In the late 1980s-1990s, Phillip Noyce delivered a slew of entertaining actioners, which include Blind Fury, an American interpretation of the highly popular Zatoichi series starring the late Rutger Hauer and his Jack Ryan diptych starring Harrison Ford: Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, the very best on-screen Tom Clancy adaptations. After the highly underrated Salt in 2010, Noyce’s career took a rapid nosedive with The Giver—one of the dullest Young Adult book-to-screen adaptations released in the last decade. With his latest film, Above Suspicion, based on the true story of the murder of informant Susan Smith by FBI Agent Mark Putnam, Noyce doesn’t seem to care anymore. The film is a stagnant, repulsive and highly caricatured chronicle of a tragic event, featuring appalling...
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- 5/12/2021
- Screen Anarchy
Game of Thrones alum Emilia Clarke toplines Lionsgate’s Above Suspicion, the Phillip Noyce-directed crime thriller that debuts in select theaters and on digital and on-demand platforms Friday. Jack Huston, Sophie Lowe, Austin Hébert, Karl Glusman, Chris Mulkey, Omar Miller, Kevin Dunn, Thora Birch and Johnny Knoxville also co-star in the film, which is based on a true story of one of the most notorious crimes in FBI history.
Clarke plays Susan Smith, a woman desperate to escape a seedy life of crime and drugs in a Kentucky coal mining town. When newly minted FBI agent Mark Putnam (Huston) recruits Susan as his informant for a high-profile case, she believes her bad luck may finally be changing. But as Susan and Putnam’s relationship deepens, so does the danger, setting them both on a collision course with deadly consequences.
“Shot in the area in which the real story took...
Clarke plays Susan Smith, a woman desperate to escape a seedy life of crime and drugs in a Kentucky coal mining town. When newly minted FBI agent Mark Putnam (Huston) recruits Susan as his informant for a high-profile case, she believes her bad luck may finally be changing. But as Susan and Putnam’s relationship deepens, so does the danger, setting them both on a collision course with deadly consequences.
“Shot in the area in which the real story took...
- 5/7/2021
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Phillip Noyce has long been a purveyor of great thrillers, from Patriot Games and Rabbit-Proof Fence to Salt and while he's kept busy both producing and directing over the last decade, his work has mostly been in TV though that's clearly changing in the coming years as he's currently attached to a number of feature films.
The first of the batch is Above Suspicion, a retelling of the real-life story behind the first FBI agent to be convicted for murder.
The movie stars Emilia Clarke as Susan Smith, a young woman who is trying to escape a life of crime and drugs in a Kentucky coal-mining town. When a newly minted FBI agent named Mark Putnam (Jack Huston) comes rolling into town and wants to recruit Susan as his informant for a high-profile case, she sees...
The first of the batch is Above Suspicion, a retelling of the real-life story behind the first FBI agent to be convicted for murder.
The movie stars Emilia Clarke as Susan Smith, a young woman who is trying to escape a life of crime and drugs in a Kentucky coal-mining town. When a newly minted FBI agent named Mark Putnam (Jack Huston) comes rolling into town and wants to recruit Susan as his informant for a high-profile case, she sees...
- 4/5/2021
- QuietEarth.us
Above Suspicion is a vailable in Select Theaters and Everywhere You Rent Movies on May 14th; on Blu-ray and DVD May 18th!
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Based on the true story of one of the most notorious crimes in FBI history, this gritty crime-thriller stars Emilia Clarke (“Game of Thrones”) as Susan Smith, a young woman desperate to escape a seedy life of crime and drugs in a Kentucky coal mining town. When a newly minted FBI agent named Mark Putnam recruits Susan as his informant for a high-profile case, she believes her bad luck may finally be changing. But as Susan and Putnam’s relationship deepens, so does the danger, setting them both on a collision course with deadly consequences.
Above Suspicion stars Emilia Clarke, Jack Huston, Sophie Lowe, Austin Hébert, Karl Glusman, Chris Mulkey, Omar Miller, Kevin Dunn with Thora Birch and Johnny Knoxville
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Here’s the trailer:
Based on the true story of one of the most notorious crimes in FBI history, this gritty crime-thriller stars Emilia Clarke (“Game of Thrones”) as Susan Smith, a young woman desperate to escape a seedy life of crime and drugs in a Kentucky coal mining town. When a newly minted FBI agent named Mark Putnam recruits Susan as his informant for a high-profile case, she believes her bad luck may finally be changing. But as Susan and Putnam’s relationship deepens, so does the danger, setting them both on a collision course with deadly consequences.
Above Suspicion stars Emilia Clarke, Jack Huston, Sophie Lowe, Austin Hébert, Karl Glusman, Chris Mulkey, Omar Miller, Kevin Dunn with Thora Birch and Johnny Knoxville
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- 4/2/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The familiar whisky-coloured sunlight of Kentucky is swapped out for blues and greens in Philip Noyce's true crime drama, which recounts the true tale of Susan Smith (Emilia Clarke), an FBI informant who was killed by her handler Mark Putnam (John Huston) at the end of the Eighties. Recounts is the appropriate word as we are led through the tale by the voice of Susan speaking from beyond the grave - a device that almost always puts the brakes on films and does so here, despite a few choice snarky asides.
Elevated by a Clarke's compelling central performance, we learn how the volatile and addicted Susan - living in a depressed mining town with her abusive ex Cash - came to fall for Mark as she began to feed him information about a series of bank robberies. The...
Elevated by a Clarke's compelling central performance, we learn how the volatile and addicted Susan - living in a depressed mining town with her abusive ex Cash - came to fall for Mark as she began to feed him information about a series of bank robberies. The...
- 7/14/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
“What’s the worst thing about being dead? You get too much time to think”
Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) is now back on our screens in the thriller Above Suspicion, directed by Phillip Noyce with the screenplay by Chris Gerolmo. The film is based on the book by Joe Sharkey – the true story of America’s first ever conviction for murder of an FBI agent back in 1988.
Clarke plays Susan Smith, a drug addict and young mother of two who also acts as the film’s narrator, but telling the story from beyond the grave. She is the victim of FBI agent Mark Putnam (played by Jack Huston). This case became a memorable moment in American history and one that should never be forgotten.
Stuck in the small town of Pikeville, Kentucky, “the town that never lets go”, Susan has a secret desire to escape from her poor and unfortunate lifestyle,...
Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) is now back on our screens in the thriller Above Suspicion, directed by Phillip Noyce with the screenplay by Chris Gerolmo. The film is based on the book by Joe Sharkey – the true story of America’s first ever conviction for murder of an FBI agent back in 1988.
Clarke plays Susan Smith, a drug addict and young mother of two who also acts as the film’s narrator, but telling the story from beyond the grave. She is the victim of FBI agent Mark Putnam (played by Jack Huston). This case became a memorable moment in American history and one that should never be forgotten.
Stuck in the small town of Pikeville, Kentucky, “the town that never lets go”, Susan has a secret desire to escape from her poor and unfortunate lifestyle,...
- 7/14/2020
- by Alex Clement
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The 1989 murder of Susan Smith is a despairingly grim Southern Gothic story, shot through with reckless sex, institutional corruption and Kentucky-fried local scandal: prime material for the kind of forensic, heavily extended true-crime podcasts (or Netflix-style documentary series) that garner such widespread public fascination these days. At least “Above Suspicion,” a steamed-up, sweat-soaked film adaptation of the material, mercifully rakes over its unsavory details in two hours rather than several. It’s quick, dirty and perhaps more tawdry than it needs to be: There may not be much dignity to be scrounged from the tale of a naive, drug-addicted FBI informant who sleeps with — and is subsequently killed by — her supervising agent, but Chris Gerolmo’s script isn’t at great pains to find the human factor here, and Phillip Noyce’s direction coats the whole unhappy affair in cold blue steel.
What it does have is Emilia Clarke.
What it does have is Emilia Clarke.
- 7/13/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Jack Huston and Emilia Clarke star in this brash true-crime melodrama about the killing of an informant by a bureau agent
In 1989, the high-flying FBI officer Mark Putnam became a gruesome footnote in bureau history by killing the informant with whom he was having an affair: a young woman called Susan Smith. That made her the first murder victim of an FBI agent.
It is a bizarre case of corruption and misogyny, and it deserves a substantial movie. Instead, we have this moderate one: a brash, true-crime noir melodrama from screenwriter Chris Gerolmo, who gives Smith a narrative voiceover from beyond the grave, with Phillip Noyce directing.
In 1989, the high-flying FBI officer Mark Putnam became a gruesome footnote in bureau history by killing the informant with whom he was having an affair: a young woman called Susan Smith. That made her the first murder victim of an FBI agent.
It is a bizarre case of corruption and misogyny, and it deserves a substantial movie. Instead, we have this moderate one: a brash, true-crime noir melodrama from screenwriter Chris Gerolmo, who gives Smith a narrative voiceover from beyond the grave, with Phillip Noyce directing.
- 7/8/2020
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
If you've seen even an episode of Game of Thrones, then you know that Emilia Clarke plays Daenerys Targaryen so convincingly, it's easy to forget the 32-year-old British actress isn't actually the Mother of Dragons. Before GoT, Clarke appeared in several London stage productions, but when she was cast as one of the last two surviving members of the House Targaryen in 2011, she rose to mega stardom, earning three Emmy nominations and inspiring endless Halloween costumes. However, the question begs: what will Clarke do once her reign as Daenerys Stormborn of the House Targaryen reaches its conclusion at the end of the show's eighth season?
Fret not, loyal fans, because Clarke has plenty of projects lined up following the end of her run on GoT. Currently, Clarke is working with Bridesmaids and A Simple Favor director Paul Feig and writers Bryony Kimmings and Emma Thompson on an upcoming holiday rom-com called Last Christmas,...
Fret not, loyal fans, because Clarke has plenty of projects lined up following the end of her run on GoT. Currently, Clarke is working with Bridesmaids and A Simple Favor director Paul Feig and writers Bryony Kimmings and Emma Thompson on an upcoming holiday rom-com called Last Christmas,...
- 3/6/2019
- by Corinne Sullivan
- Popsugar.com
The Scribbler
Release Date: Theaters, VOD, and iTunes September 19th Written By: Dan Schaffer Directed By: John Suits Starring: Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Eliza Dushku
Man o’ man, creeps. What we have here is a lil’ independent gem that serves as one of the most original and entertaining superhero origin films I’ve seen in many a day!
But I’m getting a bit ahead of myself… ya see, at first, The Scribbler plays out like a kind of murder mystery (albeit a surreal and ultra-stylized one), as Suki (Katie Cassidy), a young girl with multiple personalities, arrives at Juniper Tower, a boarding home for recently released mental patients—all of whom have their own unique quirks (think Arkham Asylum subdivided into low-rent housing).
After Suki arrives and does a lil’ of the ol’ self-medicating (which in this case involves her eliminating individual personas from her psyche via a machine...
Release Date: Theaters, VOD, and iTunes September 19th Written By: Dan Schaffer Directed By: John Suits Starring: Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Eliza Dushku
Man o’ man, creeps. What we have here is a lil’ independent gem that serves as one of the most original and entertaining superhero origin films I’ve seen in many a day!
But I’m getting a bit ahead of myself… ya see, at first, The Scribbler plays out like a kind of murder mystery (albeit a surreal and ultra-stylized one), as Suki (Katie Cassidy), a young girl with multiple personalities, arrives at Juniper Tower, a boarding home for recently released mental patients—all of whom have their own unique quirks (think Arkham Asylum subdivided into low-rent housing).
After Suki arrives and does a lil’ of the ol’ self-medicating (which in this case involves her eliminating individual personas from her psyche via a machine...
- 9/22/2014
- by DanielXIII
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Extracted, the sci fi thriller Sasha Roiz filmed last year, will have its world premiere at the South By Southwest festival in Austin in March. Filmmaker Magazine has the full SXSW lineup, announced earlier today.
Extracted will be screened in the Emerging Visions section. The date/venue info hasn't been posted yet, but it will probably show up on the film's page on SXSW.com one of these days.
This year, the festival runs from March 9 to 17.
Film synopsis, main credits & trailer, from New Artists Alliance:
Thomas Jacobs is a brilliant engineer who invents a device that enables him to enter the mind of a patient and observe them in their memories.
Having run out of funds to complete the project, he reluctantly partners with the justice department who plans to use it to see criminals enact their crimes, But, during the first test on a convict, Tom gets trapped,...
Extracted will be screened in the Emerging Visions section. The date/venue info hasn't been posted yet, but it will probably show up on the film's page on SXSW.com one of these days.
This year, the festival runs from March 9 to 17.
Film synopsis, main credits & trailer, from New Artists Alliance:
Thomas Jacobs is a brilliant engineer who invents a device that enables him to enter the mind of a patient and observe them in their memories.
Having run out of funds to complete the project, he reluctantly partners with the justice department who plans to use it to see criminals enact their crimes, But, during the first test on a convict, Tom gets trapped,...
- 2/1/2012
- by fanshawe
- CapricaTV
While he’s waiting for the script of Edwin A. Salt to be retooled for Angelina Jolie (Edwina A. Salt, anyone?), Phillip Noyce has added another film to his to-do list. The Australian director has lined up Above Suspicion, a true-life drama about the only FBI agent to ever be convicted of murder. (And not, as we first thought, a remake of the 1943 Joan Crawford/Fred MacMurray flick, nor the 1995 Christopher Reeve movie, co-written by William H. Macy – Fact!) This Above Suspicion is based on the book by New York Times columnist Joe Sharkey, which concerned rookie agent Mark Putnam. A family man, Putnam embarked on an affair with an informant – when that began to unravel and threaten his job and family, things took a dramatic turn for the worse. Noyce will direct the film, from a script by Chris Gerolmo. Bold Films is stumping up the readies.
- 11/11/2008
- EmpireOnline
Phillip Noyce has agreed to direct the true crime thriller Above Suspicion for Bold Films. While most of the recent focus on Noyce’s career has been on Edwin A Salt – the spy drama originally set to star Tom Cruise, now taken over by Angelina Jolie - the director has sneakily added another film to his schedule, according to Variety. Chris Gerolmo is busy writing an adaptation of New York Times reporter Joe Sharkey’s book. “Psychological twists and turns” The story follows FBI agent Mark Putnam, who is... .
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- 11/11/2008
- by jwhite
- TotalFilm
Everyone remembers the story of the FBI agent who had an affair with an informant and then ran into trouble when she threatened to tell his wife and boss. Actually, I had never heard of the story of Mark Putnam and probably would have remained ignorant of him to this day if Phillip Noyce hadn't agreed to direct a movie about the events surrounding Putnam's affair called Above Suspicion. According to Hr, Noyce is going to direct the screenplay written by Mississippi Burning writer Chris Gerolmo. Gerolmo, in turn, based his script on a book by New York Times columnist Joe Sharkey. Sharkey, in turn, based his book on Putnam not being able to keep his gun in its holster, if you catch my drift, wink, wink. Putnam was a rookie agent when he started interrogating one of his informants in private. She ended up with child and that is...
- 11/10/2008
- cinemablend.com
Filmmaker Phillip Noyce will direct the adaptation of “Above Suspicion,” a crime thriller written by New York Times columnist Joe Sharkey.
Variety says the story focuses on an FBI agent named Mark Putnam, who’s convicted for murder after an affair with an informer that threatened to end his career and marriage.
Chris Gerolmo is set to write the screenplay for the projet, which the trade says is expected to start shooting late next year.
Noyce’s directing credits include “The Saint,” “Rabbit-Proof Fence” and “The Quiet American.” His next project is the Angelina Jolie vehicle “Salt.”...
Variety says the story focuses on an FBI agent named Mark Putnam, who’s convicted for murder after an affair with an informer that threatened to end his career and marriage.
Chris Gerolmo is set to write the screenplay for the projet, which the trade says is expected to start shooting late next year.
Noyce’s directing credits include “The Saint,” “Rabbit-Proof Fence” and “The Quiet American.” His next project is the Angelina Jolie vehicle “Salt.”...
- 11/10/2008
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
Bold Films (Bobby, Starship Troopers 3) has announced that its next feature film project will be an adaptation of New York Times columnist Joe Sharkey's true crime novel "Above Suspicion". Filmmaker Phillip Noyce, of Patriot Games, The Bone Collector, The Quiet American, and Catch a Fire most recently, will direct while Chris Gerolmo, of Mississippi Burning previously, will write the screenplay. The film centers on the true story of the only FBI agent to be convicted of murder - Mark Putnam. He was a dutiful family man and ambitious rookie agent, but everything took a turn for the worse when an affair with an informant threatened to destroy both his career and his marriage. Sounds like it might be intense. I'm not at all familiar with the book or the story, but apparently it's a bit different than most true crime novels. "You almost feel sorrier for the killer...
- 11/10/2008
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Phillip Boyce (Patriot Games, The Quiet American) has signed on to direct Above Suspicion, an adaptation of the book written by New York Times columnist Joe Sharkey. Chris Gerolmo (Mississippi Burning) will write the screenplay. The film centers on the true story of the only FBI agent to be convicted of murder. Mark Putnam was a dutiful family man and ambitious rookie agent who embarks on a dangerous affair with an informant. When the affair threatens to unravel his career and marriage, it takes a turn for the worse. The indie finance and production company Bold Films is behind the film with Michel Litvak (Bobby), Gary Michael Waters (Mini's First Time) and David Lancaster (A Love Song for Bobby Long) on board to produce. Filming is tentatively scheduled to begin fall 2009. Noyce is also directing the espionage thriller Salt, which will star Angelina Jolie.
- 11/10/2008
- by James Cook
- TheMovingPicture.net
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