Tag: Neil Jordan
BYZANTIUM Set Photos Featuring Gemma Arterton
Vampires again. Only, this time, we could call them gorgeous, busty, sexy vampires. Unfortunately (or, fortunately), I’m here today to show you just one of them but I’m sure you’re going to love her new look!
After all she’s your favorite Gemma Arterton who’s currently busy filming Neil Jordan‘s new horror movie titled Byzantium.
X-Men’s Caleb Landry Jones Lands Male Lead in BYZANTIUM
X-Men: First Class star Caleb Landry Jones has landed a role opposite Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton in their upcoming vampire movie, Byzantium. Oscar winning filmmaker Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) is reteaming with producer Stephen Woolley to make this flick.
Jones will reportedly play ‘a teenager dying of leukemia which in turns forces him to struggle with his mortality, causing Saorsie Ronan’s character to struggle with her own immortality.’ Gemma Arterton will be Ronan’s vampire mom who previously arrived in a small British town with her daughter.
Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton in Vampire Movie Byzantium
Another vampire movie is coming, and this time we’re here to start a little chat about project titled Byzantium that comes from director Neil Jordan.
Jordan will once again reunite with producer Stephen Woolley, and that’s not all, because we also learned that this movie will have two beautiful ladies on board as the leading bloodsuckers – Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton!
According to THR, Byzantium will tell the story of a mother vampire who turns her own daughter into a vampire and the pair form a lethal partnership, sometimes posing as sisters.
The original script is penned by Moira Buffini, based on her own play A Vampire Story.
Neil Jordan to Direct Skippy Dies
Irish filmmaker Neil Jordan is to write and direct Skippy Dies, a big screen adaptation of Paul Murray‘s novel of the same name.
Jordan will write the script together with Number 9 Films’ Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen producing (they will reunite once again with director after collaboration on The Crying Game) along with James Flynn of Littlewave Film Productions.
Here’s more details about the story “which is set in an Dublin boarding school and follows the adventures of roommates Ruprecht, a mathematical genius, and Skippy, whose mother is dying of cancer and who is being abused by the school’s gym teacher.
When Skippy dies, Ruprecht attempts to reach his friend beyond the grave through a series of bizarre science experiments.”
Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book Movie Adaptation
Recently we wrote about 1492 Pictures, a production outfit run by Chris Columbus and CJ Entertainment and their plans.
We mentioned that they are at work on three new horror films Killer Pizza, Carpe Demon and The Graveyard Book.
Today, we are here to have a little chat about an upcoming adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s The Graveyard Book, the story about a boy named Nobody Owens who, after his family is killed by a mysterious man, is adopted and raised by the occupants of a graveyard.
Gaiman had the idea for the story in 1985 after seeing his then two year-old son Mike “pedaling his tricycle around a graveyard.” Recalling how at home his son looked there, Gaiman thought he “could write something a lot like The Jungle Book but set it in a graveyard.”
Neil Jordan’s Ondine Trailer
Magnolia has released the domestic trailer for Ondine starring Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda.
This movie made its way to Toronto Film Festival last year and it will be released in limited theaters this summer.
So, we guess you agree with us when we say that there’s no better way to start summer, than with this lyrical modern fairy tale, mixed with mystery that just needs to be solved.
If you’re not familiar with this Ondine story, here’s a little synopsis reminder: “story of Syracuse, a simple fisherman who catches a beautiful and mysterious woman in his trawlers nets. The woman seems to be dead, but then she comes alive before Syracuses eyes and he thinks he may be seeing things.
However, with the help of his ailing, yet irrepressible daughter, Annie, he comes to believe that the fantastical might be possible and that the woman (Ondine) might be a myth come true. Ondine and Syracuse fall passionately in love, but just as we think the fairytale might go on forever, the real world intercedes. Then, after a terrible car crash and the return of a dark and violent figure from Ondines past, hope eventually prevails and a new beginning is presented to Syracuse, Ondine and Annie”.
First Ondine Poster
The first poster for Ondine, a movie starring Colin Farrell has been released.
Ondine plot summary: A lyrical, modern fairy tale that tells the story of Syracuse (Colin Farrell) an Irish fisherman whose life is transformed when he catches a beautiful and mysterious creature (Alicja Bachleda) in his nets. His daughter Annie (Alison Barry) comes to believe that the woman is a magical creature, while Syracuse falls helplessly in love. However like all fairy tales, enchantment and darkness go hand in hand.
Hit the jump to see the full poster.
