A while back Screenhead reported that one of Kiera Knightley’s upcoming movies (and one of the few that is not a period drama) is the crime thriller London Boulevard, staring opposite Colin Farrell. The story, which is said to transpose the noir style of flicks like Sunset Boulevard (hence the title) and gumshoe tales onto a contemporary London setting, involves a criminal’s attempts to break free from his nasty past while being entangled in the life of a seductive actress.
And now the cast has added three heavyweigths of British acting. Ray Winstone (who has excelled in films such as The Proposition and Sexy Beast) will appear as a crime boss, Anna Friel (Pushing Daisies) as Farrell’s sister, and the very underrated David Thewlis (Naked, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and partner of Friel) as Knightley’s business manager. All contribute to a very exciting ensemble. The film was adapted by and is being directed by William Monahan, writer of Kingdom of Heaven and The Departed. It will be his directorial debut.
Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess and Saoirse Ronan are all in final discussions to star for Peter Weir in The Way Back, a fact-based story of a group of soldiers who engineered a grueling escape from a Siberian gulag in 1942.
I love Weir’s style of making grueling movies. They are very calming with a relentless air of suspense and sorrow.
Weir wrote the script, based on the memoir by Slavomir Rawicz called “The Long Way.”
Farrell plays a tough, tattooed Russian; Harris an American; and Sturgess portrays a young Polish inmate. Ronan will play a Russian on the run who meets up with the fugitives.
Production is set to begin in March in Bulgaria. This is Weir’s next film since he directed 2003’s Master and Commander.
Ray Tierney (Ed Norton), a New York police officer, is part of a multi-generational police family. Tierney investigates a intricate case that entails his older brother and brother-in-law, breaking down the family to choose sides between their blood and the New York Police Department.
Turn on your plasma screen this weekend and watch Oliver Stone’s “Alexander the Great” on American Movie Classics, June 21 8PM/7C and June 22 8PM/7C. As Alexander the Great, Colin Farrell pouts and contemplates as he conquers the known world by the time he is twenty-five. Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie and Val Kilmer also star.
I think telling any story about a great man from ancient history is not easy. Oliver Stone did a grand job. The above trailer shows it all.
Colin Farrell is set to star in “Triage” with Paz Vega and Christopher Lee. The story is a dark tale about a photojournalist who returns home from a dangerous assignment alone and without his cohorts.
An interesting note: This is yet another lasting cultural footprint of Brit multi-hyphenate Anthony Minghella, who died in March; the film was initially set up in 2003 at Mirage Enterprises, the shingle run by Minghella and Sydney Pollack.
A while back Screenhead reported that one of Kiera Knightley’s upcoming movies (and one of the few that is not a period drama) is the crime thriller London Boulevard, staring opposite Colin Farrell. The story, which is said to transpose the noir style of flicks like Sunset Boulevard (hence the title) and gumshoe tales onto a contemporary London setting, involves a criminal’s attempts to break free from his nasty past while being entangled in the life of a seductive actress.
