It seems famous composer
ANTONIO VIVALDI is quite trendy these days since two films are being made about him at the same
time. According to "ScreenDaily" one of the films will star young
Max Irons, Elle Fanning and
Clare Foy with experienced legends
Jacqueline Bisset, Tom Wilkinson and
Alfred Molina, and it will follow Vivaldi as he turns a talented, but traumatised, group of illegimate daughters of courtesans, into a world-class orchestra which will play all through Venice and in front of the Pope as well. In the second project, director
Patricia Riggen will follow
VIVALDI's love problems and the cast could include amazing
Luke Evans, lovely
Jessica Biel and
Ben Kingsley.
Two of the upcoming teen bestseller film adaptations have added new actors:
Donald Sutherland has joined the cast of
THE HUNGER GAMES film project in which he will play President Snow, the evil and powerful ruler of Panem and its 12
districts. He will star next to
Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and
Liam Hemsworth (who got his hair died in brown). Another project
THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS film adaptation has hired their male lead: young
Jamie Campbell Bower will play a demon hunter who helps the main star
Lily Collins in her mission. I'm rather shocked they've chosen Campbell Bower, who gives the most horrid and most superficial and pointless performance as king Arthur in Starz's show CAMELOT. The audience is pretty much unanimous on him being the weakest link of that show in which his acting is so annoying that I'm even considering not watching the show anymore even though I'm the biggest fan of historical shows.
"Variety" has just announced that PBS is ready to broadcast their interesting new ensemble drama this Fall. Directed by amazingly
talented
David Hare, who wrote marvelous screenplays for
Kate Winslet's tremendous THE READER and THE HOURS, this thriller called
PAGE EIGHT will have a stunning cast including
Bill Nighy as Johnny Worricker, an MI-5 officer who becomes wrapped up in an elaborate conspiracy after the death of his best friend, Benedict Baron the chief of security service (
Michael Gambon). The film also stars
Rachel Weisz as Johnny's neighbor and his secret enemy and
Ralph Fiennes and
Judy Davis. PBS is also preparing
THE SONG OF LUNCH with
Emma Thompson and
Alan Rickman about a book editor and his former lover who reconnect 15 years after their original affair.
oh, Donald Sutherland would make a cool evil President Snow. Good choice!
ReplyDeletethe producers probably saw him in HOLLYWOOD SPY's latest poll :)))))
ReplyDeleteI like that picture of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss. It's much better than the one I saw earlier today (on Yahoo) of her in a frumpy blue dress. She looked like Auntie Em from The Wizard of Oz.
ReplyDeleteAnd I want Rachel Weisz's outfit.
I'm excited about the Hunger Games castings (all except for Lenny Kravitz... that I just don't see). Hopefully these movies will live up to the books.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know Vivaldi was trendy.
ReplyDeleteI'll watch anything with Rachel and Ralph. And the two of them together...that's awesome. I enjoyed their performances in The Constant Gardener.
Love Vivaldi! Both those movies sound great -- and what a soundtrack they'll have!
ReplyDeleteThat hunger games picture does look great. Haven't read the books, but could be interesting to see.
ReplyDeleteI believe you are right!
ReplyDeleteThe Hunger Games and Donald Sutherland sounds even better.
ReplyDeleteHi Dezzy, Just popping in to say hi from my holiday!!
ReplyDeleteHow are we?
I am so psyched for the Hunger Games! Although, I do wish Alex Pettyfer was cast...
ReplyDeleteUgh Jamie Campbell Bower! I wish I could cut him out of Camelot. The Hunger Games got a lot more exciting with ol' Donald.
ReplyDeleteI'm really intrigued by both Vivaldi pictures and the new PBS drama. I love Rachel.
Rach's new project sounds very interesting. I miss her new film quite a lot.
ReplyDeleteHmm Page Eight with Rachel Weisz. Sounds hot.
ReplyDelete@Luanne
ReplyDeleteyep, there were some new pics from the set, but very bad ones, so I posted this one from the official photo shoot.
And Rachel's outfit really is simple but hot :) and very easy to pull off :) But the skirt has to be tight tight tight and boots hot hot hot :)
@Kristin
yep, I personally don't see Kravitz in any film, since I don't like him, and he will probably have some egocentric role
@Medeia
they were a nice couple in CONSTANT GARDENER even though it was a rather bad film. It will be nice seeing them together again
@Debra
ReplyDeleteyep, there will be some marvelous music :) And we do love music in films!
@Adam
many people like the novel, I probably wouldn't like it, but the movie could be interesting since it has lovely actors
@Lyndy
he he :) HOLLYWOOD SPY's polls are steps to stardom :)
@Lurk
ReplyDeleteyep, Donals pretty much improves any cast :)
@Custie
ah, I'm working, toiling and feeding the world while you are relaxing your behind somewhere in Hawaii :P
@Samantha
ah, yes, Pettyfer would've been seriously great, but Hemsworth is great too
@Melsy
ReplyDeleteglad you like all of the projects. It's been a very poor week in the news department and I'm having difficulties finding material for my posts in last five or six days :(
@Jaccsy
she actually has a new trailer come out a few days ago for her new film, but I didn't post it since it's about the war in Bosnia
@HiFi
everything with Rachel sounds hot :)
why oh why would they choose bower over speleers?
ReplyDeletekill me, beat me, and then kill me again if I know :( I'm seriously disgusted by their casting choice!
ReplyDeleteI love the news that there's a Vivaldi revival! Don't know really some of the actor's in the cast, but looking forward to the films. (Though why they're making two films about Vivaldi at the same time...strange how Hollywood works). Why Vivaldi I wonder? Any thoughts?
ReplyDeletewell, a VIVALDI project has been in the making for almost a decade now, I think Joseph Fiennes was meant for the lead role, but it fell through and now we have these two.
ReplyDeleteFor some crazy/rival reason big studios love competing with the same projects in last few years. I mean we are having 3 SNOW WHITE projects, 2 VIVALDI ones, 2 SLEEPING BEAUTY, it's just crazy ...
Thanks for all the Hunger Games news! Donald Sutherland is an excellent choice! And love that Katniss pic of Jennifer!
ReplyDeletebe welcome, Kelly, I know my girls like that project :)
ReplyDeleteI'll be all over Page of Eight and Song of Lunch. Love the actors cast.
ReplyDeleteJennifer is so ridiculously-Photoshopped in that photo it's not even funny. But I'm becoming more interested in Hunger Games now the more I hear about it.
ReplyDelete@Mary
ReplyDeleteyep, both projects have nice casts!
@Flixy
I think she looks strange to you because they died her hair brown.
The Song of Lunch was already shown on the BBC in the UK. It's an exquisitely played piece with almost no dialogue just the Alan Rickman's voice-over describing the emotions of meeting up with an old love. By the way the voice over is a prose poem but don't let that put you off. It's really something special. The director just lets two actors at the top of their game do their stuff.
ReplyDeletethat's lovely, so it can already be seen. And I'm glad that it's a lovely TV project as you say. Can't wait to watch the two of them play together :)
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