The film is set to premiere at this September’s upcoming Toronto International Film Festival.
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Showing posts with label Jeremy Irvine. Show all posts
Monday, 20 August 2012
The film is set to premiere at this September’s upcoming Toronto International Film Festival.
Monday, 7 May 2012
File this under: So Many Books, So Little Time! Updated 5/7/2012: They've started filming this one and I'm pretty happy about the fact that Nicole Kidman has joined the production as Lomax wife. She replaces Rachel Weisz who had some sort of time confliction. Lomax is played by Colin Firth who looks amazing in this shot, doesn't he? According to The Playlist, in addition to Jeremy Irvine who plays the young Eric Lomax, the wonderful Stellan Starsgaard - he played the bad guy in The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo is also onboard as a friend. who helps Lomax confront his wartime tormentor played by Hiroyuki Sanada (The Last Samurai).
Jeremy Irvine, who we'll be seeing soon in Steven Spielberg's War Horse, has just been cast to co-star alongside Colin Firth in The Railway Man. Jonathan Teplitzsky is directing the drama. Based on the memoir by Eric Lomax, the story is about his life during and after World War II working on Japan's Death Railway. Japan forced prisoners of war to work on the railway, which connects Bangkok to what is now Yangon, Myanmar.Lomax was a British officer during the war, and was tortured by the Japanese for being a spy. Later in life, Lomax sought to track down one of his torturers.
The script was co-written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and Andy Paterson, who is also producing via his Archer Street Productions with Chris Brown of Pictures in Paradise and Bill Curbishley.
Lionsgate has the U.K. rights and is handling international sales. Liongate U.K.'s Zygi Kamasa will executive produce.
Jeremy Irvine is clearly an up and comer! He's currently in production on director Mike Newell's Great Expectations, in which he will star as Pip opposite Ralph Fiennes and Helen Bonham Carter. He has completed Now is Good, opposite Dakota Fanning, Paddy Considine and Olivia Williams. In Dreamworks' War Horse, which will be released in December, Irvine plays Albert, whose beloved horse is sold to the cavalry during World War I. Though too young to enlist, Albert heads to the battlefields to save his equine friend. The film is based on the Tony Award-winning play.
In The Railway Man, Irvine will play a young Colin Firth. I don't know Irvine's work yet, but on a purely physical level it looks like they got the casting right. Score one for Hollywood!
Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Wow! It's early morning and I'm enjoying a cup of coffee in bed and cruising the net. Wham! Cinemablend hits me with the UK and Ireland trailer for Now Is Good, a film based on the YA novel, Before I Die from Jenny Downham. So now I've got tears in my coffee. And I've got no more Splenda so I'll have to enjoy it as it is, thank you very much!
Dakota Fanning, looking a bit like Carey Mulligan and 'adorb' ( as the kids seems to be saying these days) in a gamine do, plays Tessa, a 17-year-old girl with terminal leukemia. B&N says this about the guaranteed tear jerker:
Tessa has just months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, and drugs with excruciating side effects, Tessa compiles a list. It’s her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is Sex. Released from the constraints of “normal” life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up.
I suppose Before I Die would be just a tad too much of a downer for a movie title - notice how even the book jacket has the encouraging 'makes you glad to be alive' blurb on the front - and The Bucket List was already taken.
Now Is Good is fine at first blush except how good can today be when you know the I could get run over and die tomorrow so I better live for today philosophy isn't simply theoretical but harsh reality? The film, directed by Ol Parker, also stars Jeremy Irvine who was just seen in War Horse and who plays Pip in the upcoming Great Expectations. It's not clear when the film will be released here in the states or in the UK but I assume it will hit England and Ireland first. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that little Dakota's accent passes muster with the Brits! It sounds good to me but what do I know?
Anyway, I'll be ordering up Before I Die on my nook and no doubt muse about my own bucket list.
Up there in the top ten is to see the beautiful Blue Grotto on the isle of Capri in Italy.
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