Phillip Noyce

Mm.

And then Philip Noyce-

Yes, that's right

... came in, and he made a movie of it.

...

it got-

Philip Noyce, the, the Australian director.

Yeah.

It is Hollywood

... and the world, I guess, because that was, uh, Philip Noyce.

But-

Yep, yep

Like-

Philip Noyce, Derek Luke.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think if you had gotten somebody who was more interested in making a full-blown, full-throated erotic thriller, you could have taken this and really gone hard in a...

Even in a Philip Noyce way, you could have reached at least a sliver level, if not a basic instinct, with Verhoeven.

But I think that whether you want to call it the climate of the time of 2026 or just show Walter... not being interested it doesn't really go all the way there but it there is more elements of it than there isn't something even like bone lake which was marketed as erotic thriller year ago or so and it really wasn't um so yeah i think that there's uh a more interesting and a more compelling sort of uh eroticism and uh moral uh you know murkiness to this movie but at the same time does it go as hard as the classics of the genre no so what'd you think aaron

uh similar if not worse um i i i would say i think this is the worst of the colleen hoover annotations and i'm already not a big fan

The movie stars Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah, Michael Rooker, Mike McGlone, Luis Guzmán, Leland Orser, and Ed O'Neill.

The movie was written by Jeremy Lacon based on the novel by Jeffrey Deaver or Deaver, and it was directed by Philip Noyce.

[laughs] I don't know if it's Noy- Noyce.

Oh, it just sounds like noise.

[laughs] Noyce.

Noyce.

Philip Noyce.

[laughs]

Peter Berg, the future director of Battleship, wants to make the movie.

Then he hands it off to Australian director Phillip Noyce, who made a bunch of action thrillers in the '90s.

Clear and Present Danger with Harrison Ford, probably the best known one.

Tom Cruise is in.

Um, I'll give you just a couple examples.

When I was working on the movie Salt with Angelina Jolie, I was on the set working for Phillip Noyce.

I get a call from my wife, subletting an apartment in New York City, and she says, um, "Where did this book...

There's a book here." And he pulled out a book from the library of the guy who lives here, and he threw one in the trash, but he handed me the other book and he said, "This is the important one." And the book is called Circling the Sacred Mountain.

Who directed this

film? His name is Philip Dever? No, Philip Noyce.

What else did Philip do? That's what I was

getting at.

In 1955, journalist and author Graham Greene published a novel about a British journalist in Saigon who witnesses the breakdown of French colonialism and the early involvement of the United States in Vietnam, while also being caught in a love triangle between himself, his Vietnamese lover, and a young CIA agent.

The book, entitled The Quiet American would be adapted for the screen in 1958 by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and again in 2002 by Philip Noyce, starring Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser.

Critiquing new and old forms of colonialism, war crimes and the impossibility of remaining neutral, The Quiet American is arguably the first nostalgic espionage film of the 21st century, and maintains its relevance today.

Hello, and welcome to The Spy with the Blood-Tinted Glasses.

Well, the film that we are focusing on is...

The Quiet American, released in 2002.

It's directed by Philip Noyce, screenplay by Christopher Hampton and Robert Schenken, and based on the novel by the aforementioned Graham Greene.

It stars Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Thai Ma, Do Thi Hai Yen, apologies for my pronunciation, and it is the second adaptation of Greene's novel, previously adapted in 1958.