Oscar and BAFTA-winning film producer David Parfitt is hoping to reunite with French producer Philippe Carcassonne following their successful collaboration on Florian Zeller’s Oscar-winning drama The Father.
Parfitt revealed his plans during a masterclass at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra talent incubator event on Sunday.
“He [Carcassonne] is developing something really interesting based on an Israeli novel called Pain, which he commissioned as a French screenplay but they have decided they want to do it in England in English,” Parfitt clarified after the talk.
The 2019 novel by Zeruya Shalev revolves around a woman revisiting the double trauma of being caught up in a terror attack and abandonment by a lover when he comes back into her life a decade later.
Carcassonne’s partner, the actress and director Anne Fontaine, whose credits include Coco Before Chanel, is attached to direct the film, in what would be her first English-language production.
Parfitt revealed his plans during a masterclass at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra talent incubator event on Sunday.
“He [Carcassonne] is developing something really interesting based on an Israeli novel called Pain, which he commissioned as a French screenplay but they have decided they want to do it in England in English,” Parfitt clarified after the talk.
The 2019 novel by Zeruya Shalev revolves around a woman revisiting the double trauma of being caught up in a terror attack and abandonment by a lover when he comes back into her life a decade later.
Carcassonne’s partner, the actress and director Anne Fontaine, whose credits include Coco Before Chanel, is attached to direct the film, in what would be her first English-language production.
- 3/12/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The “Washington Black” series at Hulu has cast Billy Boyd, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, and Julian Rhind-Tutt in recurring roles, Variety has learned exclusively.
“Washington Black” is adapted from Esi Edugyan’s novel of the same name. The nine-episode series is set in the 19th century and follows Washington “Wash” Black (Ernest Kingsley Jr.) as he flees from a Barbados sugar plantation after a shocking death threatens to upend his life. He becomes the protégé of Medwin Harris (Sterling K. Brown), a Black refugee from Nova Scotia who serves as the de facto major of Black Halifax. While trying to outrun his past and the hunters on his tail, he meets Tanna (Lola Evans), a young wealthy British woman who passed as white but was secretly born of a Melanesian mother on the Solomon Islands, forcing her and her father to flee London for Nova Scotia. Tanna’s father pushes...
“Washington Black” is adapted from Esi Edugyan’s novel of the same name. The nine-episode series is set in the 19th century and follows Washington “Wash” Black (Ernest Kingsley Jr.) as he flees from a Barbados sugar plantation after a shocking death threatens to upend his life. He becomes the protégé of Medwin Harris (Sterling K. Brown), a Black refugee from Nova Scotia who serves as the de facto major of Black Halifax. While trying to outrun his past and the hunters on his tail, he meets Tanna (Lola Evans), a young wealthy British woman who passed as white but was secretly born of a Melanesian mother on the Solomon Islands, forcing her and her father to flee London for Nova Scotia. Tanna’s father pushes...
- 5/17/2022
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
‘Chaplin’ screenwriter William Boyd has adapted the true story.
Ivan Mactaggart, the UK producer whose credits include the Oscar-nominated animation Loving Vincent, has joined period drama The Galapagos Affair, written by William Boyd.
Mactaggart will produce through Cambridge Picture Company alongside Michael Kelk of Wire Films. Kelk previously developed the project with Working Title Films.
Based on a true story and set in the late 1920s, it centres on German doctor Friedrich Ritter and his patient, Dore Strauch, as their leave their spouses to pursue a utopian dream on the deserted Galapagos island of Floreana.
But their solitude is disrupted...
Ivan Mactaggart, the UK producer whose credits include the Oscar-nominated animation Loving Vincent, has joined period drama The Galapagos Affair, written by William Boyd.
Mactaggart will produce through Cambridge Picture Company alongside Michael Kelk of Wire Films. Kelk previously developed the project with Working Title Films.
Based on a true story and set in the late 1920s, it centres on German doctor Friedrich Ritter and his patient, Dore Strauch, as their leave their spouses to pursue a utopian dream on the deserted Galapagos island of Floreana.
But their solitude is disrupted...
- 12/19/2019
- by ¬0¦James Ashworth¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Ivan Mactaggart, the UK producer whose credits include Oscar-nominated animation Loving Vincent and Judi Dench starrer Red Joan, is teaming with scribe William Boyd (Chaplin) on period feature The Galapagos Affair.
Set in the late 1920s and based on a true story, the pic will follow German doctor Friedrich Ritter and his patient, Dore Strauch, as they leave their spouses to pursue a utopian dream on the deserted Galapagos island of Floreana.
Their peace and solitude is disrupted by the arrival of the glamorous ‘Baroness’ Eloise Wagner de Bosquet and her two young lovers. Disturbed by the Baroness, Friedrich and Dore’s island paradise gradually descends in a spiral of jealousy, resentment, violence and eventually murder.
The pic is based on the historical book by John Treherne and was also previously told in 2013 documentary Galapagos Affair: Satan Came To Eden, which was directed by Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller...
Set in the late 1920s and based on a true story, the pic will follow German doctor Friedrich Ritter and his patient, Dore Strauch, as they leave their spouses to pursue a utopian dream on the deserted Galapagos island of Floreana.
Their peace and solitude is disrupted by the arrival of the glamorous ‘Baroness’ Eloise Wagner de Bosquet and her two young lovers. Disturbed by the Baroness, Friedrich and Dore’s island paradise gradually descends in a spiral of jealousy, resentment, violence and eventually murder.
The pic is based on the historical book by John Treherne and was also previously told in 2013 documentary Galapagos Affair: Satan Came To Eden, which was directed by Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller...
- 12/17/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Broadchurch has won three prizes at the Broadcasting Press Guild (Bpg) awards.
The ITV crime series was named Best Drama Series, while Olivia Colman won the Best Actress prize for her role of Ellie Miller. Creator Chris Chibnall also won the Bpg Writer Award.
Chiwetel Ejiofor won Best Actor for his part in BBC Two's Dancing on the Edge, and Fifty Shades of Grey star Jamie Dornan was given the Breakthrough Award for The Fall.
The 40th annual awards ceremony was held at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London, with winners chosen by journalists specialising in TV, radio and media.
BBC Two also won the Best Single Drama prize for Ian Hislop and Michael Palin's The Wipers Times.
Strictly Come Dancing was named Best Entertainment Programme, with Sir Bruce Forsyth collecting the award.
Channel 4 took home all three awards for factual television, with Educating Yorkshire winning Best Documentary Series.
The ITV crime series was named Best Drama Series, while Olivia Colman won the Best Actress prize for her role of Ellie Miller. Creator Chris Chibnall also won the Bpg Writer Award.
Chiwetel Ejiofor won Best Actor for his part in BBC Two's Dancing on the Edge, and Fifty Shades of Grey star Jamie Dornan was given the Breakthrough Award for The Fall.
The 40th annual awards ceremony was held at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London, with winners chosen by journalists specialising in TV, radio and media.
BBC Two also won the Best Single Drama prize for Ian Hislop and Michael Palin's The Wipers Times.
Strictly Come Dancing was named Best Entertainment Programme, with Sir Bruce Forsyth collecting the award.
Channel 4 took home all three awards for factual television, with Educating Yorkshire winning Best Documentary Series.
- 3/28/2014
- Digital Spy
Review Rob Smedley 28 Dec 2013 - 22:11
Moonfleet, Sky One's adventure two-parter starring Ray Winstone, gets off to a rip-roaring start...
This review contains spoilers.
There's something about that tinselly interstice between Christmas and New Year when - your senses broken down by joyless fistfuls of Quality Street - you're willing to submit to the Television and hope that there's something good on for the family. Fortunately Sky One's adaptation of J. Meade Falkner's 1898 novel, Moonfleet (a Pointless answer in the making...) is an offering that might help fill the chocolatey void with its rattling adventure.
The year: 1757. The place: the coastal village of Moonfleet. The brandy: currently being smuggled ashore under the watchful gaze of Ray Winstone's Elzevir Block (surely the name of a coldsore cream?). Block who, presumably by virtue of having the biggest coat in the village, is in charge of smuggling tobacco, rum,...
Moonfleet, Sky One's adventure two-parter starring Ray Winstone, gets off to a rip-roaring start...
This review contains spoilers.
There's something about that tinselly interstice between Christmas and New Year when - your senses broken down by joyless fistfuls of Quality Street - you're willing to submit to the Television and hope that there's something good on for the family. Fortunately Sky One's adaptation of J. Meade Falkner's 1898 novel, Moonfleet (a Pointless answer in the making...) is an offering that might help fill the chocolatey void with its rattling adventure.
The year: 1757. The place: the coastal village of Moonfleet. The brandy: currently being smuggled ashore under the watchful gaze of Ray Winstone's Elzevir Block (surely the name of a coldsore cream?). Block who, presumably by virtue of having the biggest coat in the village, is in charge of smuggling tobacco, rum,...
- 12/28/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
What can be said about Michael Palin that hasn’t been said already? Perhaps calling him a Renaissance man, or comparing him to a shark that never stops swimming. He’s something different to each generation, be it as a member of Monty Python; a unique explorer and travel presenter neither in the vein of Alan Whicker or Karl Pilkington; a filmmaker; a geographer and railway enthusiast; or as a man of letters both fictional and non-fictional. His works spans every cultural medium imaginable short of painting and sculpture, though chances are he indulges those in his spare time as well.
Palin and Python are back in the news not just for court cases, but for the shock announcement they’re reuniting for a limited amount of shows at the O2 arena next summer. It will be the first time since 1988 they’ve performed together, albeit without the late Graham Chapman.
Palin and Python are back in the news not just for court cases, but for the shock announcement they’re reuniting for a limited amount of shows at the O2 arena next summer. It will be the first time since 1988 they’ve performed together, albeit without the late Graham Chapman.
- 12/10/2013
- by Oscar Harding
- Obsessed with Film
Demobbed squaddies become the bad men of Birmingham, while in the trenches of Ypres something is rumbling…
Peaky Blinders (BBC2) | iPlayer
The Wipers Times (BBC2) | iPlayer
Blackout (C4) | 4oD
Top Boy (C4) | 4oD
What a screed of tweed inhabited our screens last week, looms-full and truckles of it. Fortunately I love tweed: two suits, seven jackets and nine caps, both Harris and Donegal, and a dubious one produced in 1940s Bombay. None of them, I think – but I'll now and go check – possesses razor blades tucked roughly into the lapels or the cap-peaks. This is (only possibly) an advantage in 2013 Hove. In the 1919 Birmingham of Peaky Blinders this lack would have amounted to a blunder. This new six-part BBC crime drama, and Cillian Murphy, burst on to televisions on Thursday night with a big black horse and a street full of mud and blood and snotters, and is magnificent. It's as if Boardwalk Empire and,...
Peaky Blinders (BBC2) | iPlayer
The Wipers Times (BBC2) | iPlayer
Blackout (C4) | 4oD
Top Boy (C4) | 4oD
What a screed of tweed inhabited our screens last week, looms-full and truckles of it. Fortunately I love tweed: two suits, seven jackets and nine caps, both Harris and Donegal, and a dubious one produced in 1940s Bombay. None of them, I think – but I'll now and go check – possesses razor blades tucked roughly into the lapels or the cap-peaks. This is (only possibly) an advantage in 2013 Hove. In the 1919 Birmingham of Peaky Blinders this lack would have amounted to a blunder. This new six-part BBC crime drama, and Cillian Murphy, burst on to televisions on Thursday night with a big black horse and a street full of mud and blood and snotters, and is magnificent. It's as if Boardwalk Empire and,...
- 9/14/2013
- by Euan Ferguson
- The Guardian - Film News
Whitechapel dropped over 700,000 viewers for its second episode on Wednesday (September 11), overnight data reveals.
The ITV drama appealed to 3.04 million (13.9%) at 9pm (306k/2.0% on +1). Earlier, Stephen Mulhern's Big Star's Little Star entertained 3.35m (15.1%) at 8pm (212k/1.0%).
BBC One topped the ratings outside of soaps with Sarah Millican's Who Do You Think You Are? with 4.35m (19.8%) at 9pm.
On BBC Two, Harvest 2013 appealed to 2.55m (11.5%) at 8pm, followed by Ian Hislop's The Wipers Times with 2.04m (9.9%) at 9pm.
Channel 4's Grand Designs interested 2.11m (9.6%) at 9pm (349k/2.2%). The Last Leg amused 973k (5.9%) at 10pm.
On Channel 5, Celebrity Big Brother's latest eviction scored 2.03m (9.2%) at 9pm (175k/1.1%), followed by the latest Wentworth with 930k (5.8%) at 10pm.
The highest-scoring multichannel show was BBC Four's Sex: A Horizon Guide with 668k (3.0%) at 9pm.
The ITV drama appealed to 3.04 million (13.9%) at 9pm (306k/2.0% on +1). Earlier, Stephen Mulhern's Big Star's Little Star entertained 3.35m (15.1%) at 8pm (212k/1.0%).
BBC One topped the ratings outside of soaps with Sarah Millican's Who Do You Think You Are? with 4.35m (19.8%) at 9pm.
On BBC Two, Harvest 2013 appealed to 2.55m (11.5%) at 8pm, followed by Ian Hislop's The Wipers Times with 2.04m (9.9%) at 9pm.
Channel 4's Grand Designs interested 2.11m (9.6%) at 9pm (349k/2.2%). The Last Leg amused 973k (5.9%) at 10pm.
On Channel 5, Celebrity Big Brother's latest eviction scored 2.03m (9.2%) at 9pm (175k/1.1%), followed by the latest Wentworth with 930k (5.8%) at 10pm.
The highest-scoring multichannel show was BBC Four's Sex: A Horizon Guide with 668k (3.0%) at 9pm.
- 9/12/2013
- Digital Spy
Actor, comedian, and perpetual wanderlust-suffer Michael Palin has been cast in "The Wipers Times," a World War I drama to air on BBC Two. Palin has hosted a number of documentary series in recent years, -- his travel series "Palin's Travels" was decidedly brilliant -- but this is his first TV acting role since the 1990s.
"The Wipers Times" is based on the true story of a satirical newspaper put out by soldiers while encamped in Belgium in 1916, after one soldier (Captain Fred Roberts, to be played by Ben Chaplin) discovers a printing press in a bombed-out ruin.
"Just like the original Wipers Times, this new history drama will be filled with jokes, spoofs and amazing examples of courage behind the laughs," BBC Two Controller Janice Hadlow tells BBC News. With a "Monty Python" alum on board, the jokes and spoofs should be good.
The drama also features Emilia Fox,...
"The Wipers Times" is based on the true story of a satirical newspaper put out by soldiers while encamped in Belgium in 1916, after one soldier (Captain Fred Roberts, to be played by Ben Chaplin) discovers a printing press in a bombed-out ruin.
"Just like the original Wipers Times, this new history drama will be filled with jokes, spoofs and amazing examples of courage behind the laughs," BBC Two Controller Janice Hadlow tells BBC News. With a "Monty Python" alum on board, the jokes and spoofs should be good.
The drama also features Emilia Fox,...
- 7/2/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Michael Palin has returned to the small screen for the first time in 22 years. The 70-year-old actor has landed the lead role in the BBC Two drama 'The Wipers Times', which is set in the battlefields of World War One and is based on the true story of a satirical newspaper that was produced by soldiers in the trenches. The 'Monty Python' legend - who is best known for his travel documentaries - will play alongside Ben Chaplin, 'Green Wing' star Julian Rhind-Tut and 'Silent Witness' actress Emilia Fox in the series written by 'Private Eye' editor Ian Hislop and cartoonist...
- 7/2/2013
- Virgin Media - TV
London -- British comedian, actor, writer and presenter Michael Palin will star in The Wipers Times, a Wwi drama set to air on BBC2. The movie details the story of how a squad of British soldiers in the trenches produced and published their own satirical magazine during the World War I. The movie is co-written by Ian Hislop, a regular on satirical British TV show Have I Got News For You and also the editor of Private Eye, the U.K.'s coruscating weekly paper that takes a humorous and often barbed look at the political scene and the media. Story: 'Monty Python'
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- 7/2/2013
- by Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ian Hislop has co-written a new historical drama for BBC Two.
The Wipers Times - set against the backdrop of the First World War - stars Ben Chaplin, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Emilia Fox.
Michael Palin and Steve Oram will also appear in the drama, which tells the tale of two soldiers who produced a satirical 'trench newspaper' - The Wipers Times.
The Wipers Times - penned by Hislop and Nick Newman - is described as "a story of the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming adversity".
"Just like the original Wipers Times, this new history drama will be filled with jokes, spoofs and amazing examples of courage behind the laughs," said BBC Two controller Janice Hadlow.
"I am delighted to be bringing such a brilliant drama and cast to BBC Two."
The Wipers Times will be directed by The Bletchley Circle's Andy de Emmony.
The Wipers Times - set against the backdrop of the First World War - stars Ben Chaplin, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Emilia Fox.
Michael Palin and Steve Oram will also appear in the drama, which tells the tale of two soldiers who produced a satirical 'trench newspaper' - The Wipers Times.
The Wipers Times - penned by Hislop and Nick Newman - is described as "a story of the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming adversity".
"Just like the original Wipers Times, this new history drama will be filled with jokes, spoofs and amazing examples of courage behind the laughs," said BBC Two controller Janice Hadlow.
"I am delighted to be bringing such a brilliant drama and cast to BBC Two."
The Wipers Times will be directed by The Bletchley Circle's Andy de Emmony.
- 7/1/2013
- Digital Spy
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