Showing posts with label DAPHNE DU MAURIER. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DAPHNE DU MAURIER. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

ARMIE HAMMER IS MARRIED TO A GHOST IN FIRST TRAILER FOR NETFLIX REBECCA WITH KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS, KEELEY HAWES, ANN DOWD, SAM RILEY

     'REBECCA' TRAILER
STARRING ARMIE HAMMER
Cannot say I'm overly excited by this one, because the lead is just meh to me, and plus the previous adaptation of a Daphne du Maurier novel
Rebecca arrives October 21st at Netflix
wasn't really good (My Cousin Rachel), but here's the trailer for the latest movie version of her REBECCA which is hitting Netflix October 21st!
REBECCA follows a newly married woman (Lily James, who's as expressive and lively as a bowl of lukewarm yoghurt) who, after a whirlwind romance in Monte Carlo with her new husband, Maxim de Winter (Armie Hammer), arrives at his imposing family estate on the English coast. She is naive and inexperienced, but begins to settle into the trappings of her new life. However, she finds herself at odds with the shadow of Maxim's first wife, the elegant and
Ben Wheatley has directed the latest adaptation of Daphe du Maurier's novel
refined Rebecca. Maxim's former wife has a haunting legacy that is kept alive by Manderley's sinister housekeeper Mrs. Danvers (Kristin Scott Thomas). The better part of the cast includes Keeley Hawes, Ann Dowd and Sam Riley!

Friday, November 16, 2018

GOTHIC THURSDAY: ARMIE HAMMER TO LEAD 'REBECCA' DAPHNE DU MAURIER GOTHIC THRILLER ADAPTATION! JEKYLL & HYDE'S DAUGHTERS TO UNITE IN 'THE STRANGE CASE OF THE ALCHEMIST DAUGHTER' VICTORIAN SERIES AT CW!

  ARMIE HAMMER TO LEAD
'REBECCA' GOTHIC ADAPTATION!
Armie Hammer will be Maxim de Winter
If you liked last year's My Cousin Rachel, you will be happy to hear that another of Daphne du Maurier's classic novels is getting a big screen adaptation to be led by Armie Hammer! Her gothic thriller REBECCA will be adapted by Ben Wheatley for Netflix!
Lily James will play a newly married young woman who, on arriving at her husband’s imposing family estate on a bleak English coast, finds herself battling the shadow of his dead first wife, the mysterious Rebecca, whose legacy continues to haunt the house.
The 1940 Alfred Hitchcock adaptation starring Joan Fontaine and  Laurence Olivier won an Oscar for Best Film that year and also 11 nominations. Armie Hammer will play brooding Maxim de Winter who  brings his second wife, and the narrator of the story, into his house.

  CW'S NEW VICTORIAN SERIES
TO FOLLOW DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE'S DAUGHTERS
The book will be adapted into series over at CW
Speaking of Gothic things, CW will adapt Theodora Goss' fantasy novel THE STRANGE CASE OF THE ALCHEMIST DAUGHTER  into a TV series. The story is set in Victorian London where two radically different young women – one the daughter of Dr. Jekyll; the other, Mr. Hyde – discover they’re half sisters when a series of gruesome murders appear connected to their deceased father. They unite with other unsung but remarkable daughters of famous literary figures to rise above societal norms and unearth the mystery of their origins. Part of The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series, the 2017 book was followed by European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman this year.

Thursday, August 17, 2017

CATE BLANCHETT TO STAR IN 'HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS'! TOM HOLLAND TO LEAD 'BENEATH A SCARLET SKY' WW2 BOOK ADAPTATION! DAPHNE DU MAURIER'S 'THE BIRDS' TO BECOME BBC DRAMA SET IN CORNWALL!

CATE BLANCHETT TO STAR IN
Cate is next seen in Thor:Ragnarok
HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS
She's been known for her outstanding dramatic roles so far, but it seems Cate Blanchett is ready to fulfil her kids' wishes and venture more into the field of commercial movies. After taking just about everybody's breath away with her Hela in Thor: Ragnarok, at least in what we've seen in the trailers, she will also star in THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS which will be a movie adaptation of 1973 fantasy horror novel by John Bellair directed by Eli Roth! The story follows a recently orphaned 10 year old boy who discovers a world of hidden passageways, magic and danger in his uncle’s old house. As you already know, we shall Blanchett comedy side as well in Lucille Ball biopic Lucy and Desi

BBC TO TURN 'THE BIRDS'
INTO A NEW TV DRAMA!
This has not been officially confirmed yet, but, as 'Digital Spy' reports today, BBC is planning on turning famous THE BIRDS novel by
Heyday Television is producing!
 Daphne du Maurier into a TV movie. Unlike the famous Hitchcock's classic movie, this one will be true to the novel with the action being set in British Cornwall! The new television adaptation will be set in picturesque rural Cornwall, where a farmhand and his community is being terrorised by flocks of birds and seagulls shortly after the end of the Second World War. This 1952. novel by Maurier isn't the only one to get a recent adaptation, since earlier this year My Cousin Rachel scored love of moviegoers in cinemas around world with Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin! Speaking of British series, second season of Victoria has been given August 27 airing date on ITV and January 14th on PBS in US.

TOM HOLLAND TO LEAD
 'BENEATH A SCARLET SKY' WORLD WAR 2 BOOK ADAPTATION
Speaking of adaptations, current bestselling hit by Mark Sullivan WW2 novel BENEATH A SCARLET SKY will be made into a movie with Tom Holland who will be Pino Lella a normal Italian teenager
The book is current US N1 bestseller
living an idyllic life in Italy, until bombs begin falling on Milan and word of Nazi atrocities begin to circulate. While waiting to join the fight, Lello joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, guiding hundreds of Jews to safety in a year. On his 18th birthday, Lello is forced to enlist with the German Army, and is immediately assigned as a personal driver to Adolf Hitler’s left hand, General Hans Leyers. This fly on the wall in the upper echelons of the Third Reich positions him to be recruited by the Allies as a spy. Known to Allied Intelligence only as “Observer,” Lella endures the horrors of WWII and the Nazi occupation by secretly feeding intel to the Allies that was strategically important enough to turn the tides of the war. When Lella’s courage falters, he is bolstered by his love for a young woman named Anna, and for the life he dreams they will one day share.

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON VICTORIAN THRILLER 'MY COUSIN RACHEL' WITH SAM CLAFLIN, RACHEL WEISZ, IAIN GLEN, HOLLIDAY GRAINGER! NEW POSTER AND TRAILER

  'MY COUSIN RACHEL' WITH
 SAM CLAFLIN & RACHEL WEISZ
If you follow your spy regularly, as you should because it is a cardinal sin not to, you already know that our most anticipated film of the year 2017 (which we, by the way, consider a very poor one movie wise), is the latest big screen adaptation of famous Victorian thriller MY COUSIN RACHEL which has just got an exciting new trailer and also a rather gorgeous and atmospheric new poster depicting, unlike the first one, both Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin, the lead stars of the spooky mystery romance. The long awaited movie will hit cinemas in Europe and United States this summer, from June 9th!

POISONED BY CHARMS
 In the movie, our favourite British hunkster Sam Claflin plays a young orphan Phillip whose tranquil existence gets interrupted when he receives a note from his older cousin and guardian Ambrose, who writes that he is being poisoned. Ambrose soon turns up dead of an apparent brain tumor, but Phillip is suspicious of Ambrose's strange wife Rachel, played by Rachel Weisz. When Rachel appears in Philip's home, he determines to solve the mystery, but finds himself captivated by the presence of the enigmatic widow falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.

FROM DAPHNE DU MAURIER
The movie is the latest adaptation of the 1951. novel by legendary writer Daphne Du Maurier who also wrote some of Hitchcock's most famous movies Rebecca and Birds.  A few years ago BBC had a mini series based on her book Jamaica Inn. Directed and written by Roger Michell, a man who helmed Notting Hill, MY COUSIN RACHEL also stars Iain Glen and Holliday Grainger who starred with Sam Claflin also in Their Finest, Any Human Heart and The Riot Club. The beautiful locations that you can see in the trailer have been found in Italy.

CLAFLIN'S AND WEISZ' OTHER PERIOD SET PROJECTS
Both Sam Claflin and Rachel Weisz have other upcoming period set movies. Sam will star in THE NIGHTINGALE a 1829 Tasmania set thriller and in World War 1 movie JOURNEY'S END with Paul Bettany. Rachel is shooting a queen Anne, the last monarch of the House of Stuarts, movie THE FAVOURITE with Nicholas Hoult and also a JAMES MIRANDA BARRY movie on the women who lived her entire life as a man so she could study and practice medicine.

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

GORGEOUS NEW TRAILERS FOR 'MY COUSIN RACHEL' VICTORIAN THRILLER WITH SAM CLAFLIN, RACHEL WEISZ, 'THE WARRIORS GATE' EPIC FANTASY ADVENTURE FROM LUC BESSON

'MY COUSIN RACHEL' TRAILER
SAM CLAFLIN & RACHEL WEISZ
Our most anticipated movie this year by far, the big screen adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier dark Victorian novel MY COUSIN RACHEL, has a brand new trailer and it is all kinds of gorgeous!
Starring Sam Claflin, Rachel Weisz, Holliday Grainger, Iain Glen, this dark romance, tells the story of a young Englishman who plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian in order to inherit his estate. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.



'THE WARRIORS GATE'
EPIC ADVEN- TURE MOVIE
Meanwhile, in our most beloved genre of epic fantasy and action adventure a rather lovely and fun trailer has been released, alongside some really pretty posters, for THE WARRIORS GATE a movie which already played in Chinese cinemas last winter in November, but will hit certain parts of Europe this month. Written by French moviemaker Luc Besson it was directed by Matthias Hoene and has the cast led by young Uriah Shelton in the main role alongside Dave Bautista, Sienna Guillory and gorgeous Asian superstar Ni Ni!

SAVE THE WORLD FROM EVIL
This $30 million epic fantasy extravaganza movie sees Uriah Shelton portraying a teenager, a game wizard and a computer genius, who gets transported into the very game he loves to play and ends up all the way over in ancient China in a magical way where he gets a mission to accomplish by saving the princess from danger. He transforms himself into a Kung Fu warrior to battle the evil villains by converting his video game skills.