Speaking at U.K. pay-tv operator Sky’s programming showcase at London’s Tate Modern art museum, on the banks of the Thames River, Wednesday evening, its CEO, Jeremy Darroch, said: “In the 12 years I’ve been running Sky I’ve never seen a lineup on screen like we are going to have in the next year or so.”
The event, described by its host Chris Evans as “the biggest season launch any TV company in Britain has ever undertaken,” was staged in a theater dressed to look like a ritzy jazz lounge, with plush red-velvet seating and art-deco lamps, and chilled champagne and herb-infused olives at every table. The waiting staff were all dressed as bell boys straight out of “The Grand Budapest Hotel.”
In total, Evans held onstage interviews with 33 star guests, who included a paparazzo’s dreamscape of tabloid-ready celebrities, including cricketer and “Top Gear” frontman Freddie Flintoff,...
The event, described by its host Chris Evans as “the biggest season launch any TV company in Britain has ever undertaken,” was staged in a theater dressed to look like a ritzy jazz lounge, with plush red-velvet seating and art-deco lamps, and chilled champagne and herb-infused olives at every table. The waiting staff were all dressed as bell boys straight out of “The Grand Budapest Hotel.”
In total, Evans held onstage interviews with 33 star guests, who included a paparazzo’s dreamscape of tabloid-ready celebrities, including cricketer and “Top Gear” frontman Freddie Flintoff,...
- 2/13/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie, Tilda Swinton, Peter Capaldi, Gwendoline Christie, Paul Whitehouse, Benedict Wong, Ben Whishaw, Daisy May Cooper | Written by Simon Blackwell | Directed by Armando Iannucci
A wonderfully witty and heart warming tale. It’s the kind of feel good cinema that can touch anyone’s heart, pure joy wrapped up in a string of delightful performances.
The world of Dickens for me has always been one of dark and terrible times. My first introduction was surely a version of A Christmas Carol when I was young, but it was in high school reading Great Expectations that I got my first true taste of Dickens. It was only the first few chapters that I remember so clearly and for some unknown reason I couldn’t get the first chapter out of my head. I still have the image of a gothic cemetery etched into my brain. As a...
A wonderfully witty and heart warming tale. It’s the kind of feel good cinema that can touch anyone’s heart, pure joy wrapped up in a string of delightful performances.
The world of Dickens for me has always been one of dark and terrible times. My first introduction was surely a version of A Christmas Carol when I was young, but it was in high school reading Great Expectations that I got my first true taste of Dickens. It was only the first few chapters that I remember so clearly and for some unknown reason I couldn’t get the first chapter out of my head. I still have the image of a gothic cemetery etched into my brain. As a...
- 2/3/2020
- by Alex Ginnelly
- Nerdly
With a fair number of grimly sardonic dramas like The Third Man and Odd Man Out on his resume, Carol Reed might have been seen as an odd choice to direct a big budget musical version of Dickens’ Oliver Twist. But Reed managed to balance the bright show tunes with the dark side of Dickens’ sprawling tale – Ron Moody cuts a sinister figure as the rapacious Fagin and the animalistic Bill Sikes is played to a T by Oliver Reed. The film triumphed at both the box office and the Academy Awards where it won Best Picture and a director’s statuette for Reed.
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- 12/23/2019
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Saban Films has secured the North American distribution rights to Martin Owen’s drama Twist, a modern take on Charles Dickens’ classic Oliver Twist. The pic, which was acquired out of Afm and will get a theatrical release Q1 of 2021, stars Oscar winner Michael Caine, Game of Thrones alum Lena Headey, recording artist and actress Rita Ora, Raff Law, and Sophie Simnett.
Written by John Wrathall, the plot is set in contemporary London and follows a gifted graffiti artist who is lured into a street gang headed by a father figure, Fagin, who plans a series of audacious art thefts.
Noel Clarke and Jason Maza produced the pic for Unstoppable along with Pure Grass Films’ Ben Grass and Knuckle Sandwich’s Matt Williams. Sky co-produced the project which was financed by Mep Capital, Blue Rider, Arclight Films and Lipsync Productions. Arclight is handling worldwide rights.
Bill Bromiley and Jonathan Saba...
Written by John Wrathall, the plot is set in contemporary London and follows a gifted graffiti artist who is lured into a street gang headed by a father figure, Fagin, who plans a series of audacious art thefts.
Noel Clarke and Jason Maza produced the pic for Unstoppable along with Pure Grass Films’ Ben Grass and Knuckle Sandwich’s Matt Williams. Sky co-produced the project which was financed by Mep Capital, Blue Rider, Arclight Films and Lipsync Productions. Arclight is handling worldwide rights.
Bill Bromiley and Jonathan Saba...
- 11/25/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Arclight Films has sold North American rights for “Twist,” a modern-retelling of Charles Dickens’ classic “Oliver Twist,” to Saban Films.
The updated version — starring Michael Caine and Lena Headey — was directed by Martin Owen and written by John Wrathall. The cast also includes Rita Ora, Raff Law and Sophie Simnett.
Saban Films plans to release the film theatrically in early 2021. Set in contemporary London, “Twist” follows a gifted graffiti artist who is lured into a street gang headed by a father figure named Fagin (Caine), who plans a series of audacious art thefts. Heady portrays his psychopathic business partner, Sikes.
“‘Twist’ boasts a really fantastic cast that crosses all generations so we are thrilled for new audiences young and old to enjoy this wonderful interpretation on Oliver Twist’s classic story,” said Arclight Films’ chairman Gary Hamilton. “We are overjoyed to be working with our friends at Saban again — they...
The updated version — starring Michael Caine and Lena Headey — was directed by Martin Owen and written by John Wrathall. The cast also includes Rita Ora, Raff Law and Sophie Simnett.
Saban Films plans to release the film theatrically in early 2021. Set in contemporary London, “Twist” follows a gifted graffiti artist who is lured into a street gang headed by a father figure named Fagin (Caine), who plans a series of audacious art thefts. Heady portrays his psychopathic business partner, Sikes.
“‘Twist’ boasts a really fantastic cast that crosses all generations so we are thrilled for new audiences young and old to enjoy this wonderful interpretation on Oliver Twist’s classic story,” said Arclight Films’ chairman Gary Hamilton. “We are overjoyed to be working with our friends at Saban again — they...
- 11/25/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Saban Films has acquired North American rights to Martin Owen’s “Twist,” the company announced on Monday. From a script written by John Wrathall, the modern take on Charles Dickens’ classic Oliver Twist stars Academy Award winner Michael Caine (“The Dark Knight” series), Golden Globe Award nominee Lena Headey, Rita Ora, Raff Law (“Repo Men”) and Sophie Simnett.
“Twist” is produced by Noel Clarke and Jason Maza for Unstoppable along with Pure Grass Films’ Ben Grass and Knuckle Sandwich’s Matt Williams. The film is co-produced by Sky. Saban Films will release the film theatrically Q1 of 2021.
Set in contemporary London, “Twist” follows a gifted graffiti artist who is lured into a street gang headed by a father figure, Fagin, who plans a series of audacious art thefts.
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Bill Bromiley and Jonathan Saba negotiated the deal for...
“Twist” is produced by Noel Clarke and Jason Maza for Unstoppable along with Pure Grass Films’ Ben Grass and Knuckle Sandwich’s Matt Williams. The film is co-produced by Sky. Saban Films will release the film theatrically Q1 of 2021.
Set in contemporary London, “Twist” follows a gifted graffiti artist who is lured into a street gang headed by a father figure, Fagin, who plans a series of audacious art thefts.
Also Read: Neon Takes 'Memoria' From Palme D'Or Winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Bill Bromiley and Jonathan Saba negotiated the deal for...
- 11/25/2019
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Arlcight Films handles worldwide sales.
Saban Films has picked up North American rights from Arclight Films to Martin Owen’s Charles Dickens adaptation Twist starring Michael Caine and Lena Headey in a deal that comes out of the recent Afm.
John Wrathall wrote the modern take on Dickens’ Oliver Twist and the film also stars Rita Ora, Raff Law (Repo Men), and Sophie Simnett.
Noel Clarke and Jason Maza produced Twist for Unstoppable alongside Ben Grass of Pure Grass Films, and Knuckle Sandwich’s Matt Williams. Sky served as co-producer, and financiers include Mep Capital, Blue Rider, Arclight, and Lipsync Productions.
Saban Films has picked up North American rights from Arclight Films to Martin Owen’s Charles Dickens adaptation Twist starring Michael Caine and Lena Headey in a deal that comes out of the recent Afm.
John Wrathall wrote the modern take on Dickens’ Oliver Twist and the film also stars Rita Ora, Raff Law (Repo Men), and Sophie Simnett.
Noel Clarke and Jason Maza produced Twist for Unstoppable alongside Ben Grass of Pure Grass Films, and Knuckle Sandwich’s Matt Williams. Sky served as co-producer, and financiers include Mep Capital, Blue Rider, Arclight, and Lipsync Productions.
- 11/25/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Viacom’s UK network Channel 5 is plotting an adaptation of classic Welsh novel How Green Is My Valley and a new version of Oliver Twist and as it doubles down on its drama drive.
The broadcaster held a lavish event at London’s Renaissance Hotel in Kings Cross last night to showcase its latest slate and its recent talent drive.
C5’s Director of Programmes Ben Frow also revealed a number of new dramas, building on shows such as Cold Call, which is currently on air, Clink and The Decieved from Catherine The Great producer New Pictures.
How Green Was My Valley is a 1939 novel by Richard Llewellyn. It tells the story of a respectable mining family from South Wales through the eyes of son Huw Morgan. While Huw’s five brothers and father are coalminers, Huw’s academic ability set his apart and allows him to consider a future away from the mines.
The broadcaster held a lavish event at London’s Renaissance Hotel in Kings Cross last night to showcase its latest slate and its recent talent drive.
C5’s Director of Programmes Ben Frow also revealed a number of new dramas, building on shows such as Cold Call, which is currently on air, Clink and The Decieved from Catherine The Great producer New Pictures.
How Green Was My Valley is a 1939 novel by Richard Llewellyn. It tells the story of a respectable mining family from South Wales through the eyes of son Huw Morgan. While Huw’s five brothers and father are coalminers, Huw’s academic ability set his apart and allows him to consider a future away from the mines.
- 11/20/2019
- by Peter White and Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Alec Guinness would’ve celebrated his 105th birthday on April 2, 2019. The Oscar-winning performer excelled in comedy, drama, and most famously, science fiction, starring in dozens of movies before his death in 2000 at age 86. But how many of those titles remain classics? In honor of his birthday, let’s take a look back at 15 of his greatest films, ranked worst to best.
Born in 1914, Guinness got his start in theater, winning a Tony for his performance in the Broadway play “Dylan.” He adapted and starred in a stage version of Charles Dickens‘ “Great Expectations,” playing the role of Herbert Pocket. Among the audience members was David Lean, who brought the book to the screen in 1946 and cast Guinness in his first movie.
SEEDavid Lean movies: All 16 films ranked worst to best
He would go on to make five more films with Lean, including the Oscar-winning “The Bridge on the River Kwai...
Born in 1914, Guinness got his start in theater, winning a Tony for his performance in the Broadway play “Dylan.” He adapted and starred in a stage version of Charles Dickens‘ “Great Expectations,” playing the role of Herbert Pocket. Among the audience members was David Lean, who brought the book to the screen in 1946 and cast Guinness in his first movie.
SEEDavid Lean movies: All 16 films ranked worst to best
He would go on to make five more films with Lean, including the Oscar-winning “The Bridge on the River Kwai...
- 4/2/2019
- by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Disney is moving forward with the development of a remake of the classic musical Oliver! which as you know, is based on Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist. The project was announced last year and it has also got a solid team of talent on board to bring it to life.
According to Deadline, the script for the film will be written by Danny Strong (The Hunger Games, The Butler). The director of Broadway's Hamilton, Thomas Kail, is set to helm the movie. Then there's the music, which will be handled by Marc Platt, who worked on La La Land. Oh, and I should probably mention that Ice Cube is producing and he's taking on the of the villainous Fagin.
I know you all know the story, but just in case you've been living under a rock since you've been born, the story follows the journey of an orphan...
According to Deadline, the script for the film will be written by Danny Strong (The Hunger Games, The Butler). The director of Broadway's Hamilton, Thomas Kail, is set to helm the movie. Then there's the music, which will be handled by Marc Platt, who worked on La La Land. Oh, and I should probably mention that Ice Cube is producing and he's taking on the of the villainous Fagin.
I know you all know the story, but just in case you've been living under a rock since you've been born, the story follows the journey of an orphan...
- 1/19/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
He’s got debts, writer’s block, and a child on the way; a new film tells how Charles Dickens beat the odds to write everyone’s favourite Christmas story. Its star Dan Stevens reveals how he brought the writer to life
In the pecking order of Christmas stories, A Christmas Carol is second only to the baby Jesus. Even if you’ve never read it, or had it read to you, you know about that flinty-hearted miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his redemption during one long dark night of the soul.
Bill Murray, Albert Finney, Michael Caine and Alastair Sim have all played Scrooge in one of the endless film remakes and reboots there have been over the years. Now comes the story behind the story, The Man Who Invented Christmas: a heavily fictionalised biopic with Dan Stevens playing Charles Dickens, bashing out A Christmas Carol in six weeks...
In the pecking order of Christmas stories, A Christmas Carol is second only to the baby Jesus. Even if you’ve never read it, or had it read to you, you know about that flinty-hearted miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his redemption during one long dark night of the soul.
Bill Murray, Albert Finney, Michael Caine and Alastair Sim have all played Scrooge in one of the endless film remakes and reboots there have been over the years. Now comes the story behind the story, The Man Who Invented Christmas: a heavily fictionalised biopic with Dan Stevens playing Charles Dickens, bashing out A Christmas Carol in six weeks...
- 12/1/2017
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
The creator of Peaky Blinders, Stephen Knight, is teaming up with Tom Hardy to develop a new BBC series. The show is based on the work of Charles Dickens and it will adapt his classic stories.
According to THR, the first season of the series will start with A Christmas Carol. The classic story of Ebenezer Scrooge will be told in three hourlong episodes and Ridley Scott's Scott Free London production company will be producing.
Hardy and Knight have previously worked together on the shows on the shows Taboo and Peaky Blinders, so you can bet we are going to get another quality series! I assume we are going to get a very different, dark, and stylized version of this story than anything we've ever seen before. I wonder if we'll see Hardy in the role of Scrooge because that would be amazing!
When talking about the show, Knight...
According to THR, the first season of the series will start with A Christmas Carol. The classic story of Ebenezer Scrooge will be told in three hourlong episodes and Ridley Scott's Scott Free London production company will be producing.
Hardy and Knight have previously worked together on the shows on the shows Taboo and Peaky Blinders, so you can bet we are going to get another quality series! I assume we are going to get a very different, dark, and stylized version of this story than anything we've ever seen before. I wonder if we'll see Hardy in the role of Scrooge because that would be amazing!
When talking about the show, Knight...
- 11/28/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Joseph Baxter Nov 29, 2017
Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has been tapped by the BBC to oversee TV adaptations of several classic Charles Dickens novels...
It appears that the BBC has television plans of Dickensian proportions set for the near future. A series of small screen adaptations of the 19th century literary works of Charles Dickens are in the pipeline and the network has tapped Steven Knight, the mastermind behind the hit series Peaky Blinders, to head this ambitious initiative.
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BBC controller of drama Piers Wenger has commissioned the series of Dickens TV adaptations, in which Steven Knight will work to create what is being called “a boxset of Dickens’s most iconic novels,” which will roll out in the next few years. Apropos to the holiday season,...
Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has been tapped by the BBC to oversee TV adaptations of several classic Charles Dickens novels...
It appears that the BBC has television plans of Dickensian proportions set for the near future. A series of small screen adaptations of the 19th century literary works of Charles Dickens are in the pipeline and the network has tapped Steven Knight, the mastermind behind the hit series Peaky Blinders, to head this ambitious initiative.
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BBC controller of drama Piers Wenger has commissioned the series of Dickens TV adaptations, in which Steven Knight will work to create what is being called “a boxset of Dickens’s most iconic novels,” which will roll out in the next few years. Apropos to the holiday season,...
- 11/28/2017
- Den of Geek
As Les Standiford’s book would tell it, Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens) found himself in somewhat of a creative rut after a lengthy and expensive tour of America post-Oliver Twist. He had published three flops since buying a new London home in need of wholesale remodeling and began watching his pocketbook dwindle along with his confidence. It was as though the autumn of 1843 presented him a make or break moment wherein he wasn’t certain he would ever write again. And then inspiration struck with the voice of a new maid (Anna Murphy’s Tara) telling the children Irish ghost stories before bed. This idea of Christmas Eve providing a doorway of sorts to the spiritual world planted itself in Dickens’ mind. Soon after Ebenezer Scrooge (Christopher Plummer) was born.
The last thing anyone needs in 2017 is another adaptation of A Christmas Carol — especially since none have ever come...
The last thing anyone needs in 2017 is another adaptation of A Christmas Carol — especially since none have ever come...
- 11/22/2017
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Chicago – The story of Ebenezer Scrooge, as told in Charles Dicken’s classic “A Christmas Carol,” seems to be the one constant that survives the commercialization of the holiday season. The story of Scrooge’s creation is told with expressive sentimentality in “The Man Who Invented Christmas.”
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Dan Stevens portrays the title character, that of Charles Dickens himself, and the film – directed by Bharat Nalluri (“Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day”), and adapted from a book by Les Standiford – is a scattered narrative between Dicken’s chaotic life in mid-19th Century Britain and his creative spirit in producing “A Christmas Carol.” Literature buffs will get a thrill as the characters spring to life as Dickens invents them, and they follow him around for the rest of the process, almost begging to be freed. Less interesting are the particulars of Dicken’s life, with domestic and familial duties that...
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Dan Stevens portrays the title character, that of Charles Dickens himself, and the film – directed by Bharat Nalluri (“Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day”), and adapted from a book by Les Standiford – is a scattered narrative between Dicken’s chaotic life in mid-19th Century Britain and his creative spirit in producing “A Christmas Carol.” Literature buffs will get a thrill as the characters spring to life as Dickens invents them, and they follow him around for the rest of the process, almost begging to be freed. Less interesting are the particulars of Dicken’s life, with domestic and familial duties that...
- 11/22/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Dan Stevens (left) stars as Charles Dickens and Christopher Plummer (right) stars as Ebenezer Scrooge in director Bharat Nalluri’s The Man Who Invented Christmas, a Bleecker Street release. Photo credit: Kerry Brown / Bleecker Street ©
Dan Stevens gives a frenetic performance as Charles Dickens racing to finish writing “A Christmas Carol” in time to publish before the holiday, in The Man Who Invented Christmas. Directed by Bharat Nalluri (Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day), this film has all the Christmas color and Victorian period costumes and sets you could want in a Christmas film. The film is mostly a clever way to retell the famous tale, as characters spring from the author’s imagination while he struggles with his own family issues and races to meet a pre-Christmas release deadline, but it also touches on how his short novel transformed a once-minor holiday into the tradition we know today.
Dan Stevens gives a frenetic performance as Charles Dickens racing to finish writing “A Christmas Carol” in time to publish before the holiday, in The Man Who Invented Christmas. Directed by Bharat Nalluri (Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day), this film has all the Christmas color and Victorian period costumes and sets you could want in a Christmas film. The film is mostly a clever way to retell the famous tale, as characters spring from the author’s imagination while he struggles with his own family issues and races to meet a pre-Christmas release deadline, but it also touches on how his short novel transformed a once-minor holiday into the tradition we know today.
- 11/22/2017
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
MaryAnn’s quick take… There’s charm and wit in its fanciful depiction of the creative process, but the film downplays the social activism that Dickens fully embraced in his work. I’m “biast” (pro): love Dickens and A Christmas Carol
I’m “biast” (con): haven’t been the biggest fan of Dan Stevens
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Did Charles Dickens really invent our modern observance of Christmas? Well… he certainly contributed to it, with his beloved 1843 novella A Christmas Carol bringing to it a spirit of family celebration and togetherness and moving the holiday away from its religious grounding to a more secular one focused on ecumenical kindness and generosity. But we also have Prince Albert to thank, for importing his German Yuletide customs — such as evergreens and Christmas trees — to England when he married...
I’m “biast” (con): haven’t been the biggest fan of Dan Stevens
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Did Charles Dickens really invent our modern observance of Christmas? Well… he certainly contributed to it, with his beloved 1843 novella A Christmas Carol bringing to it a spirit of family celebration and togetherness and moving the holiday away from its religious grounding to a more secular one focused on ecumenical kindness and generosity. But we also have Prince Albert to thank, for importing his German Yuletide customs — such as evergreens and Christmas trees — to England when he married...
- 11/21/2017
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Secret Superstar
Starring Zaira Wasim, Aamir Khan
Directed by Advait Chandan
It is easy and comforting to get swayed by the rags-to-riches fable constructed with such contemporary diligence and zeal by first-time director Advait Chandan. But once you get to penetrate the bubble of bonhomie and get into thick of things, so to speak, you come face-to-face with an unnerving sterility.
Secret Superstar is one of those well-meaning films that keeps reminding you constantly of how well-meaning it is. Many times as I watched Advait Chandan’s panoply of tricks and treats I felt I was being offered a Christmas deal with ‘Santa’ Aamir Khan mentoring the film’s 15-year old wanna-shine Zaira Wasim whose brilliance as an actor is far more dazzling than anything that is written into this film to support her dreams.
Everyone, we are told in many different ways in this stretched-out ode to wish-fulfilment, has the right to dream.
Starring Zaira Wasim, Aamir Khan
Directed by Advait Chandan
It is easy and comforting to get swayed by the rags-to-riches fable constructed with such contemporary diligence and zeal by first-time director Advait Chandan. But once you get to penetrate the bubble of bonhomie and get into thick of things, so to speak, you come face-to-face with an unnerving sterility.
Secret Superstar is one of those well-meaning films that keeps reminding you constantly of how well-meaning it is. Many times as I watched Advait Chandan’s panoply of tricks and treats I felt I was being offered a Christmas deal with ‘Santa’ Aamir Khan mentoring the film’s 15-year old wanna-shine Zaira Wasim whose brilliance as an actor is far more dazzling than anything that is written into this film to support her dreams.
Everyone, we are told in many different ways in this stretched-out ode to wish-fulfilment, has the right to dream.
- 10/20/2017
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
Twist, a new adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, will be presented as a staged reading on October 13th, 2017 at New Ripley Grier Studios in New York.
- 10/6/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Duncan Bowles Sep 21, 2017
Mark Strong chats to us about Kingsman 2, reuniting with Matthew Vaughn, and the brilliant Stardust...
Spoilers for Sherlock Holmes and Kick-Ass 2 lie ahead. We've also marked a bit in big red letters where we talk about a specific Kingsman 2 spoiler.
While Matthew Vaughn has been the director responsible for a string of fantastic movies, his talisman in front of the camera and a core part of his cinematic journey since Stardust, is Mark Strong. As the superbly villainous (or some might say driven) Septimus, a character just as mesmerising dead or alive, Strong imbued him with a roguish evil that really made him stand out in a packed and stellar cast line-up. His next project with Vaughn saw him take up arms (and fists) against a teenage due in Kick-Ass, doling out a new definition of ‘Daddy issues’ yet giving Frank D’Amico a...
Mark Strong chats to us about Kingsman 2, reuniting with Matthew Vaughn, and the brilliant Stardust...
Spoilers for Sherlock Holmes and Kick-Ass 2 lie ahead. We've also marked a bit in big red letters where we talk about a specific Kingsman 2 spoiler.
While Matthew Vaughn has been the director responsible for a string of fantastic movies, his talisman in front of the camera and a core part of his cinematic journey since Stardust, is Mark Strong. As the superbly villainous (or some might say driven) Septimus, a character just as mesmerising dead or alive, Strong imbued him with a roguish evil that really made him stand out in a packed and stellar cast line-up. His next project with Vaughn saw him take up arms (and fists) against a teenage due in Kick-Ass, doling out a new definition of ‘Daddy issues’ yet giving Frank D’Amico a...
- 9/20/2017
- Den of Geek
Tom Hardy says his character James Keziah Delany in FX’s new show Taboo was based on a conversation he had with his dad about Bill Sykes from Oliver Twist. The actor says the idea came about when he and his father Edward “Chips” Hardy asked each other: “Wouldn’t it be great to take Bill Sykes and put him in a gentleman’s body?” After the pair talked about flipping the social status of the iconic Charles Dickens character, blending both the upper and tougher lower classes of London, Hardy says he went straight to his Peaky Blinders producer/creator Steven Knight to flesh...read more...
- 1/12/2017
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
In Daniel Handler’s s Lemony Snicket books, the three Baudelaire children (Violet, Klaus and Sunny) are cycled through an endless sequence of cruel horrors — baby Sunny is threatened at one point with being dropped from a roof — all concocted by their greedy relation, Count Olaf (Neil Patrick Harris).
It’s a fiendish, funny, bustling and yet oddly impersonal narrative, as if Charles Dickens from time to time regarded Oliver Twist less as a hapless urchin than a hamster on a wheel.
Netflix’s version, which covers the first four books, preserves some of the 2004 film’s style (a blend...
It’s a fiendish, funny, bustling and yet oddly impersonal narrative, as if Charles Dickens from time to time regarded Oliver Twist less as a hapless urchin than a hamster on a wheel.
Netflix’s version, which covers the first four books, preserves some of the 2004 film’s style (a blend...
- 1/12/2017
- by tgliatto
- PEOPLE.com
Disney is betting that more inclusive casting will lead to bigger box office. On Oct. 25, the studio revealed a fresh adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel Oliver Twist, with Ice Cube attached to play pickpocket-gang leader Fagin. The rapper will co-write the treatment with longtime collaborator Jeff Kwatinetz of The Firm, and both will produce alongside Wicked's Marc Platt. Hamilton's Thomas Kail will direct the modern musical, which will cross many genres including hip-hop. { "nid": 942968, "type": "blog", "title": "Zach Galifianakis in Talks to Join Ava DuVernay's 'A Wrinkle in Time' (Exclusive)", "path": "http://www.hollywoodreporter.
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- 11/2/2016
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Oliver Twist, the time-honored saga from Charles Dickens, is bound for the big screen once more with a, ahem, twist.
This time, Disney is fanning the flames of a live-action version, and has now enlisted both Ice Cube and Thomas Kail, the Tony-winning director of Broadway hit Hamilton, for this new interpretation. As you’ve likely already gathered from the addition of Kail, the Mouse House is angling this particular version of Oliver Twist as a modern musical, one in which Cube will play the infamous part of Fagin, the ringleader of a London gang who introduces our titular orphan to the seedy world of pickpocketing and theft. Hardship, murders and secrets ensue.
By casting the N.W.A rapper-turned-actor, who most recently produced the rather excellent Straight Outta Compton, The Hollywood Reporter notes that Disney is aiming to broaden the scope of the traditional Dickens story, incorporating new music genres including hip-hop and more.
This time, Disney is fanning the flames of a live-action version, and has now enlisted both Ice Cube and Thomas Kail, the Tony-winning director of Broadway hit Hamilton, for this new interpretation. As you’ve likely already gathered from the addition of Kail, the Mouse House is angling this particular version of Oliver Twist as a modern musical, one in which Cube will play the infamous part of Fagin, the ringleader of a London gang who introduces our titular orphan to the seedy world of pickpocketing and theft. Hardship, murders and secrets ensue.
By casting the N.W.A rapper-turned-actor, who most recently produced the rather excellent Straight Outta Compton, The Hollywood Reporter notes that Disney is aiming to broaden the scope of the traditional Dickens story, incorporating new music genres including hip-hop and more.
- 10/27/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
Broadway
Musical
Disney
Ice Cube
Hmm, one of these things is not like the others.
In a move that is both head-scratchingly random and possibly total genius, Ice Cube is about to help Disney produce a modern-day take on Oliver! The musical adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens novel "Oliver Twist" has been a hit for ages with constant revivals of the stage play. Now, according to a new report, an adaptation of the classic Oliver Twist story is going to come to the big screen with an appealing new twist:
The updated take on Oliver Twist is going to be given the Hamilton treatment.
For those unaware, Lin-Manuel Miranda's reworking of the real-life story of Alexander Hamilton- one of our nation's Founding Fathers- has been a phenomenon. The show, while set very much in the period that Hamilton actually lived in, features music...
Oliver Twist
Broadway
Musical
Disney
Ice Cube
Hmm, one of these things is not like the others.
In a move that is both head-scratchingly random and possibly total genius, Ice Cube is about to help Disney produce a modern-day take on Oliver! The musical adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens novel "Oliver Twist" has been a hit for ages with constant revivals of the stage play. Now, according to a new report, an adaptation of the classic Oliver Twist story is going to come to the big screen with an appealing new twist:
The updated take on Oliver Twist is going to be given the Hamilton treatment.
For those unaware, Lin-Manuel Miranda's reworking of the real-life story of Alexander Hamilton- one of our nation's Founding Fathers- has been a phenomenon. The show, while set very much in the period that Hamilton actually lived in, features music...
- 10/26/2016
- by Mario-Francisco Robles
- LRMonline.com
Disney is teaming up with actor Ice Cube and Tony Award-winning director Thomas Kail (Hamilton), for a new, modern take on the Charles Dickens’ classic Oliver Twist.
According to THR, this version of Oliver Twist will be "a modern musical with sources describing it as crossing many genres, including hip-hop." With Cube and Kail involved, that's pretty much what I expected. Cube is writing the script with Jeff Kwatinetz, and, of course, Cube is set to play the character Fagin.
The story follows the life of a young orphan boy who moves from a life as an exploited child laborer to being taken under the wing of Fagin, who leads a gang of young pickpockets in London.
Oliver Twist has been adapted several times over the years, and Disney even had their own animated version called Oliver and Company. This new adaptation seems like it could be a great project...
According to THR, this version of Oliver Twist will be "a modern musical with sources describing it as crossing many genres, including hip-hop." With Cube and Kail involved, that's pretty much what I expected. Cube is writing the script with Jeff Kwatinetz, and, of course, Cube is set to play the character Fagin.
The story follows the life of a young orphan boy who moves from a life as an exploited child laborer to being taken under the wing of Fagin, who leads a gang of young pickpockets in London.
Oliver Twist has been adapted several times over the years, and Disney even had their own animated version called Oliver and Company. This new adaptation seems like it could be a great project...
- 10/26/2016
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
After engaging in a Fist Fight with Charlie Day and going for yet another Ride Along with Kevin Hart, Ice Cube is going to dabble in musicals. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the erstwhile N.W.A rapper is going to put a modern, er, twist on Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist. Ice Cube has signed on to co-write the contemporary take on the classic orphan story, which is chock full of squalor, social criticism, and gruel. He’ll also produce the film with his co-writer Jeff Kwatinetz and Marc Platt, the latter of whom was behind the hit pre-Oz musical Wicked. The musical will be under the Disney Studios banner.
As if that weren’t enough to ensure that the updated version of Dickens’ novel “[crosses] many genres, including hip-hop,” Ice Cube will also be on hand to play Fagin, the leader of a gang of pickpockets. Thomas Kail, fresh ...
As if that weren’t enough to ensure that the updated version of Dickens’ novel “[crosses] many genres, including hip-hop,” Ice Cube will also be on hand to play Fagin, the leader of a gang of pickpockets. Thomas Kail, fresh ...
- 10/26/2016
- by Danette Chavez
- avclub.com
Alright, you lot, get out your porridge bowls and wooden spoons and follow me! What? You don’t have any? I sent an email out weeks ago! Jesus…well you guys are gonna feel right foolish for not being prepared because news is the classic Charles Dickens story, Oliver Twist, will be getting the modern-update-treatment, courtesy of the man you most expect: Ice Cube. Yes, according to a report from... Read More...
- 10/26/2016
- by Matt Rooney
- JoBlo.com
Nwa rapper will play Fagin in new musical adaptation of the Dickens story, with Tony-winning director of Broadway hit Hamilton behind the camera
Rapper Ice Cube will play Fagin in a new musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist.
The former Nwa star will also co-produce the film, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Thomas Kail, who won a Tony award for directing the Broadway hit musical Hamilton, will make his film directing debut.
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Rapper Ice Cube will play Fagin in a new musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist.
The former Nwa star will also co-produce the film, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Thomas Kail, who won a Tony award for directing the Broadway hit musical Hamilton, will make his film directing debut.
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- 10/26/2016
- by Alan Evans
- The Guardian - Film News
Ice Cube is attached to star as Fagin in Disney's upcoming remake of the musical version of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. The Hollywood Reporter first reported the story, while a source connected to the production confirmed the casting to Rolling Stone.
The movie will reportedly be directed by Thomas Kail, who earned a Tony Award for helming Hamilton. Ice Cube is also set to serve as a producer and is writing the treatment with co-producer Jeff Kwatinetz.
The new movie will put a contemporary spin on the stage musical Oliver!
The movie will reportedly be directed by Thomas Kail, who earned a Tony Award for helming Hamilton. Ice Cube is also set to serve as a producer and is writing the treatment with co-producer Jeff Kwatinetz.
The new movie will put a contemporary spin on the stage musical Oliver!
- 10/26/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Oliver Twist is about to get some street cred, for real. The Charles Dickens novel about an orphan boy who moves from a life as a child worker to becoming recruited by London pickpocket gang leader Fagin has become the inspiration for yet another adaptation, but this time it's getting a modern makeover. E! News has learned that Disney is joining forces with Ice Cube and Hamilton director Thomas Kail to recreate the work based on the famous book as a musical with a twist, if you will. According to The Hollywood Reporter, who first reported the story, the new Oliver Twist will be "crossing many genres, including hip-hop. Cube and [Jeff] Kwatinetz are writing the treatment, with Cube attached to play...
- 10/26/2016
- E! Online
An old tale will be getting a new groove, with The Hollywood Reporter reporting Disney has greenlit a musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic Oliver Twist, featuring the talents of rapper/actor Ice Cube and director Tommy Kail, who helmed the Broadway blockbuster “Hamilton”. However, it’s likely this new musical will share little with “Oliver!”, the 1968 movie musical […]...
- 10/25/2016
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
Ice Cube and Tommy Kail, director of “Hamilton,” will team up with Disney for a modern take on Charles Dickens’ classic “Oliver Twist,” an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap. Marc Platt and Jeff Kwatinetz are producing the still untitled project, while Cube will also produce via his CubeVision banner. The rapper and Kwatinetz are writing with Cube attached to play an unknown part in the project. “Oliver Twist,” one of Dickens’ most famous works, is about an orphan who gets taken under Fagin’s wing, the leader of a London pickpocket gang. Also Read: Guy Ritchie to...
- 10/25/2016
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Disney Studios is teaming with Ice Cube and Thomas Kail, the Tony-winning director of Hamilton, for a modern and musical take on Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist. Marc Platt, the veteran movie producer who also was behind Broadway’s hit musical Wicked, and Jeff Kwatinetz of The Firm are producing. Cube also will produce via his Cube Vision banner. Oliver Twist is one of Dickens’ most famous works and tells of an orphan boy who moves from a life as an exploited child laborer to being under the wings of Fagin, a leader of a gang of London pickpockets. Hardship, murders
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- 10/25/2016
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Charles Dickens is headed to network TV. Variety reports NBC is developing a new series called Twist.Based on the classic novel Oliver Twist, the show will follow a "struggling, twenty-something female (Twist) who 'finally finds a true sense of family in a strange group of talented outcasts who use their unique skills to take down wealthy criminals.'"Read More…...
- 9/8/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
NBC is reportedly developing Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist” into what the Hollywood Reporter calls “a sexy contemporary take … with a struggling twentysomething female (Twist) who finally finds a true sense of family in a strange group of talented outcasts who use their unique skills to take down wealthy criminals.” This is the second development announcement this week that has felt like TV scribes are merely playing Mad Libs with works in the public domain. The King Arthur legend will now be a series that tells the story of a graffiti artist named Art, in case you hadn’t heard. We figured.
- 9/2/2016
- by Oriana Schwindt and Matt Pressberg
- The Wrap
2016-09-02T12:44:57-07:00Dickens' 'Oliver Twist' Coming to TV as a Crime Procedural
From the "Who asked for it?" file today comes news that NBC and Joel Silver are adapting Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist as a TV series. The Hollywood Reporter reports that the network has given the script go-ahead for a contemporary take on the story, which will be called Twist.
The extremely loose adaptation features a 20-something woman who teams up with a talented band of misfits who together fight crime. The proposed adaptation seems to have virtually nothing in common with Dickens' novel other than part of its title.
The series will be produced by Joel Silver (Lethal Weapon) and written by Chad Damiani and J.P. Lavin, who are currently working on a film adaptation of the once-popular smartphone game Fruit Ninja.
Dickens' novel features a young orphan boy...
From the "Who asked for it?" file today comes news that NBC and Joel Silver are adapting Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist as a TV series. The Hollywood Reporter reports that the network has given the script go-ahead for a contemporary take on the story, which will be called Twist.
The extremely loose adaptation features a 20-something woman who teams up with a talented band of misfits who together fight crime. The proposed adaptation seems to have virtually nothing in common with Dickens' novel other than part of its title.
The series will be produced by Joel Silver (Lethal Weapon) and written by Chad Damiani and J.P. Lavin, who are currently working on a film adaptation of the once-popular smartphone game Fruit Ninja.
Dickens' novel features a young orphan boy...
- 9/2/2016
- by Evan Gillespie
- Yidio
Well, this is quite a twist. An… Oliver Twist.
The classic Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist is being reimagined as a female-driven crime procedural by NBC, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The project, tentatively titled Twist, promises “a sexy contemporary take” centering on a twentysomething woman named Twist who teams up with a group of skilled outcasts to catch wealthy criminals.
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The classic Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist is being reimagined as a female-driven crime procedural by NBC, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The project, tentatively titled Twist, promises “a sexy contemporary take” centering on a twentysomething woman named Twist who teams up with a group of skilled outcasts to catch wealthy criminals.
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- 9/2/2016
- TVLine.com
NBC is putting a new twist on Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. The network is teaming with Joel Silver and Lionsgate to develop drama Twist, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. { "nid": 856269, "type": "blog", "title": "Critic's Notebook: When Every Fox Show Becomes a Procedural, It Gets Very Boring", "path": "http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/fien-print/critics-notebook-fox-show-becomes-856269","media": {"width":1296,"height":730,"extension":"jpg","file_size":197651,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","path":"sites\/default\/files\/2015\/05\/Lucifer_Still.jpg","orientation":"landscape","id":null,"caption":"'Lucifer'","credit":null}, "relative-path": "/fien-print/critics-notebook-fox-show-becomes-856269" } The drama, which has received a script commitment, is described as a modern take on Dickens' second novel that
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- 9/2/2016
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Made in 1945 immediately prior to his Charles Dickens double-whammy of Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, David Lean's Brief Encounter remains a handsome bastion of romance on film - a kind of British Casablanca, albeit on a much smaller scale. Returning to the Criterion Collection on blu-ray this month as a stand-alone spine number (#76, though it was also recently included in their box set of "David Lean Directs Noel Coward"), the 2008 restoration of Brief Encounter is for all intents and purposes pristine. There's almost no deterioration of the image at all, and the mono soundtrack rings true as a bell. It's easy to slip into the film's period fantasia, at least from a presentation standpoint. The mindset might require a bit more work....
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- 4/15/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Today in 1963, Oliver opened at Broadway's Imperial Theatre, where it ran for 774 performances. Oliver is a British musical, with script, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. It premiered in the West End in 1960, enjoying a long run, a successful Broadway production in 1963 and further tours and revivals. It was made into a musical film in 1968. Major London revivals played from 1994-1998 and again from 2008-2011.
- 1/6/2016
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Child actor Dickie Moore: 'Our Gang' member. Former child actor Dickie Moore dead at 89: Film career ranged from 'Our Gang' shorts to features opposite Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper 1930s child actor Dickie Moore, whose 100+ movie career ranged from Our Gang shorts to playing opposite the likes of Marlene Dietrich, Barbara Stanwyck, and Gary Cooper, died in Connecticut on Sept. 7, '15 – five days before his 90th birthday. So far, news reports haven't specified the cause of death. According to a 2013 Boston Phoenix article about Moore's wife, MGM musical star Jane Powell, he had been “suffering from arthritis and bouts of dementia.” Dickie Moore movies At the behest of a persistent family friend, combined with the fact that his father was out of a job, Dickie Moore (born on Sept. 12, 1925, in Los Angeles) made his film debut as an infant in Alan Crosland's 1927 costume drama The Beloved Rogue,...
- 9/11/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Today in 1965, Oliver opened at the Martin Beck Theatre, where it ran for 64 performances. Oliver is a British musical, with script, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. It premiered in the West End in 1960, enjoying a long run, a successful Broadway production in 1963 and further tours and revivals. It was made into a musical film in 1968. Major London revivals played from 1994-1998 and again from 2009-2011.
- 8/2/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Ron Moody as Fagin in 'Oliver!' based on Charles Dickens' 'Oliver Twist.' Ron Moody as Fagin in Dickens musical 'Oliver!': Box office and critical hit (See previous post: "Ron Moody: 'Oliver!' Actor, Academy Award Nominee Dead at 91.") Although British made, Oliver! turned out to be an elephantine release along the lines of – exclamation point or no – Gypsy, Star!, Hello Dolly!, and other Hollywood mega-musicals from the mid'-50s to the early '70s.[1] But however bloated and conventional the final result, and a cast whose best-known name was that of director Carol Reed's nephew, Oliver Reed, Oliver! found countless fans.[2] The mostly British production became a huge financial and critical success in the U.S. at a time when star-studded mega-musicals had become perilous – at times downright disastrous – ventures.[3] Upon the American release of Oliver! in Dec. 1968, frequently acerbic The...
- 6/19/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Sometimes an actor stumbles into a role that defines a career. Ron Moody, who died Thursday at the age of 91, sang his way in. A journeyman British movie and television actor and musical revue performer, he was 36 in 1960 when he accepted the role of Fagin, master of a gang of child pickpockets, in Lionel Bart’s musical stage version of Charles Dickens’ "Oliver Twist" after two other actors had turned the part down. (Watch Moody perform "You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two" in the video below.) "Fate destined me to play Fagin; it was the part of a lifetime," Moody once said. He played Fagin again in "Oliver!" Carol Reed’s Oscar-winning 1968 film. That time Fagin won Moody a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. Moody had turned down an offer to go to Broadway with "Oliver!" after the musical’s London run because he felt it would trap him.
- 6/12/2015
- by Aljean Harmetz
- Thompson on Hollywood
A Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee for Carol Reed’s 1968 film musical, Oliver!, Ron Moody has died. He was 91. Moody, who was born in Tottenham in 1924, originated the iconic role of Fagin in Lionel Bart’s West End stage version of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist in 1960. He went on to portray the petty criminal who leads a gang of pickpocketing children in the 1968 Best Picture Oscar winning feature for which he was nominated as Best Actor. He won the Golden Globe…...
- 6/11/2015
- Deadline TV
A Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee for Carol Reed’s 1968 film musical, Oliver!, Ron Moody has died. He was 91. Moody, who was born in Tottenham in 1924, originated the iconic role of Fagin in Lionel Bart’s West End stage version of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist in 1960. He went on to portray the petty criminal who leads a gang of pickpocketing children in the 1968 Best Picture Oscar winning feature for which he was nominated as Best Actor. He won the Golden Globe…...
- 6/11/2015
- Deadline
In a sort of super-literary-hero mash-up, filming has just begun on Dickensian, an ambitious 20-part BBC One period drama that brings together some of Charles Dickens’ most iconic characters. Stephen Rea has joined the cast as Inspector Bucket from Bleak House while Shirley Valentine Oscar nominee Pauline Collins is Mrs Gamp from Martin Chuzzlewit, and Caroline Quentin (Dancing On The Edge) plays Oliver Twist’s Mrs Bumble. Spooks‘ Peter Firth and The Imitation Game‘s Tuppe…...
- 6/1/2015
- Deadline TV
Edgar Wright has been working to fill up his plate after departing Marvel.s Ant-Man. He quickly moved on to sci-fi film, Grasshopper Jungle and a rock-and-roll car chase film, entitled Baby Driver, and now his latest project will turn Charles Dickens. classic novel Oliver Twist into a steampunk adventure. The new project, entitled Dodge and Twist stems from Oliver Twist but is also based somewhat off of a book of the same title written by former Doctor Who comic writer, Tony Lee. The story will be a be set in 19th century, Victorian steampunk England and while it does share some qualities with Lee.s novel, Wright.s name attached promises a more comedic element to it. According to Film Divider, the project has been in the works for a while. First, screenwriter Cole Haddon of the Dracula TV series penned a script, then Simon Beaufoy (127 Hours and Slumdog...
- 2/1/2015
- cinemablend.com
Geoffrey Rush is set to play composer and lyricist Lionel Bart for the musical feature "Consider Yourself" at BBC Films. Bart wrote the score for "Oliver!," the legendary musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist".
Bart was an untrained musician who couldn’t read or write music and yet became the first person to have three West End musicals running and at one point was earning more in song royalties than the Beatles. Even so, he still managed to lose it all.
Vadim Jean directs the project which boasts a superb British cast including Stephen Fry, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan, Matt Lucas, Michelle Dockery and Al Weaver. Award-winning composer Elliot Davis penned the script while Jean and Paul Brooks are producing.
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Bart was an untrained musician who couldn’t read or write music and yet became the first person to have three West End musicals running and at one point was earning more in song royalties than the Beatles. Even so, he still managed to lose it all.
Vadim Jean directs the project which boasts a superb British cast including Stephen Fry, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan, Matt Lucas, Michelle Dockery and Al Weaver. Award-winning composer Elliot Davis penned the script while Jean and Paul Brooks are producing.
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- 1/29/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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