After the imbroglio that saw the Oscar-winning film director Danny Boyle dramatically quit Bond 25, there are stirrings in the Secret Service world of 007.
Boyle and screenwriter John Hodge withdrew from the movie, which had been due to shoot later this year, when Bond actor Daniel Craig (right), along with Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson (the long-time guardians of the Ian Fleming film franchise), wanted to use another writer. Boyle refused and left.
The whole thing’s a hot mess and Broccoli has been in Los Angeles meeting a variety of film-makers who might take over directing duties.
However, things are moving on the script front.
Writers are keen to ensure women have a more prominent role in the next edition of Bond
Neal Purvis and Robert Wade (who were originally hired to write Bond 25 — its working title — before Boyle and Hodge were lured) have had their licence renewed and have bonded with Bond again.
‘The Purvis and Wade treatment they wrote earlier was already signed off before the bromance with Danny Boyle and John Hodge began,’ a Hollywood executive close to the production explained.
Purvis and Wade, working on their seventh 007 thriller, will develop their ‘treatment’ into a script.
That won’t be the end of it, though, because once a director has been contracted (heaven only knows who and when), he or she will want to put their own stamp on it in the way that Sam Mendes (who was at the helm of Skyfall and Spectre) brought in screenwriter John Logan, though in both instances Purvis and Wade contributed to Logan’s scripts.
There’s a keenness for women to be more front-and-centre in Bond 25, which will be Craig’s last run as Fleming’s famous ‘blunt instrument’ of a British intelligence operative.
Jessie's in full bloom as Wild Rose
There was a frenzied bidding war in Toronto this week for a movie starring Jessie Buckley as a Glaswegian mother of two who has country music in her soul
Talk about a star is born! There was a frenzied bidding war in Toronto this week for a movie starring Jessie Buckley as a Glaswegian mother of two who has country music in her soul.
Buckley plays Rose-Lynn, a young woman just released from a year in jail for a drugs offence, who dreams, improbably, of singing in Nashville.
As directed by Tom Harper (who cast the Irish actress in War & Peace for the BBC) and with a script by Nicole Taylor, Wild Rose is a powerful drama driven by women — Julie Walters appears as Rose-Lynn's mother and Sophie Okonedo plays a wealthy local woman who recognises the would-be singer's potential.
'She's got all the wolves inside her running at 900 mph, but she doesn't know how to steer the wolves,' Buckley said of her character's inner turmoil when we met at the Fairmont Hotel in Toronto. 'She feels she's not entitled to go for success because of the prison of her life.'
Rose-Lynn has a destructive personality and doesn't know how to get out of her own way.
'Singing is the only way she can harness those feelings,' Jessie explained.
It's a breakthrough performance for Buckley, in a searing role — like a bolt of lightning hitting the screen — and it's going to catapult the 29-year-old to major stardom.
Jessie grew up 'at the foot of a mountain' in Killarney, Co Kerry, surrounded by music and a love of the arts. She remembers, as a toddler, accompanying her mother, Marina, to London when she was training to be an opera singer. 'I would go with my mum to these classes. I would be at the back, in my nappy, having a dance.'
Her father, Tim, wrote poetry and stories. 'I always felt at home telling stories,' Jessie says. 'Probably more so than living my own life. I'm much better in other people's shoes than being myself.'
Buckley plays Rose-Lynn, a young woman just released from a year in jail for a drugs offence, who dreams, improbably, of singing in Nashville
Before being cast in Wild Rose she had never been into country music.
'I thought it was a bit hick, but it has got inside my heart,' she said, noting that she and screenwriter Taylor wrote several of the songs featured in the film, and that an album will go on sale when the picture is released early in 2019 (though audiences can catch it at the BFI London Film Festival next month).
'You get an electric fireball of feeling listening to country. Rose-Lynn talks about country being 'three chords and the truth'. Country music is of the people; and Rose-Lynn is of the people, too,' Buckley told me.
Director Harper catches an authenticity about Rose-Lynn; and Glasgow's working-class Priesthill district is a character in itself.
Wild Rose won rave notices from critics in Toronto, where NEON snapped up the picture's American distribution rights. Buckley delighted festival-goers when she sang some numbers from the film at an outside concert.
She is already a star in the UK, thanks to TV roles in The Woman In White, Taboo and War & Peace, and created an indelible impression on 2008 talent show I'll Do Anything.
Cameron Mackintosh has long been a fan, and he and Working Title producer Tim Bevan might want to look at her to play Nancy in a new screen version of Lionel Bart's Oliver!, which has been a long time in development. And while I'm on the subject, wouldn't Eddie Redmayne be brilliant as Fagin?
In the meantime, though, Buckley has graduated to the international star she was born to be.
Why Slumdog Dev was quick to sign up for a shogun wedding
Dev Patel moved swiftly the moment he read film-maker Michael Winterbottom’s script for his new movie, The Wedding Guest.
Within three weeks of devouring the screenplay, Winterbottom, Patel, actress Radhika Apte and other cast and crew were on locations in Pakistan and India.
‘Six weeks after that, we’d finished the movie,’ noted the actor (right) as we shared a packet of crisps in a nondescript room at the Intercontinental in downtown Toronto, where the film was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival.
‘There’s normally an element of subservience in the Indian characters,’ Patel observed
Patel was cast as a man of mystery who, when you first see him boarding a flight in London to Pakistan and then purchasing a gun and bullets, you immediately assume is a terrorist. But he’s actually in Pakistan to kidnap a bride.
I was so hooked by the sleek, lean film that I watched it twice, and the spiky relationship (love and betrayal) that developed between Patel and Apte reminded me, at various points, of Bogart and Bacall, or Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in Bonnie And Clyde. That’s because Winterbottom refused to let his film adopt the usual cliches of pictures set on the Indian continent.
Dev Patel and 'The Wedding Guest' co-star Radhika Apte
‘There’s normally an element of subservience in the Indian characters,’ Patel observed. ‘This is just a story about two human beings and it happens to be set in this beautiful country.’
There was a lot of improvisation. For one scene, Patel was left in a busy street attempting to make the locals understand his British accent.
‘You are left to sink or swim, and either way Michael’s cameras are going to find you,’ said the star of Slumdog Millionaire and Lion.
A spoonful of stardust for Mary Poppins
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Yes, Mary Poppins is back — and not just in the blockbuster Disney film starring Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda, but with Zizi Strallen and Charlie Stemp larger than life on stage.
The show will open in the autumn of 2019 at the Prince Edward Theatre, the very same venue that the Cameron Mackintosh and Disney production opened at in 2004.
Aladdin, the current occupant of the Prince Edward, will end its run on August 31, 2019.
Mackintosh cast Stemp in the lead role in Half A Sixpence at Chichester Festival Theatre, and later at the Noel Coward Theatre. That show made Stemp a star.
Broadway producer Scott Rudin whisked him over to New York and had him appear with Bernadette Peters and Bette Midler in Hello, Dolly! as lovestruck Barnaby Tucker.
‘He really made something of that part; he made it special,’ said Mackintosh. ‘He stood out and became a star in New York.’
Emily Blunt (L) who will star as Mary Poppins in Disney's new cersion ly with actor John Krasinski attend the American Institute for Stuttering 12th Annual Freeing Voices Changing Lives Benefit Gala
I saw him in it, so can vouch for the fact that Stemp’s dancing feet wowed Broadway.
Matthew Bourne and co-choreographer Stephen Mear are planning to give Stemp some special steps when they begin work on Poppins with director Richard Eyre.
Bourne is already acquainted with Zizi Strallen because she danced in his company.
‘We’ll rebuild the show around both of them,’ said Mackintosh, who reminded me that Strallen played the famous nanny in a tour of the show. More recently she has been in Strictly Ballroom at the Piccadilly Theatre and Follies at the National Theatre.
Impresario Mackintosh told me that the creative team, including writer Julian Fellowes and songwriters George Stiles and Anthony Drewe (who wrote some new numbers), along with designer Bob Crowley, redesigned and re-staged the production when it toured the UK and globally.
It’s presently playing Hamburg and Tokyo and is about to hit Milan.
‘Everyone thought it was going to be a movie on stage, but it isn’t,’ insisted Mackintosh. ‘It’s a proper stage musical.’
Mackintosh said that he and Disney’s global theatre boss Thomas Schumacher wanted to announce the new stage production of Poppins now so it was well in advance of the film, which opens on December 21 in the UK.
But tickets for the musical won’t go on sale until January, well after the film has opened. Meanwhile, fans can register for stage show tickets at website marypoppinsonstage. co.uk, which goes live shortly.
Watch out for....
Bradley Cooper — hot on the heels of the spectacular success in Toronto of his A Star Is Born starring a luminous Lady GaGa — will portray legendary maestro Leonard Bernstein (who wrote the scores for West Side Story, On the Town and Wonderful Town) in a film of the great composer’s life.
Cooper will also direct the film which is due to start shooting next year. The script’s being written by Josh Singer who’s also being lauded for his work on director Damien Chazelle’s fabulous film First Man about Neil Armstrong - the first man to set foot on the moon - and his wife Janet.
There was a deeply heartfelt moment during the Toronto International Film Festival when Mark Armstrong, one of the couple’s two sons, praised Claire Foy’s excellent portrait of his mother, who died last June. I spoke to Armstrong later and he said that Foy captured his mother’s ‘feistiness’ adding: ‘It’s uncanny. She just got her, and I think the performance stands as a eulogy to my mother.’
2/ Rosamunde Pike, who gives a riveting, spellbinding portrayal of war correspondent Marie Colvin in director Matthew Heineman’s gripping A Private War which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last night (Friday). Pike is without fear as an actress and she’s at her best in this film which explores the cost involved in going to the darkest places on earth and reporting on stories that dictators and warlords don’t want uncovered. The movie will be shown at the BFI London Film Festival on October 20.
Rosamund Pike pictured with (left) Jamie Dornan and (right) filmmaker Matthew Heineman from the film 'A Private War'
3/. Cynthia Erivo, who stars with Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki and Michelle Rodriguez in Steve McQueen’s powerful political thriller, with a cherry of a heist on top, Widows. It’s based on the 1980s TV series by Lynda LaPlante. It’s a personal triumph for Erivo because the sizzling blockbuster marks her film debut. Ms Erivo is an actress who consistently delivers, yet she has to beg for work in Britain. She begged the Menier Chocolate Factory to meet with her for The Color (CORRECT) Purple musical after they kept ignoring her. Same story with the the British director of a film that’s casting now. He belittled Erivo, but I bet he’s sick when he sees her name and face on The Widows poster. She has completed three further films and is to portray Harriet Tubman, who helped liberate slaves in the Deep South, in a television film .
4 . Jenna Coleman star of ITV drama Victoria, and Colin Morgan will star with Sally Field and Bill Pullman in Arthur Miller’s play All My Sons, which Jeremy Herrin will direct at the Old Vic from next Spring.
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It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.
Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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