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It looks like Lionsgate is set to take quite a step out of their horror/genre loving wheelhouse.
According to Variety, the studio’s U.K. branch has picked up the rights to both David Cronenberg’s upcoming film, A Dangerous Method, as well as the Ralph Fiennes helmed, new age take on the Shakespeare story, Coriolanus. The studio plans on releasing both films in the U.K. sometime next year.
A Dangerous Method sees Cronenberg re-team with his muse, Viggo Mortensen, as well as Keira Knightley and Michael Fassbender in supporting roles, all set to shoot this month. The film follows the relationship between legendary psychiatrists Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, all during the early days of psychoanalysis. However, it’s also a tale of romance, as it follows Jung, as he falls for a woman named Sabina Spielrein, who herself is far more troubled than she seems, and becomes even more so as the film goes.
Coriolanus is the debut from actor turned filmmaker, Ralph Fiennes, and is a new take on the classic Shakespeare tale, that followed a Roman general who goes against the Empire, and flies in the face of his government. The new take is set during the Iraq war, lensed by famed cinematographer Barry Ackroyd, and stars a cast that includes Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave and Brian Cox.
After a nail biting nine weeks that saw you vote in your millions, making this year our most successful yet, FHM has finally announced its 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2010.
After a strict voting process followed by many sleepless nights spent counting and recounting your votes, we’re extremely pleased to reveal exclusively to you that Keira Knightley has scooped the number 54 spot! Check out the list here.
March 25, 2010 - Noah Baumbach to Direct The Emperor’s Children with Keira Knightley, Eric Bana and Richard Gere
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Noah Baumbach (“Greenberg”) has signed on to direct “The Emperor’s Children” for Imagine Entertainment, sliding into the position that had previously been held by Ron Howard, who will now produce with partner Brian Grazer.
Keira Knightley, Eric Bana and Richard Gere are attached to the film, which is currently looking for outside financiers. The dramedy is eyeing a summer start date.
Gere would likely take a supporting role.
Knightley would likely play Marina Thwaite, the daughter of a social activist and journalist who is struggling to finish her first book, titled The Emperor’s Children Have No Clothes, while Bana is most suited for Ludovic, an ambitious Aussie who woos Marina to get himself invited into Manhattan’s high society.
Baumbach adapts from Claire Messud’s 2006 best-selling novel about a trio of Brown University graduates who are approaching their 30s with trepidation as they struggle to realize the lofty expectations held for their personal and professional lives. The novel was set in New York in the months leading up to and following 9/11.
The material seems like a strong fit for the “Kicking and Screaming” filmmaker.
Back in July 2007, Variety reported that Howard would direct the feature with Baumbach writing the screenplay, but Howard has since moved on to directing Universal’s untitled comedy about infidelity starring Vince Vaughn and Kevin James, which starts shooting in six weeks.
Gere could use a hit after his last two films, “Amelia” and “Brooklyn’s Finest,” failed to make a dent at the box office, though their poor performances were hardly his fault considering they were driven by stars Hilary Swank, and Ethan Hawke and Don Cheadle, respectively.
Baumbach, the Oscar-nominated writer of “The Squid and the Whale,” has also adapted Curtis Sittenfeld’s “Prep” for Paramount.
