Many upcoming historical movies are happening that I am not aware of yet! Here is one I found out about today: Burke and Hare. It is currently filming and takes place in the 1800s. The IMDb synopsis says, “A black comedy about two 19th century grave robbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school.” You can view pictures of filming at Isla Fisher Web. Click “Read More” to find out about the second film.
Burke and Hare is due for release later this year and tells the story of the real life criminals were responsible for the deaths of at least 17 people from 1827 until 1828. After murdering their victims, the pair then went on to sell the bodies to Dr Robert Knox, who dissected them in his anatomy classes at Barclay’s anatomy school in Surgeon’s Square.
24 April, 2010 » Brooding Brontës Replace Jane Austen
The Times Online posted an article about the upcoming Brontë adaptations of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. I honestly don’t know why these films are being called rivals when I think most Victorian literature fans will be happy to watch both! The article also includes the first still of Mia Wasikowska as Jane Eyre. Looks promising! Click “Read More” or the link to read the full article. Also, BrontëBlog is an excellent place to find out news about all the Brontë works.
In 1847 a pair of extraordinary novels appeared two months apart, apparently written by brothers.
Jane Eyre proved an immediate success while Wuthering Heights was sneered at as “wild, confused, disjointed and improbable”. Today both are among the classics of English literature.
Next year the stories are to go head to head once more, in cinemas, more than 160 years after Charlotte and Emily Brontë published them under the pseudonyms Currer and Ellis Bell.
Two new clips from Robin Hood have been released! The first one shows Robin and his men “storming a French castle” and the second clip is a funny scene with Robin and Marion. There is also a new poster, which was brought to my attention by Cate Blanchett Fan. The movie opens May 14 and I’m excited to finally see it.
DVD screen captures from episode 2.1 of HBO’s Rome have been added to the gallery. 2.2 will be up either later tonight or tomorrow. Hope you like them.
The trailer for the miniseries, The Pillars of the Earth, has been released by Starz. Fans of the book, what do you think? I haven’t read the book, but something seems off to me about the trailer (maybe the costumes or hairstyles?). However, I am glad to see more and more Medieval stories being filmed.
DVD screen captures from Bright Star, a movie set in 1818 England, have been added to the Georgian section of the gallery (Regency movies are all in that category)! I know people were asking for this movie as it came out recently. While I wasn’t too fond of the movie in general, I thought it was very beautiful and well-done. The cast did a fine job as well. The director of Bright Star, Jane Campion, also directed The Piano, another very pretty movie.
16 April, 2010 » Ridley Scott to Produce Robert Harris’s Pompeii
I found more information to add to my last post about the upcoming adaptation of Pompeii. Independant.co.uk reports that Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven) will be producing the four-part miniseries based on the novel by Robert Harris.
British author Robert Harris is set to see his bestseller Pompeii adapted for the small screen, according to an April 12 press release. Gladiator director Ridley Scott will produce the four-hour mini-series, which follows on the heels of Harris’s collaboration with Roman Polanski for The Ghost Writer.
Pompeii tells the story of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, focusing on the character of Marcus Attilus, a young engineer who is sent to repair “the greatest aqueduct in the Roman Empire.” Pliny the Elder is also a central character in the book, which was published in 2003 and has been translated into more than 30 languages.
