JACK LOWDEN TO PORTRAY A POET SOLDIER IN WW1 DRAMA BENEDICTION! HOPE GAP TRAILER WITH BILL NIGHY, JOSH O'CONNOR, ANNETTE BENING IS HERE

   JACK LOWDEN TO LEAD

 BENEDICTION WW1 BIOPIC

Jack Lowden will take the lead role

Wonderful news for all of us who positively adore Scottish star Jack Lowden. Not only that he has booked himself a new lead role, but it is also a period set project! As Deadline reports, he will portray World War One poet Siegfried Sassoon in BENEDICTION biopic from Terence Davies. Davies, who also directed A Quiet Passion on another poet - Emily Dickinson, will now helm the movie about English soldier and poet Sassoon, who was decorated for bravery on the Western Front, and is best remembered for his poems about the First World War, which brought him public and critical acclaim. Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war.

  'HOPE GAP' TRAILER

WITH BILL NIGHY, JOSH O'CONNOR AND ANNETTE BENING

Hope Gaps opens next March

You can also check out the first trailer for family drama movie HOPE GAP starring Bill Nighy, Annette Bening and Josh O'Connor. In the film which will open in cinemas around the world next March,  Bill Nighy portrays a man who leaves his wife (Annette Bening) for another woman after 29 years of marriage.The film follows  the ensuing emotional fallout the dissolution has on their only grown son, and also how she, unravelled and feeling displaced in her small seaside town, ultimately regains her footing, and discovers a new, powerful voice. William Nicholson, who wrote scripts for Gladiator and Elizabeth:Golden Age, both wrote and directed the movie.

1ST PHOTOS FROM 'HOPE GAP' WITH BILL NIGHY, ANNETTE BENING, JOSH O'CONNOR AND 19TH CENTURY DRAMA 'GWEN' WITH ELEANOR WORTHINGTON COX AND MAXINE PEAKE

   1ST 'HOMPE GAP' PHOTOS

WITH BILL NIGHY, ANNETTE BENING AND JOSH O'CONNOR

Your cinematic treat for today are the first photos from family drama HOPE GAP starring Bill Nighy, Annette Bening and Josh O'Connor. Directed by Gladiator writer William Nicholson, the movie sees Josh play Jamie, the

Bill Nighy plays the man who wants to leave his wife after 30 years of marriage

son of married couple Grace (Annette Bening) and Edward (Bill Nighy). When Jamie comes to visit for the weekend at their seaside home, Edward

God's Own Country's star Josh O'Connor plays their son

informs him that he plans to leave Grace after three decades of marriage. HOPE GAPS tracks the unravelling of three lives, through stages of shock, disbelief, anger and resolution.

   1ST 'GWEN' MOVIE PHOTO

FROM 19TH CENTURY SNOWDONIA

There is also the first photo of little Britannia star Eleanor Worthington Cox in historical drama GWEN. In the stark beauty of 19th Century Snowdonia a young girl tries desperately to hold her home together.

Gwen is premiering this month at Toronto Film Festival

Struggling with her mother's (Maxine Peake) mysterious illness, her father's absence and a ruthless mining company encroaching on their land. A growing darkness begins to take grip of her home, and the suspicious local community turns on Gwen and her family.

JOSH O'CONNOR JOINS 'HOPE GAPS' WITH BILL NIGHY, ANNETTE BENING! TONI COLLETTE TO HAVE 'SEA FEVER'! ANJELICA HUSTON, THOMAS KRETSCHMANN, NOAH SCHNAPP IN 'WAITING FOR ANYA'

  JOSH O'CONNOR

 JOINS ANNETTE BENING AND BILL NIGHY IN 'HOPE GAP'

A bunch of casting news today, beginning with Josh O'Connor whom we adored in The Durrells and God's Own Country, and who has now joined Bill

Josh O'Connor will play the son of the family

Nighy and Annette Bening in HOPE GAP from Gladiator writer William Nicholson who now also directs.

As 'Screen Daily' reports, Josh will play Jamie, the son of married couple Grace (Annette Bening) and Edward (Bill Nighy). When Jamie comes to visit for the weekend at their seaside home, Edward informs him that he plans to leave Grace. HOPE GAPS tracks the unravelling of three lives, through stages of shock, disbelief, anger and resolution.Beside the third season of Durrells, which should start soon at ITV, we shall also watch Josh O'Connor in BBC's Les Miserables mini series as Marius Pontmercy!

  WW2 'WAITING FOR ANYA' 

 MOVIE CASTS ANJELICA HUSTON AND THOMAS KRETSCHMANN

Thomas Kretschmann will also star

Meanwhile, Goldfinch Studious is set to produce World War 2 drama WAITING FOR ANYA which will star Anjelica Huston, Thomas Kretschmann and little Noah Schnapp. In the big screen adaptation of a book written in 1990 by Michael Morpurgo, who is also famous for War Horse, Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp will play a young shepherd, Jo, from Lescun in Southern France, who took part in smuggling Jewish children across the border into Spain during the war. As 'Deadline' writes, Anjelica Huston will play a widow named Horcada in the film.

  TONI COLLETTE

TO GET A 'SEA FEVER'

Toni has another horror Hereditary out this summer

If you're more in the mood for action and thrillers, Australian star Toni Collette will lead Neasa Hardiman directed SEA FEVER in which the story is  set on a fishing trawler off the Irish West Coast. Toni Collette will portray the captain of the ship who fights to keep her crew alive when the vessel is infested with a deadly parasite. Hermione Corfied is also in the cast and she will play a marine biology student on board.