NEW BLACK BEAUTY
PUTS MACKENZIE FOY AND KATE WINSLET IN THE SADDLE
Mackenzie Foy will take the lead role |
EMILIA CLARKE TO LEAD
Screen Daily, meanwhile, reports that Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke will lead new period set movie LET ME COUNT THE WAYS Bjorn Runge's (he did Glenn Close's Wife last year) movie on poet Elizabeth Barret. Set in the mid 19th century, the film will follow the courtship of poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. After gaining worldwide fame for her poetry, Barrett, fragile and weakened by a mysterious illness, lives as a virtual recluse in London. When the youthful Browning brings renewed sensuality and passion to her life, her widowed father Edward fights to keep his control over her. The title comes from her poem How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways.
Two classics: Black Beauty is a children's classic told by a horse, and Let Me Count the Ways is a classic love story between the two poets: Elizabeth Barret and Robert Browning. Both are based on a real written biographical story.
ReplyDeleteGood, interesting stuff for the movie lovers!
I did not know at first that Black Beauty was told by a horse! And I thought Faulkner's points of view were crazy :)
DeleteHopefully we'll like Claire in Black Beauty more than in The Nutcracker. That movie was a total snoozefest!
ReplyDeleteIt was, but she was nice in it. And you mistaken her with awful Claire Foy :) which happens a lot... this one is Mackenzie. Nutcracker was probably good in Lasse Halstrom directorial version, but then Disney brought Joe Johnston to ad the bombastic scenes and ruin it all.
DeleteThey do look alike. I was so hopeful on the nutcracker being good. I’m glad I didn’t waste money at the theater on it. I might wait on Blsck Beauty to hit dvd before giving it a go. Even though I love Winslet, it’s probably one I won’t be able to sweet talk the girls into seeing with me.
ReplyDeleteYes, especially as it is contemporary, not period set.
DeleteEmilia Clarke... What is happening to Game of Thrones? That's what I'd like to know.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't and please don't tell me about it.
DeleteYou said please.
DeleteIt was a special occasion...
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