Benedict Cumberbatch In Costume Drama? OTB Meets the People Behind BBC Drama ‘Parade’s End’ August 1, 2012 by Jack Sharp (ON THE BOX)

After a 30-year absence, the prolific playwright Sir Tom Stoppard is set to return to the BBC with Parade’s End, a five-part drama adapted from a quartet of novels by Ford Madox Ford. Part funded by HBO and with a reported budget of £12 million, the miniseries is rumoured to be the most expensive production ever broadcast on BBC Two, but like many other recent British dramas, the story takes place around the First World War.

Sherlock’s Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Christopher Tietjens, a conservative English gentleman trying to contend with his unruly, adulterous wife at the centre of the piece and despite his fame on these shores, when the Beeb suggested him to American producers, they took some convincing.

“There was really on a tiny handful of people that we felt could play him,” Susanna White, the director of the upcoming series explains. “And Benedict just seemed so right to us.”

“This was a couple of years ago though and HBO weren’t sure who he was. They took some persuading’. We said, ‘Trust us, he’s a truly great actor, and by the time Parade’s End has come out everyone will have heard of him”.

Sherlock has since gained much attention in the States and his roles in the new Star Trek film and The Hobbit haven’t done his profile in America much harm either. “Of course, now everyone over there has heard of him,” she adds with a wry smile.




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"Hemingway & Gellhorn" HBO, Monday, May 28th at 9pm (INDIEWIRE)

"Hemingway & Gellhorn"
HBO, Monday, May 28th at 9pm

Clive Owen plays a growly Ernest Hemingway to Nicole Kidman's fiery Martha Gellhorn in this HBO original film, the first feature from Philip Kaufman since 2004 (check out our interview with the director). Arriving fresh from an out-of-competition screening at Cannes, the film tracks the turbulent romance between the famous novelist and the fearless war correspondent, who fall in love when covering the Spanish Civil War but who clash over roles in marriage. Kaufman weaves archival footage into this sprawling drama to place his cast in wartorn landscapes, but it's the larger-than-life movie stardom of his two leads that really gives the film an old-fashioned sensibility.


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Clive Owen trapped in elevator 2 WENN.COM FIRST POSTED: SUNDAY, MAY 27, 2012 10:49 AM ED (TORONTO SUN)

British actor Clive Owen cancelled a number of appointments at the Cannes Film Festival this week  after he was trapped in an elevator with his daughters.

The Sin City star attended the French movie event to promote his new film Hemingway & Gellhorn with co-star Nicole Kidman, but the trip took a turn for the worse when he got stuck in a packed lift at the Hotel Majestic Barriere.

Owen was with his two young daughters Hannah and Eve and two people had fainted by the time they were freed, according to Britain's The Sun.

The actor then cancelled a number of press interviews so he could comfort his girls, who were upset by the ordeal.

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Clive Owen’s lift terror at Cannes Film Festival (THE SUN)

Two people in the packed lift had fainted by the time the actor and his daughters Hannah and Eve were finally freed at the Hotel Majestic Barriere.

Clive cancelled interviews about his movie Hemingway And Gellhorn – in which he plays hardman writer Ernest Hemingway – so he could comfort his girls.

His co-star Nicole Kidman said when she heard why he hadn’t turned up for the promos: “I couldn’t have been in there with my kids, how awful.”

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'Hemingway & Gellhorn': Love is a battlefield in the HBO movie Stormy lovers Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn are played by Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman in the film directed by Phil Kaufman.By Scott Timberg, Special to the Los Angeles Times May 20, 2012 (LA TIMES)

Most writers can only daydream about meeting — in the flesh — the characters they've imagined. But for Ernest Hemingway, one afternoon in Key West, Fla., it came close to actually happening. One day when the writer was in his mid-30s, hanging out at a local fisherman's bar, he spotted a woman uncannily similar to the strong-willed, sexually liberated heartbreaker from his first novel.

"It's as if, borne on the sea foam, she emerged — out of his own mind," says director Phil Kaufman. "The woman of his dreams, of his own writing, came into his life."

Kaufman is not musing idly; he's recently completed directing a film about the relationship between the burly novelist and Martha Gellhorn, the intrepid war correspondent whom Kaufman sees as reminiscent of Lady Brett Ashley from "The Sun Also Rises."

After Gellhorn walked into Sloppy Joe's bar on that day in 1936, her life, like that of the novelist, was fundamentally altered. Hemingway — married at the time to Pauline Pfeiffer, his second wife — urged Gellhorn, still establishing herself as a writer, to go with him to cover the Spanish Civil War. There the two began a romance, and they were later married in what proved to be a passionate but often difficult union.


As Kaufman sees it, Hemingway's enthusiasm and support lighted a spark in Gellhorn, but that's where things got complicated. "He ignited it," says Nicole Kidman, who plays the journalist with an assertive spirit. "But once he ignited it, I don't think he wanted that flame to grow."

By the end of the marriage, things had gotten emotionally and physically brutal. But along the way, the two went on a wild ride, both as lovers and as witnesses to history, including the early stirrings of the Chinese Revolution.

"There was this five-, six-year tussle with her," says Kaufman. "It's a very mythical kind of relationship they had: She's a Hemingway heroine. The problem being: Is that what he really wanted in real life?"

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HBO Canada Presents Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen in Hemingway & Gellhorn Canada NewsWire TORONTO, May 16, 2012 (DIGITAL JOURNAL)

HBO Films' latest epic, directed by Philip Kaufman, premieres Monday, May 28 at 9:00 p.m. ET/MT, day-and-date with HBO in the US

TORONTO, May 16, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - Recounting one of the greatest romances of the last century - the passionate love affair and tumultuous marriage of literary master Ernest Hemingway and trailblazing war correspondent Martha Gellhorn - HBO Films' Hemingway & Gellhorn comes to HBO Canada, a multiplex channel of Astral's The Movie Network (Eastern Canada) and Corus Entertainment's Movie Central (Western Canada), on Monday, May 28 at 9:00 p.m. ET/MT.



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Clive Owen On Playing Ernest Hemingway For HBO (HUFFINGTON POST)

The Huffington Post | By Alex Suskind


Clive Owen recently sat down with Moviefone to discuss his work in "Sin City," "Children of Men" and, his latest film, "Intruders." However, he also spent a few minutes talking about his upcoming TV role: playing Ernest Hemingway in the HBO special, "Hemingway and Gellhorn."

When it came to researching the late writer, Clive made sure no stone was left unturn.

So you are about to play Ernest Hemingwawy in HBO's "Hemingway and Gellhorn." Besides slugging whiskey and shooting bears, what sort of preparation did you do for the film? 
A lot, actually. I took months out and traveled a lot. I went to his house in Cuba. I went to Hemingway's Paris, Hemingway's Madrid, read everything . It was an amazing project. It was a wonderful script. Philip Kaufman is such a great director. And obviously [acting] with Nicole Kidman -- it was one of those rare [movies] that felt like a real gift.

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Clive Owen: Another great teaser for Hemingway & Gellhorn (CINEMA BLEND)

Author: Jesse Carppublished: 2012-03-19 21:08:51

HBO Films' Hemingway & Gellhorn stars Academy Award nominee Clive Owen and Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman in the titular roles of Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn. Billed as an epic motion picture event, the made-for-television movie will explore the tumultuous romance between the two writers that began, endured and ultimately came to an end as the pair covered several historic international conflicts. The nine year marriage that, spanning the Spanish Civil War through World War II, saw the literary legend and pioneering female correspondent create some of the most memorable pieces of war journalism "couldn’t survive was the war between themselves" (from the official synopsis).


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Clive Owen: HBO Films Teases Hemingway & Gellhorn Starring Clive Owen And Nicole Kidman (CINEMA BLEND)

Author: Jesse Carp
published: 2012-03-13 20:12:33

Billed as an epic motion picture event, it really does look like HBO Films pulled out all the stops for their upcoming movie Hemingway & Gellhorn. Starring Academy Award nominee Clive Owen and Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman in the two titular roles (Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn), the made for television movie follows the famous romance between the writers. Their marriage was as passionate and tumultuous as the conflicts they covered with their relationship lasting nine years from the Spanish Civil War through World War II.

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