Arclight Films has signed on to handle two features projects from TV company Rainmark Films: Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Wwi drama The Guns Of August and comedy Woolly Faces.
The Guns Of August will star Helena Bonham Carter, Charles Dance and Emilia Clarke. Carter will play her real-life relative Margot Asquith in the story that takes place in the summer of 1914. Production is set to commence in early 2015.
Pearse Elliott directs Woolly Faces, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in West Belfast in 1981.
Paula Malcomson, Ciaran Hinds and Michelle Fairley star on the film, set to kick off later this year.
The Guns Of August will star Helena Bonham Carter, Charles Dance and Emilia Clarke. Carter will play her real-life relative Margot Asquith in the story that takes place in the summer of 1914. Production is set to commence in early 2015.
Pearse Elliott directs Woolly Faces, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in West Belfast in 1981.
Paula Malcomson, Ciaran Hinds and Michelle Fairley star on the film, set to kick off later this year.
- 5/19/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Oliver Hirschbiegel scored with his World War II final days of Hitler film Downfall, and now he’s eyeing World War I. Arclight Films a deal to rep two Rainmark Films. One is Hirschbiegel’s Wwi drama The Guns Of August, starring Helena Bonham Carter, Charles Dance and Game Of Thrones‘ Emilia Clarke, the other is the comedy drama Woolly Faces, written and directed by Pearse Elliott. Both are being presented to buyers for the first time here in Cannes. Bonham Carter will play her real life step-great grandmother Margot Asquith in an adaptation of the Pulitzer-winning book by historian Barbara W. Tuchman. Scripted by writer-producer Frank Doelger, it is the story of a family dispute with global consequences. It traces the tragic misunderstandings, missed opportunities and aristocratic follies of the summer of 1914, which led to the outbreak of the First World War. It shoots next year. Woolly Faces is...
- 5/19/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
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