Downton Abbey's Michelle Dockery to star opposite Dominic West in Les Liaisons Dangereuses

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By BECCA LONGMIRE
PUBLISHED: 14:01, Wed, Jun 3, 2015 | UPDATED: 14:20, Wed, Jun 3, 2015



DOWNTON ABBEY actress Michelle Dockery is set to return to the stage, starring alongside Dominic West in a stage version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

The 34-year-old, best known for playing Lady Mary Crawley in the ITV period drama, will play Madame de Tourvel while West will portray her would-be seducer Vicomte de Valmont at London's Donmar Warehouse.

The story, based on an 18th century French novel, is a tale of sex and power in pre-revolutionary Paris.

It's going to be the 30th anniversary revival of Christopher Hampton's award-winning stage adaptation which provided the basis for the 1988 film version, called Dangerous Liaisons, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Glenn Close and John Malkovich.

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Benedict Cumberbatch and John Malkovich lend their voices to DreamWorks Animation's The Penguins of Madagascar

FAN CARPET
August 6, 2013

He can currently be seen as Marvin in Dean Parisot's RED 2 and word is that John Malkovich will lend his voice alongside The Hobbit trilogy antagonist Benedict Cumberbatch in the forthcoming Madagascar spinoff The Penguins of Madagascar.

Cumberbatch will take on the role of the CIA agent hot on the trail of Malkovich's charming villain of the story.

The DreamWorks Animation favourite has spawned several Penguins spinoffs including a straight-to-DVD film and a comic book written by David Server and Jackson Lanzing as well as the Nickelodeon TV show.

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'Downton Abbey' Season 3: Ed Speleers cast as a footman (ZAP 2 IT)

By Andrea Reiher
 March 22, 2012 11:20 AM ET
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Mr. Carson better be ready for the new trainees he's acquiring in Season 3 of "Downton Abbey." It was previously announced that Matt Milne ("War Horse") has been cast as a new footman named Alfred. Now Digital Spy is reporting that Ed Speleers has been cast as the second new footman, Jimmy.

 Speleers has most notably starred as the title character in "Eragon," alongside Jeremy Irons, Robert Carlyle and John Malkovich. He also starred on U.K. television series "Echo Beach."


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Helen Mirren - Summit Entertainment has targeted Aug. 2, 2013, for the sequel to RED, its hit 2010 action-comedy loosely based on the DC Comics miniseries by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner.

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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011 at 7:45am

• by Kevin Melrose

RED (retired, extremely dangerous) starred Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich as former CIA agents targeted for assassination because of the secrets they know. Directed by Robert Schwentke, the $60 million original exceeded Summit’s, and pretty much everyone’s, box-office expectations, grossing nearly $200 million worldwide.

Brothers Erich and Jon Hoeber returned to write the sequel, “which reunites our team of retired CIA operatives as they use their old-school style to take on a new set of enemies all across Europe.” Although there’s been no official announcement of whether Schwentke or the original stars will return, Mirren confirmed last month that she’ll reprise her role as Victoria.

Summit also set dates for director Jonathan Levine’s zombie romance Warm Bodies, with Nicholas Hoult and Theresa Palmer (Aug. 10, 2012), Louis Letterier’s Now You See Me, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson and Mark Ruffalo (Jan. 18, 2013), and Gavin Hood’s adaptation of Ender’s Game (March 15, 2013).