Posts tagged Biopic
New Image Of Meryl Streep As Margaret Thatcher In ‘The Iron Lady’
Apr 22nd
The Daily Mail have got their mitts on this new image of Jim Broadbent as Denis Thatcher and Meryl Streep as that mean spirited, milk snatching, all around cow, evil empress of Great Britain, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in Phyllida Lloyd’s (Mamma Mia!) ‘The Iron Lady’. The film tells the story of “Thatcher, a woman who smashed through the barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world. The story concerns power and the price that is paid for power, and is a surprising and intimate portrait of an extraordinary and complex woman.”
Alexandra Roach and Harry Lloyd will portray the Thatchers in their younger years. Olivia Colman, Nicholas Farrell, Susan Brown, Roger Allam, Anthony Head, Julian Wadham, Pip Torrens, Nick Dunning, Richard E. Grant, David Westhead, Angus Wright and John Sessions are also among the bumper supporting cast for the biopic. Pathe is provisionally set to release the film in the UK January 6th, 2012.
Second Image Released Of Meryl Streep As Margaret Thatcher In ‘The Iron Lady’
Feb 17th
The Sun have got their mitts on the second image of Meryl Streep as that mean spirited, milk snatching, all around cow, evil empress of Great Britain, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in ‘The Iron Lady’
The Oscar winner, 61, shot scenes in South London showing anti-Poll Tax protesters battering the former PM’s Jaguar for new film, The Iron Lady.
Huge riots over the unpopular policy contributed to the Tory leader, 85, stepping down after 11 years at No10 in November 1990.
Jim Broadbent will star as the Thatcher’s husband Denis Thatcher, while Alexandra Roach and Harry Lloyd will portray the Thatchers in their younger years. Olivia Colman, Nicholas Farrell, Susan Brown, Roger Allam, Anthony Head, Julian Wadham, Pip Torrens, Nick Dunning, Richard E. Grant, David Westhead, Angus Wright and John Sessions are also among the bumper supporting cast for the biopic.
Christopher Nolan Plans To Direct A Howard Hughes Biopic After ‘The Dark Knight Rises’?
Feb 12th
Variety have heard that Christopher Nolan’s next project after ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ will be his long-shelved Howard Hughes biopic that he’d previously abandoned after Martin Scorsese beat him to the screen with his Howard Hughes film ‘The Aviator’ in 2004. To be honest whatever project Nolan lines up next I’m in, he’s the master of balancing entertainment with substance. In fact if Christopher Nolan took a huge steaming dump in the middle of a field and charged people to see it, I’m quite sure I’d go, his track record is that good – Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception.
Nolan’s Howard Hughes movie is said to be based on Michael Drosnin’s Citizen Hughes: The Power, the Money and the Madness (first published in 1985), and would focus on the freakier decades of Hughes remarkably secretive and OCD-addled life. Drosnin’s Hughes book leans extensively on some astonishing primary sourcing: Over three thousand pages of Hughes’s own handwritten memoranda, which leaked after the billionaire’s office was burglarized in 1975.
Variety’s sources tell them Nolan wants to shoot his Hughes movie late in 2012, then release it in 2014 — by which time 10 years will have elapsed since Scorsese’s Aviator, a span Nolan seems to think sufficient enough for it not to invite immediate comparison.
First Image Of Meryl Streep As Margaret Thatcher In ‘The Iron Lady’
Feb 8th
The debut image of Meryl Streep as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in ‘The Iron Lady’ has been released online by the good people at Pathe.
Meryl Street will be supported in ‘The Iron Lady’ by Jim Broadbent who will star as the Thatcher’s husband Denis Thatcher, while Alexandra Roach and Harry Lloyd will portray the Thatchers in their younger years. Olivia Colman, Nicholas Farrell, Susan Brown, Roger Allam, Anthony Head, Julian Wadham, Pip Torrens, Nick Dunning, Richard E. Grant, David Westhead, Angus Wright and John Sessions are also among the bumper supporting cast for the biopic.
Opinion of the former Prime Minister is incredibly divided, my personal opinion is that she was the mean spirited, milk snatching, evil empress of Great Britain between 1979 – 1990. I’m almost certain her nickname actually came about after the Russians found out she was a Borg…..but hey that’s my opinion.
The films synopsis is as follows: THE IRON LADY tells the compelling story of Margaret Thatcher, a woman who smashed through the barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world. The story concerns power and the price that is paid for power, and is a surprising and intimate portrait of an extraordinary and complex woman. The movie will be directed by Phyllida Lloyd (Mamma Mia!) from a script by Abi Morgan (Sex Traffic). Shooting began on location in the UK on 31st January 2011
Gemma Arterton To Star Opposite Andrew Garfield In Michael Mann’s Robert Capa Biopic ‘Capa’
Dec 27th
In a recent sit down with Total Film, Gemma Arterton revealed that she will be starring alongside Andrew Garfield in the Michael Mann’s ‘Capa’. A biopic based on Susana Fortes’ award-winning novel, “Waiting for Robert Capa”. Robert Capa was a pioneering combat photographer and photojournalist who covered five different wars.
“This year’s been intense, but next year’s going to be… intenser! [Laughs] I’m attached to about nine projects but I’m not sure which one’s I’m allowed to talk about.
But I’m aiming for even more diversity. Capa [biopic about the combat photographer Robert Capa] is confirmed, so I should be working with your hottest actor, Andrew Garfield! [Garfield is lined up to play Capa, Arterton plays his partner, Gerda Taro, the first female photojournalist to cover the front lines of a war] and of course there’s Clash 2…
And, fingers crossed, I’ll be working with Michael Winterbottom on London Fields and then there’s… actually, no, I better stop. You’re going to get me into trouble… But thanks for the award!”
As a sucker for biopics I’m pencilling this film under ‘highly anticipated’ in my upcoming movie directory – I don’t really have an upcoming movie directory…..I’m not quite that sad……I am highly anticipating this though! I’ve always got a lot of time for Andrew Garfield, Gemma Arterton and Michael Mann. At present no release date has been announced.
Jennifer Hudson set to play Winnie Mandela
Nov 18th
Jennifer Hudson winner of a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2006′s Dreamgirls, will take the lead role in a new biopic of the former South African first lady Winnie Mandela, the film will shoot from May 30, 2010. Nelson Mandela himself is being portrayed by Morgan Freeman in the upcoming Clint Eastwood-directed Invictus, which centres on Nelson’s attempts to unite his country behind the South African team in the 1995 rugby World Cup.
Winnie will be directed by Darrell J. Roodt. Andre Pieterse, Roodt and Paul L. Johnson wrote a script based on the Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob biography “Winnie Mandela:A Life.” The filmmakers have said they will ‘tell the whole story, good and bad’. “I was compelled and moved when I read the script,” Hudson said. “Winnie Mandela is a complex and extraordinary woman and I’m honored to be the actress asked to portray her. This is a powerful part of history that should be told.” I’d really like to see how this turns out, Winnie Mandela is an interesting and complex character, Jennifer Hudson was great in Dreamgirls but it wasn’t like she was out of her comfort zone, we’ll have to wait and see, I’ve got faith!
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, 72, remains a popular figure in South African politics despite her 1991 conviction for involvement in the kidnapping, assault and death of a 14-year-old alleged informer, Stompie Moeketsi. She and Nelson Mandela had been married for only a year before he was forced into hiding and then imprisoned in 1962 – he would only be freed in 1990. While he was in gaol, she became an increasingly powerful figure in the African National Congress and went on to run the ANC Women’s League. She was deputy minister of arts, culture, science and technology in the first post-apartheid government for 11 months, until allegations of corruption led to her dismissal.
