The amazing Annie Leibovitz has created an incredible fashion spread in the new issue of Vanity Fair called Killers Kill, Dead Men Die, which is shot in a style that mimics film noirs. Leibovitz said that she wanted to create “a sense of continuity to the Hollywood Issue”, so she wrangled up the best that Hollywood had to offer to fill her story. There are near 40 major actors, actresses, and even a director in there, which includes Anjelica Huston, Ed Norton, Forest Whitaker, Bruce Willis, Sharon Stone, and the always amazing, Jack Nicholson.

The spread has a loose narrative, and generally follows the main elements and narratives that film noir usually carried. There are femme fatales, private detectives, reporters, jealous women, hard-boiled cops, the whole nine yards. What Leibovitz did magnificently, was trying to recapture the spirit, and intrigue, and darkness of film noir. All of the clothing is modern clothing, but it all has that vintage feel that make you think that you’re looking into the past.

The photos look so amazing, and it’s also pretty fun going through each image to see who plays which characters!
Click the link below to see the rest of the images from the shoot!

Bobby

5 Comments »

1. Wow, this stuff is great. Are the bigger ensembles photos seperate shots put together, or are they really one big shoot? I’d love to hear the conversations with all those people together.

   I like the funeral and the body-in-the-rain shots the best. Fat Alec Baldwin ruins the mess-you-up Aaron Eckhart photo with still-lookin’-good Labyrinth and Rocketeer’s Jennifer Connelly. I also like that they got some awesome “newer talent” (fame, not resumes)like Adam Beach and James McAvoy.

   Comment by Garrett — September 12, 2007 #

2. I would pay $50/ticket at least 3 times to see a movie with this cast in this genra and I would buy a BluRay player just to be able to watch this again and again!!!!!!

   Comment by Mexi-can — January 23, 2008 #

3. encapsulating and inspiring, the cast, the clothes, Leibovitz works take on so many meanings for me of reality and surrealism.

   Comment by olivia — April 4, 2008 #

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5. wow. shes a genius. i love annies work!

   Comment by wow — July 11, 2008 #

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