Quite a quiet week, with few major press releases. There was a flurry of box office news, but so far only really for the US and I'll be putting that in a single round-up at the end of the month if it translates into UK release dates.
Indian Summer
Alex von Tunzelmann biographical story about the end of the British rule in India, the politics and players at the time, and the rumoured love affair between Lady Mountbatten and Nehru has been picked up by Working Title and Paramount with Joe Wright (Atonement) set to direct. It's a pretty complicated tale, and a fascinating piece of history. So if anyone can carefully combine the elements of romance against the playing out of history I'm sure Wright can.
Crazy Eddie
Last year there was a rumour that Danny DeVito was about to pick up the megaphone with The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. With that project disappearing into a pre-production drawer somewhere he has instead attached himself to the story of Eddie Antar, who built an empire of electrical goods retailers, only to see it crashing down around him when he was caught fiddling the books. He has since found himself in jail with a $150m bill.
Warrior
The ultimate fighting film has found an interesting international cast with Nick Nolte signing on with Joel Edgerton and Tom Hardy as his sons trained in the ring. Hardy has just made a big splash with Bronson and I'm sure this sort of thing will be a breeze for him. Once agin I'm not really interested in the plot of this one - just the sight of buff guys punching each other. What can I do?
Bernard Hill (1944-2024)
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Where did this guy, Tom Hardy, come from? i love it when actors find their break out roles like he did with Bronson
Oddly he hasn't come from nowhere. Last year he was a supporting player in Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla, but over the last 10 years he's been in Marie Antoinette and Black Hawk Down, as well as the high profile bad guy in Star Trek: Nemesis.
Saying that none of these gigs have indicated he was capable of a performance as immersive as Bronson.
I can't wait to see how he follows it up.
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