A Knight's Tale, Sir Michael Caine Chats About His Latest Movies and Failing to Retire at Blockbuster.co.uk

Homegrown screen legend Sir Michael Caine chats candidly with Marshall Juilus at Blockbuster.co.uk about remaking Sleuth, shooting The Dark Knight and failing to retire.

(PRWEB) April 28, 2008 -- Homegrown screen legend Sir Michael Caine chats candidly with Marshall Julius at Blockbuster.co.uk about remaking Sleuth, shooting The Dark Knight (http://www.blockbuster.co.uk/searchandbrowse/productsearchresults.aspx?type=4&basic=the%20dark%20knight) and failing to retire.

In a witty and amusing interview Sir Michael Caine (http://www.blockbuster.co.uk/MichaelCaine/Interview.aspx) enthuses about The Dark Knight and the remaking of Sleuth and his current projects. Since retiring a few years ago he has made 12 pictures and won an Oscar, quite an achievement for someone who is 74 years of age!

But action scenes such as those featured in the "Carter" and "Alfie" movies are a thing of the past. Referring to his latest role in The Dark Knight, he says "I'm just the butler", "You have a fight. I'll bring you a cup of tea."

Thirty-five years after portraying the savvy young buck in Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth, Caine has returned in a remake of sorts, only this time as the scheming oldster originally played by Sir Laurence Olivier. Key among the differences between the two Sleuths is that the original pairing saw Caine and Olivier divided by class, still an issue in Seventies Britain, while the new version focuses more closely on Caine and co-star Jude Law's divergent ages, pitting youth against experience.

Celebrity interviews timed to coincide with the release of dvd rentals are a regular occurrence on the Blockbuster site and they provide juicy tit bits of information about the stars and their thoughts on all manner of topics past, present and future. The interview with Sir Michael Caine is definitely not one to be missed.

Blockbuster (http://www.blockbuster.co.uk/home.aspx) Inc. (NYSE: BBI and BBI.B) was founded in Dallas, Texas in 1985 and is a leading global provider of in-home rental, retail movie and game entertainment.

In 20 years, Blockbuster has grown from a single video rental store to nearly 9000 company-operated and franchised stores throughout the United States, its territories and 23 other countries.

The first Blockbuster store in the UK opened in March 1989 (Walworth Road, London) and the UK is now the largest Blockbuster business outside the US, with over 700 stores and about 4.2 million member accounts. Blockbuster.co.uk has around 1 million registered members and about 500,000 newsletter subscribers.

Blockbuster's goal is to be a complete source for movies and the company is continually looking for ways to offer its customers more value, choice and convenience. To this end, in September 2002, Blockbuster UK introduced its online DVD rental service. This service has grown and now allows customers to have access to almost every DVD available in the UK.

Blockbuster.co.uk provides the latest releases and also gives its customers much more choice from classic titles, foreign films, music DVDs, interactive game DVDs, language DVDs and popular TV series.

###