Last year, I kept seeing nice photos of Colin Farrell all dolled up in a suit, filming a new movie. The movie was/is called London Boulevard, and it also stars Keira Knightley and Ray Winstone. Here’s the thing: I was under the impression that this was some kind of romance or just a straight up modern drama. It’s not. It’s a gangster film, and it reminds me of Guy Ritchie and Matthew Vaughn’s films, like Rock’NRolla and Layer Cake. Colin stars as the gangster who doesn’t want to be drawn back into the web of crime. Keira is the movie star who Colin protects as a bodyguard. Winstone plays the crime boss, it seems. And you know what? This sh-t looks GOOD.
Right? I want to see those sex scenes between Keira and Colin. I want to see Colin pistol whip somebody. I want to see Colin play a badass in a suit. I’m so seeing this movie.
Thanks to Pajiba for the trailer!
Photos from the filming of ‘London Boulevard’ in 2009. Header courtesy of WENN.
He is so freaking fine!
Ewwww No I don’t want to see Colin have sex with Keira. Keira doesn’t have a very sexy body, she has very nice body but not really any boobs and no ass, and in Atonement that was a good sex scene because James McAvoy for the most part was hiding her body kinda when he had her pressed up against those books. Hawt.
Colin is a very talented actor. Always has been and thats what drew me to him so many years ago when I was HS. I loved him in Phone Booth and that war movie with Bruce Willis. Man I can fall in love with Colin again but Angie has my heart now.
I’ll always remember his fight scene in Pride and Glory where he’s beating the crap out of Edward Norton. One of my favorite scenes from him, he plays a bad guy so well.
This looks like it’s gonna be gooood. Layer Cake… AWESOME.F-ING.MOVIE!
My boyfriend rented it and I thought it was gonna be just another gangster movie but, I was really blown away by it… :o)
OMG i’ve been waiting for this for ages! I didn’t expect it to be a gangster film i thought it was gonna be a period drama lmao
Looks pretty awsome though, i LOVE Keira Knightly so i’m definately seeing this, Collin is so hawt! Nice to see Anna Friel in this too ^_^
I will definitely watch this movie, mainly because of Colin and his and Keira’s accents – love them!
The tone and black comedic elements does, indeed, remind one of Guy Ritchie. Will go on my must-see list. Could have done without Keira, though.
And OMG. Colin is graying. Damn, we’re getting old.
i’m so there.
I’ve been waiting forever for this to come out! Can’t wait to see it.
OMG YES!! I never tire looking at him! I dont care who he’s having sex with! Bring on the sex scenes Colin!!
The accent is a bit dodge though.
Having said that, it IS better than his Kerry accent in Ondin. (and Anna Friel’s -who seems to play his sister- accent in “Watermelon”)
(Now, Michael Fassbender, that bucko can certainly do an accent!)
Anyway, the film does look very decent and Ray Winstone is always very watchable. 🙂
Colin’s accent in Ondine was County Cork, not County Kerry.
His accent in London Boulevard is supposed to be South London. I know someone from there who says it is spot on.
Love him and can’t wait to see this.
I agree with Mairead.
As a Londoner, I’ve got to say that accent wasn’t very good. One of my closest friends is from south of the river and she said it was pretty bad.
Anyway, I love a good London gangster movie. Snatch, Lock Stock, RocknRolla and Layer Cake are staples in my DVD rack. 🙂
p.s. I love me some bad guy Ray Winstone!
From Irish to British-what a stretch? Like Angelina Jolie from a mental patient(Girl, Interrupted) to real life. Another stretch.
I thought Onedin was set in Kerry? I watched the interviews on the Late Late Show with Colin and Neil Jordan who kept mentioning Kerry. They all even laughed at the hilarious Kerry accent. To be fair, he did warm to it more as the film went along.
I’ve family in “Saaahrf Landahn” and spent a lot of time there as a kid (I did the opposite to most emigrant’s kids, being raised in Ireland and holidaying with the grandparents in London. My family are odd). I’ve heard worse than Colin. His American accent(s) sound more natural.
@Jacqueline – I don’t know how familiar you are with the accents but let’s put it this way, Kerry and Cork have almost identical accents. Cockney and Dublin accents are very different. It’d be like me saying that someone from New Jersey and Texas sound the same.
FYI most British actors do a rotten generic Irish accent.
Mairead, aren’t you from Kerry? I live there now and we sound NOTHING like Cork people!!! Well, maybe we do to the untrained ear….
Topic? Colin Farrell… mmmmm.
So hot.
@Tuatara – that is a scurrilous accusation and this Galweigan demands that you recant immediately!!!! 😯
😉
But I will apologise for the slur against Cork and Kerry for saying their accents were almost identical; I did mean for those of us who aren’t finely attuned.
I must confess that it takes me a while to figure out whether someone is West Cork or Kerry. 😳 A bit like Cavan and Monaghan; eventually I’ll figure it out, but it takes a while. Mind you with some of the Kerry people I know I’m never sure whether they’re speaking Irish or English! 😆
I must say, Michael Fassbender trumps Colin for me. I still think it’s mental that he’s probably only the 4th or 5th most famous Kerryman in Ireland (after Jackie Healy Rae, Micheál Ó Muiricheartaigh and Daithí Ó Sé – the late John B. Keane being in a league of his own)