HOLLIDAY GRAINGER IS
CINDERELLA'S EVIL STEP SISTER
The latest one to join Kenneth Branagh's and Disney's live action movie version of CINDERELLA is gorgeous Holliday Grainger from THE BORGIAS! Colour me shocked, but instead playing the title role (doesn't she have a flawless face for it?) she will play one of the evil stepsisters! The role of CINDERELLA has already gone to Lily James, a relatively unknown British actress. The rest of the cast is glorious including Cate Blanchett as the evil stepmother and GAME OF THRONES superstar and the king of North Richard Madden who will play the prince. DOWNTON ABBEY star Sophie McShera is in talks to play the other evil sister. Holliday is currently without a job since THE BORGIAS have finally been cancelled earlier this month. She is no stranger to ball gowns since she starred in recent ANNA KARENINA, in JANE EYRE and GREAT EXPECTATIONS. It's interesting to add that Joe Wright who directed Grainger in ANNA KARENINA is preparing a movie adaptation of another fairy tale - THE LITTLE MERMAID!
DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS
SOFIA VERGARA & REESE WITHERSPOON
Casting news come from DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS too! Produced by Reese Witherspoon, who is also taking one of the two leading roles, the film will also star Sofia Vergara. The two of them will play 
a female cop and prisoner who go on the run together in Texas, trying to outrun a group of corrupt police officers. It is interesting that Universal Pictures has spent quite a lot of money on the script for this movie.
a female cop and prisoner who go on the run together in Texas, trying to outrun a group of corrupt police officers. It is interesting that Universal Pictures has spent quite a lot of money on the script for this movie.
MOONFLEET EPIC SERIES
RAY WINSTONE AND ANEURIN 
BARNARD
Yet another new epic mini series await us over at Sky1 in their new project MOONFLEET! The two part mini series will be a television adaptation of John Meade Falkner's book which follows 18th century smugglers! Ray Winstone will portray Elzevir Block, the head of a group of smugglers in 18th century Dorset, England. He recruits Aneurin Barnard (THE WHITE QUEEN, IRONCLAD) as a young newcomer to the smuggling crew as they embark on the hunt for a lost diamond filled with action, humour and friendship. To be shot in Dublin this summer, the series will also have Omid Djalili from GLADIATOR playing diamond merchant Aldobrand and British star Ben Chaplin playing the town's anti-smuggling Magistrate.
BARNARD Yet another new epic mini series await us over at Sky1 in their new project MOONFLEET! The two part mini series will be a television adaptation of John Meade Falkner's book which follows 18th century smugglers! Ray Winstone will portray Elzevir Block, the head of a group of smugglers in 18th century Dorset, England. He recruits Aneurin Barnard (THE WHITE QUEEN, IRONCLAD) as a young newcomer to the smuggling crew as they embark on the hunt for a lost diamond filled with action, humour and friendship. To be shot in Dublin this summer, the series will also have Omid Djalili from GLADIATOR playing diamond merchant Aldobrand and British star Ben Chaplin playing the town's anti-smuggling Magistrate.
LAUREN GRAHAM'S NEW SHOW
SOMEDAY, SOMEDAY MAYBE
And if you've been missing legendary TV series GILMORE GIRLS, here's a nice info for you: the star of the show, Lauren Graham, has just sold the rights for the television adaptation of her brand new bestselling book SOMEDAY, SOMEDAY MAYBE in which she describes, in a witty way, her early days as a young woman with six months left on her three-year plan to make a career as an actress in New York City. The book will be turned into an hour long TV show produced by Warner Bros and Ellen De Generes.
She does look like she could be Cinderella, but they maybe going for someone a bit more dramatic looking or just different looking. Who knows? I think that Joe Wright should never direct again. All of his movies suck.
ReplyDeletethey've chosen Lily who looks nothing like Cinderella and doesn't have that refined gracefulness. Yep, Wright makes visually beautiful but endlessly empty movies, kinda like Rob Marshall.
DeleteMiss Grainger is quite lovely but rather pale looking imo.
ReplyDeletethat's that noble British paleness :) Noble or living in a country with no sun LOL I myself love extremely pale people. Quite lovely and posh.
DeleteI wonder how the little mermaid will turn out. I hope it's the grim original tale. Would be neat to see that on flim.
ReplyDeleteThey may have one... just one singing lobster if they wish.
Yes, it will be more grim with the story going on more on the surface where prince lives and not in the sea.
DeleteHolliday certainly doesn't look like an evil stepsister. She's going to need to do some seriously good acting to pull that off!
ReplyDeleteshe will probably be gorgeous but ice cold :) The same as with Blanchett - if I lived hundred years I wouldn't believe that she could emit evil :)
DeleteWhew, that first girl looks like a ghost.
ReplyDeleteshe's gorgeous
Deletewell i say hello... that is it, today... cinderellie... is ghostly...
ReplyDeleteI remember you were impressed by her once.... in one of my old posts on her :)
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ReplyDeleteI'll be curious to see how this Cinderella movie turns out. I like most of the cast so far. And you know Ms. Blanchett can summon some terror. Remember her scene in Elizabeth? I believed her when she said she had a hurricane insider her. :)
Yep, to blow away the Spanish armada :) She also scared me when she called her court ladies bitches :O
DeleteOhhhhh I'm interested in Someday. I love me some Ellen, so I can't wait to see what she does with this project!
ReplyDeleteand Lauren has great sense of humour
DeleteIt will be interesting to see Sofia Vergara & Reese Witherspoon together. Both quite different, yet very talented.
ReplyDeleteAnd as for Cate Blanchett, I'd watch anything she was in!
I'd also watch Cate in anything, but I still ain't gonna watch this new Woodie Allen film in which she's in. Just can't stand that man.
DeleteOoh good stuff coming.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, Holliday looks soooo Cinderella.
she was born for the role and yet she's the evil stepsister :( She'll be ten times perdier than Cinderella
DeleteI'm always up for a new twist on a fairy tale :)
ReplyDelete........dhole
not sure that this one will have twists :)
DeleteHolliday does have a flawless face, but that dress colour isn't flattering for her... ;)
ReplyDeleteshe doesn't have much style, I must admit. Saw her at red carpets... never impressed me.
DeleteHolliday is so lovely and beautiful, I can't picture her as the stepsister!
ReplyDeleteme neither!
DeleteShe mmay be my evil stepsister anytime. Or Reese, of course. ;) But how could Kate be the evil stepmom?
ReplyDeletebeats me if I know - has to do with the world in which Rihanna is a beloved pop tart and Bieber a wanted hunk and KStew an actress......
DeleteThat must be it.
Deletewhat can we say about the world in which the two of us don't have a Muppet Show balcony gig?
Delete...See I'm so shocked I forgot to spell it the non-evil way.
ReplyDeletewe prefer to say eBil here :P
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