Dan Stevens’ First Movie Role Post-’Downton Abbey’ By Brigid Brown | Posted on May 15th, 2013 (BBC America)

 

Dan Stevens stars opposite Emily Browning in Summer in February. (Crossday)
Downton Abbey star Dan Stevens, who played Matthew Crawley on the series, is hoping to prove that there’s life after death.

To the dismay of fans, his heartthrob character on the hit British TV show–possible spoiler ahead if you’ve been living in Antarctica–was killed in an automobile crash in the Season 3 finale because Stevens wanted off the show at the end of his 3-year contract. (The episode aired on Christmas Day in the U.K. and on Feb. 10 in the U.S.)

Next month will mark the first test of Stevens’ post-Downtown career when Summer in February, a film in which he has a starring role, opens on June 14 in U.K. movie theaters. Will his Downton devotees turn out en masse or will they boycott him because he deserted their favorite show?

A romantic drama, Summer also features fellow Brit Dominic Cooper and Australian actress Emily Browning.

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Fifty Shades of Grey Casting: Henry Cavill Over Ian Somerhalder For Christian? Fans Sound Off! about 1 hour ago by Gina Carbone (WET PAINT)

Who needs an official Fifty Shades of Grey film when there are dozens of fake ones out there right now on YouTube?

Creative fans have been very busy posting sexy trailers, with their favorite actors and actresses playing Christian and Anastasia. Handbag.com ranked its favorite Fifty Shades trailers, based possibly on choice of music and clever editing as much as which actors best represent the characters.

It does seem like the top names coming up for Christian Grey are Ian Somerhalder and Matt Bomer, but Handbag.com is making a good case for Henry Cavill (The Tudors, Man of Steel). Handbag's #1 was this trailer featuring Henry as Christian and Emily Browning (Sucker Punch) as Ana. Watch it here. Fair warning: We’re talking about Fifty Shades, so expect some raunchy images in all of these trailers.


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Dan Stevens: First Image of Emily Browning and Dan Stevens from Summer in Feburary May 11, 2012 By Jon Lyus (HEY U GUYS)

We’ve got the first image from her latest film, Summer in February, for you today and Christopher Menaul’s film on a group of artists in the approach of the First World War is due to reveal itself by way of footage screened at this year’s Cannes Film Festival which begins next week. Browning stars with Dan Stevens and Dominic Cooper and Speranza13 Media have just announced they have picked international sales rights for the film.

Time for a synopsis don’t you think?

Set in the years before the First World War, SUMMER IN FEBRUARY focuses on the painter Alfred Munnings (Dominic Cooper), Laura (Hattie Morahan) & Harold Knight (Shaun Dingwall), both renowned artists in their own right. The incendiary anti-modernist Munnings, now one of Britain’s most sought-after artists, becomes the centre of a complex and passionate love triangle, involving the young aspiring painter Florence Carter-Wood (Emily Browning) and Gilbert Evans (Dan Stevens), the land agent in charge of the Lamorna Valley estate.  Based on fact – and deeply moving – the story is played out against the timeless beauty of the Cornish coast, in the far West of England.


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'Downton Abbey' actor Dan Stevens going back in time again for new movie (STAR TRIBUNE)

Article by: LOUISE DIXON and HILARY FOX , Associated Press Updated: March 7, 2012 - 1:28 PMLONDON -

"Downton Abbey" star Dan Stevens has been spending twice as much time in the past.

Along with shooting the third season of the 1920s-set Golden-Globe-winning TV show, he's been filming and executive producing another period project in London, playing one side of an Edwardian love triangle in the movie, "Summer in February."

The tight schedule means Stevens is the earnest Matthew Crawley amid the upper crust of Downtown Abbey one day — then a 1913 land agent who finds himself in a community of unconventional artists the next. "It's been a bit of a headache, but fortunately they're not too far apart in terms of period, which is one good thing," Stevens told The Associated Press on the set of his new film in Twickenham, outside London. Jumping between two sets is not something he'd do again, but "Summer in February" is a a passion project for the 29-year-old.

The film is based on a book by a teacher from his old school, Jonathan Smith, who also adapted the screenplay, and they had been talking about the project since the actor was a teenager. "The book came out around the time that I met him and he always joked that if it got made into a film or TV show, that I'd make a good Gilbert," he said.


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Dan Stevens: Emily Browning to star in 'Summer' (Variety)

Thesp replaces Lovibond in period drama

By Diana Lodderhose

 

LONDON -- Emily Browning is set to star alongside Dominic Cooper in "Summer in February," which began lensing in Cornwall, U.K. on Friday.

 

Aussie thesp Browning, who has had roles in "Sucker Punch," "Sleeping Beauty" and upcoming thriller "Magic, Magic," will replace Ophelia Lovibond in the period drama, which centers around a love triangle set in an Edwardian artists' colony in the early 1900s.

 

"Downton Abbey" thesp Dan Stevens also stars alongside Cooper and Browning.

 

Script is penned by Jonathan Smith, which he adapted from his eponymous tome, while Christopher Menaul ("Prime Suspect") directs.

 

Pic is produced by Cross Day Productions' Pippa Cross and Janette Day, and Apart Films' Jeremy Cowdrey.

 

Stevens serves as exec producer.

 

Hattie Morahan ("The Bank Job"), Shaun Dingwall ("Above Suspicion"), Mia Austen, Max Deacon ("Flashbacks of a Fool"), Michael Maloney ("Babel") and Nicholas Farrell ("The Iron Lady") also star in the pic.

 

Contact Diana Lodderhose at diana.lodderhose@variety.com

 

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