The newly knighted Kenneth Branagh returns as grizzled and brooding Swedish detective Kurt Wallander to UK screens soon (best guess is July) for a third series of "Wallander" based on two of the novels and one of the short stories by Henning Mankell.
Speaking about the three telemovies with The Guardian, the main arc for this series will be Wallander's relationship with his adult daughter after the death of his father (David Warner).
Branagh says he hopes to turn the remaining two key novels - 'The White Lioness' and 'The Troubled Man' - into the basis for a fourth and final series.
"We've been talking of doing The Troubled Man [Mankell's recent and final Wallander mystery] in two parts, maybe with The White Lioness as well. That might provide a strong arc over what would probably be the final three English Wallanders. That would be my instinct" says Branagh.
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Speaking about the three telemovies with The Guardian, the main arc for this series will be Wallander's relationship with his adult daughter after the death of his father (David Warner).
Branagh says he hopes to turn the remaining two key novels - 'The White Lioness' and 'The Troubled Man' - into the basis for a fourth and final series.
"We've been talking of doing The Troubled Man [Mankell's recent and final Wallander mystery] in two parts, maybe with The White Lioness as well. That might provide a strong arc over what would probably be the final three English Wallanders. That would be my instinct" says Branagh.
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- 6/21/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Ever since Kenneth Branagh directed Thor, one of last year’s hit superhero films, he’s had several opportunities open up for him. However, upon turning down the chance to direct the sequel, he has opted instead to fill his slate with a multitude of other projects.
The ones that have already been spoken of include a romantic drama that will star Anthony Hopkins and Judi Dench, the untitled Jack Ryan film, and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, which will star Kate Winslet. Now he has announced yet another project, a drama involving The Troubles, “a decades-long political conflict that spread across Northern Ireland,” where Branagh was born.
Here’s what he had to say about the project:
What’s always appealed to me was to tell a story about my own experience: a generational thing about my time in Belfast, a particular slice of dockside, working-class,...
The ones that have already been spoken of include a romantic drama that will star Anthony Hopkins and Judi Dench, the untitled Jack Ryan film, and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, which will star Kate Winslet. Now he has announced yet another project, a drama involving The Troubles, “a decades-long political conflict that spread across Northern Ireland,” where Branagh was born.
Here’s what he had to say about the project:
What’s always appealed to me was to tell a story about my own experience: a generational thing about my time in Belfast, a particular slice of dockside, working-class,...
- 6/21/2012
- by Jeff Beck
- We Got This Covered
My, wouldn’t you say Kenneth Branagh has been getting around? Dropping Thor 2 really opened the fellow’s schedule to a wide, slightly varied berth of projects — among them, the untitled Jack Ryan reboot, a romantic drama starring Anthony Hopkins & Judi Dench, and the Kate Winslet-led Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. While I imagine, in light of this next news, that at least one would have to be sacrificed for the sake of both scheduling and, I’d say, relative convenience, it’s still fascinating to see him hop around. And because he directed a superhero movie!
Next up, Branagh has told The Guardian (via ThePlaylist) that he’ll, eventually, tackle a drama that sheds some light on his own Belfast childhood — particularly in relation to the Troubles, a decades-long political conflict that spread across Northern Ireland. Here was his quote on the prospective outing:
“What...
Next up, Branagh has told The Guardian (via ThePlaylist) that he’ll, eventually, tackle a drama that sheds some light on his own Belfast childhood — particularly in relation to the Troubles, a decades-long political conflict that spread across Northern Ireland. Here was his quote on the prospective outing:
“What...
- 6/20/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
While "Thor" will move on without him, Brit multi-hyphenate Sir Kenneth Branagh (yep, he was knighted this week) has certainly been kicking around plenty of other directorial efforts, including an adaptation of Henning Mankell's "Italian Shoes" with Anthony Hopkins and Dame Judi Dench, "The Guernsey Liteary And Potato Peel Pie Society" with Kate Winslet and an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" as well as recently boarding the long-gestating Jack Ryan reboot with Chris Pine.
On top of all this, though, Branagh is evidently working on a project much closer to home; a Belfast-set semi-autobiographical political drama based his own childhood experiences on the brink of The Troubles, an erratic time of political unrest in Britain. "What's always appealed to me was to tell a story about my own experience: a generational thing about my time in Belfast, a particular slice of dockside, working-class, Protestant life. I have an almost photographic...
On top of all this, though, Branagh is evidently working on a project much closer to home; a Belfast-set semi-autobiographical political drama based his own childhood experiences on the brink of The Troubles, an erratic time of political unrest in Britain. "What's always appealed to me was to tell a story about my own experience: a generational thing about my time in Belfast, a particular slice of dockside, working-class, Protestant life. I have an almost photographic...
- 6/20/2012
- by Simon Dang
- The Playlist
Kenneth Branagh used to find playing Wallander so grim, he went to flower shows to cheer himself up. Vicky Frost joins the newly knighted actor in Sweden to talk about the latest series – and his plans to write a drama about his Belfast childhood during the Troubles
You don't often see Kurt Wallander smiling. Frowning, yes; considering something deeply, yes; worrying away at a problem, yes – but not smiling, let alone grinning. Yet, as I watch the Swedish detective climb out of his Volvo and carry in his shopping, he is looking positively contented. Kenneth Branagh, playing the Swede, is delighted I have arrived on set in time to witness such a moment. "It's very rare!" he says after the scene has been shot. "I had to write the smile on my script so I would remember it."
The low farmhouse behind us is still being warmed by the lazy Swedish sun.
You don't often see Kurt Wallander smiling. Frowning, yes; considering something deeply, yes; worrying away at a problem, yes – but not smiling, let alone grinning. Yet, as I watch the Swedish detective climb out of his Volvo and carry in his shopping, he is looking positively contented. Kenneth Branagh, playing the Swede, is delighted I have arrived on set in time to witness such a moment. "It's very rare!" he says after the scene has been shot. "I had to write the smile on my script so I would remember it."
The low farmhouse behind us is still being warmed by the lazy Swedish sun.
- 6/17/2012
- by Vicky Frost
- The Guardian - Film News
A timely film about EU top dog Hans Tietmeyer, a German economist, is the latest slippery biopic from the Irish artist, whose past subjects include car-making conman John DeLorean
"I'm not putting this accurately, but approximately," explains the apologetically unreliable narrator in Duncan Campbell's latest documentary, Arbeit, hinged around the influential German economist Hans Tietmeyer. The same might be said for all the Irish artist's slippery biopics, which have tackled such fiery characters as Irish republican Bernadette Devlin, who once punched a Tory home secretary in the face for suggesting British soldiers had only fired in self-defence on Bloody Sunday, and John DeLorean, the dashing but dastardly entrepreneur behind the eponymous sports car that took Michael J Fox back to the future.
With old newsreels, photography and commercials, Campbell builds contrary tales of people, time and place, in which the picture is forever shifting depending on who is holding the camera.
"I'm not putting this accurately, but approximately," explains the apologetically unreliable narrator in Duncan Campbell's latest documentary, Arbeit, hinged around the influential German economist Hans Tietmeyer. The same might be said for all the Irish artist's slippery biopics, which have tackled such fiery characters as Irish republican Bernadette Devlin, who once punched a Tory home secretary in the face for suggesting British soldiers had only fired in self-defence on Bloody Sunday, and John DeLorean, the dashing but dastardly entrepreneur behind the eponymous sports car that took Michael J Fox back to the future.
With old newsreels, photography and commercials, Campbell builds contrary tales of people, time and place, in which the picture is forever shifting depending on who is holding the camera.
- 11/10/2011
- by Skye Sherwin
- The Guardian - Film News
Notes on a Political Journey, which has been shortlisted for the Grierson award, revisits the life of an extraordinary and uncompromising woman
She survived an assassination attempt, but Bernadette Devlin is best remembered as the 21-year-old Irish republican from Ulster who, in 1972, strode across the floor of the House of Commons to punch Reginald Maudling, home secretary of the Conservative government. His grave mistake had been to suggest that the British army had fired only in self-defence on Bloody Sunday when they shot dead 13 civil rights protesters.
Now 64, a new documentary, Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey revisits the life of a woman who still holds the record as Britain's youngest elected female MP. The documentary, which took almost 10 years to make, is about political passion, courage and commitment from two women who still spark with both. Devlin today works in a cross community organisation that advocates for immigrants,...
She survived an assassination attempt, but Bernadette Devlin is best remembered as the 21-year-old Irish republican from Ulster who, in 1972, strode across the floor of the House of Commons to punch Reginald Maudling, home secretary of the Conservative government. His grave mistake had been to suggest that the British army had fired only in self-defence on Bloody Sunday when they shot dead 13 civil rights protesters.
Now 64, a new documentary, Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey revisits the life of a woman who still holds the record as Britain's youngest elected female MP. The documentary, which took almost 10 years to make, is about political passion, courage and commitment from two women who still spark with both. Devlin today works in a cross community organisation that advocates for immigrants,...
- 10/15/2011
- by Maggie O'Kane
- The Guardian - Film News
Youth Culture History, Margate
The Turner Contemporary has already put Margate on the art map since it opened in its new home on the Kent coast in April, and now this spin-off from their current youth culture exhibition livens up the local film scene with two vintage double bills. First up is a skinhead pairing of This Is England and Mike Leigh's Meantime – the latter with a young Gary Oldman on fine, loutish form. Then on Sunday, the clock winds further back to the 1960s biker gangs of The Leather Boys and Liverpudlian thriller Violent Playground, both quality dramas and faithful records of the postwar teen scene.
Carlton Cinema Westgate, Sat & Sun
Document 9, Glasgow
This grassroots human rights documentary festival is Scotland's largest, and in no danger of running out of subject matter. This year's theme is A Year Of Protest and there are hundreds of long and short...
The Turner Contemporary has already put Margate on the art map since it opened in its new home on the Kent coast in April, and now this spin-off from their current youth culture exhibition livens up the local film scene with two vintage double bills. First up is a skinhead pairing of This Is England and Mike Leigh's Meantime – the latter with a young Gary Oldman on fine, loutish form. Then on Sunday, the clock winds further back to the 1960s biker gangs of The Leather Boys and Liverpudlian thriller Violent Playground, both quality dramas and faithful records of the postwar teen scene.
Carlton Cinema Westgate, Sat & Sun
Document 9, Glasgow
This grassroots human rights documentary festival is Scotland's largest, and in no danger of running out of subject matter. This year's theme is A Year Of Protest and there are hundreds of long and short...
- 10/14/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
The remarkable political life of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey.
She was the youngest ever female MP. She once punched the Home Secretary in the face. And she was shot seven times in an assassination attempt – it would be hard not to make an interesting film about the life and career of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey.
Doolan’s intimate and evocative documentary certainly captures the sense of the whirlwind that blew through British and Irish politics in the late Sixties. The Troubles had recently flared up and the Civil Rights movement, modelling itself on the mass protest...
She was the youngest ever female MP. She once punched the Home Secretary in the face. And she was shot seven times in an assassination attempt – it would be hard not to make an interesting film about the life and career of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey.
Doolan’s intimate and evocative documentary certainly captures the sense of the whirlwind that blew through British and Irish politics in the late Sixties. The Troubles had recently flared up and the Civil Rights movement, modelling itself on the mass protest...
- 10/13/2011
- by Jeff Robson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Lelia Doolan's Northern Irish documentary 'Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey' has been shortlisted for the Grierson Award for Best Documentary at this year's BFI London Film Festival. 'Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey' explores the political life of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey during the 1960's for a period of nine years. It scooped Best Feature Documentary at this year's Galway Film Fleadh, where it had its world premiere.
- 10/4/2011
- IFTN
Olga Kurylenko and Rupert Friend star in Axelle Carolyn's feature horror film debut as director, while Aisling Walsh (she directed the horror pic Daisy Chain) is set to direct the true-life thriller Devlin.
British film company Intandem is set to produce both.
The Haunted is a ghost story written by Carolyn herself, about a widow who moves to the English countryside only to find out her home is haunted. Shockingly, she develops a relationship with the spirit and slowly learns to overcome her grief. But is he malevolent? Or is he even real? Carolyn's feature should be out in 2012. We're excited about it and will be writing more as it comes available!
Aisling Walsh, a veteran filmmaker, is tackling the story of Bernadette Devlin, the youngest woman MP ever elected in the Irish government. She was, unfortunately for her, an activist against the occupation of northern Ireland by Britian,...
British film company Intandem is set to produce both.
The Haunted is a ghost story written by Carolyn herself, about a widow who moves to the English countryside only to find out her home is haunted. Shockingly, she develops a relationship with the spirit and slowly learns to overcome her grief. But is he malevolent? Or is he even real? Carolyn's feature should be out in 2012. We're excited about it and will be writing more as it comes available!
Aisling Walsh, a veteran filmmaker, is tackling the story of Bernadette Devlin, the youngest woman MP ever elected in the Irish government. She was, unfortunately for her, an activist against the occupation of northern Ireland by Britian,...
- 8/10/2011
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
John Michael McDonagh's debut feature 'The Guard' has been awarded Best Irish Feature at the Galway Film Fleadh. Best First Feature was jointly awarded to both Darragh Byrne's 'Parked' and Terry McMahon's 'Charlie Casanova' at the annual festival's closing ceremony which took place on Sunday July 10th. Best Feature Documentary went to Lelia Doolan's 'Bernadette: Notes on a political Journey' which follows the story of political activist Bernadette McAliskey for nine years.
- 7/11/2011
- IFTN
A month after my first interview with Sally Hawkins was canceled after she lost her voice, there's still a raspiness in her throat that's at odds with her otherwise indefatigable spirit. Yet both are evidence of a 2010 in which Hawkins has appeared in three films to hit the States this fall -- "Never Let Me Go," "It's a Wonderful Afterlife" and "Made in Dagenham" -- and stood toe to toe with Cherry Jones on Broadway in a revival of George Bernard Shaw's "Mrs. Warren's Profession." (This isn't even to mention the three on the way in 2011: the dramas "Desert Flower" and "Jane Eyre" and the Sundance-bound comedy "Submarine," which I felt was one of the best at this year's Toronto Film Festival.) In the midst of this incredibly busy season for the actress, Hawkins took the time to talk about overcoming shyness, why there truly are no small...
- 12/14/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Made in Dagenham, the story of the Ford women's strike, is being rated by Us critics as the next Full Monty
Nervous, petite and a bit shy, Sally Hawkins is about to become one of Britain's most successful exports – and to give the town of Dagenham an unexpected moment of international glory.
The 34-year-old actress from south London has played starring roles in six films due for release this year and next, and the first to hit cinemas will tell the story of the 1968 strike at the Ford car works.
Made in Dagenham also stars Miranda Richardson, Jaime Winstone, Andrea Riseborough and Rosamund Pike, with Bob Hoskins and Kenneth Cranham playing the male leads. The film celebrates the 300 women machine workers at the car plant who walked out when their demand for the same pay grading as the men in the factory was refused. Their action led to the introduction...
Nervous, petite and a bit shy, Sally Hawkins is about to become one of Britain's most successful exports – and to give the town of Dagenham an unexpected moment of international glory.
The 34-year-old actress from south London has played starring roles in six films due for release this year and next, and the first to hit cinemas will tell the story of the 1968 strike at the Ford car works.
Made in Dagenham also stars Miranda Richardson, Jaime Winstone, Andrea Riseborough and Rosamund Pike, with Bob Hoskins and Kenneth Cranham playing the male leads. The film celebrates the 300 women machine workers at the car plant who walked out when their demand for the same pay grading as the men in the factory was refused. Their action led to the introduction...
- 7/26/2010
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
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