The first poster for “
Dorian Gray” directed by
Oliver Parker has hit the web. The movie is based on
Oscar Wilde‘s novel – “
The Picture of Dorian Gray” and
Toby Finlay wrote the script for the movie.
Ben Barnes plays the title character in a film adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s novel which is about corrupt young man who somehow keeps his youthful beauty eternally, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) is a young man of impossible physical beauty whose portrait painted by the artist Basil Hallward (
Ben Chaplin). Drawn into a corrupt and sensual life by the dissolute Lord Henry Wotton (
Colin Firth), Dorian remains young and beautiful, while the painting ages in his stead.
“Dorian Gray” also stars
Emilia Fox as Lady Victoria Wotton,
Rebecca Hall as Emily Wotton and
Rachel Hurd-Wood as Sybil Vane.
The movie opens UK theaters on September 18, 2009.
