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Post by dreamsincolour on Apr 14, 2017 23:29:48 GMT
"The Child In Time" is actually filming, so that's a done deal. Infinity Wars filming will have to be fitted in somehow and presumably "Melrose" (confirmed as starting July or thereabouts, even if not necessarily with BC to start with) will be following that. But there are now quite a few alternatives of "known" possibilities re what might follow "Melrose" now. And I say "known" because there's always the possibility of something unexpected. Theoretically, not including Marvel cameos or the like, there's:
The War Magician Rogue Male How To Stop Time The Man In The Rockefeller Suit Smiley's People Unknown other
So what do people think will be the project that will follow "Melrose"?
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 15, 2017 0:14:18 GMT
The War Magician is in the first script phase, according to the author. It has the Studiocanal support so that's a plus.
Rogue Male: I think his people said he probably will shoot it this year but it was after one local paper asked if he would shoot it on their location so I really doubt it was a sincere answer. The official last news was that the scriptwriter was working in the adaptation.
How to Stop Time: there are no script, just the announcement ("casually" coinciding with the book realese 😉). I suspect the author will adapt it considering something he said on Twitter about doing an extra thing for the project (I don't remember the exact words. Maybe he is just also executive producing it).
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: he is in early talks so he isn't actually attached. They don't have a director neither BUT Deadline also said the studio had the project has a priority in their line-up. Also the script is finished and probably multiple times revised (the leaked one had a note saying it was a second revised version from 2014!).
Smiley's People: another Studiocanal production with a finished script but almost 0 news. It would be a probably a small character so he shouldn't spend to much time in it. Slightly OT: John Le Carré just announced a new Smiley novel and apparently Peter Guilliam is the main character! He is retired and old but the novel is full of flashbacks from his younger years.
With this information it seems to me that the most urgent projects are The War Magician and The Man in the Rockefeller Suit but the first project is just because the scriptwriter is on a Twitter and he informs every step he does. It's possible that the "next project" has have advances too but we don't know yet about them. As the projects with finished scripts show the finished script can be in a limbo for years. So I would say The Man in... but just if he actually sign it! My favorite: the new novel with Peter Guilliam as a main character! 😉 Seriously, we never know which would be our favorite until we watched them but all the projects sound nice, I just want the name of the directors!!!!
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Post by MagdaFR on Apr 15, 2017 16:36:03 GMT
I didn't know Smiley's People was going to include Guillam. A story with an old Guillam could be a good one, but perhaps they want an older actor to play it.
I think his next projects are going to be TWM and the one about the fake Rockefeller which I hope is re-written. I don't remember if I wrote this before. The TV movie can be seen on youtube.
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 15, 2017 17:36:27 GMT
Well, Guilliam is in Smiley's People and I think Le Carre's son mentioned they have an script and they were interested in working again with Gary Oldman, Cumberbatch and Tom Hardy (the last one was strange because his character is not part of the novel).
About the new novel, it will be realesed in September but apparently it will center in an old age Guilliam BUT including flashbacks to when he was young during the Cold War. Some people is speculating that Smiley is dead because apparently he would have more than 100 years in the present day so maybe he would be included just in the flashbacks.
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Post by MagdaFR on Apr 15, 2017 17:43:14 GMT
I don't remember clearly the plot of Smiley's People.
The new book is very advanced! I thought it was a project. Well, BC could playu young and old Guillam then. The makeups nowadays are so good. Mark Gatiss look like a different person in Taboo.
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 15, 2017 17:50:14 GMT
Yes, he is in it but if I remember well is not a big part. Anyway it would be interesting to know what they did about his big screen homosexuality. He is straight in the books! And there is a French wife in it.
There is not an official mention of an adaptation of the new book but it would be Greta, doesn't?
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Post by dreamsincolour on Apr 15, 2017 23:05:22 GMT
Smiley's People: another Studiocanal production with a finished script but almost 0 news. It would be a probably a small character so he shouldn't spend to much time in it. Slightly OT: John Le Carré just announced a new Smiley novel and apparently Peter Guilliam is the main character! He is retired and old but the novel is full of flashbacks from his younger years. I hadn't seen anything about that new book at all. That's really interesting news! And it couldn't be more likely to be developed in some way pretty much immediately too. It isn't just going to be following on from the George Smiley stories, it's also apparently relates to "The Man Who Came In From The Cold" and its main protagonist, Alex Leamas. It all fits together so perfectly, that there has to have been deliberate intent in there. After "The Night Manager", they're now remaking "The Man Who Came In From The Cold" as another television series. So it would seem to make perfect sense to put Smiley's People on to a fast track in advance of whatever adaptation they will obviously do of "A Legacy Of Spies". I know there hasn't been much news about "Smiley's People", but these things are notoriously slow. And no news is just no news. It doesn't mean it isn't happening. Gary Oldman was quite clear that it was in the works, and that was only about 9 months ago. How large a role there is for Peter Guillam is a different question. But as Sgev has already noted, there were the comments about wanting to reunite the three of them, including Tom Hardy (whose TTSS character was never in "Smiley's People" at all). "A Legacy Of Spies" may only be being published in September, but a lot of people seem to have read it already. And there are some wonderful comments about it. It's "Riveting" apparently! www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/07/george-smiley-to-return-new-john-le-carre-novel-a-legacy-of-spiesThat might only have been his agent speaking there, but to say that this new book is potentially his finest ever, is quite something. The big question is whether they'll develop the new story as another film or as another television series after "The Man Who Came In From The Cold".
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Post by MagdaFR on Apr 15, 2017 23:27:36 GMT
Gary Oldman talking about Smiley's People at CinemaCon. The interviewer didn't know who George Smiley was. Lol.
So, next year.
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Post by dreamsincolour on Apr 16, 2017 1:18:15 GMT
Gary Oldman talking about Smiley's People at CinemaCon. The interviewer didn't know who George Smiley was. Lol. So, next year. So there IS recent news! WOW! Next year sometime. And although it'll be a secondary role to Gary Oldman, at best (if role expanded), it was always pretty much a certainty that BC would do it. And even more a certainty now, given that Peter is the main character in the new book. And no, that interviewer had no idea who George Smiley was. He hadn't a clue what to say in response. I'm not even convinced he knew who Gary Oldman is. What did he call him there, at the end? It was either Gabe or Gay or something like that, as if he hadn't even bothered to read the notes he'll have been given properly. Whatever it was, it wasn't Gary.
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Post by queenzod on Apr 16, 2017 3:23:50 GMT
Gary was pretty gracious about it.
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