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Cary Fukunaga Courts Jane Eyre

21 October 2009 12:54 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Cary Joji Fukunaga, the director of this year's brutal Spanish language drama Sin Nombre is close to signing on to Ruby Films' new Jane Eyre adaptation.The script for the blood and thunder romance is by Moira Buffini, who has just adapted Posy Simmonds' comic strip Tamara Drew (itself based on Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd) for Stephen Frears to direct.Charlotte Bronte's classic novel has been filmed many times before of course. Best of all was the 1944 version with Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine, but Franco Zeffirelli's 1994 version with Charlotte Gainsbourg is also worth a look. The Ruby Films' is a co-production with the BBC, who produced an award-winning TV adaptation as recently as 2007.Fukunaga is a left-field choice for the material, but that should be A Good Thing if the familiar story of tyrannical aunts, Byronic heroes, imposing halls, head-pounding loves, covered-up histories and (spoiler! »

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Posy Simmonds' 'Tamara Drewe' To Be Adapted By Stephen Frears

4 September 2009 6:29 AM, PDT | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »

Serialized American comic strips might not be generating many major motion pictures of late, but the funny pages across the pond have fared better, meriting a feature adaptation of a reimagined literary classic.

According to Variety, British director Stephen Frears has signed to helm the live-action adaptation of "Tamara Drewe," cartoonist Posy Simmonds' modern retelling of Thomas Hardy's "Far From the Madding Crowd."

Frears appears to be a fan of Simmonds' sequential storytelling, which could translate into a vision for the film that's consistent with the comic.

"I've loved Posy Simmonds' work for a long time," Frears told Variety.

Simmonds' modernized story follows doomed heroine Drewe, a journalist with a nose job who takes out being dumped by her rock-star boyfriend on an unsuspecting writer's retreat and the hardly-functioning married couple who run it. It's a little different from the original tale, which featured a good deal more sheep, »

- Caleb Goellner

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Stephen Frears to Direct Tamara Drewe Starring Gemma Arterton

2 September 2009 12:10 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

British director Stephen Frears, who's directed a couple of my favorite films like High Fidelity and Dirty Pretty Things, has signed on to bring the live-action adaptation of Posy Simmonds' lauded graphic novel Tamara Drewe to the big screen, according to Variety. Posy Simmonds, a long time cartoonist for the UK's Guardian, first published the comic strips in the newspaper, then collected them into graphic novel form that is, itself, a modern reimagining of Thomas Hardy's classic novel Far From the Madding Crowd. The titular character is to be played by Gemma Arterton, who you'll recognize from Quantum of Solace. The story follows Tamara, a sexy, post-plastic surgery beauty, who returns to her small, British village and stirs up dark passions among the otherwise frumpy locals. Leaving local men in her destructive wake, Tamara is used to lampoon the failings of contemporary feminism in Britain and satirizing contemporary literary life. »

- Brandon Lee Tenney

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Arterton, Frears confirmed for 'Tamara'

2 September 2009 4:33 AM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Gemma Arterton will lead the cast of director Stephen Frears's Tamara Drewe. The BBC Films and Ruby Films project is an adaptation of Posy Simmonds's graphic novel, which takes inspiration from Thomas Hardy novel Far From the Madding Crowd. It centres on a flirtatious woman (Arterton) who stirs up trouble when she returns to her village. Dominic Cooper, Roger Allam, Luke Evans, Bill Camp and Tamsin (more) »

- By Simon Reynolds

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Arterton & Frears Take On Tamara Drewe

2 September 2009 12:56 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Costume dramatist extraordinaire Stephen Frears is coming over all modern, adapting graphic novel Tamara Drewe with the Gemma Arterton as the gorgeous comic strip character. But it's Ok, because the premise is an update of Thomas Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd.Co-starring in the return-to-the-country tale will be Mamma Mia! boy Dominic Cooper, The Queen's Roger Allam, Arterton's Clash Of The Titans' cohort Luke Evans, Public Enemies' Bill Camp and TV comedienne Tamsin Greig.The comic strip Tamara Drewe is written by Posy Simmonds, about a girl who shakes up her rural home when she returns a beautiful swan having been a bit of an ugly duckling growing up, causing controversy the the country idyll.The film starts shooting on September 21 at Pinewood Studios and on location around the fields of the UK. »

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Stephen Frears to helm 'Tamara'

1 September 2009 10:56 PM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »

British director Stephen Frears will direct the live-action adaptation of "Tamara Drewe," the acclaimed graphic novel written by Posy Simmonds. Gemma Arterton plays Drewe and is joined by Dominic Cooper, Roger Allam, Luke Evans, Bill Camp and Tamsin Greig. The novel, which is a collection of comicstrips Simmonds first published in the Guardian U.K. newspaper, is a modern reimagining of "Far from the Madding Crowd" written by Thomas Hardy. Moira Buffini adapated the screenplay. »

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Stephen Frears to Direct Tamara Drewe

1 September 2009 6:54 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

Posy Simmonds' acclaimed graphic novel Tamara Drewe is getting a big screen adaptation. According to Variety, British director Stephen Frears is set to take on this romantic comedy.

Gemma Arterton has signed on to play Drewe, a sexy flirt that returns to her small hometown village only to stir up dark passion amongst the locals. Also starring in the film are Dominic Cooper, Roger Allam, Luke Evans, Bill Camp and Tamsin Greig. Simmonds' work is based on the Thomas Hardy classic novel Far from the Madding Crowd, which was adapted into a film in 1967.

The film is set to start shooting later this year.

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2009 | 2003

7 articles from 2009

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