PIERCE BROSNAN TO PLAY GEORGE BERNARD SHAW IN NOT BLOODY LIKELY PERIOD SET ROMANTIC COMEDY WITH HELENA BONHAM CARTER! 1ST PIC OF JACK LOWDEN IN WW1 SIEGFRIED SASSOON BIOPIC BENEDICTION

 NOT BLOODY LIKELY 

CASTS HELENA BONHAM CARTER

Helena Bonham Carter will take the female lead

AND PIERCE BROSNAN

And you must admit, it is a highly unusual and unexpected pairing: as Deadline reports, they will star in a Joel Hopkins' romantic comedy (which he is both writing and directing) exploring the true story of the 1914 West End production of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. In the movie, Shaw (Pierce Brosnan) has written his masterpiece Pygmalion (which would later be adapted into the Oscar winning musical My Fair Lady) and is determined for the great Mrs. Pat Campbell (Helena Bonham Carter) to play the role of Eliza Doolittle. But is her casting just a chance for Shaw to rekindle his once

Pierce Brosnan will be George Bernard Shaw!

great love, the one that got away? The film which is currently selling worldwide rights, will commence shooting in the spring next year at Cornerstone Films.

BENEDICTION WW2 MOVIE

FIRST JACK LOWDEN PHOTO

Jack Lowden plays the lead role in Benediction

Speaking of period set movies, check out the first photo of our dearest Jack Lowden in BENEDICTION where he plays WWI poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon! Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he is remembered for his war poems that brought him public and critical acclaim in his time and after. He also became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the conflict. Adored by members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London’s literary and stage world, Sassoon embarked on affairs with several men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality. At the same time, broken by the horror of war, he made his

Jeremy Irvine, Ben Daniels, Anton Lesser, Gemma Jones, Simon Russell  Beale also star in the film that has already finished shooting

life’s journey a quest for salvation, ultimately trying to find it within the conformity of marriage and religion. The film has finished filming after corona delays earlier this year.