Tom Hiddleston Courted For ‘Ben-Hur’ Title Role

DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD
by Mike Fleming Jr
August 12, 2014 4:43pm




EXCLUSIVE: MGM, Paramount and Timur Bekmambetov set a February 26, 2016, release date on an epic remake of Ben-Hur; have they found their chariot driver in Tom Hiddleston? I hear that he’s the one the studios are courting to play Judah Ben-Hur in the adaptation of the 1880 Lew Wallace novel Ben-Hur: A Tale Of The Christ, which was the biggest-selling novel of its time until it was eclipsed by Gone With The Wind.

Hiddleston isn’t being fitted for a toga just yet. He has other projects vying for his services, including the MGM pic Me Before You. Keith Clarke, who scripted the Peter Weir-directed The Way Back, wrote the script that MGM pounced on after that company got ambitious following its emergence from bankruptcy and huge hits in Skyfall and The Hobbit. Mark Burnett and Roma Downey joined Sean Daniel and Joni Levin as producers, with Clarke and Jason Brown exec producing. Oscar-winning 12 Years A Slave scribe John Ridley wrote the last draft.


http://deadline.com/2014/08/sweet-chariot-tom-hiddleston-courted-for-ben-hur-title-role-818434/

Keira Knightley, Judy Garland: Hollywood costumes to go on display at Victoria & Albert Museum Sarah Shaffi Wednesday, October 10, 2012 (YOUR CANTERBURY CO)

Judy Garland's costume from The Wizard of Oz will be on display at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Picture: MGM/The Kobal Collection

Keira Knightley is seen with the dress she wore in the film Anna Karenina, which goes on display in the Hollywood Costume exhibition at the V&A. Picture: Ian West/PA Wire

Hollywood Costume will gather together more than 100 of the most iconic costumes designed for unforgettable cinema characters over a century of film-making.

Among the costumes on show will be Dorothy’s blue and white gingham pinafore dress designed by Adrian from The Wizard of Oz from 1939, Scarlett O’Hara’s green ‘curtain’ dress designed by Walter Plunkett for Gone with the Wind from 1939, and the ‘little black dress’ designed by Hubert De Givenchy for Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s from 1961.

Costumes from more recent Hollywood releases, including Consolata Boyle’s clothing for Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady and Keira Knightley’s costumes from Anna Karenina, will also be on display.

READ MORE: http://www.yourcanterbury.co.uk/home/hollywood_costumes_to_go_on_display_at_victoria_albert_museum_1_1651275

Another great British actress - Vivien Leigh, and a great comedienne, Carol Burnett

Vivien Leigh in a famous scene from her Academy Award winning performance in "Gone With the Wind".  Because she's actually broke she's wearing a dress her maid created from the drapes of Tara

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYk-ggwMFMs&feature=related


Carol Burnett in a similar scene




 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6bOpJ5elW8