Ryan Reynolds Gets Buried

Ryan Reynolds (The Proposal, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) will star in Buried, playing a civilian contractor who's kidnapped in Iraq and awakens buried in a coffin in the desert, armed only with a cell phone, a candle and a knife.

Rodrigo Cortes will direct a script by Chris Sparling; production will begin this month in Barcelona.

Peter Safran will produce through his Safran Co. with Adrian Guerra of Spain-based Versus Entertainment, which is financing the film. The picture will shoot entirely in Spain, which is home to Cortes.

maybe I'm stupid, but why would someone bury another person with a handphone, candle and knife? does that even make sense?

Thats why u should watch it, no?

The HP call out is barred, only the kidnapped can call him to ask him go assinate ppl, using the knife.

Sundance describes the 94-minute film as follows:

Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds) is a U.S. citizen working as a contract driver in Iraq. After a swift and sudden attack on his convoy, he awakens to find himself buried alive inside a coffin with nothing more than a lighter, a cell phone, and little memory of how he ended up there. Faced with limited oxygen and unlimited panic, Paul finds himself in a tension-filled race against time to escape this claustrophobic deathtrap before it’s too late. If the sheer logistics of this premise are enough to make your head hurt, rest assured that director Rodrigo Cortés tackles these issues with relative ease, aided a great deal by a superbly convincing performance by Reynolds, the lone onscreen actor in the film. The result is a gripping and suspenseful thriller that will leave you gasping for air until the very end.

Apparently Paul is in a “death race against time” and only has 90 minutes to escape before he runs out of oxygen.

Rodrigo Cortes‘ Buried will premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in the Park City at Midnight category, one of eight films selected from over 3724 titles from all over the world.

maybe I'm stupid, but why would someone bury another person with a handphone, candle and knife? does that even make sense?

Too many gadget for him already. Remember, The Bride in Kill Bill can break and come out from the coffin with just bare hands.

maybe I'm stupid, but why would someone bury another person with a handphone, candle and knife? does that even make sense?

Well Mythbusters proved that you can't punch your way out of a coffin so perhaps this could improve on that.

sounds like one of the finale of CSI vegas...

dam u ryan, how dare u steal scarjo ....

Why am I so worried that the cinemas would be doing a "The Town" and push it to December or even worse, next year? =S Being so paranoid right now. ahhhh

I hope this movie it not like

8 hours earlier...
2 weeks earlier...
6 months earlier...

err you get what I meant..haha

I have read the script and I assure you guys that the whole movie will be in the coffin for 90 minutes straight. NO FLASHBACKS, NO CUTS TO OTHER PEOPLE. JUST RYAN REYNOLDS IN A COFFIN FOR 90 MINUTES.

YAY! I get 90 minutes of RYAN!!!! I LOVE HIM!!!

YAY! I get 90 minutes of RYAN!!!! I LOVE HIM!!!

Why so?

Does anyone have the schedule for this Friday at Pav/1U/MV? I couldn't find the showtimes online. My paranoia is getting worse. ughhhh

Just watched Buried special screening at Cineleisure just now.

Yes ,the whole movie is just in the coffin.Thats 90 mins to be exact.

How is the movie? For me,i feel it is one of the worst movie this year.

After i came out from the hall,i felt like wanna vomit and felt like I am buried 6 feet under.

Luckily it was free,so dint bother too much.

But damn was it a boring movie.Not worth watching at all

Ohyea,this movie has no flashbacks,no replays,no nothing.

All it has is RR in a wooden coffin with a lighter,a torchlight,phone,some light sticks,a can of alcohol,a pencil for 90 mins! Thats about it.Ohyea and another something,but this I shall let you guys watch to find out what it is.

Bet nobody can guess what it is.hahahaha..

4/10 for me.

really, that bad ?

Just showing how RR try to escape and make calls & answer calls.

After i came out from the hall,i felt like wanna vomit and felt like I am buried 6 feet under.

Ohyea,this movie has no flashbacks,no replays,no nothing.

All it has is RR in a wooden coffin with a lighter,a torchlight,phone,some light sticks,a can of alcohol,a pencil for 90 mins! Thats about it.Ohyea and another something,but this I shall let you guys watch to find out what it is.

Bet nobody can guess what it is.hahahaha..

I WILL NOT LISTEN TO ANYONE...

REYNOLDS FOREVER.

Owh what's with the caps lock this morning.

gonna watch this shit tomorrow

And this shit is going to do you some...

I wonder why. Midvalley and Pavi is good at the moment.

big screen ? free goodies ? . or more crowds 

I dont understand the praise Reynolds is getting. Any decent actor could have pulled this off.

Ryan Reynolds got the praise because he is able to handle the entire weight of the movie by himself. Yes, any decent actor (but i doubt so imo) can pull it off but he's the one that actually gotten the role so we are unable to compare his role with any other actors.

The spectrum of acting on display is as narrow and limited as his physical movements. The only acting we see is him panicking, and most of it is done through tone of voice, and this, pretty much any decent actor can do. Reynolds did a good enough job, but I'm saying this role wasn't hard from an acting standpoint. Being trapped in a confined space like that is another matter.

What is the budget for the movie? I bet most of it went to Reynolds. Discounting his payoff, I think the movie could have easily been made with $50,000 or less.

You're not really looking in depth with his character that he's playing. All you notice is just physical but you've forgotten about Conroy's personality which was really subtle due to majority of the screentime is him doing some physical acting. And you like saying his role wasn't hard, please list some actors from his generation that can play Paul Conroy perfectly like him.

I disagree. The character isn't subtle. It's pure and raw emotions, namely fear, anger, frustration, and finally resignation. Reynolds was in no way irreplaceable, not even close. It is very easy for me to imagine Joseph Gorden-Levitt playing Paul Conroy. Probably would have done a better job. When you can think of another actor who could have done an equally good or probably better job, I wont be lavishing much praise on the actor who actually got the part. I'm gonna head home now, so I cant think of any other actors.

For me it is no doubt by far the worst movie I've seen in many years.. Maybe i simply don't understand the art of it? And i think they should get a award for most cost saving movie of the decade..

anybody watched Frozen?

same idea. the whole movie stuck on top of the cable car

Ryan Gosling or Jeremy Renner.I think they will give a more convincing and intense emotions.

Whereas Ryan Reynolds still has that hollywood packaged lead actor persona.But then again "starpower" is needed to get this movie notice.