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Dustin Hoffman to Direct 'Quartet'
From TheWrap: Dustin Hoffman is in the final stages of negotiations to direct "Quartet," a movie based on Ronald Harwood's play.
Set in a retirement home for opera singers in the Home Counties of England, "Quartet" will star Maggie Smith, Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay, with filming set to begin later this year, the Daily Mail (U.K.) reports. Finola Dwyer, who co-produced "An Education," is producing what would be Hoffman's directorial debut. Harwood, who won an Oscar for Roman Polanski's "The Pianist," is adapting his play for the big screen. He also was Oscar-nominated for adapting his play "The Dresser," which also starred Finney. BBC Films is backing the project. Posted on 13th March 2010
Possibe new Project - Mother: The Indira Gandhi Story
From The Telegraph: Bollywood and Hollywood are to collaborate on a major two-part epic on the scale of Lord Attenborough's Gandhi telling the life story of Indira Gandhi.
The biopic of the former prime minister of India who was assassinated in 1984 has a budget of £40 million and an international cast and crew. Helen Mirren is in talks to reprise her role as Queen Elizabeth II for the two films which are due to start filming in April next year in India, UK, Russia and the US. Tom Hanks and Tommy Lee Jones are being lined up to play Lyndon B Johnson and Richard Nixon. British actress Emily Watson has been chosen to play Margaret Thatcher, while Albert Finney is expected to take the role of Peter Ustinov, who was in New Delhi waiting to meet the Indian leader when she was killed. The "Queen of Bollywood", Madhuri Dixit, has been picked to play the title role in Mother: The Indira Gandhi Story. Read the full article here. Posted on 13th March 2010
New project - Quartet!
Finally there's news of a possible new project! Variety reports that Albert is in talks to appear in Quartet:
BBC Films is lining up a stellar cast of seasoned British talent for "Quartet." Richard Loncraine will direct with Maggie Smith, Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay in negotiations to board the project. Screendaily describes Quartet as being about "an old people’s home full of retired opera singers who get the opportunity to mount a production. It is thrown into dissary when a new inmate arrives." More info about the play that the film is based on is at Wikipedia. Posted on 14th July 2009
Gumshoe on DVD
Posted on 8th February 2009
Albert to play Churchill in Doctor Who?
From Blogtor Who: News has reached Blogtor Towers that Albert Finney is joining the cast in one of the 2009 Specials. In the most recent DWM it was revealed, by RTD, that two big names have been cast - Finney is one of them. It is not known who he is playing but sources say he is playing Winston Churchill, a role he has already played on television in The Gathering Storm. Earlier this year Justin Richards, author of a number of Doctor Who novels, revealed here that the production team wanted to use the ex~Prime Minister in a future story thereby vetoing the use of Churchill in his own story.
Posted on 27th September 2008
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