Rosamund Pike to play leading role in The Spark, based on autism memoir bestseller w/video

AUTISM DAILY
April 30, 2015 by News In Brief

Rosamund Pike – Is probably best known for her leading role as the psychopath Amy Elliott Dunne in the film, Gone Girl.

She is now set to play the lead role in a new film called, The Spark. The film is an adaptation of the book by Kristine Barnett, The Spark: A Mother’s Story of Nurturing, Genius, and Autism.

The book is based upon her memoirs that center around her caring for her son, Jacob, with autism. Pike has been cast to play the role of Barnett.

The story focuses on how Barnett decided to take Jacob out of special education classes, against her husband’s wishes, and how eventually at the age of 13, he became a quantum physicist.

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Rosamund Pike as Bond? Ed Miliband is the man with the Midas touch

THE GUARDIAN
Anne Perkins
April 1, 2015


 Pierce Brosnan and Rosamund Pike in Die Another Day. 'Pike has also been a Bond girl. This idea is the stuff of dreams.' Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar

The election campaign can stop here. There is not going to be a better idea. The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, thinks Rosamund Pike should be the next Bond. This is, simply, the perfect proposal – perfect for Bond and incidentally pretty good as a piece of political positioning, all the better for looking like the sort of off-the-cuff idea you would like your prime minister to be capable of having.

Pike is surely out in front as the actor of her generation. Most recently she was in Gone Girl as the woman who sat down and invented her life and also her husband’s; plausible, irresistible and icily cruel as she plotted the perfect revenge.

She was beautiful and funny in Lynn Barber’s wonderful film, An Education, in which she pulled off the even trickier feat of being thick too. She’s as brilliant on stage. Her genius was first confirmed to me when I saw her in the title role of the weird Madame de Sade at the Donmar Warehouse, subtly commanding attention even alongside Judi Dench.



Describing her like that makes her sound a bit overqualified for Bond. But Daniel Craig’s Bond is a more intelligent, nuanced creation than his predecessors, and the franchise would not be half as successful if it did not mature to keep pace with the more complex and demanding thrillers out there in the market. Pike could raise the bar. Or not. Stay with it, Sam Mendes, please.



There is, purists will argue, the gender thing. So far, the feminist revolution has been largely limited to comics. We pointed out last week that there is a thing going on in that world with feminist superheroes. If Thor can be a woman, so can Bond. (Idris Elba could obviously be Bond too, but that is a different piece).

What would be dazzlingly transformative about Pike as Bond is the effect on the mental landscape. The whole James Bond proposition is constructed around the idea of women as throwaway accessories, baubles recruited exclusively for what they say about Bond himself. It is true that Craig’s Bond has occasionally shown an approach marginally more evolved than the caveman, but still women are there – except Dench, who is M as in Mother – purely instrumentally.

Pike’s Bond would turn the whole premise on its head. Even better, she would do it completely differently. Pike as Bond would obviously be smart enough to crack a cypher, tough enough to withstand being doused repeatedly in icy water, and ruthless enough to make use as necessary of her licence to kill. While retaining the capacity to make dry asides about the gruesome fate of her enemies, she would not be casually exploitative of the people around her, or if she was, then only because it was a necessary, if nasty, aspect of her character, rather than on the basis of their gender, race, creed etc. Also, she has been a Bond girl. This is the stuff of dreams.


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Rosamund Pike Doesn’t Get Too Wild In Leopard-Print For Her Night On The Town!

PEREZ HILTON
3/20/2015 2:20 PM ET

Wow!

Can you even believe it's only been three months since Rosamund Pike gave birth??

The Gone Girl actress slayed award season with her svelte figure, but she took a more casual approach to dressing her post-baby bod in El Lay on Thursday.

Dressed in a babydoll coat, flared white dress, and white loafers, Rosamund must've been channeling her inner tween!

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Rosamund Pike and boyfriend Robie Uniacke welcome their second child into the world

DAILY MAIL
By MAILONLINE REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 21:06 EST, 4 December 2014 | UPDATED: 05:00 EST, 5 December 2014



Rosamund Pike and long-time boyfriend Robie Uniacke have welcomed their second child into the world.

The Gone Girl actress gave birth to a baby boy on Tuesday, her rep confirmed to Us Weekly.

The 35-year-old, who allegedly opted for a home birth, and her 53-year-old partner are already parents to two-year-old son Solo.

The actress started dating the businessman, a twice married father of four, three years before announcing her first pregnancy.

Eton educated Robie, a former heroin addict, was previously married to Emma Howard, 59, daughter of the late Earl of Carlisle with whom he has a son also called Robie.

The marriage ended unhappily and both checked into rehab clinics to deal with their addictions. His second wife, Rose Batstone, is an interior designer with whom he has three children.

Rosamund had previously hinted that marriage may not necessarily be for her, telling Vogue in 2012: ‘It is interesting to break all the rules. I'm not married, I have a baby, and it feels infinitely more right.’


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Rosamund Pike says marriage is over-rated: Hit film Gone Girl has made her a superstar, but her love life is a train wreck

DAILY MAIL
By GEOFFREY LEVY FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 17:33 EST, 10 October 2014 | UPDATED: 21:55 EST, 10 October 2014

Her past has all the ingredients for a blockbuster. It is the story of a beautiful English girl, educated privately and at Oxford, whose marriage dreams are twice destroyed in unique circumstances.

She first falls in love with a man who, after two intimate years, realises he is gay and now lives with a civil partner.

In the second reel, she falls in love with another man, they get engaged and buy a house. But when — unknown to him, apparently — she sends out ‘save the date’ pre-wedding cards to dozens of friends with a ‘tasteful’ picture of them in a hot tub, he is so appalled that he summarily dumps her.

This public humiliation is all the more puzzling as it befell a former Bond girl who has evolved into what the Mail’s theatre critic Quentin Letts describes as ‘one of the great beauties of our age’.

Not surprisingly, after such emotional blows, Rosamund Pike remains unmarried at 35. So it was telling when she said in an interview with Spectrum magazine that ‘people have ridiculous expectations of a mate’. She continued: ‘In my grandmother’s day, you wouldn’t expect your husband to fulfill the same need in you as your sister, or girlfriends, or colleagues at work.’

She then argued that it is not ‘universally achievable’ for just one person to meet all your needs.

After the disasters of two great loves, Rosamund now shares her life with former heroin addict and City businessman Robie Uniacke. He is a big, rather shambolic Old Etonian who is not only 18 years her senior but had two failed marriages behind him and four children when they met in 2010. Today they have a son, Solo, two, and she is expecting their second child.

Rosamund’s first love was actor Simon Woods, who, like Robie, was at Eton. He and Rosamund met and fell in love at Oxford, where both were studying English Literature. He was much envied by fellow undergraduates for having captured one of the most stunning girls at Oxford, and for two years she and handsome, charming Woods were inseparable.

But Simon had a secret. Unknown to Rosamund, he was beginning to doubt his sexuality. Eventually, he had to tell her.


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Fifth bride lucky for ladies man Sean Bean?

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To be fair to Sean Bean, he didn’t quite use the words “Never again”.

But he came pretty close, speaking not long after his last divorce three years ago, when he told a magazine interviewer: “Of course I believe in love.

"There is nobody who doesn’t believe in love.

"But marriage – that fits some people but obviously not me.”

Instead of worrying about his love life, he added, he would rather spend his time gardening.

But this weekend it’s a fair bet the autumn leaves are piling up unswept at his Italian-style house in a cobbled mews in North London’s exclusive Belsize Park.

That’s because he has marriage on his mind once more.

The 55-year-old actor, whose profile has soared with his roles in the blockbusting film trilogy The Lord of the Rings and the small-screen fantasy series Game of Thrones, has just popped the question to his 29-year-old girlfriend Ashley Moore and she has agreed to become the fifth Mrs Bean.

While that doesn’t quite put her four-times-divorced fiancé in the same league as serial knot-tiers Elizabeth Taylor and Zsa-Zsa Gabor, he’s getting pretty close to the tally of Henry VIII (by whom, incidentally, his character was once executed in a 2003 mini-series).

Born in Sheffield, where his father owned a steel firm, Shaun (as his name was spelled in those days) was 21 when he married his school sweetheart, hairdresser Debra James, in 1981.

On paper they lasted seven years but in reality the marriage was over as soon as it started.



Having taken a drama class at Rotherham College of Art & Technology, he moved to London to take up a place at Rada shortly after they wed.

They visited each other at weekends but it fizzled very soon.

“I’m very happy for him now,” Debra has said.

“I’m delighted he found something he really wanted to do and has made a real success of it.

"We were just two kids who fell in love.

"But it never worked out.”


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Rosamund Pike’s star quality shone through even as a 17-year-old playing Juliet in her stage début

DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 19:56 EST, 11 October 2014 | UPDATED: 10:50 EST, 12 October 2014



She might have been a fresh-faced innocent making her stage début – but Rosamund Pike clearly had an eye on stardom when she appeared as Juliet with the National Youth Theatre at the age of 17.

Now she is a hot tip for an Oscar for her starring role in the smash-hit thriller Gone Girl, and, at 35, has become one of Hollywood’s hottest sex symbols.

Yet she has revealed that as a teenager she had doubts about playing Shakespeare’s tragic heroine because she had never been in love herself.

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Rosamund Pike Dishes On Her 'Gone Girl' Sex Scene With Neil Patrick Harris

HUFF POST
By Curtis M. Wong
Posted: 10/02/2014 12:43 pm EDT Updated: 10/02/2014 12:59 pm EDT



Rosamund Pike dished about her upcoming sex scene with Neil Patrick Harris in the upcoming thriller "Gone Girl," which hits theaters Oct. 3.

The actress, 35, told Seth Meyers that preparing for the scene was "a very odd experience," noting that director David Fincher asked her and Harris to "rehearse this scene for two hours, alone, on an empty soundstage -- just Neil and myself."

"That is when it feels highly inappropriate," she added. "You're alone with a man who's not your husband who also has a husband ... he's in his underwear, you're in your underwear and you're sort of dry humping on a bed."

Harris, 41, tied the knot with husband David Burtka in Italy last month. He said the ceremony, which took place at a rented castle, was "less about a proclamation and more about a declaration that I was able to share in front of our kids, and that he could do back for me."

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Gone Girl, review: Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike excel in David Fincher film

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GEOFFREY MACNAB  Author Biography   Monday 22 September 2014



David Fincher’s Gone Girl (which opens the New York Film Festival later this week) is an immensely slippery, deceptive affair - and that’s what makes it so pleasurable. It’s a story in which the manipulation of the main characters by one another is matched by that of the audience by the filmmakers. The rug is continually being pulled from under our feet.

Early on, Fincher seems to be offering us a hardboiled thriller about a husband, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck), suspected of murdering his wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike). Like Cary Grant in Suspicion or Laurence Olivier in Rebecca, he’s a charming man who may have a very dark side. As the film progresses, the Hitchcock touches are combined with wildly melodramatic flourishes and some very funny, very caustic satirical sideswipes at the American media’s prurient obsession with sex, marriage, death and celebrity.

Affleck and Pike excel as the happily (or not so happily) married couple. As Nick, Affleck gets to reprise his likeable, American everyman routine while also portraying someone with a sleazy and possibly murderous side.

English actress Pike, playing an over-achieving Ivy League woman, gives the performance of her screen career so far - one, that more than a decade after her appearance in the James Bond movie Die Another Day (2002), looks set to establish her as an international star. She captures her character’s Martha Stewart-like perfectionism and romantic notions about love as well as her relentless drive. She’s a complicated and contradictory personality. “Complicated is code for bitch,” one character acidly notes of her.


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David Tennant, Rosamund Pike in What We Did On Our Holiday trailer

DIGITAL SPY
By Tom Eames
Wednesday, Jun 11 2014, 8:06am EDT



The film follows Doug (Tennant) and Abi (Pike) and their three kids, as they travel to the Scottish Highlands for Doug's father Gordie's (Connolly) birthday.

However, the parents soon realize that it is almost impossible for their children to keep a secret from the rest of the family.

The movie will be released at UK cinemas on September 26, 2014.

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Rosamund Pike: I hadn't seen a Bond film

INDEPENDENT WOMAN
UPDATED 18 APRIL 2014 12:08 AM



Rosamund Pike has admitted that she had never seen a James Bond film before she was cast in Die Another Day.

The actress, 35, played Bond girl Miranda Frost at the age of 21 following her very first film audition.

But she told W magazine: "Before I was cast as a Bond girl, I had never actually seen a James Bond movie."

She said that for the Bond audition she turned up, after returning from backpacking in China, "wearing something very thick and woolly" and noticed the other actresses looked very "sleek".

When impressed producers asked Rosamund to return with a dress, she turned up with a costume featuring silk roses down the front, a large skirt, and even a train.

"My idea of a dress was an operatic concert gown," Rosamund told the mag. "I quite proudly took the dress out at the second audition, and they all tried very hard not to laugh. They politely told me that in James Bond films, the women tended to look sort of slinky."


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Toby Stephens: 'British scripts often make my heart sink'

BBC
By Tim Masters
Entertainment correspondent, BBC News



He's been a Bond villain and his latest film has been compared to Blade Runner. So why does Toby Stephens think British screenwriters need to up their game?

Toby Stephens has some strong words to say about the British film industry.

"Generally, when I get sent British scripts - and this isn't a generalisation - nine times out of 10 my heart sinks after about three pages," Stephens says when we meet at Bafta in London to discuss his latest project.

The stage and screen actor, son of Dame Maggie Smith, stars in a new British sci-fi thriller The Machine, out this week, playing a scientist working on a top secret artificial intelligence project.

Directed by Caradog James, the film won the Raindance award at the British Independent Film Awards in December.

The story is set in a future Britain gripped by recession and locked in a Cold War with China.

Ministry of Defence scientist Vincent McCarthy (Stephens) is tasked with creating a super-intelligent android, but has his own personal agenda - to use the new technology to help his sick daughter.

The cast also includes Denis Lawson as McCarthy's militaristic boss and Caity Lotz as Ava, an artificial intelligence expert.

"This script came through and it blew me away. It's not about football violence, it's not about gangsters, it's not about some depressing estate," says Stephens.

"It's a no-budget sci-fi movie dealing with really interesting ideas about where we're headed. We will one day create a machine with something akin to human consciousness.

"When we do how are we going to treat them, and how are they going to treat us - and what does it mean for us as a species?

"I loved the idea - it had echoes of not just Blade Runner but also Frankenstein and Metropolis."

Reviews have picked up on The Machine's Blade Runner homages such as its Q&A tests to weed out android imposters and its Vangelis-like score.

"I remember going to the cinema to watch Blade Runner when I was 14 or 15," recalls Stephens.

"It was a huge flop when it came out. The cinema was almost empty. I was blown away by it. I liked that kind of sci-fi: 2001, Alien, Blade Runner, Silent Running - you could kind of believe them. I don't like total escapism."

An experienced theatre actor, Stephens' first feature film role was Othello in Sally Potter's Orlando, opposite Tilda Swinton in 1992.

He appeared in Trevor Nunn's film version of Twelfth Night (1996), and played the lead in 1997 romantic fantasy Photographing Fairies.



But Stephens' most widely known screen role is that of that of Bond baddie Gustav Graves in Die another Day, appearing alongside Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry and Rosamund Pike.

He has also played the part of James Bond in several radio adaptations of the Ian Fleming novels for BBC Radio 4.

The Machine marks the 44-year-old actor's first foray into movie science fiction.

"It's a weird hybrid," he says. "It's like an arthouse but it's also a sci-fi film. It was also seemingly ridiculously ambitious. It had no budget. It was a bit of a punt really."


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Rosamund Pike shows off sculpted abs as she hits beach with boyfriend Robie Uniacke and son Solo

MAIL ON LINE
By JASON CHESTER
PUBLISHED: 13:00 EST, 14 March 2014 | UPDATED: 21:34 EST, 14 March 2014



She’s braced for a return to the big screen in Ben Affleck’s cinematic adaptation of Gone Girl, the bestselling 2012 thriller by Gillian Flynn.

Stepping out in Hawaii this week, the only thing that appeared to be gone were Rosamund Pike’s clothes as she showed off a set of nicely sculpted abs.

The 35-year-old actress – a former Bond girl – has looked increasingly toned of late, and her recent outing in Southern California revealed the fruits of her healthy lifestyle as she padded across the sand in a pastel pink bikini.

Idling on the sand, the couple doted over their son, with Robie placing a hat on his head as Rosamund looked on.

The actress started dating the businessman, a twice married father of four, in December 2009, three years before announcing her pregnancy.

Eton educated Uniacke, a former heroin addict, was previously married to Emma Howard, 59, daughter of the late Earl of Carlisle with whom he has a son also called Robie.

The marriage ended unhappily and both checked into rehab clinics to deal with their addictions.
His second wife, Rose Batstone, is an interior designer with whom he has three children.

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Ben Affleck Curls Up With Lifeless Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl

E ON LINE!
by JORDANA OSSAD
January 8, 2014



Gone Girl fans, get your first look at Nick and Amy Dunne.

Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike, who portray the troubled married couple in the highly anticipated film adaptation of Gillian Flynn's thriller novel, are featured on the latest cover of Entertainment Weekly.

The eerie snapshot features the duo in a morgue, with Affleck curled up next to a lifeless but beautiful Pike. The 34-year-old British actress gazes wide-eyed at the ceiling and has an ID tag on her foot, while the 41-year-old Oscar winner holds her face and positions one of his legs on her sheet-wrapped body. A tray of tools to conduct an autopsy is featured next to the attractive duo.

Director David Fincher took the photograph for the magazine and came up with the mysterious idea.

Even if you read the book, don't expect the same twists and turns on the big screen.

Fincher, who adapted and directed Stieg Larsson's novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo in 2011, admitted that "we may have been too beholden to the source material."

"There was something thrilling about taking this piece of work that I'd spent about two years painstakingly putting together with all its eight million LEGO pieces and take a hammer to it and bash it apart and reassemble it into a movie," Flynn, a former EW writer, says.

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Rosamund Pike is 'go' to play Thunderbirds' Lady Penelope

LONDON EVENING STANDARD
ALISTAIR FOSTER
Published: 30 September 2013

Rosamund Pike will voice Lady Penelope in ITV’s reboot of Thunderbirds, it was announced today.

David Graham, who appeared in the original 1965 version, will reprise his role as her chauffeur and International Rescue agent, Parker.

Thunderbirds Are Go! will use a mix of CGI animation and live-action miniature sets and is due on screens in 2015.

Brains will be voiced by Fonejacker creator Kayvan Novak while Tracy brothers Gordon and John will both be played by Game Of Thrones star Thomas Brodie-Sangster.

Executive producer Giles Ridge said: “I can’t think of anyone better than Rosamund to bring back to life the fabulous Lady Penelope.”



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Rosamund Pike was an ugly duckling

CONTACT MUSIC
by Bang Showbiz | 01 September 2013

Rosamund Pike believes she was ''never an attractive teenager'' and is confident she gets offered a variation of roles because she's not pigeonholed as good looking.

Speaking to Total Film magazine, she said: ''I was never an attractive teenager or child. Then suddenly somebody found me attractive and it was a turning point.''

The blonde beauty previously said she gets ''really annoyed'' when people think she just gets hired for her looks and wants to be accepted as a ''good actress'' instead.

She said previously: ''I think being accepted as a good actress is all I ever wanted. That's the only stigma that comes with a Bond film - that people are quick to assume you were hired just for your looks.

''That kind of thing really annoys me because actually [director] Lee Tamahori hired me for something else.''


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Simon Pegg: Rosamund Pike's fillets stuck to me added: 5 Jul 2013 // by: Film-News.co.uk Newsdesk

Simon Pegg bonded with Rosamund Pike after one of her "chicken fillets" kept "sticking to him" during a love scene.

The actors star together in Hector and the Search for Happiness and had to record while almost naked.

The problems they experienced left Simon happy to open up to her about anything.



"We had to do quite a graphic love scene,” he told the latest edition of British Glamour magazine. “You wear these modesty things that cover your bits and for women you'll wear ones on the ends of your boobs so you don't look naked.

They were like chicken fillets and one kept sticking to me.”

The motion picture, which also stars Toni Collette, tells the tale of a psychiatrist who searches the globe to find the secret of contentment.

It is released in cinemas next year.

“Once you've done that with someone, you can really talk about anything," Simon giggled.

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Already the best of friends! David Tennant and Rosamund Pike share a hug on first day of filming new movie What We Did On Our Holiday By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

It can be difficult bonding with colleagues on the first day of a new job, but David Tennant and Rosamund Pike didn't appear to have any difficulties on Monday.

The duo were seen giving each other a friendly hug as they began work on their new movie What We Did On Our Holiday in Glasgow, Scotland. 

Former Doctor Who Tennant and Pike – an ex-Bond girl – are currently on location in the Scottish city while they shoot key scenes for the new BBC feature, about a couple who attempt to resolve their marital difficulties by travelling north of the border to visit relatives.

While script details remain sketchy, the pair appeared to be attempting a quick getaway during one scene – in which Pike is seen racing towards their car, her arms loaded with children's toys.

Dressed in a conventional striped top with turn-up jeans and colourful Converse trainers, the 34-year-old actress seemed to be in high-spirits as she shared a laugh with her co-star between takes.

She also ensured she was sensibly braced against the Scottish cold by climbing into a thick padded jacket whenever the cameras stopped rolling.

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David Tennant brings star quality to leafy Glasgow street (HERALD SCOTLAND)

FILM STARS: Rosamund Pike and David Tennant are filming What We Did On Our Holiday. 

Pictures: Nick Ponty

SCOTTISH actor David Tennant and a former James Bond girl provided an unusual sight in the leafy west end of Glasgow.

Tennant was filming scenes with actor Rosamund Pike, who appeared opposite Piers Brosnan in the blockbuster Die Another Day, at a property in Scotstoun.

The duo were working on the BBC movie What We Did On Our Holiday. Film cables littered the pavement outside the semi-detached home as Tennant fine-tuned his humorous role as Doug – a man whose marriage is in tatters. It centres on a dysfunctional family's return to Glasgow to celebrate a relative's birthday.

There was no sign of one of the comedy's other big stars, Billy Connolly, who plays a character called Georgie.

Children who were being picked up by their parents at Scotstoun Primary caught a glimpse of the famous stars.

Tracey Andrews, 43, who was collecting her son Ronnie, nine, said of Tennant: "I really wanted to get a picture with him."

The movie is being filmed in different locations across the Highlands and Glasgow until August 3. Other actors appearing in the film include Celia Imrie, and Ben Miller of Death In Paradise fame. No date for its release has yet been set.


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Sean Bean and Channing Tatum are 'Jupiter Ascending' with the Wachowskis (PRIDE SOURCE)

The crazy, heart-on-its-sleeve sci-fi epic "Cloud Atlas" didn't get the kind of love Andy and Lana Wachowski were looking for, but their latest project, "Jupiter Ascending," is reported to be much more like their mega-successful "Matrix" trilogy (and that's good for everyone's bottom line in the long run, since "Atlas" made about 35 cents at the box office). Of course, that doesn't mean anybody can adequately explain the new film's plot, which involves genetic superbeings who've been bred with animal DNA and the bounty hunters whose job it is to track them. But no matter, the Wachowskis are never boring, as though their own genetics were incapable of something so routine. It can be about anything, really, and nobody will accuse them of slacking.


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