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Poster For Madonna’s ‘W.E.’ – Starring Abbie Cornish, Oscar Isaac & Andrea Riseborough
Dec 7th
This poster for Madonna’s upcoming romantic drama ‘W.E.’ has made its way online thanks to Yahoo! Movies. Starring Abbie Cornish, Oscar Isaac, James D’Arcy, Andrea Riseborough, Natalie Dormer, Richard Coyle, James Fox and Laurence Fox, ‘W.E.’ is set for release December 9th in the US (for an Oscar qualifying run) and January 20th in the UK. Check out my interview with Madonna for the film here.
W.E. is a romantic exploration of the mysterious connection across decades between two women confronting the consequences of desire. Caught in a loveless Manhattan marriage, abused and frustrated Wally (Abbie Cornish) obsesses over Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough), the stylish American divorcee who captured the heart of Edward the VIII (James D’Arcy) who abdicated the throne as King of England. As the Duchess of Windsor, Wallis spends the rest of her life in the glare of celebrity exile. Inspired by the Duchess‟ determination to pursue love in the face of social exile, Wally escapes into the arms of another man (Oscar Isaac) whose love sets her free. Madonna and a world class team of collaborators present a passionate tale of the search for love and the meaning of happiness. W.E. (for Wallis and Edward, forever entwined in the love story of the 20th century) is a rich, cinematic portrayal of two strong women resolved to find romance.
Trailer For Madonna’s ‘W.E.’ – Starring Abbie Cornish, Oscar Isaac & Andrea Riseborough
Nov 18th
This trailer for Madonna’s romantic drama ‘W.E.’ has made its way online thanks to Moviefone. Starring Abbie Cornish, Oscar Isaac, James D’Arcy, Andrea Riseborough, Natalie Dormer, Richard Coyle, James Fox and Laurence Fox, ‘W.E.’ is set for release December 9th in the US (for an Oscar qualifying run) and January 20th in the UK. Check out my interview with Madonna for the film here.
W.E. is a romantic exploration of the mysterious connection across decades between two women confronting the consequences of desire. Caught in a loveless Manhattan marriage, abused and frustrated Wally (Abbie Cornish) obsesses over Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough), the stylish American divorcee who captured the heart of Edward the VIII (James D’Arcy) who abdicated the throne as King of England. As the Duchess of Windsor, Wallis spends the rest of her life in the glare of celebrity exile. Inspired by the Duchess‟ determination to pursue love in the face of social exile, Wally escapes into the arms of another man (Oscar Isaac) whose love sets her free. Madonna and a world class team of collaborators present a passionate tale of the search for love and the meaning of happiness. W.E. (for Wallis and Edward, forever entwined in the love story of the 20th century) is a rich, cinematic portrayal of two strong women resolved to find romance.
Madonna Interview For ‘W.E.’
Sep 15th
Directed and co-written by Madonna, ‘W.E.’ looks at the fabled romance between American Wallis Simpson and Britain’s King Edward VIII, who famously gave up the throne to marry the woman he loved. More than six decades later, their story enthralls a young woman named Wally Winthrop. The cast of the film features the likes of Abbie Cornish, Andrea Riseborough, James D’Arcy and Oscar Isaac. ‘W.E.’ is set for release in cinemas December 9th. Check out what Madonna had to say about the film below.
This is an idea you had before you directed ‘Filth and Wisdom,’ but its been marinating for a little while. Is there a reason why it took some time to come to fruition?
Madonna: Well, this film is a much more complicated story – two different eras, to different time periods. It’s much more complex. I felt like I needed to tackle something much simpler, and really understand the technical aspects of filmmaking before I took it underhand.
Where did the idea of the duality of the storylines come from?
Madonna: I was always fascinated with the story of Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII’s decision to abdicate the throne for the women he loved. I wanted to investigate that story and his reasons, and try to understand what it was about this woman that would lead this man to make such a big sacrifice. I was never interested in making a straight-forward biopic, so I created the modern-day story and the modern-day character of Wally Winthrop, so that I could have a point of view in which to tell this story. Because I think in the end truth is subjective, and we can all read the same history book and have a different point of view and get something different from it. So it was important for me to not present the story and say this is the one and only story, but rather this is the story that moved me and inspired me.
Sherlock Holmes Interview Part 2 (Guy Ritchie, Jude Law & Robert Downey Jnr)
Dec 28th
I’ve had a very lazy Christmas break, I was meant to put this up on Boxing in time for the UK release date, but I was too busy chillaxing and lazing about for once! If you missed part 1 of the interview you can check it out here. It’s good to hear the film is doing so well in the states, it made $65 million over the weekend (big chee$e) and is being recieved very well critically.
What was your devotion to martial arts like, according to the production notes you’ve been doing it for 6 years and also how did you prepare for the bare knuckle boxing scene?
Robert Downey Jnr: There was a choreographed version of it, I went in and got all pissed about it, Guy came in and we worked on it, so I think your seeing probably version 6.0 by the time we shot it, Guy is a jiu jitsu fella we managed to get along some how!
It was so fun though, by the time we had finished shooting that scene I felt like we really had a handle on the movie and not because I took my top off and showed my rippling abs and self important garbage but because this was Guys idea and it was really a bold thing and it could have gone really poorly, in which case the rest of the movie is trying to recover from the bad Guy Ritchie scene we went out and shot but it was literally perfect, it set the tone, it was really his take. We had to trust each other and get each others approval. I’m crazy about fighting, I love it (laughs)
Why do you love filming in Britain and Jude what’s it like filming in your hometown?
Robert Downey Jnr: I was here 20 years ago and the food SUCKED, and I wasn’t particularly happy when I was here, I was doing a film called Air America, I renamed it Air Generica and we were at Pinewood Studios, then I came back and did Chaplin but I think there is something about the work ethic here, the people, the culture, as Americans we sometimes have an abrupt attitude, there’s a much more civilized way to operate over here. For me the film was a huge experience, it was the proper way to do things and I’ve taken everything forth.
Jude Law: The production designer done an amazing job, we’d turn up everyday amazed, they had been preparing for days, there was so much detail, it was exquisite, it’s always fun to be out and about and film, rather than in a studio, I like getting my boots dirty, it was fun, it’s always fun working in the UK.
Guy are we gonna lose you to Hollywood or are you gonna still make the smaller Independent films?
Guy Ritchie: I don’t know, I really just make the films I want to make, the interesting thing about this experience was that it wasn’t the cliché experience between film-maker and studio, I argued for the studio, I wanted to make an assessable, broad film and they wanted the Guy Ritchie’isms so I was arguing for the studio and they were arguing for me, it was like two people going to the bar and both insisting the other should pay, so all the arguments between the studio and myself were coming from a positive place. I think studios have changed as well with there approach to film-makers, I had a tremendous experience from beginning to end, there was no us and them.
Why Sherlock Holmes out of all the iconic characters?
Guy Ritchie: Partly because I was invested in him as a child, I had a really strong visual sense about who I thought Sherlock Holmes should be, not only that but I had not seen any other productions, unlike most people I had no visual reference other than what I had knocked up in my mind. Warners came up to me with the idea and as soon as they mentioned it, I was fascinated.
What were the re-shoots about, there was a lot of talk about that earlier this year?
Guy Ritchie: In every film I’ve ever done we always leave a contingency for a week because you never know what’s gonna surface during the editing process, so we always leave a week and we left a week. The films the film we all intended to make. On the DVD there are no deleted scenes, there was no fat.