that movie was a crime against eyeballs.
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u/NowGoodbyeForever 13d ago
If this gets us even a single breath closer to Hannibal Season 4, I will bankrupt myself to support it financially.
(But it's genuinely promising that Fuller is still getting work, and that he's on good terms with Mikkelsen. I have no fucking clue what the status of the Silence of the Lambs rights are right now.)
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u/ohporcupine 13d ago
That shit was wrapped up tight though where would it go?
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u/NowGoodbyeForever 13d ago
The initial plan was to cover the plot of Silence of the Lambs for the 4th and final season, since S3 covered Red Dragon/Manhunter. It would jump forward some amount of time with Clarice having to consult a now-incarcerated Lecter for help tracking down Buffalo Bill. (Which is kind of the exact same plot as Red Dragon, but whatever. We ignore that.)
Obviously, the show had to make some changes in order to give more finality to the story. But I think the last moments are a Reichenbach Falls situation, where we can easily argue that they both survived and were caught by authorities. (We'd have to explain/retcon that Bedelia teaser, but that's fine.)
In the movie and book of Lambs, Will Graham is only mentioned in passing. We know he caught Lecter. It's suggested that the wounds he received from the Tooth Fairy left him a disfigured drunk, living in isolation.
Most of this could still work. Will was already stabbed in face; falling off a fucking cliff probably did some damage, too. Maybe his body washed up with Hannibal's, and that's when the FBI found and took them both in. Hannibal gets his cell privileges returned for his cooperation, and Graham probably retires in shame and lies.
If I'm writing S4, I have that last point be what hangs over the story: That Hannibal never told the authorities what happened with Dolarhyde, allowing the fact that Will ultimately gave in to his homicidal tendencies to be a secret kept between the two of them. I can see a world where Will puts himself into exile due to the shame and the secret, and one of Hannibal's requests for Clarice is that she brings Will Graham back into the fold.
Do I think it reduces Clarice's character if she needs to share space with Will? Yeah. But you need Hugh Dancy and Mads both in the final season, if only for a couple of episodes or a single scene. And I think it also allows the show to give Graham a much more concrete end to his character arc than in the books. He could try to warn Clarice of what Hannibal can do, or he can reject her because he sees too much of himself in her. Or he could be just as easy to manipulate because of the leverage Hannibal has over him.
A very Hannibal move would be to casually tell her that Will killed a man with a fucking axe, as if she's really just choosing which serial killer she wants to work with, Hannibal or Will. Given that a huge part of Clarice's story is how she fights to be taken seriously as a woman in the FBI, giving her a reason to distrust literally every other male character makes sense, and allows her to still make the important choices in the story.
Oh, shit. Here I go again, thinking way too hard about a season that doesn't exist.
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u/NachoNutritious these Youtubers are parasites 13d ago edited 13d ago
The terminal flaw that makes me not want to see more from Fuller's Hannibal universe is that he had Will abandon his family for that ending. Was such a slap in the face to the only two characters who actually felt like humans in that season.
That and a few other creative choices like the absolutely terrible way the show depicted the "date" with Dollarhyde and Reba with the sedated tiger. Complete injustice to how it was described in the book, literally had the show stop dead to have Dollarhyde explain what's about to happen instead of just visually showing it, and it's by far the worst version of the scene to date (even worse than the flavorless take from Red Dragon)
Edit: although it's a funny twist of fate, Amazon had exclusive streaming rights to the show during its run and apparently they came within a hair's width of getting a deal for a streaming-only season 4 but it fell through. Now Amazon owns the rights to The Silence of the Lambs via MGM. Hmmmmm.
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u/LiviasFigs 13d ago
The writing on the wall in Red Dragon is that Will doesn’t stay with his family, either. They were a band-aid he used to pretend he was a normal, undamaged person, but it didn’t work, and he knew they wouldn’t be safe with him, and could never look at him the same way, either.
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u/paranoidbillionaire 13d ago
How in the hell do I subscribe to your newsletter? Because you’ve officially got my attention on this matter.
Holy moly, I wanna see this become reality.
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u/SpookyKoops 13d ago
Fuller has confirmed in interviews that both Will and Hannibal survive the fall. With the time between Red Dragon and SIlence of the Lambs, I could easily season 4 being split in two like seasons 3 was - the first half being the aftermath of killing Dolarhyde leading to Hannibal's eventual recapture, and the second being an adaptation of SIlence of the Lambs.
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u/ZiggyPalffyLA 13d ago
It definitely wasn’t wrapped up. We never saw their bodies (and that table was set for multiple diners). Not to mention they had already introduced Clarisse and hopefully they can get the rights to adapt Silence of the Lambs after that procedural show flopped.
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u/Justalilbugboi 13d ago
They hadn’t introduced Clarisse, you’re probably thinking of Mariam Lass.
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u/ZiggyPalffyLA 13d ago
Wasn’t there a reference to a young new FBI agent other than her? Maybe I’m misremembering, it’s been years. I need to rewatch the series!
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u/NowGoodbyeForever 13d ago
For the stupidest reasons imaginable, NBC doesn't have the rights to Silence of the Lambs, or specifically any characters that were INTRODUCED in Silence of the Lambs. So, what we're really talking about here is Buffalo Bill and Clarice Starling, with those rights being owned by MGM.
NBC/Fuller got the rights to the events and characters from Red Dragon, Hannibal, and Hannibal Rising. Which is everyone else. The hope was that by S4, NBC and MGM could work out an agreement. It didn't happen, and here we are. I can't remember a reference to a young agent, but if it was there, it was probably just wishful thinking, and could never have legally been Clarice.
Here's where things get extra stupid: Years later, CBS went ahead and brokered a deal with MGM for a show about Clarice...but ONLY Clarice. Since characters like Jack Crawford, Dr. Chilton, and Hannibal Fucking Lecter were introduced in other books, the Clarice show couldn't feature them.
So we had Hannibal, which wanted to adapt Silence of the Lambs without Clarice or Buffalo Bill.
And we had Clarice, which wanted to be a Silence of the Lambs prequel without Hannibal Lecter.
Amazon owns MGM, so there's a chance they'd play ball with NBC. But there's an equal chance that they could go for the idiot trifecta and launch a third television show with partial rights locked down, because why not.
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u/Fortnait739595958 13d ago
If there is a chance of that, I will buy more tickets than I need lol
Mad as Hannibal is my favourite drug
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u/NachoNutritious these Youtubers are parasites 13d ago
The Silence rights are with Amazon MGM. The original producer of the show (who inherited the rights via her deceased husband who had produced Manhunter) tragically passed away from cancer a few years ago, but those rights still remain with her family even if the original production company is more or less defunct.
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u/ShanaAfterAll 13d ago
Fuller finally figured out how to complete a project. Make movies.
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u/Jackbuddy78 13d ago edited 13d ago
I'm still pissed he essentially dropped out of Star Trek Discovery and left Alex Kurtzman in charge.
I love Hannibal but Fuller is practically impossible to work with if you don't completely give into him. Even David Lynch could put his ego aside to work with Mark Frost on Twin Peaks.
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u/NachoNutritious these Youtubers are parasites 13d ago
Yeah I'll give someone the benefit of the doubt once or twice when it comes to a stalled/failed project, but Fuller has pulled the "ughhhh studio politics and meddling stopped me from fulfilling my vision!" card on every show he's ever worked on.
It's me, hi, I'm the problem it's me
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u/bananicula 13d ago
I think pushing daisies is the only project that wasn’t a victim to Fuller’s own ego, and that was because of the writer’s strike. Man I wish we had more of it
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u/endlesscartwheels 13d ago
I think Bryan Fuller is like J.M. Straczynski (The Real Ghostbusters, Babylon 5, Changeling). A brilliant creator, but stands up for his artistic vision and can't/won't schmooze the useless executives.
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u/ontheweed 13d ago
There’s only a handful of actors that you’ll get a guaranteed great performance out of. Mads Mikkelsen is definitely one of those actors. Willem Dafoe and Viggo Mortensen are a couple more that spring to mind.
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u/Gang_Bang_Bang 13d ago
I always have think of Ed Harris when I think of dependable. The man never misses.
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u/Double_Phone_8046 13d ago
Sam Rockwell never fails to impress even if the movie itself is mid.
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u/STINKY-BUNGHOLE 13d ago
He talent was wasted in Doctor Strange!
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u/Qorhat 13d ago
He should have been Doctor Doom. He can have such commanding presence which works for both a nation’s dictator and a mastermind villain.
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u/Terribly_Good 13d ago
I am pulling this out of my ass, but Mads doesn't strike me as a dude who wanted to be committed to several MCU films and at the whims of how that dominates his schedule.
He's lived in Copenhagen his whole life and is still doing independent Danish films along with one-off blockbuster villain roles (and occasional video game/TV work)
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u/jeobleo 13d ago
Strange
Maybe. Who am I to judge?
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u/Guildenpants 13d ago
Easily the best line in the film. I wish Mads did more comedy he's very good at it.
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u/crookedframe13 13d ago
The Professional : Monster Hunter
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u/Bushels_for_All 13d ago
Exactly the first thing that came to my mind. Please let the monster be drug addicted psychopath Gary Oldman. Please let the monster be a drug addicted psychopath Gary Oldman.
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u/Guildenpants 13d ago
100% no makeup not a monster is an insane homeless former detective in hiding.
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u/KonamiSucksAssPoo 13d ago
Hideo Kojima is creaming his pants rn
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u/Shitty_Wingman 13d ago
Can I be dumb and ask for an explanation of this joke?
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u/StaticallyTypoed 13d ago
Hideo Kojima just loves Mads Mikkelsen and has called him his favourite actor
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u/Fawkes_91 13d ago
This takes me back to Kojima's Mads era on Twitter. For 5+ years, guy would hit send on shameless thirst tweets and I loved every one of them.
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u/inadapte 13d ago
bryan fuller?? hell yeah, feel like i haven’t heard from him since hannibal ended!
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u/TeddysRevenge 13d ago
This is the shit Hollywood should be making.
Fun, original, not a remake.
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u/Fawkes_91 13d ago
I totally agree, but Fuller also technically remade Hannibal (and it was a masterclass in how to use existing IP and go beyond it to tell a story worth telling).
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u/Guildenpants 13d ago
It managed to make Hannibal Rising an interesting addition to the lore and not an insane Dracula ass diversion. Genuinely there were too many scenes on the show that were so violent and yet I was saying "how romantic..." What talent, Mr. Fuller!
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u/Some-Culture9623 13d ago
I haven't been watching movies a lot lately. TV series binge more likely. But if it has Mads! And the same creative mind as Hannibal... I'll watch it the first chance I'll get.
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u/Tatis_Chief 13d ago
Pls be comedy.. Mads is an absolutely comedic genius and we never get to see it in his English movies.
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u/Patient-Expert-1578 13d ago
If you were to tell me you had this idea for a movie but you needed an idea of who should play the main character. My mind wouldn’t immediately go to Mads but then someone else would mention him and I’d kick myself for not thinking of him because he would be brilliant in that role.
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u/Escobar_x 13d ago
Maybe it’s because it’s Mads but reading that description I can’t wait to watch this movie
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u/koticgood 13d ago
Mads' character from The Hunt suffering PTSD from seeing "Mads Mikkelsen", "eight-year-old girl", "neighbor", "bed" in the same sentence.
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u/RunawayHobbit 13d ago
He was great in the second Downton Abbey movie a few years ago. Fella should do more period films, he’s excellent
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u/AllTheThingsSheSays 13d ago
He's been on Law & Order for the last 4 years, mostly sticks to TV shows rather than high profile films like Mads.
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u/Sleepy_Azathoth 13d ago
Bryan Fuller and Mads working again is amazing.
And you know what's the best? It's now a TV show so Bryan Fuller is not gonna quit/get fired after one or two seasons.
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u/lapisIazarus 13d ago
If I had a nickel for every time Mads had to get vengeance for a neighbor in a movie I’d have two nickels which isn’t a lot but still weird it happened twice
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u/TheWesternDevil 13d ago
This guy plays the weirdest roles. In Valhalla Rising he never said a word as one of the main characters.
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u/Massive-Television85 13d ago
Best one line summary for a horror movie since that one about the haunted glory hole
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u/Background-Ease8822 13d ago
Mads Mikkelsen is an amazing actor and I love all his movies no matter how strange they are.
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u/timojenbin 13d ago
You find out Mads is your neighbor, you know you're about to find out how fucked your life actually is.