If nothing else, it will be interesting to see Daniel Craig as Perry Smith (!). I heard some slightly more positive buzz on this one elsewhere, maybe it was in Premiere Mag? But it's going to be hard to live down comparisons at this point...

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To be honest, it's possible I may be interviewing Toby Jones at Toronto (though I never believe anything until it is digitally recorded) and I'm actually nervous about that white elephant of a question: the comparison. How can you avoid it? How can it not be insulting to him? I guess, as in the past, I'll just hit it on the head. There's no way around it.

As a Phillip Seymour Hoffman non-fan (I liked him in Twister and the Talented Mr. Ripley, but not much else) who still hasn't watched Capote I find myself oddly eager to see this one.

I don't know if this is true, maybe someone here knows, I heard there is yet another Capote film coming out dealing with the same time period, but this one is CGI with singing and dancing animals playing all the characters.

I find this "fight" highly amusing! I would stand in the camp that argues that one is sufficiently different from the other. Infamous is wittier in its first act and much much darker for the rest of the piece.
(http://european-films.net/content/view/349/52/)

Well, considering I thought Capote was second only to A History of Violence in terms of the best movies of the year last year, I'm a bit wary of this one. Just from the trailers, I expect Infamous to fall short in my opinion. Plus Capote was the break out for Hoffman, Futterman, and Miller. Infamous just looks like Capote stripped of its soul and glammed up with everyone and Gwenyth Paltrow.