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Rebecca Hall, Rachel Hurd-Wood Join 'Dorian Gray'
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Colin Firth and Ben Barnes alone do not an Oscar Wilde adaptation make -- and with filming on Dorian Gray having already started (more on that in a moment), it's a good thing they filled out the rest of the cast! Variety reports that just about every British actor not working on Harry Potter or The Tudors has signed on.Rebecca Hall is probably the most notable addition -- IMDB claims she's playing Emily Wooten, a character which doesn't seem to exist in the original book. But she's no stranger to gloomy Victorian stories, as she's probably best known to American audiences as Christian Bale's tormented wife in The Prestige. The key female role appears to have gone to Rachel Hurd-Wood, who will be playing Sibyl Vane, the actress Gray falls in love with. Emilia Fox is playing Lady Victoria Wooten, wife of Firth's character.
Completing the cast are: Ben Chaplin, Fiona Shaw, Maryam D'Abo, Pip Torrens, Douglas Henshall, Caroline Goodall, Michael Culkin, Johnny Harris and newcomer Max Irons, son of Jeremy Irons. This is going to be a real film of young up and comers, isn't it? Barnes, Hall, Hurd-Wood, Irons ... it should be quite interesting to see who might take off from this.
And I wasn't wrong when I said a photo of Firth and Barnes in cravats would be forthcoming. Variety has one accompanying their article -- and it's a nice official still, not a grainy one from the British paparazzi as I was expecting. You can already sense the debauchery, can't you?
SIFF Review: Cashback
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A couple years ago at the Seattle International Film Festival, I attended a screening of a set of short films. I don't recall now what the topic of the set was, but the funniest of them was a cute little short called Cashback, about a group of hapless night employees at a grocery store and the various ways in which they fight off the relentless boredom of their jobs.
One of the guys -- an aspiring artist -- could stop time. And he used his boring night job to freeze time, turning the customers in the store into models so he could strip them and practice drawing nudes. It was a well-done little short altogether (even nominated for an Oscar), and when the screening was over, they mentioned that it was being made into a feature. Now here we are, two years later, and one of the funniest films I've seen at SIFF this year is Cashback -- the feature-length version ( which had its debut last year at Cannes).
In order to flesh out a short into a feature, you have to add in some details like more plot and characters. The challenge is in taking a well-made short like Cashback (which really stood alone just as it was) and trying to turn it into a bigger story, without losing any of the charm that made the short successful. Writer-director Sean Ellis (who, according to the "trivia" section on the film's IMDb site, wrote the feature-length script in just seven days, including the entire short within the feature ) backs up a little from where he started with his short, fleshing out the back story of the main character, Ben (Sean Biggerstaff, who has kind of a Brit Zach Braff vibe going here), who develops a terrible case of insomnia after a painful breakup with his girlfriend.
Daniel Craig Will Star in 'Flashbacks of a Fool'
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See, when you're an actor who's in the midst of a hot streak, I would think it might be bad karma to star in a film that has you portraying a fading Hollywood star. However, when you have the 007 card in your back pocket, I guess you don't have to worry about karma anytime soon. Variety reports that Daniel Craig will star in Flashbacks of a Fool, which starts shooting later this month in South Africa and London. Music video helmer Baillie Walsh will make his feature directorial debut on the film off a script from which he also wrote. Craig will exec produce, with Lene Bausager and Damon Bryant producing.
In the film, Craig will play a "hedonistic British actor" whose Hollywood career is tanking now that the guy has entered his 40s. When his childhood best friend dies, the actor returns home for the funeral and begins to flashback to a time in his life when a tragedy forced him to re-consider his future endeavors. Also starring in the film are Helen McCrory, Olivia Williams, Emilia Fox and ... Eve. Yeah, see if you can spot the odd one of the group. I normally loathe films whose stories are told primarily through flashbacks; I've always felt it was one of the laziest forms of storytelling (apart from the ever-so-annoying phone conversation). Here though it appears as if these flashbacks are crucial; I mean, the film is called Flashbacks of a Fool -- it would probably look a bit weird if there were no flashbacks. So I guess we'll see. In the meantime, Craig has been busy lining up a number of gigs to take on in between Bond projects. With both The Invasion and The Golden Compass in post production, he also has I, Lucifer, Defiance and Blindness on the horizon.
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