Hail, Caesar! (2016) on Netflix
Eddie Mannix is Capitol Pictures' fixer, keeping its stars out of scandal in 1951 Hollywood. When Baird Whitlock vanishes from the set of a biblical epic, a $100,000 ransom demand arrives.
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Plot summary
In 1951, Eddie Mannix is the fixer at Capitol Pictures, covering scandals for the studio's stars while weighing a job offer from the Lockheed Corporation. His day includes the pregnancy of DeeAnna Moran, the studio's unmarried swimming star, and the complaints of director Laurence Laurentz, who balks at casting the singing cowboy Hobie Doyle as a sophisticate in his latest drawing room comedy. Twin columnists Thora and Thessaly Thacker trade in gossip and want stories he would rather bury. The worst of it is Baird Whitlock, the star of the studio's biblical epic, who has been drugged and taken from the set; a note demands $100,000 for his return.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Hail, Caesar! (2016)
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- Norman Lloyd was considered to play the philosopher Herbert Marcuse in Hail, Caesar!, but the part went to the younger British comedian John Bluthal, reportedly over safety concerns about Lloyd's centenarian age.
- Hail, Caesar! was the first film cinematographer Roger Deakins shot on film since True Grit in 2010, even though Joel and Ethan Coen had said Inside Llewyn Davis would probably be their last use of the medium.
- The Coens first pitched Hail, Caesar! to George Clooney in 1999, while shooting O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and Clooney was to play the main character, a "hammy actor with a pencil mustache", in a film about 1920s actors staging a play about ancient Rome.
- Costume designer Mary Zophres needed more than 2,500 costumes for Hail, Caesar!, and when the scope of the project overtook the budget toward the end of the shoot, she completed some of the sewing herself.
- Scarlett Johansson's synchronized swimming scene was shot in the water tank on Stage 30 at Sony Pictures Studios, a tank also used for Esther Williams films that was under restoration until a week before shooting.
- Channing Tatum dyed his hair blond to play one of the five tap-dancing sailors in the "No Dames!" number, and having only danced hip-hop and street, he trained hard and worked without a double.
- Hail, Caesar!'s digital effects include a green screen car sequence made to look like old rear projection and a submarine done in computer graphics that suggested miniatures, deliberately blurring the line between a 2016 film and the vintage techniques it portrays.
