Tom Hiddleston: Jim Jarmusch's vampire film 'Only Lovers Left Alive,' starring Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston, joins Cannes competition Plus: four more new films added to the Official Selection BY GUY LODGE FRIDAY, APR 26, 2013 4:36 PM (HIT FIX)

The all-star Competition lineup for next month's Cannes Film Festival just got a little starrier. And sexier. "Only Lovers Left Alive," a vampire romance from veteran independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, was one of the more surprising omissions when the Official Selection was unveiled last week: Jarmusch has a long history with Cannes, after all, and the film was widely assumed to be ready in time. What was the problem?

Nothing, as it turns out. Cannes usually adds one or two films to the lineup in the weeks following the initial announcement, and so "Only Lovers Left Alive" is this year's fashionably late arrival to the Competition, brining the number of Palme d'Or contenders to a nice round 20. And we mean fashionable: with a cast led by Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston, this arthouse addition to the post-"Twilight" vampire craze looks to be one of the festival's hottest red-carpet attractions


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Tom Hiddleston Replaces Michael Fassbender In Jim Jarmusch's Vampire Romance (Cinema Blend)

 

published: 2012-01-30 09:43:02 Author: Sean O'Connell

Just when I’m ready to wave the white flag on vampire movies, to declare that Fright Night remakes, Twilight sagas and full seasons of True Blood have exhausted my thirst for undead stories, Jim Jarmusch goes ahead and reveals he’ll be making a vampire film with Tilda Swinton, John Hurt and Mia Wasikowska. Seriously, that thing can’t reach theaters soon enough.

Unfortunatelly, Jarmusch won’t begin shooting Only Loves Left Alive until later this year, according to a report in The Hollywood Reporter, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t news aplenty swirling around the centuries-old love story between two vamps. For instance, War Horse star Tom Hiddleston joined the ensemble in a role originally intended for Michael Fassbender. Losing Fassbender hurts virtually any project, but Hiddleston’s a sizable talent, and that cast is dreamy, no matter what.

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