More Dickens and even more Shakespeare, but also new novels from Toni Morrison, Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith, plus exciting new voices – 2012's literary highlights
January
10 Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood, starring Matthew Rhys and Tamzin Merchant, begins – and, unlike the book, ends – on BBC2.
13 Michael Morpurgo's much-loved children's novel War Horse, a long-running favourite at the National and on Broadway, gets the Hollywood treatment. A tearjerking saga about a young soldier and his horse – it was only a matter of time before it was Spielberged.
16 Ts Eliot prize. Despite withdrawals from the shortlist over objections to a hedge fund's sponsorship of the prize, the Eliot remains the UK's premier poetry award, and its eve-of-event reading is always a treat. This year's shortlist includes Daljit Nagra, Carol Ann Duffy and John Burnside.
20 Release of film of Coriolanus, an Orson Wellesian effort directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes,...
January
10 Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood, starring Matthew Rhys and Tamzin Merchant, begins – and, unlike the book, ends – on BBC2.
13 Michael Morpurgo's much-loved children's novel War Horse, a long-running favourite at the National and on Broadway, gets the Hollywood treatment. A tearjerking saga about a young soldier and his horse – it was only a matter of time before it was Spielberged.
16 Ts Eliot prize. Despite withdrawals from the shortlist over objections to a hedge fund's sponsorship of the prize, the Eliot remains the UK's premier poetry award, and its eve-of-event reading is always a treat. This year's shortlist includes Daljit Nagra, Carol Ann Duffy and John Burnside.
20 Release of film of Coriolanus, an Orson Wellesian effort directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes,...
- 1/6/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
First thought upon hearing the plot for the just-announced comedy Save the Date: "another goddamn wedding movie?" First thought after seeing the cast: "I can't believe I'm going to be excited to see another goddamn wedding movie!" The script focuses on two sisters and their approaches to life and marriage: "one who's happy with the status quo and doesn't see any reason to marry her musician boyfriend while the other's obsessed with planning her upcoming wedding." (Melancholia much?) But the cast is already impressive: Alison Brie (Community, Mad Men) and Lizzy Caplan (Mean Girls, Party Down) play the sisters and Marin Starr (Adventureland, Party Down), Geoffrey Arend (Super Troopers) and Mark Weber (Scott Pilgrim) are the supporting cast we've got so far. And I don't need any more than that -- ticket sold. The script is by graphic novelist Jeffrey Brown, and Mike Mohan will direct the film in July in La.
- 6/3/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Liberal Arts
Allison Janney ("The West Wing") has been cast in Josh Radnor's new collegiate comedy "Liberal Arts".
Radnor plays a 35-year-old man who still wishes he was in college. Olsen plays a young coed who falls for Radnor's character
Janney will portray a frigid English professor. Richard Jenkins and Elizabeth Reaser also star and shooting begins this summer in Ohio. [Source: The Hollywood Reporter ]
American Reunion
"Heroes" actress Dania Ramirez has signed on for the comedy sequel "American Reunion" at Universal Pictures.
She plays Trisha, an ugly girl from high school who nobody noticed then but grew up to be a beautiful woman. She'll be a potential love interest for Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas). [Source: Variety]
Live at the Foxes Den
Jackson Rathbone, Jack Holmes, Janet Montgomery, Bob Gunton, Pooch Hall and Elliott Gould will star in Michael Kristoff's drama "Live at the Foxes Den".
Rathbone plays a miserable corporate lawyer who takes leave...
Allison Janney ("The West Wing") has been cast in Josh Radnor's new collegiate comedy "Liberal Arts".
Radnor plays a 35-year-old man who still wishes he was in college. Olsen plays a young coed who falls for Radnor's character
Janney will portray a frigid English professor. Richard Jenkins and Elizabeth Reaser also star and shooting begins this summer in Ohio. [Source: The Hollywood Reporter ]
American Reunion
"Heroes" actress Dania Ramirez has signed on for the comedy sequel "American Reunion" at Universal Pictures.
She plays Trisha, an ugly girl from high school who nobody noticed then but grew up to be a beautiful woman. She'll be a potential love interest for Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas). [Source: Variety]
Live at the Foxes Den
Jackson Rathbone, Jack Holmes, Janet Montgomery, Bob Gunton, Pooch Hall and Elliott Gould will star in Michael Kristoff's drama "Live at the Foxes Den".
Rathbone plays a miserable corporate lawyer who takes leave...
- 6/1/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
After some dithering among several pretty young blond boy actors, Screen Gems and director Scott Stewart (Priest, Legion) have chosen Jamie Campbell Bower to play Jace Wayland in the adaptation of City of Bones, Cassandra Clare's first The Mortal Instruments novel. Alex Pettyfer was once in the running but bowed out [1]. Jaime Campbell Bower almost certainly has to be a better choice, anyway, though I haven't seen enough of his work to say that with certainty. (He had small parts in New Moon and Sweeney Todd, played Arthur in Camelot, and will be in Roland Emmerich's upcoming Anonymous.) The book starts off like so: When Clary Fray witnesses three tattoo-covered teenagers murder another teen, she is unable to prove the crime because the victim disappears right in front of her eyes, and no one else can see the killers. She learns that the teens are Shadowhunters (humans who...
- 6/1/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
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