PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON CHEVALIER MOVIE DRAMA SET AT THE 18TH CENTURY COURT OF MARIE ANTOINETTE AND LOUIS XVI!

  CHEVALIER MOVIE DRAMA  

WELCOME TO FRENCH COURT

To our delight, there is a number of upcoming period set movies that will have their stories happening in France. Beside Clicquot, which will follow the rise

After cinemas Chevalier will land on Disney in June

of the famous champagne producing dynasty starring our sweetest boo Leo Suter, and Le Pot Au Feu de Dodin Bouffant, with Juliette Binoche and her baby's daddy Benoit Magimel in the love story set in the world of 1885 French gastronomy, we will first enjoy CHEVALIER movie drama which arrives to cinemas April 21st after successfully screening last September at Toronto Film Festival. After our visit to the lavish court of Catherine the Great yesterday, this one is taking us over to the glitzy court of Marie Antoinette. Her personal composer Chevalier de Saint-Georges also appears briefly in Marie Antoinette series which already aired in Europe, but will arrive to USA on PBS Masterpiece this March. But Stephen Williams directed movie, based on the true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, follows his rise to heights in French society as a composer before an ill-fated love affair.

 

THE STORY FOLLOWS 

 The rise and resurgence of Chevalier de Saint-Georges (played by Kelvin Harrison Jr), an 18th century French-Caribbean violinist and composer who rose to fame through his musical prodigy. But a complicated love life and the racism of the ancien régime leads to a falling out with Marie Antoinette (Lucy Boynton), whose entourage he was a member of at the French court, and Saint-Georges realizes that things must change. Beside being a composer, virtuoso violinist and an amazing swordsman who fought many duels, he also founded schools for children in Africa.

 WHO ELSE IS AT THE COURT?

The cast of the new movie also includes gorgeous Samara Weaving who stars as Marie-Josephine de Montalembert, Marton Csokas as Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, Alex Fitzalan as Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans and godawful Minnie Driver as Marie-Madeleine Guimard! Sian Clifford is Madame de Genlis with Joseph Proven playing famous Mozart (he lived at the time of Mozart, Haydn and Liszt) and Sam Barlien portraying the king himself Louis XVI of France! The film boasts resplendent costumes and sets which were shot in Czech capital Prague. 

SEE A BLACK MOZART AT MARIE ANTOINETTE'S COURT IN CHEVALIER COSTUME DRAMA TRAILER WITH SAMARA WEAVING, MARTON CSOKAS! ROBIN DES BOIS, PRINCE DES VOLEURS, FRENCH ROBIN HOOD EPIC MOVIE IN PRODUCTION!

   NEW ROBIN HOOD  

FRENCH LANGUAGE MOVIE

Ludovic Bernard is directing the feature

As Screen Daily reports, French studio Gaumont and Albertine Productions are preparing a French language feature film about legendary outlaw and archer Robin Hood. Ludovic Bernard, who worked on Lupin, will direct Robin des Bois, Prince des Voleurs (Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves) movie. Immensely ambitious, the movie will revolve around a brigand with a big heart: he is Saxon, he falls in love with a Norman girl, he is faithful to his King and he redistributes wealth. After Eroll Flynn, Walt Disney’s Fox and Kevin Costner, the producers wish to bring a French touch to this popular hero.

  CHEVALIER MOVIE TRAILER 

SET IN 18TH CENTURY PARIS

But your main period set treat for the beginning of the week is the fist trailer for costume drama CHEVALIER which should arrive into cinemas

Chevalier arrives next April

next April starring Kelvin Harrison Jr, Samara Weaving, Marton Csokas and Lucy Boynton as Marie Antoinette. The movie, which was shot in Czech capital Prague, depicts the rise and resurgence of Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a French-Caribbean violinist and composer (sometimes referred to by the nickname "Black Mozart") who rose to fame through his musical prodigy. But a complicated love life and the racism of the ancient regime leads to a falling out with Marie Antoinette and Saint-Georges realizes that things must change. The film premiered at Toronto Film Festival this September. Check out the flashy trailer below and tell us what you think, is he acting too modern for a costume drama?

1ST LOOK AT CHEVALIER MARIE ANTOINETTE COURT SET MOVIE, EMMA MACKEY, OLIVER JACKSON COHEN IN EMILY BRONTE BIOPIC, SHAZAD LATIF IN DISNEY'S NAUTILUS EPIC ADVENTURE, BEN MENDELSOHN AS DIOR IN THE NEW LOOK SERIES

   FIRST LOOK AT  

CHEVALIER COSTUME DRAMA

A bunch of first looks for you today starting with the first photo of Kelvin Harrison in CHEVALIER movie which will premiere at Toronto Film Festival. He portrays Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the son of a slave and a plantation owner, who became popular at the French court as a composer. Lucy Boynton plays Marie Antoinette with Samara Weaving in the lead female role. The film will hit theatres August 23rd.

EMILY BRONTE BIOPIC

Also premiering in Toronto is Frances O'Connor's biopic on Emily Bronte EMILY with Emma Mackey playing the famous writer of Wuthering Heights. Also starring Oliver Jackson Cohen, it imagines the transformative, exhilarating, and uplifting journey to womanhood of a rebel and a misfit, one of the world's most famous, enigmatic, and provocative writers who died too soon at the age of 30.

NAUTILUS DISNEY SERIES

We also have the first sneaky peek into Disney Plus adventure series NAUTILUS showing Shazad Latif at the sets as famous Captain Nemo from Jules Verne's legendary novel. Jacob Collins Levy and Richard E. Grant also star in this origin story of Captain Nemo and his legendary submarine. An Indian prince robbed of his birthright and family, a prisoner of the East India Company and a man bent on revenge against the forces which have taken everything from him, Nemo set sail with his ragtag crew on board the awe-inspiring vessel, battling foes and discovering magical underwater worlds.

THE NEW LOOK DRAMA

We also stole first pics from the set of Apple TV Plus' new period set fashion series THE NEW LOOK with Ben Mendelsohn as Dior and Maisie Williams as Catherine Dior. The series also starring Emily Mortimer, Claes Bang and John Malkovich, explores the rise of fashion designer Christian Dior, as he dethrones Coco Chanel and helps return spirit and life to the world with his iconic imprint of beauty and influence. Juliette Binoche plays famous French fashion designer Coco Chanel.

NICHOLAS HOULT IS DRACULA'S CRAZY HENCHMAN RENFIELD IN UNIVERSAL'S NEW MOVIE! CHEVALIER DE SAINT GEORGES PERIOD SET DRAMA FINDS ITS MARIE ANTOINETTE IN LUCY BOYNTON

   NICHOLAS HOULT TO PLAY  

DRACULA'S HELPER RENFIELD

Nicholas Hoult will be Renfield!

It will be Universal's new epic movie on Dracula's favourite henchman RENFIELD with Chris McKay directing and Nicholas Hoult taking the lead role. In the original Dracula novel, R.M. Renfield was an inmate at a lunatic asylum who was thought to be suffering from delusions but actually is a servant of Dracula. The sad news is that it seems the story will be set in the present times, so it won't be a costume drama. Beside this one, Universal studio also has Wolfman with Ryan Gosling and Van Helsing movies in preparation within their Monster Universe movie series which hasn't been overly successful so far.

 

CHEVALIER DE SAINT GEORGES

FINDS ITS MARIE ANTOINETTE

Lucy Boynton will play the French queen

After casting Samara Weaving as a female opera singer last month, new period set movie CHEVALIER DE SAINT GEORGES has cast the queen of France Marie Antoinette who will be played by Lucy Boynton. The lead role goes to Kelvin Harrison Jr. who will play the title character:  Born in 1745 in the French Caribbean, de Saint Georges was the illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner. He rose to improbable heights in French society, dazzling as both a violinist and composer and a champion fencer. An ill-fated love affair with a French noblewoman and a falling out with Marie Antoinette and her court led to his untimely downfall. Stephen Williams is directing the costume drama movie.

CHRISTIAN BALE TO LEAD HISTORICAL ADVENTURE JANISSARY FROM DARA OF JASENOVAC DIRECTOR, SHARON STONE IN TALKS TO JOIN! SAMARA WEAVING JOINS KELVIN HARRISON JR IN CHEVALIER DE SAINT GEORGES MARIE ANTOINETTE COURT SET MOVIE

  CHRISTIAN BALE TO LEAD  

JANISSARY HISTORICAL MOVIE

I think we are the first ones to break this news in English, but Gaga Antonijevic, who directed last year's Serbian Oscar representative

The production should start next year

Dara from Jasenovac, is preparing a massive new historical adventure JANISSARY based on real historical custom of the Ottoman empire to steal babies from occupied lands and then raise them as killer Janissaries who would then be sent to pillage their own villages often unknowingly killing their own mothers and sisters in the process. He has already set Christian Bale as the male lead in the film that he has been preparing for twenty years now. 

 

    Set at the end of the 16th century, the film will see Bale playing a Serb taken as a child to Istanbul where he becomes a pasha in their army. The sultan eventually sends him to his fatherland to end the Serbian rebellion and this is where he gets faced both with his past and with a moral dilemma of what to do.

 

Gaga has also revealed that he is currently negotiating with Sharon Stone to take the role of Bale's mother in the film. Bale, who is married to a Serbian woman in real life, has worked with the director on the script which should start shooting sometime next year in Serbia and Turkey.  

 SAMARA WEAVING TO JOIN 

CHEVALIER DE SAINT GEORGES

We mentioned the movie a few months ago, and now Hollywood Reporter writes that Samara Weaving has joined CHEVALIER DE SAINT GEORGES historical drama as opera singer! Kelvin Harrison Jr plays the

Samara Weaving will take the female lead

lead as Joseph Bologne, or the Chevalier de Saint Georges, also known as the Black Mozart. Born in the Caribbean, Bologne was the illegitimate son of a plantation owner and a slave who was then educated in France and became a fencing master, which served as an entrée into French high society. With his music and operas, he ascended to the upper echelons of Marie Antoinette’s Paris society until a court scandal laid him low. Weaving will play Marie Josephine, a woman who yearns for creative fulfillment outside of her empty, loveless marriage and defies her controlling husband to become the voice of Bologne’s opera. Stephen Williams is directing for Searchlight.

COLIN FIRTH TO PLAY A MURDEROR IN HBO MAX MINI SERIES THE STAIRCASE! KELVIN HARRISON JR TO LEAD 18TH CENTURY FRENCH COURT SET MOVIE CHEVALIER DE SAINT GEORGES

    COLIN FIRTH TO LEAD   

HBO THE STAIRCASE TV SERIES

Colin Firth will lead new HBO Max mini series

Which will be a TV series adaptation of the same documentary movie which was a huge mainstream hit. In HBO Max series THE STAIRCASE, Colin Firth will play Michael Peterson, the man convicted of murdering his wife, Kathleen Peterson. The story follows Michael, a crime novelist accused of killing his wife Kathleen after she is found dead at the bottom of a staircase in their home, and the 16-year judicial battle that followed. Michael, a local public figure and successful novelist, quickly became the prime suspect and was convicted.

 

 CHEVALIER DE SAINT GEORGES 

KELVIN HARRISON JR TO LEAD NEW 18TH CENTURY SET MOVIE

As Variety reports Searchlight Pictures has cast Kelvin Harrison Jr in the lead role in their period set drama CHEVALIER DE SAINT GEORGES which will be directed by Stephen Williams. Born in 1745 in the French Caribbean, De Saint Georges was the illegitimate son of an African slave and a

Kelvin Harrison Jr will play Chevalier de Saint Georges

French plantation owner. He rose to improbable heights in French society, dazzling as both a violinist and composer, and a champion fencer. An ill-fated love affair with a French noblewoman, and a falling out with Marie Antoinette and her court led to his untimely downfall.