This is actually 2 info but since they have one common ground, might as well just put them under one post. Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis are real life lovers for the past 12 years and they have 2 kids. Now they’re about to be lovers on screen as well.. Read the rest of this entry »
THE DANISH GIRL was supposed to be for Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron but Theron exited the project. She left THE TOURIST and she also left this, something’s up with that Theron. No worries though, another hottie has come to the rescue, according to Variety, Gwyneth Paltrow has signed on to co-star in this dram that will be directed by Tomas Alfredson (Let The Right One In)… Read the rest of this entry »
The man whose great masterpiece is about to be ruined by Cloverfield director Matt Reeves, Swedish filmmaker Tomas Alfredson is set to direct THE DANISH GIRL, according to Variety. Adapted by writer Lucinda Coxon (Wild Target) from David Ebershoff’s 2000 Viking bestseller. Based on the true story of Danish artists Einar and Gerda Wegener. Their marriage took a sharp left turn after Einar (Kidman) stood in for an female model that Gerda (Theron) was set to paint.
When their portraits become wildly popular in 1920s Copenhagen, Gerda encouraged her husband to adopt the female guise. What began as a harmless game led Einer to a metamorphosis and landmark 1931 operation that shocked the world and threatened their love.
Nicole Kidman is still set to play Einar but there’s a slight change in the casting, Charlize Theron who was supposed to play the wife Gerda is no longer attached. Anand Tucker (Shopgirl) was previously attached to be the helmer but obviously that’s not the case anymore.
We won’t get to see Theron and Kidman make out anymore but with Alfredson directing, this has officially turned awesome. If you haven’t seen Let The Right One In, check it out as soon as you can.. before the U.S. version comes by and messes things up for all of us.
It pisses me off that one of the best movies of 2008 is being screw’d twice. First, the Swedish vampire movie Let The Right One In didn’t get nominated for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and then Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) is going to make an American remake. If I was director Tomas Alfredson, I’d go on a personal vendetta and unleash judgment day but a new gig will keep him from doing what I have in mind.
According to Hollywood Reporter, Alfredson is going to direct TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY for Working Title. It’s an adaptation of a a best selling thriller novel by author John Le Cerre, about the aftermath of the cold war, the spy-hunt within the highest echelons of the British Secret Intelligence Service.
The one who gets to write the screenplay is none other than the great scribe Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen) who also serves as one of the project’s executive producers.
Apparently, there was the British TV version of the story back in the 70s starring the late Sir Alec Guinness as George Smiley the retired former British intelligence officer called in to track down the double agent within the spy agency. I’ve never watched the series. Does any channel out there show the re-runs?
Production for TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY is expected to begin in 2010.
Here’s the brief official synopsis of the book…
“John Le Carre’s internationally famous hero, British Secret Service Agent George Smiley, has a world-class problem. He has discovered a mole–a Soviet double agent who has managed to burrow his way up to the highest level of British Intelligence. Under the direction of Karla, Smiley’s equivelent in the Soviet Union, the agent has already blown some of the most vital secret operations and most productive networks. Now-how can Smiley use a lifetime’s worth of espionage skills to ferret out a spy who posseses them as well?”
“A stunning story of espionage.”– “The Wall Street Journal.”
“Le Carre is simply the world’s greatest fictional spymaster.”–Newsweek
