The Oscar-winning director of 12 Years A Slave, Steve McQueen, has chosen a female-led heist movie as his follow-up project. The filmmaker will re-team with production company New Regency to create a new, feature film version of the British television mini-series Widows, which first aired in 1983.
Created and written by Lynda La Plante, the original version of Widows comprised six episodes, and featured a plot that saw three armed robbers killed during the commission of their latest heist. Discovering that the circumstances of the deaths of their husbands were not as straightforward as they first seemed, the widows team up and resolve to finish the job. Starring Ann Mitchell, Fiona Hendley, Maureen O’Farrell and Eva Mottley, the series was very popular on British television in its time, and spawned two sequels. In 2002, Disney produced a U.S remake, which starred Mercedes Ruehl, Brooke Shields and Rosie Perez.
McQueen’s version...
Created and written by Lynda La Plante, the original version of Widows comprised six episodes, and featured a plot that saw three armed robbers killed during the commission of their latest heist. Discovering that the circumstances of the deaths of their husbands were not as straightforward as they first seemed, the widows team up and resolve to finish the job. Starring Ann Mitchell, Fiona Hendley, Maureen O’Farrell and Eva Mottley, the series was very popular on British television in its time, and spawned two sequels. In 2002, Disney produced a U.S remake, which starred Mercedes Ruehl, Brooke Shields and Rosie Perez.
McQueen’s version...
- 11/25/2014
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
In the last couple of days, there has been a lot of talk about Steve McQueen settling on a film about activist Paul Robeson as his next project. It appears he’s ready to zag when everyone expected him to zig, signing on instead to focus on turning a 1980s crime drama into a film.McQueen has partnered with New Regency for the film, which he’ll write and produce, adapting Lynda La Plante’s 1983 miniseries Widows. The original series – two more followed in 1985 and then 2002 – starred Ann Mitchell, Maureen O’Farrell and Fiona Hendley in the story of three women who all lose their criminal husbands when the men die in the middle of robbing a security van that catches fire.Together with Eva Mottley’s Bella O’Reilly, they succeed in tracking down the cash for themselves. Until, that is, Mitchell’s character discovers that her husband didn...
- 11/21/2014
- EmpireOnline
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