{"id":21623,"date":"2012-08-09T18:13:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T22:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=21623"},"modified":"2012-08-09T18:13:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T22:13:12","slug":"robbins-returns-to-directors-chair-for-city-of-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/09\/robbins-returns-to-directors-chair-for-city-of-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbins Returns To Director\u2019s Chair For CITY OF LIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tim_robbins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21624\" title=\"tim_robbins\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tim_robbins-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a>Tim Robbins is returning to the director\u2019s chair for the first time since 1999 to helm the thriller <strong>City Of Lies<\/strong>. Based on a short story by Arthur Phillips first read on <em>This American Life<\/em> in 2007, it deals with two Cold War spies on separate missions in Prague who fall in love.<\/p>\n<p>Robbins will be working from a script by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, who originally landed on the 2009 Black List with it back when the project was originally titled <strong>Wenceslas Square<\/strong>. Previously Philip Noyce was attached to direct the picture.<\/p>\n<p>It has been almost a decade-and-a-half since Robbins last directed a feature film \u2013 1999\u2019s <strong>Cradle Will Rock<\/strong>. Of his two other feature directorial efforts, drama <strong>Dead Man Walking<\/strong> is considered a classic and the political satire <strong>Bob Roberts<\/strong> is an under-appreciated gem.<\/p>\n<p>Robbins has kept exercising his directorial muscles through the 2000s with the TV movie <em>Possible Side Effects<\/em> and two episodes of the HBO series <em>Treme<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no announced release date for the film, but in the meantime, you can hear Phillips read his short story on This American Life <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/radio-archives\/episode\/337\/man-vs-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/tim-robbins-endgames-city-lies-360036\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">It will be his first feature since 1999.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/09\/robbins-returns-to-directors-chair-for-city-of-lies\/\" title=\"Robbins Returns To Director\u2019s Chair For CITY OF LIES\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[5537,813],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-city-of-lies","8":"tag-tim-robbins"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21623"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=21623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}