The Girl Most Likely To…: Giedroyc Returns with Novel Coming-of-Age Dramedy
In several respects, the trajectory of How to Build a Girl isn’t inherently new—a cross between Louisa May Alcott and Amy Schumer in Trainwreck as it deliberates on female authorship and a young woman learning to find her authentic self. Based on the novel/memoir by Caitlin Moran, the project is a return to narrative filmmaking for Coky Giedroyc, who has worked in television for the past two decades, last on hand in the cinema with 1999’s Women Talking Dirty (a title which could have worked here also based on a novel concerning an outspoken woman who transforms those around her) and presents Beanie Feldstein with a novel opportunity to play a 1990s British teen outsider who breaks into music journalism with a bombastic alter ego.…...
In several respects, the trajectory of How to Build a Girl isn’t inherently new—a cross between Louisa May Alcott and Amy Schumer in Trainwreck as it deliberates on female authorship and a young woman learning to find her authentic self. Based on the novel/memoir by Caitlin Moran, the project is a return to narrative filmmaking for Coky Giedroyc, who has worked in television for the past two decades, last on hand in the cinema with 1999’s Women Talking Dirty (a title which could have worked here also based on a novel concerning an outspoken woman who transforms those around her) and presents Beanie Feldstein with a novel opportunity to play a 1990s British teen outsider who breaks into music journalism with a bombastic alter ego.…...
- 5/9/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
A big and much-needed hit for ABC and broadcast TV this season has been The Good Doctor, starring Freddie Highmore as an extraordinarily talented and autistic medical wunderkind. Highmore had only three days between moving from his long-running Bates Motel series, in which he played the iconic Norman Bates, to the new series, as he told me when he visited our Deadline studios to appear on this week’s edition of my video series The Actor’s Side.
Only 26, Highmore is already an industry veteran having starred in high-profile projects as a kid including Finding Neverland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, both opposite Johnny Depp. In this episode we talk about those early films, his showbiz break, how creepy it was playing Norman Bates (and how he still misses it in some ways), and of course his transformation into The Good Doctor. I also ask him about how a...
Only 26, Highmore is already an industry veteran having starred in high-profile projects as a kid including Finding Neverland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, both opposite Johnny Depp. In this episode we talk about those early films, his showbiz break, how creepy it was playing Norman Bates (and how he still misses it in some ways), and of course his transformation into The Good Doctor. I also ask him about how a...
- 4/25/2018
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
David Furnish and Elton John have a hit on their hands and box office takings are up on last year. Impossible? Both are true
The winner
Twelve years after it unveiled its first movie Women Talking Dirty, David Furnish and Elton John's production company Rocket Pictures has finally come good with animation Gnomeo and Juliet, a bonafide hit with £2.92m in three days at the UK box office.
While Women Talking Dirty and Rocket's second attempt It's a Boy Girl Thing suggested that producer Furnish was, in American parlance, not ready for primetime, Gnomeo & Juliet indicates that hard lessons have now been learned. Given the film's commercially appealing outcome, it's reasonable to assume that the successive contributions by a total of nine screenwriters saw the long-in-development film gradually come into focus. Credit goes to director/co-writer Kelly Asbury (Shrek 2) and the producer team that patiently shepherded the film into production over many years.
The winner
Twelve years after it unveiled its first movie Women Talking Dirty, David Furnish and Elton John's production company Rocket Pictures has finally come good with animation Gnomeo and Juliet, a bonafide hit with £2.92m in three days at the UK box office.
While Women Talking Dirty and Rocket's second attempt It's a Boy Girl Thing suggested that producer Furnish was, in American parlance, not ready for primetime, Gnomeo & Juliet indicates that hard lessons have now been learned. Given the film's commercially appealing outcome, it's reasonable to assume that the successive contributions by a total of nine screenwriters saw the long-in-development film gradually come into focus. Credit goes to director/co-writer Kelly Asbury (Shrek 2) and the producer team that patiently shepherded the film into production over many years.
- 2/15/2011
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
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