Stephen Dorff is starring in Jackals, Tommy Alastra Productions announced Tuesday.
Directed by Kevin Greutert (Saw VI, Saw 3D: The Final Chapter), the '80s-set psychological thriller centers on an estranged family who hire a cult de-programmer (Dorff) to get back their teenage son from a murderous cult, but find themselves under siege when the cultists surround their cabin, demanding the boy back.
Johnathon Schaech, Deborah Kara Unger, Ben Sullivan, Chelsea Ricketts and Nick Roux are also on board to star. Jared Rivet penned the script.
Besides Jackals, Alastra is gearing up to produce next year's Zelda Fitzgerald film The Beautiful and...
Directed by Kevin Greutert (Saw VI, Saw 3D: The Final Chapter), the '80s-set psychological thriller centers on an estranged family who hire a cult de-programmer (Dorff) to get back their teenage son from a murderous cult, but find themselves under siege when the cultists surround their cabin, demanding the boy back.
Johnathon Schaech, Deborah Kara Unger, Ben Sullivan, Chelsea Ricketts and Nick Roux are also on board to star. Jared Rivet penned the script.
Besides Jackals, Alastra is gearing up to produce next year's Zelda Fitzgerald film The Beautiful and...
- 12/13/2016
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Image via Marvel
Remember the time when hardly any respectable actor cared to join superhero films? Yeah, what a time that was. Even some of the actors who portrayed those characters didn’t always feel like they were playing real characters. In the eyes of the mainstream, these comic book characters were little more than caricatures created to entertain kids.
Oh, how times have changed.
In the decades since then, the entire landscape has changed — not just for comic book movies, but the entire film industry. What was now once a small sect of the business is now it’s stake in the ground. Every year, several comic book movies hit theaters and makes hundreds of millions — oftentimes even billions — of dollars for studios. No longer are the stories low-key, low-budget, or self-contained narratives. They are part of an ever-growing ecosystem full of actors no one could have imagined joining the fray 20 years back.
Remember the time when hardly any respectable actor cared to join superhero films? Yeah, what a time that was. Even some of the actors who portrayed those characters didn’t always feel like they were playing real characters. In the eyes of the mainstream, these comic book characters were little more than caricatures created to entertain kids.
Oh, how times have changed.
In the decades since then, the entire landscape has changed — not just for comic book movies, but the entire film industry. What was now once a small sect of the business is now it’s stake in the ground. Every year, several comic book movies hit theaters and makes hundreds of millions — oftentimes even billions — of dollars for studios. No longer are the stories low-key, low-budget, or self-contained narratives. They are part of an ever-growing ecosystem full of actors no one could have imagined joining the fray 20 years back.
- 11/21/2016
- by Joseph Medina
- LRMonline.com
The other day we learned Jennifer Lawrence is attached to star in a Zelda Fitzgerald biopic, but that’s not the only film about literary titan F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wife in the works. There are currently two projects about Zelda Fitzgerald in development, and one of them is going to star Scarlett Johansson (Under the Skin). At the moment, […]
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- 10/27/2016
- by Jack Giroux
- Slash Film
Shaun the Sheep Movie 2: A sequel to the delightful animated adventure Shaun the Sheep Movie is on its way. Pre-production on Shaun the Sheep Movie 2 will begin in January 2017; Richard Starzak will once again direct. No details on the story have been revealed yet; the original comedy saw the farm animals take a trip to the big city. [Aardman] The Beautiful and the Damned: We just heard that Jennifer Lawrence may portray Zelda Fitzgerald and now comes word that Scarlett Johansson (Hail, Caesar!, above) also wants to play the socialite in a separate movie titled The Beautiful and the Damned. Hanna Weg wrote the script, inspired in part by recently uncovered information suggesting that Zelda's husband F. Scott Fitzgerald passed off some of her literary ideas as his...
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- 10/26/2016
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
Jennifer Lawrence and Scarlett Johansson Are Each Slated to Take On Dueling Zelda Fitzgerald Biopics
It’s Scarlett vs. Jennifer!
Two of Hollywood’s top leading ladies Scarlett Johansson and Jennifer Lawrence are about to go head-to-head, as the two stars are both slated to portray the late Zelda Fitzgerald in dueling biopics, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald died nearly 70 years ago in a fire at a hospital in North Carolina, but lately the Jazz Age icon has landed at the top of Hollywood’s must-list.
With Amazon already set to roll out its own series, Z: The Beginning of Everything, with Christina Ricci playing the woman dubbed as the first American flapper,...
Two of Hollywood’s top leading ladies Scarlett Johansson and Jennifer Lawrence are about to go head-to-head, as the two stars are both slated to portray the late Zelda Fitzgerald in dueling biopics, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald died nearly 70 years ago in a fire at a hospital in North Carolina, but lately the Jazz Age icon has landed at the top of Hollywood’s must-list.
With Amazon already set to roll out its own series, Z: The Beginning of Everything, with Christina Ricci playing the woman dubbed as the first American flapper,...
- 10/26/2016
- by jodiguglielmi
- PEOPLE.com
Barely a week has passed since we brought you the news that Jennifer Lawrence had signed on to spearhead a Zelda Fitzgerald biopic and already, a second, competing period drama has emerged.
The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop, confirming it is McU stalwart Scarlett Johansson that is attached to develop this rival project. Bearing the title The Beautiful and the Damned after F. Scott Fitzgerald’s celebrated novel, The Beautiful and Damned, the tome documents Scott and Zelda’ fiery relationship during the peak of the Jazz Age, and we understand that Johansson’s feature has full backing from both Millennium Films and the Fitzgerald estate. Hanna Weg (Septembers of Shiraz) has been elected to hash out a screenplay, and the search is already underway for a director to take point at the helm.
Millennium president Mark Gill had the following to say about Zelda’s fascinating story.
“It was the height of the Jazz Age,...
The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop, confirming it is McU stalwart Scarlett Johansson that is attached to develop this rival project. Bearing the title The Beautiful and the Damned after F. Scott Fitzgerald’s celebrated novel, The Beautiful and Damned, the tome documents Scott and Zelda’ fiery relationship during the peak of the Jazz Age, and we understand that Johansson’s feature has full backing from both Millennium Films and the Fitzgerald estate. Hanna Weg (Septembers of Shiraz) has been elected to hash out a screenplay, and the search is already underway for a director to take point at the helm.
Millennium president Mark Gill had the following to say about Zelda’s fascinating story.
“It was the height of the Jazz Age,...
- 10/26/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
No one wants to pit two powerful women against each other, but that's kind of what will inevitably happen soon between these two A-listers. Leading ladies Scarlett Johansson and Jennifer Lawrence will be thrown into an involuntary comparison battle in the near future, as the two stars are each slated to portray the late Zelda Fitzgerald in dueling biopics. The Jazz Age icon and wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald died nearly 70 years ago in a fire at a North Carolina hospital, but her life has been at the forefront of Hollywood's inspiration as of late. Just as Amazon rolls out its own series, Z: The Beginning of Everything, with Christina Ricci playing the "first American flapper," films...
- 10/25/2016
- E! Online
It would seem that Hollywood is suddenly hot on Zelda Fitzgerald who, as far as I know, has no toys based on her life, and hasn’t been packaged into a Happy Meal, which makes it all the more surprising. Next year, Christina Ricci will play the Jazz Age icon in the Amazon series “Z: The Beginning of Everything,” but that hasn’t stopped two movie projects from building steam.
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- 10/25/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Looks like stories about Zelda Fitzgerald are the next big trend in the entertainment industry. Yesterday, we wrote how Ron Howard is eying the director's chair on a Zelda movie with Jennifer Lawrence in the lead role, and now THR reports that Scarlett Johansson is developing a competing project that she'll star in.
Zelda has often been portrayed as little more than a socialite and the wife of famed writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, but she was a creative force to be reckoned with in her own right. In fact, the new Johansson movie, which is being called The Beautiful and the Damned after an F. Scott book titled The Beautiful and Damned, "has secured the cooperation of the Fitzgerald estate and will incorporate newly unearthed transcripts from a sanatorium in which Zelda Fitzgerald was confined that indicate her husband misappropriated his wife's ideas as his own." That's a pretty big...
Zelda has often been portrayed as little more than a socialite and the wife of famed writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, but she was a creative force to be reckoned with in her own right. In fact, the new Johansson movie, which is being called The Beautiful and the Damned after an F. Scott book titled The Beautiful and Damned, "has secured the cooperation of the Fitzgerald estate and will incorporate newly unearthed transcripts from a sanatorium in which Zelda Fitzgerald was confined that indicate her husband misappropriated his wife's ideas as his own." That's a pretty big...
- 10/25/2016
- by Ben Pearson
- GeekTyrant
It has been nearly 70 years since Zelda Fitzgerald died in a fire at a hospital in North Carolina. But the Jazz Age icon and wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald is suddenly all the rage in Hollywood. Competing films fronted by Jennifer Lawrence and Scarlett Johansson, respectively, are on the fast track to being first at the same time that Amazon has its own series, Z: The Beginning of Everything, with Christina Ricci playing the socialite who was once dubbed by her husband as "the first American Flapper." But Zelda Fitzgerald was far more than just a pearl-
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- 10/25/2016
- by Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Actor will star in The Beautiful and the Damned as socialite and novelist who had a tumultuous marriage with Great Gatsby author F Scott Fitzgerald
Scarlett Johansson is set to play the socialite, novelist and “first American flapper” Zelda Fitzgerald in romantic drama The Beautiful and the Damned.
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Scarlett Johansson is set to play the socialite, novelist and “first American flapper” Zelda Fitzgerald in romantic drama The Beautiful and the Damned.
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- 4/22/2016
- by Benjamin Lee
- The Guardian - Film News
Certainly qualifying as one of the more intriguing rumors to come out of the mill in some time: Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway and Amanda Seyfried as Daisy Buchanan in the long-gestating adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s American classic The Great Gatsby (which also suggests repetitive undertones post-2008 economic collapse).
The news come via Production Weekly, and their delicious Twitter account, which seems designed to wet the appetites of cinephiles across the world.
Last we heard of the project, Baz Luhrmann had bought the book rights. He was still deciding between three projects (“a historical epic, a major musical work, or a literary adaptation”) in June. Progress? Who knows. He’s stated he won’t start shooting his next film until 2011. The man likes to take his time, with only 4 movies in 20 years.
If these rumors are true, however, the casting feels right. DiCaprio...
The news come via Production Weekly, and their delicious Twitter account, which seems designed to wet the appetites of cinephiles across the world.
Last we heard of the project, Baz Luhrmann had bought the book rights. He was still deciding between three projects (“a historical epic, a major musical work, or a literary adaptation”) in June. Progress? Who knows. He’s stated he won’t start shooting his next film until 2011. The man likes to take his time, with only 4 movies in 20 years.
If these rumors are true, however, the casting feels right. DiCaprio...
- 10/1/2010
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
It might be time for more F. Scott Fitzgerald. While Benjamin Button didn't allow fans to revel in the author's literary mind very much, this new brew should change that. According to Pajiba, 20th Century Fox is prepping a new adaptation of Tender is the Night, which was last tackled in 1962 by Jennifer Jones and Jason Robards. David Nicholls (And When Did You Last See Your Father?) is said to have written the script, and the actors who have been offered (but haven't agreed to) the lead parts -- Matt Damon and Keira Knightley.
Tender follows an American couple living in the French Riviera in the 1920s. Dick is a doctor and psychoanalyst, and Nicole is his wealthy patient and partner (a story surely fueled at least in part by Fitzgerald's struggles with Zelda and her schizophrenia). It would be a treat to see Damon in the gig, but his...
Tender follows an American couple living in the French Riviera in the 1920s. Dick is a doctor and psychoanalyst, and Nicole is his wealthy patient and partner (a story surely fueled at least in part by Fitzgerald's struggles with Zelda and her schizophrenia). It would be a treat to see Damon in the gig, but his...
- 4/21/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
Robert here with a quick news bit courtesy of the A.V. Club. Turns out the old-school video game Castlevania will be getting the feature film treatment. James Wan (who directed Saw) is almost on-board. And Steven Paul, who produced Baby Geniuses and Bratz is in charge of production.
It appears that the video-game-adaptation streak of "0" for howevermany will stand. Hooray! But enough depressing news. Let's pretend that it's actually possible to make a good video game adaptation. Which game do you fantasize about seeing on the big screen as a quality movie? Do you want to see Keira Knightley as Zelda? Are you dying to see Kate Beckinsale play Samus? Have you been holding out hope for Danny DeVito as Pac-Man? What details have you imagined? You know you have.
Then when you're done posting your suggestions, check out this bit that Rotten Tomatoes did a little while back,...
It appears that the video-game-adaptation streak of "0" for howevermany will stand. Hooray! But enough depressing news. Let's pretend that it's actually possible to make a good video game adaptation. Which game do you fantasize about seeing on the big screen as a quality movie? Do you want to see Keira Knightley as Zelda? Are you dying to see Kate Beckinsale play Samus? Have you been holding out hope for Danny DeVito as Pac-Man? What details have you imagined? You know you have.
Then when you're done posting your suggestions, check out this bit that Rotten Tomatoes did a little while back,...
- 7/28/2009
- by Robert
- FilmExperience
Milla Jovovich has signed on to star alongside Robert De Niro and Edward Norton in the indie psychological thriller Stone, which is being directed by John Curran. Angus MacLachlan (Junebug) penned the screenplay, which is based on his play. Jovovich will play the wife of a convicted arsonist (Norton). Desperately looking to be paroled, Norton has Jovovich engage in a dangerous affair with his parole officer (De Niro), entrapping him in a series of deadly psychological games. Angus MacLachlan penned the screenplay. Curran previously directed We Don’t Live Here Anymore and The Painted Veil. He’s currently prepping The Beautiful and the Damned, the true story of Zelda Fitzgerald that stars Keira Knightley. Jovovich, who last hit the screen in Resident Evil: Extiniction, stars in the David Twohy-directed thriller A Perfect Getaway opposite Timothy Olyphant, Steve Zahn, Kiele Sanchez, Marley Shelton and Chris Hemsworth, who just landed...
- 5/18/2009
- by James Cook
- TheMovingPicture.net
Robert De Niro and Edward Norton have signed on to star in the indie psychological thriller Stone, which is being directed by John Curran. Angus MacLachlan (Junebug) penned the screenplay, which is based on his play. The story centers on a correctional officer (De Niro) who is seduced by the wife of a convicted arsonist (Norton) up for parole. De Niro and Norton previously teamed in 2001 on the heist flick The Score. Stone marks the debut film of Mimran Schur Pictures, a company formed earlier this year by private investor David Mimran and longtime music biz executive and former Geffen Records president Jordan Schur. De Niro is also set to reprise his Jack Byrnes character in the latest chapter in the Meet the Parents franchise, Little Fockers. Norton next stars in the indie dramedy Leaves of Grass, which was directed by his Incredible Hulk co-star Tim Blake Nelson. Curran previously...
- 5/7/2009
- by James Cook
- TheMovingPicture.net
Overture and The Film Department could be the latest minimajor and production company to hook up.
The Liberty Media production/distribution company has finalized an agreement to release "Law Abiding Citizen" from Mark Gill and Neil Sacker's Film Dept., and the two outfits have been in talks for a broader distribution pact that would put a number of Film Department titles into the Overture pipeline.
Details are still being hammered out, but if terms can be reached, a pact would allow Film Department titles to capitalize on the full range of Overture platforms, which includes its theatrical releasing arm, home video label Anchor Bay and a TV output deal with Overture sister company Starz.
"Citizen" is the F. Gary Gray-directed crime drama starring Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx. The Film Department is currently shooting the movie in Philadelphia. Overture has released a number of crime dramas in the last year,...
The Liberty Media production/distribution company has finalized an agreement to release "Law Abiding Citizen" from Mark Gill and Neil Sacker's Film Dept., and the two outfits have been in talks for a broader distribution pact that would put a number of Film Department titles into the Overture pipeline.
Details are still being hammered out, but if terms can be reached, a pact would allow Film Department titles to capitalize on the full range of Overture platforms, which includes its theatrical releasing arm, home video label Anchor Bay and a TV output deal with Overture sister company Starz.
"Citizen" is the F. Gary Gray-directed crime drama starring Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx. The Film Department is currently shooting the movie in Philadelphia. Overture has released a number of crime dramas in the last year,...
- 1/28/2009
- by By Steven Zeitchik
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The golden couple of the Jazz Age, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald looked great from a distance. But zoom in closer and the cracks began to show. She was a schizophrenic and he was an alcoholic. Their story will be told in the film The Beautiful and the Damned with ...
- 1/6/2009
- by Robin Ruinsky
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Nick Cassavetes may be a lot of things-- the director of the insanely successful romance The Notebook, son of legendary director John Cassavetes-- but he's not a guy who screams "high-toned period piece." Luckily, John Curran is, and he's replaced Cassavetes as the director of The Beautiful and the Damned, the story of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his totally loony wife, Zelda. Keira Knightley, of course, will be starring as Zelda-- is there a period piece she won't star in?-- and has been on board since Cassavetes was the director. Variety doesn't explain what happened to Cassavetes, just that he "fell out along the way," which could mean basically anything. Maybe there was a Nicholas Sparks novel that needed adapting? Curran, who directed the 2006 period piece The Painted Veil as well as We Don't Live Here Anymore, seems like a much better fit for the material,...
- 1/5/2009
- cinemablend.com
Though I'd prefer it if she'd spread them out a little more, I have no objection to Keira Knightley buttering her bread by making period dramas. It's what she does best, it's where she looks her best, and her contemporary movies are only so-so.
Keira has another one on the way soon, The Beautiful and the Damned, which is a sort of bio-pic of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre, with writer Hanna Weg covering the couple's incredibly stormy marriage. It's a good time to make a Scott and Zelda movie, with Benjamin Button in theaters and reports that Baz Luhrmann has just purchased the rights to Fitzgerald's best-known story, The Great Gatsby.
And now, The Beautiful and the Damned has a new director, according to Variety . John Curran , most recently of another period drama, The Painted Veil. We say he's a new director on the project because initially, Nick Cassevetes was attached,...
Keira has another one on the way soon, The Beautiful and the Damned, which is a sort of bio-pic of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre, with writer Hanna Weg covering the couple's incredibly stormy marriage. It's a good time to make a Scott and Zelda movie, with Benjamin Button in theaters and reports that Baz Luhrmann has just purchased the rights to Fitzgerald's best-known story, The Great Gatsby.
And now, The Beautiful and the Damned has a new director, according to Variety . John Curran , most recently of another period drama, The Painted Veil. We say he's a new director on the project because initially, Nick Cassevetes was attached,...
- 1/5/2009
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Keira Knightley will star in The Beautiful And The Damned for director John Curran (The Painted Veil). The film will revolve around acclaimed writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his often turbulent marriage with wife Zelda Sayre, an alleged schizophrenic. Knightley will play Sayre. Of course, Fitzgerald wrote the short-story that The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button was based on. The article doesn't say but I have to assume that Knightley got the role after Leslie Man turned it down. Knightley is...
- 1/5/2009
- by James Thoo
- JoBlo.com
John Curran has signed up to direct Keira Knightley in The Beautiful And The Damned, reports Variety. The Painted Veil director stepped in after The Notebook's Nick Cassavetes dropped out of the project last year. The period drama revolves around the tempestuous relationship between writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda Sayre, who were familiar faces on the New York social (more)...
- 1/5/2009
- by By Lara Martin
- Digital Spy
Keira Knightley's been attached to star in The Beautiful and the Damned for some time now, but the project stalled somewhat when original director Nick Cassavetes dropped out. But now, shining armour a-gleaming, The Painted Veil director John Curran has stepped into the breach.The story is that of Jazz Age writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his tempestuous relationship with his flamboyant wife Zelda, also a writer. Between his alcoholism and her schizophrenia, the marriage was famously mercurial, inspiring novels for both partners. This is not to be confused, incidentally, with Fitzgerald's novel The Beautiful and Damned, although that story of a stormy marriage is also said to be inspired by the Fitzgeralds' relationship.Possibly it's because economists keep talking about the Great Depression, but there's a mini-trend in Hollywood right now for the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, what with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button garnering all sorts of...
- 1/5/2009
- EmpireOnline
Ah, the joy of the Hollywood holiday season. Every year, the hit factory shoves a bunch of product at you, figuring you've already successfully navigated a buffet of food and relatives, so why not an overabundance of movies on the same day, too?
This year, there are six films popping up in theaters nationwide, and a few others opening in select cities. As our gift to you, we'll focus on the major wide releases, with links to our review of each film, posted earlier in the week.
Bedtime Stories
Adam Sandler may not be the big star he was just a few years ago. He's tried to do a few more serious projects, like Reign Over Me and Spanglish, while his comedies like I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and You Don't Mess With the Zohan have not performed as well as his earlier movies.
So what do you do?...
This year, there are six films popping up in theaters nationwide, and a few others opening in select cities. As our gift to you, we'll focus on the major wide releases, with links to our review of each film, posted earlier in the week.
Bedtime Stories
Adam Sandler may not be the big star he was just a few years ago. He's tried to do a few more serious projects, like Reign Over Me and Spanglish, while his comedies like I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and You Don't Mess With the Zohan have not performed as well as his earlier movies.
So what do you do?...
- 12/25/2008
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
British actress Keira Knightley is in talks to play Zelda Fitzgerald in The Beautiful And The Damned, according to reports.
Leonardo Di Caprio is being touted as a possible co-star in the biopic, based on the life of Great Gatsby novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife.
The film is set in the 1920s when the pair were known as Hollywood's golden couple.
They had a tempestuous relationship and parted, with both of them writing books about their time together.
Zelda was diagnosed as a schizophrenic aged 30 and died in 1948 when the hospital she had been a patient in caught fire.
Leonardo Di Caprio is being touted as a possible co-star in the biopic, based on the life of Great Gatsby novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife.
The film is set in the 1920s when the pair were known as Hollywood's golden couple.
They had a tempestuous relationship and parted, with both of them writing books about their time together.
Zelda was diagnosed as a schizophrenic aged 30 and died in 1948 when the hospital she had been a patient in caught fire.
- 9/24/2008
- WENN
Just when it seemed like Keira Knightley might take a break from period pieces, she signs up for one more. The young gal just can't get enough of them, and at least this time around it isn't a costumed drama full of big hair and big dresses. The Hollywood Reporter posts that Nick Cassavetes has signed on to direct The Beautiful and the Damned, with Knightley in talks for the lead.
Written by Hanna Weg, the film focuses on the love story between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre, which means that Keira would play the doomed lover. So this time around, the corsets will be turned in for flapper dresses. In a time before the proliferation of gossip rags and celebrities, the couple were icons of the roaring twenties. The romance of the union, however, was short-lived, and as their marriage began to fail, both used the material for their own novels.
Written by Hanna Weg, the film focuses on the love story between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre, which means that Keira would play the doomed lover. So this time around, the corsets will be turned in for flapper dresses. In a time before the proliferation of gossip rags and celebrities, the couple were icons of the roaring twenties. The romance of the union, however, was short-lived, and as their marriage began to fail, both used the material for their own novels.
- 9/23/2008
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
Keira Knightley is right now in talks to star in Nick Cassavetes’ The Beautiful and The Damned. The film will be a love story between F.Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre. The director has been looking for his Zelda for quite some time now.
Damned revolves around Zelda Sayre and F Scott Fitzgerald who became Jazz Age icons known for living large, soaring high and crashing hard. Although toasts of town in the 1920s, their courtship and marriage was festooned with jealousy and acrimony. Fitzgerald used their relationship as material for his novels. But Sayre was trying to find her artistic identity ended up getting herself checked in a sanitarium
The script will be written by Hanna Weg. The film will be looking at an early April release next year.
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Damned revolves around Zelda Sayre and F Scott Fitzgerald who became Jazz Age icons known for living large, soaring high and crashing hard. Although toasts of town in the 1920s, their courtship and marriage was festooned with jealousy and acrimony. Fitzgerald used their relationship as material for his novels. But Sayre was trying to find her artistic identity ended up getting herself checked in a sanitarium
The script will be written by Hanna Weg. The film will be looking at an early April release next year.
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- 9/23/2008
- by John
- ReelSuave.com
Nick Cassavetes has signed on to direct "The Beautiful and the Damned," the Film Department's period love story about F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayme. The helmer already has circled his Zelda: Keira Knightley is in discussions to play the tempestuous lover.
"Damned" revolves around Zelda Sayre (Knightley) and F. Scott Fitzgerald, who became Jazz Age icons known for living large, soaring high and crashing hard. Although toasts of town in the 1920s, their courtship and marriage was festooned with jealousy and acrimony. Fitzgerald used their relationship as material for his novels, and Sayre -- who tried hard to find an artistic identity of her own and ended up being admitted to a sanitarium -- did the same.
Hanna Weg wrote the screenplay.
Lance Sloane and Devin Sloane producing with Film Department's Mark Gill and Robert Katz.
Neil Sacker of the Film Department and Michael Goguen are exec producing,...
"Damned" revolves around Zelda Sayre (Knightley) and F. Scott Fitzgerald, who became Jazz Age icons known for living large, soaring high and crashing hard. Although toasts of town in the 1920s, their courtship and marriage was festooned with jealousy and acrimony. Fitzgerald used their relationship as material for his novels, and Sayre -- who tried hard to find an artistic identity of her own and ended up being admitted to a sanitarium -- did the same.
Hanna Weg wrote the screenplay.
Lance Sloane and Devin Sloane producing with Film Department's Mark Gill and Robert Katz.
Neil Sacker of the Film Department and Michael Goguen are exec producing,...
- 9/23/2008
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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