Fergie to sing in Rob Marshall’s “Nine”
Fergie - Black Eyed Peas singer will appear in Rob Marshall’s musical “Nine.”
Stacy Ferguson AKA Fergie joins a cast that includes Oscar-winning actors as Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cottilard, Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren, Judi Dench, Oscar-nominated Penelope Cruz in 2007 for Best Actress in a Leading Role in “Volver” and Kate Hudson.
Fergie’s previous big screen credits include “Poseidon” (2006) and “Planet Terror” (2007).
She will play Saraghina, a sexy nymph that brings Daniel Day-Lewis’ character into the world of sexuality.
Rob Marshall’s movie is based on the Broadway musical of the same name written by Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano. Adapted from the 1982 Tony-winning Broadway musical, “Nine” is set to be helmed by “Chicago” director Rob Marshall. The film actually was set to be tackled by the late writer/director Anthony Minghella and previously scheduled to begin filming in March 2008.
‘Nine’ is a musical following a film director named Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis instead Javier Bardem), who is in his middle age. He is trying to complete his next film. His main problem is that he has too many women in his life. Luisa (Marion Cotillard), his wife, Carla (Penelope Cruz) his sexy mistress, and Claudia, his muse and protege.
“Nine” is scheduled to begin shooting in September which is set to take place in the U.K
Kate Hudson joins the “Nine” cast
Kate Hudson will be joining the cast of “Nine,” winning the role in Rob Marshall’s big screen version of the Broadway musical.
Hudson beat rival actresses Sienna Miller and Anne Hathaway to win the role of fashion journalist Stephanie.
Daniel Day-Lewis, Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Sophia Loren, Nicole Kidman and Judi Dench are already among the cast.
Shooting on “Nine,” which marks “Chicago” director Marshall’s return to the musical genre, is scheduled to commence in September.
Daniel Day-Lewis in ‘Nine’
After Javier Bardem withdrew from the upcoming screen adaptation of the Broadway show ‘Nine‘, Daniel Day-Lewis will assume the leading role, reports Weekly Variety.
Day-Lewis will play the Italian film director Guido Contini.
Guido is conflicted by his artistic drive, sexual desires and his Catholicism, and Raul Julia, who was Puerto Rican, originated the role for the musical in 1982. Antonio Banderas, starred in a successful 2003 Broadway revival.
For the movie, Nicole Kidman and Judi Dench have been widely mentioned to star as two of the many women in Guido’s life, while Marion Cotillard, screen legend Sophia Loren and Penelope Cruz have already been cast.
The movie, scheduled for release next year, is to be directed by Chicago’s Rob Marshall. Harvey Weinstein, whose former studio released the 2002 Chicago and 1989’s My Left Foot, which brought Day-Lewis his first Best Actor Oscar, is producing.
I just hope Day-Lewis won’t regret for this move.
Daniel Day-Lewis to sing in ‘Nine’?
Daniel Day-Lewis is in talks to follow “There Will Be Blood” with “Nine,” the Rob Marshall-directed musical for The Weinstein Co.
Day-Lewis in consideration for ‘Nine’ after Russell Crowe, George Clooney and Javier Bardem pass, as we previously announced. So, Bardem wasn’t even the first choice.
The Weinstein Company spokesman denied that a lead had been set:
“Any of the names being thrown around is pure conjecture, and when we’re ready to make an announcement, we’ll let you know.”
The role is a famous film director who experiences personal and creative crisis while trying to balance all the women in his life.
Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Sophia Loren, Nicole Kidman and Judi Dench will play the women. The musical was inspired by the Fellini film “8 ½.”
Daniel-Day Lewis, Best Lead Actor
Having just been announced as Best Actor in There Will Be Blood, Daniel-Day-Lewis was ‘knighted’ by last year’s British success story, Dame Helen Mirren.
Imitating the famous pose on stage at Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre, the London-born actor joked about her performance as the Queen, saying:
‘This is the closest I’ll ever come to getting a knighthood, so thank you’.
Day-Lewis, 50, capped a series of previous honours for his searing performance in ‘There Will Be Blood’, taking the second Oscar of his career. He previously took the Oscar for the 1989 movie ‘My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown’.
British Oscar winner, Day-Lewis beat out fierce competition from Hollywood veterans George Clooney, Johnny Depp, Tommy Lee Jones and Viggo Mortensen.
He was considered the favourite for the award after winning honours at various pre-Oscar events.
As he took the stage to accept his latest award, he kissed George Clooney, who was nominated for ‘Michael Clayton’.
Day-Lewis is known for his intense preparation for his roles. He took four years working on his character with ‘There Will Be Blood’ director Paul Thomas Anderson and has said he could spend 10 years making a movie if a part really interested him.
‘Deepest thanks to members of the Academy for whacking me with the handsomest bludgeon in town’, said Day-Lewis.
‘I hope that all those to whom I owe and feel the deepest gratitude will forgive me if I say just simply, thank you all’.
He said he was accepting the Oscar in memory of his grandfather Michael Balcon,who ran Ealing Studios, his father British poet Cecil Day-Lewis and his “three fine boys.”
Day-Lewis has three sons, one with French actress Isabelle Adjani and two boys with Rebecca Miller, the daughter of the late U.S. playwright Arthur Miller.
‘There Will be Blood’
‘There Will be Blood’ is the latest in a string of 2007 films hell bent on depending on an audience’s use of their brain just as much as their eyes. Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson has taken Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel “Oil!” and woven an interesting character piece drenched in dust and darkness.
From the start and all the way through to the end you never quite know what to think of protagonist Daniel Plainview, but every move he makes in the film’s two-and-a-half-hour runtime weighs on your mind for days after viewing.
The story begins in 1898 as Daniel Day-Lewis as Plainview is seen digging deep in the bowels of the earth for silver and gold. The dusty scratch of skin against rock and the torturous theme presented by the score performed by Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood instantly tells you this isn’t going to be your average drama. The music from the outset implies a Kubrick-ian character study as Plainview could just as easily be compared to Charles Foster Kane (as he has) as he could be to Jack Torrance.
Flash forward 13 years later and Plainview is a different man. He is an oil man, and to hear him speak is to hear a man you may trust, but all the while you realize there is a beast just below the surface that isn’t only there to suck the Earth dry of its oil but to suck dry anything that would stand in his way. Plainview’s fortunes change when he is visited by a man named Paul Sunday.
Claiming to know of land rich with oil he sells the secret for a reasonable price. Plainview then descends upon the Sunday family ranch under false pretenses only to begin drilling for oil and changing the landscape of the small town known as Little Boston forever.
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