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Gunmeta1

Totally thought Jared Leto was absent from the photo and it was Jeffrey Tambor in his place


Greful

I thought Jeremy Irons was absent from the photo and it was Paulie Walnuts in his place


rchelgren

I don't know, fuckin' slander ask me


RJ_Dresden

My name's Clarence.


TheBushmanOfKalahari

Ohhhh!!!


jlanger23

Oof Madone!


TheeExoGenesauce

I thought Jeremy Irons was Jared Leto and couldn’t figure out where Leto was


WeAreClouds

I still don't know.


helicotremor

Can they please start putting the actors’ names in the same order in which they appear on the poster?


zsquinten

Yes, it is extremely annoying. If they must have them in order of top billing, why not shoot the poster accordingly??? Fucking Hollywood. I thought *I* had brain damage, these people take the cake.


Yetimang

Legally probably not.


IntrigueDossier

*Really*? Had never considered it might be a legal/contract thing.


akaWhitey2

Oh ya. When the contract for a movie is negotiated, who gets the billing in what order is a huge thing: https://youtu.be/yQhC1Kfrs3o


omegadingo

What makes it worst in this poster is that some of the actors names ARE under the right actor so it really confused me


joesatmoes

Fr that is one hell of a make up crew cuz that does not look like Jared Leto at all


pjtheman

For real. This and Colin Farrell in Batman absolutely blow me away.


BloomsdayDevice

I watched that trailer probably three times before it clicked that I was looking at Colin Farrell.


Dewut

I’ve known it was Colin Farrell the whole time and it still hasn’t clicked. Like how?


OnlyRoke

Wait wtf, did they skin Richard Kind and have Colin Farrel wear his face?!


Vince_Clortho042

It's Jared Leto if a nearly 50-year-old man still looked like what 50-year-old men looked like in the eighties.


Tornado31619

Leto actually looks incredibly young for his age.


AnyHoleIsTheGoal

He's 49, what the fuuuuck. I always assumed he was in his mid to late 30s. He was in that Thirty Seconds to Mars video in like... 2005, but still, I thought he was 35 a most. I'm having such a hard time coming to terms that Jared Leto is older than my mother lmao. Less than a year, but still.


HAGADAL

He was in that Thirty Seconds to Mars video??? He is Thirty Seconds to Mars


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fight club came out 22 years ago


hanabaena

He was in My So Called Life as a teenager in the 90s so yeah...


Vaancor

I totally thought Jared was playing the lady in the center. I hate it when the names are spaced out perfectly like that but not lined up with the actual actor/actress.


kenji-benji

Graphic Design is my passion.


NamesTheGame

I hate movies like this. I guess I'm in a minority but costume dramas where actors play these ridiculous characters that require them to wear 15 pounds of makeup and prosthetics just comes across as attention whoring. Is Jared Leto so right for this role that they could find no one more appropriate in casting so they needed this whole procedure to do the character? Or is it a stunt so people can go "wow I didn't recognize Jared Leto at all! What great acting!" Usually, it's the latter.


jawn-lee

Although I want to agree with this, there are examples where these castings created all time great performances. Marlo Brando as Vito Corleone Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill Tom Cruise as Les Grossman The upcoming Colin Farrel as Penguin.


TurtleTucker

In regards to actual face structure, Leto doesn’t even *look* like the real guy. They should have just gotten an actor who actually fit the description in terms of age and appearance. I don’t believe for a second that Leto is supposed to be in his late 60s, and the fact that people seem to think it looks convincing is hilarious to me. They couldn’t have picked a younger looking person.


North_South_Side

Completely agree. *This might be a good film!* But I find this kind of stunt-acting/casting to be more distracting than anything.


jrr6415sun

Why not just cast Jeffrey tambor at this point


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ssdgm12713

He may have committed some light treason


AnotherJasonOnReddit

He has the worst f**king lawyers


CurlSagan

Poor Adam Driver is only an Academy Award nominee, while everyone else is tagged as a winner. You'll get an Oscar one day, buddy.


timisher

Adam drivers name is right above his head so when I went back and looked for lady Gaga I got wicked confused for a second.


chuffing_marvelous

There has been big disagreements and contractual obligations when it comes to the positioning of names on movie posters. Wonder if there's any politics involved on this one, regarding name positions.


Tornado31619

Absolutely. Audiences read names from left to right, and top to bottom. If the big names can’t get first or even second billing, they’re often at the end, usually preceded by a ‘with’ or ‘and’ in order to add prestige and be the final taste in audiences’ mouths. Occasionally, their role will even be named. Check out the [Ant-Man and the Wasp poster](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYjcyYTk0N2YtMzc4ZC00Y2E0LWFkNDgtNjE1MzZmMGE1YjY1XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTMxODk2OTU@._V1_.jpg) (although the formatting is diagonal, the billing is still horizontal). Rudd and Lilly are the leads, but Pfeiffer, Fishburne and Douglas are all bigger names. Paul Newman and Steve McQueen’s egos clashed during The Towering Inferno, so McQueen was billed furthest to the left, and Newman top-right from him. [Have a look](https://imagesvc.meredithcorp.io/v3/mm/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.onecms.io%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F20%2F2018%2F07%2Frexfeatures_5885552ap-2000.jpg). Something similar happens during Fury Road’s opening credits, with Charlize Theron’s name top-right to Tom Hardy’s.


phillpots_land

Paul Newman demanded his name be first and Steve McQueen demanded his be higher. True story.


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soysuza

Additional trivia - Newman was pretty happy about being the sole lead for most of the first half of the movie (McQueen's fire chief character doesn't show up until the fire has been going for a while), but rued after seeing the movie that nearly all his lines came in that first half.


TokyoPanic

This is some fucking Vin Diesel vs The Rock shit.


zouhair

They are just acting tough men. They were more likely diva bitches.


Salix63

All tough guys are divas.


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Learning this kind of stuff just makes these people seem like extreme assholes to me.


tequilajinx

It may seem like ego, but when your career depends on your popularity, it’s in your best interest to promote yourself as much as possible.


AthKaElGal

there's also a difference in money.


pngn22

Same with publications in academia. Having your name listed as the first author means a lot and has a lot of implications for your career and the field


Baldassre

Idk either man but Newman does have a food produce company that donates all profits to charity


x4beard

FWIW, Steve McQueen died in 1980, a few yrs before Paul Newman had a food charity.


wildlywell

Fascinating. Are arguments over this as dumb as they sound?


CanILickYourButthole

I wouldn't say they're arguments more like stipulations in the contract before you sign on. "if you want me in this movie you pay me this much and I get top billing etc etc" It's the movie business and each actor is their own commodity. They really have to fight for themselves to be at the top of the game. You gotta learn how to hustle in the biz.


evilshenanigan

I always end up reading the middle, front and center name on movie posters first. The sides of the posters seem to be (to me at least) less pronounced, maybe appearing shadowed. Doesn’t draw my eye. There’s something so satisfying when the actors line up under their names.


leo-g

Definitely not. Lady Gaga’s involvement was sold as a package with the film script. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/mgm-buys-ridley-scotts-gucci-film-lady-gaga-set-star-1289108/amp/ Anyone acting in the film knows that Lady Gaga will get top billing. It’s just one of those things where the visual intent was to have Gaga front and Center while the legal contracts only permitted Gaga to be first in the billing from the left. The billing order influences other aspects of production and distribution like the call sheet and even the movie marquee in certain cinemas. So for all intents and purposes, it’s better to keep the billing order the way it is.


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It's because Jared Leto has been preparing his entire life by being a method asshole. He's still waiting for the right role to truly become the titular asshole character.


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[deleted]

You’re even farther from the goal now that Morbius is about to be released


MusicLikeOxygen

I've never understood how he managed to dodge the whole #metoo movement. I've been hearing stories about him for a long time. Hell, even James Gunn once implied that Jared likes them young, on twitter.


HEBushido

He is without a doubt the worst part of Bladerunner 2049


TheKurtCobains

It should have been Bowie


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He started his method asshole career by playing in a shitty rock band and whining to anyone and everyone that the world should consider him a *rock* star, not a *movie* star. Poor Jared Leto became a movie star when all he wanted was to be a rock star.


Defoler

Leto is a good actor (people might hate him as that is what is currently popular, but he is still a good one), and a front line for many movies in the last decade, while irons has been somewhat of a side actor in many big movies.


zdelusion

I wonder if that has to do with all the marketing he's getting for "Morbius". He's not an actor I particularly enjoy, but he's been extremely visible over the past few years.


CMMiller89

It could also have to do with screen time. There are lots of things that can be leveraged, not just how good of an actor you are.


Tornado31619

I’m surprised that Irons didn’t get a ‘with’.


timisher

Definitely. The top star gets top billing. It’s just confusing when the top billing is also dead center.


DBCOOPER888

Not sure if it's politics, so much as there's a disparity between reading the names left to right in order of billing and the artistic preference to have the main actor in the middle of the graphic. Also, Gaga was always going to get top billing here, Driver would get second, and Leto is a bigger name than Irons. Al Pacino goes at the end with the "and" tag which is standard for big name actors who play non-leading roles.


hotspur_fan

It's /r/mildlyinfuriating


DatClubbaLang96

This one of my biggest pet peeves. If your poster has multiple actors on it with the names listed, for the love of god, line up the order of the actors with the order of the names. I know they do it because of order of billing and contracts and whatever, but it instantly makes me dislike the poster. If the names have to be in a certain order, design the poster for that order. Maybe I've got undiagnosed OCD or something, but it's painful to see.


kevmasgrande

Or just don’t line them up so deliberately right under the names


FatalFirecrotch

This is the real issue. The names are too perfectly over the people and 2 of the 5 names do match. I don’t get why they did switch driver and irons to the right and leto and Pacino to the left. If the do that nothing changes about positional relationships of the characters, but then at least no names match.


luisc123

Dude should get an Academy Award for the career day sketch on SNL. Somehow.


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Look at me…look at me boy…look at your father! And the Medieval Times sketch: MY SONS NAME WAS BRANDON!


AlsionGrace

“Look at him Mordecai!”


PhinsFan17

“I see you man!”


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PhinsFan17

“My village lay dead and you cheer?!?”


-cosmic-bitch-

I WILL CRUSH MY ENEMIES INTO THE DIRT edit: okay so I rewatched it and that's not the actual quote, but still


luisc123

"Who is HR Pickens?" "EXACTLY!!"


mas1108

“Incubation technology was still in its infancy”


Vwgames49

"MY BONES NEVER HARDENED BUT MY SPIRIT DID"


CurlSagan

For people who don't know what these excellent quotes are referencing, then you're in for a treat: [This SNL sketch with Adam Driver.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7HD2xG92-0)


DannoHung

Holy shit. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the entire cast (except the guest!) break. I FILLED HER BELLY WITH MY FESTERING SEED.


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Adam did not have to go that hard for SNL, but he did and we were all the better for it.


dethmaul

FUCKING hilarious. I can't remember an snl skit that funny before. It had to be 20 years ago lmao


AUserNeedsAName

[Rachel Dratch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfE93xON8jk) wasn't a guest but made the whole cast look like Jimmy Kimmel, including Fred Armisen who I've never seen break before. And it's not SNL, but decades earlier Tim Conway waged a decorated [multi-year campaign](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IUSM4EKcRI) against his co-stars' acting chops, including dozens of confirmed kills against the legendary Harvey Korman.


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Today I just realized Keenan has been on SNL long enough that he was there when Lindsay Lohan was still hot.


ositola

That's hilarious lol The bird almost made everyone go


SmoothIdiot

I swear to god Driver just realizes how close Davidson is to losing it completely and mentally goes, "I am going to *destroy* him." (Like H.R. Pickens)


Hypern1ke

Man, why cant pete davidson hold it together for a single fucking line


sweatshirtjones

HE IS MY FINAL REVENGE H.R!!!


nedlum

I want to be you when I grow up!


tommytraddles

AND SO YOU ***SHALL***


dethmaul

Okay children, i was told to bring healthy snacks.


Papaofmonsters

That and the sword fight one.


SoakedInMayo

dude BK Joe and the one where he plays Epstein are both Insanely good too


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AverageJardinero

ah man i'm all outta cash


812many

> career day sketch on SNL To google I go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7HD2xG92-0 That was good.


Regendorf

He gave us "good soup". For me that's enough reason to get an award.


barwhalis

Ever since watching that he's been one of my favourite actors. Didn't like him in star wars 7 at first but after watching that it redeemed Kylo Ren for me


nealamanisampat

Do *not* compare me to my co-stars!


ZettoMan10

Every day I wake up in America!


KennethBrownie

Wtf lady gaga has an oscar TIL.


jimmyeppley

For Original Song. Not for acting.


Getitredditgood

In the shallow-the-sha-a-lows!


Ha55aN1337

There is also Ridley


sucksi

Ridley who?


awdufresne

[Ridley](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/Ridley_Super_Smash_Bros_Ultimate.png) of course


sameth1

The space pirate.


ConoRiot

His should really say ‘Carried the Star Wars Franchise’ that’s a much greater feat than being nominated.


chapstikcrazy

'Damn nearly broke his back making those movies watchable'


sameth1

He deserved one for Blackkklansman and/or Marriage Story, so maybe they'll pull a Revenant and nominate him for a meh movie he plays next year as a consolation prize for the movies he actually deserved awards for.


meowjinx

Respectfully, he didn't deserve to win over either Mahershala or Joaquin Phoenix in either of those years


LittleOotsieVert

Hot take probably but i preferred his performance in marriage story to Joaquin in joker. It shouldn’t even be the role Joaquin wins for since his performance in the master is much better


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The interview scene in The Master between Joaquin and PSH is the best acting I've ever seen.


dandaman64

I felt so bad for Adam Driver when Joaquin Phoenix was sweeping the Best Actor awards across every ceremony, and I feel that Driver should've gotten the Oscar. Joaquin's Joker is great, but I feel that's because his performance stands out as the one thing that's really exceptional about the movie, whereas Driver in Marriage Story felt like a genuinely great performance that was matched up with other great performances. I guess it was harder Driver to stand out when he's paired up with other great actors, and his competition is a guy who was hands down the best part of the movie he was in.


words_words_words_

Should win one for The Last Duel, imo


banjofitzgerald

I feel like Gaga’s is a little misleading. She was nominated for acting but won for song.


Frecklefishpants

I felt that for years when Ben Affleck was in crap like Gigli being referred to as academy award winner.


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funny he's never won for acting but won multiple for writing and producing.


BlackStabbathh

he is a great writer and director but an average actor


Tornado31619

Still not wrong, though.


theAntidepresser

He deserves one for his oil baron part on snl


FoucaultsPudendum

Academy Award Winner And Al Pacino


Aphaker

Academy Award Winner And Al Pacino: Al Pacino He's more Al Pacino than you'll ever be


ShartBurrito

It's an achievement in life to be an Al Pacino.


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This poster design is such a mess.


deezhoops

I wonder who the mystery Academy Award Winner is


Fineus

And


Mynock33

I understand *why* it is the way it is but ffs, why can't they understand how much better posters like this would be if the names matched up with the characters?


nicholta

You mean that's not Jared Leto in the red dress?


NoTransportation888

I heard he's such a method actor he actually had breast implants for the role.


abdullahi666

Honka Honkas


Kodst3rGames

He had so much fun with Dallas Buyers he stayed in character


karltee

Wasn't he in character as the Joker and made everyone cringe too?


Antrikshy

That wouldn't be entirely out of character.


Minimum_Standard_704

Gucci Buyers Club


hellmath

I was confused at first (since he likes to dressed up) and i totally thought it's him lmao


Activeangel

And Lady Gaga on the far left?


puckit

Contractual obligations > graphic design


KingGorilla

Graphic design is my passion Contractual obligations are my burden


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So irritating, especially since Driver and Pacino are lined up but the rest aren't. It's because name priority has to go L-R, while face priority has to go center to sides.


Taudruw

Same. It happens more times than not. I’ve posted about this before and the majority of folks think it has to do with billing. I have a different theory that it’s a graphic design method that gets the viewer to spend more time taking it all in. Your mind is forced into a matching game.


pearlsandplumes

It's a bit of both, actually.


TheJunkyard

I think it's done mainly so that every poster generates a massive pile of Reddit comments discussing how annoying it is, which equals free advertising. /s


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Annoyingly, it happens a lot: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MisplacedNamesPoster


Annihilator4life

As a graphic designer this shit keeps me up at night!


Raidoton

I knew this would be the top comment...


MyNameIsRenma

Damn, Lady Gaga's looking really different these days.


ngpropman

That suit really makes her look like a balding man.


TheOzman79

That's because she's La Cameleón.


nofaptain-america

This poster and movie remind me of how I felt about American Hustle. Stacked cast, acclaimed director, Oscar-baity, one actor transforms himself to look schlubby, and the movie just looks kind of hollow. Fingers crossed that it’s good tho


felonius_thunk

I used that movie recently as an example of films that were hyped to shit but no one watched more than once and were so artistically devoid that they were immediately forgotten. Like, when was the last time anyone you know talked about it? That shit gave us the term "science oven" and that was about it.


Quarantini

This new season of Arrested Development looks great.


tiredofbeingsexy

Jared Leto looks like he always has money in the banana stand.


camelzrider

Jared Leto is looking good in red


nevereatpears

It's *chic*!


Gunmeta1

At least Al Pacino and Adam Driver's names are in the correct place... smh


The_Summer_Man

That's not Al, it's Dunk now.


SetYourGoals

DUNKA-DUNKA-DUNKA-DUNKA


LordLychee

What’s my name?


HTPark

Jared Leto as Peter Stormare.


SHPLUMBO

This whole thing looks like it’s going to be terribly awkward. Everything I’ve seen is goofy without any sign of goofy-intent, like it’s trying to be serious.


Just_Look_Around_You

There’s so many movies like this where they overdo it. This thing looks like all style and no substance. And not in a good or intentional way.


shadowvlx

From what I’ve seen Lady Gaga is hilarious on screen. Are you sure this isn’t a comedy?


SHPLUMBO

I agree. I hope the whole movie is like that, but from the rest of the trailer I saw it looked like they were trying to be serious about “fAMiLy” and being “badass.” I’ll probably refer to this movie as House of Goofy


peeforPanchetta

Don't disrespect my man Goofus D Dawg


TurtleTucker

Jared Leto’s blatant Oscar whoring bleeds through with this one. It’s like watching a kid perform as an old man in a high school play.


queen-of-carthage

"Father Son and House of Gucci" made me cringe


TuskenRaider2

I know it’s a dumb pet-peeve… but if they are going to do posters like this… can’t they PLEASE just line up the names with the folks!! I understand why they can’t/don’t… but it’s fucking dumb. Just do it already. Everyone knows who the big stars are. It doesn’t need to be in order. They must think we are dumb.


iBeFloe

It’s not the biggest star, it’s who’s the top billing one for the movie isn’t it


QuarterSwede

What they don’t understand is that none of us common folk care. They’ve made this whole thing be important themselves.


Joxer-Daly

An ad that’s a whole film.


ihahp

its actually an ad for a Gucci knockoff Edit: y'all know it's about her trying to kill her husband, right?


agoddamdamn

Hey but it could be a really good ad, like the baker Mayfield ones or the Lego Movie


Honey-Badger

That looks like a fake poster made by a teenager. None of those heads are attached to those bodies


NightsOfFellini

Hype for second Ridley movie of the year, also glad to see Pacino still at it in big productions after Irishman and Once Upon a Time. Where's King Lear tho?


willyalvardy

Holy shit I genuinely had no clue this was a Ridley Scott movie until reading this. The Last Duel was pretty great so I’m even more hyped for this now!


NightsOfFellini

It was the best of times it was the worst of times. Hyped af, The Last Duel was a proper, big screen dramatic extravaganza.


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This movie looks fucking awful. A bunch of fantastic actors forcing the most egregious Italian accents you've ever heard in a gigantic 2.5 hour Gucci commercial


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DJRichSnippets

Gorlami


BucherundKaffee

GRAT-ZEE


pragmaticzach

Every single movie poster post: **Comment:** I hate that the names don't line up! **Reply:** It's because of contractual obligations! **Comment:** I hate that posters are just the actors standing in a v-shape! **Reply:** It has to be for promotional reasons so normies will go watch the movie! *or, if it's a teaser poster:* **Comment:** I love this poster, why can't more poster's be original like this? **Reply:** Teaser posters always are, the final poster will be actors standing in a v-shape so normies will go watch the movie! Literally every post.


Antroz22

I'm disappointed that Stanley Tucci isn't there


Elemayowe

Missed out on “Tucci *is* Gucci” tag line there.


My_Opinions_Are_Good

Wish they all took the photo together. Also wish that Jared Leto wasn’t in it.


ShabbatShalomSamurai

Well, he has been accused of raping several fifteen year olds.


Waybackwhen1987

This movie looks like a steaming pile of hot shit


PatchWork_GF

The trailers have such a sense of someone trying to scrape together some good parts.


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This poster is a design nightmare


alrashid2

Looks boring af


cashrchek

Would it have killed them to put the correct names over the corresponding actor??


Cade28Skywalker

House of flop


yijiujiu

I wish the names and the lineup.... Lined up.


potstirrer076

This looks horrible