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Neve Campbell is the wild card in a new real-time British gangster film about four drug dealing punks trying to figure out which one of them has $4 million in cash.
It took ten years, but after debuting at the 1998 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and being staged in London’s West End the following spring, the play Matchstalk Man is finally set to be turned into a movie. Unfolding in real time, the black comedy adaptation takes place mostly in a derelict, abandoned warehouse, where four small-time hoodlums on the run from police engage in a game of cat and mouse to figure out where the cash proceeds from an illicit cocaine sale has gone. The film will mark the directorial debut of theater veteran Alexander Holt and will feature Neve Campbell playing the part of Pansy, one of the four conniving principals. Also attached to the film alongside Campbell are Billy Boyd (The Lord of the Rings), Kelly Reilly (Mrs. Henderson Presents) and Jamie Foreman, son of 1960’s London gangster Freddie Forman. ‘Matchstalk Man is a film about atmosphere, claustrophobia and above all characters and plot racing to a final conclusion which should leave the audience gasping, heads reeling and wanting more,’ Holt writes on the film’s official website. ‘We will be paying homage to a variety of styles using different formats e.g. for fantasy flashbacks, imagine the style of Tim Burton meets Quentin Tarantino; for the present grittiness of the warehouse, imagine Michael Mann meets Danny Boyle.’ Further bolstering the Matchstalk Man cast are a pair of co-stars with notable roles in recent musical biopics: Toby Kebbell, who played Joy Division manager Rob Gretton in the fantastic 2007 British film Control; and Leo Gregory, who portrayed Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones in the 2005 drama Stoned. Holt tells the Hampstead and Highgate Express that he and his partners have raised $2 million to shoot their $4 million caper and hope to roll cameras this summer for a planned February 2009 release. Other projects in the works from production company Quicksilver Films include the futuristic sci-fi thriller The Last Olympian and the thriller No Reason. (FilmStew
According Hollywood Reporter, Neve and Tim Roth have joined Sebastian Kich in the cast of “Sea Wolf’, the $20 million adventure two-parter from Herbert Kloiber’s Tele-Munchen Group for RHI Entertainment and German public broadcaster ZDF.
Koch will star as the crazed seaman Wolf Larson in the new adaptation of the Jack London classic. Roth will play his brother and rival Death Larsen while Campbell will star as Maude, a runaway bride who lands on Wolf’s ship.
Shooting is set to start in Halifax, Canada at the end April for delivery this fall. ZDF will air the series in Germany with RHI handling U.S. rights.
Universal Pictures have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of Closing the Ring on 21st April 2008 priced at £19.99. This tale of love, loss and redemption from director Richard Attenborough stars Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton, Pete Postlethwaite and Brenda Fricker.
In 1991, a small American town mourns the passing of Chuck Harris; father, husband and Second World War veteran. His widow, Ethel (Shirley MacLaine), refuses to mourn, drowning herself in alcohol and cigarettes as she neglects her hysterical daughter, Marie (Neve Campbell). A phone call from a young Irishman, claiming to have found a ring belonging to Ethel, reawakens Ethel’s lifetime of heartache and reveals the deeply hidden secrets of her love life.
As the narrative travels back in time we see the young, beautiful and confident Ethel (Mischa Barton), deeply in love with farmer Teddy (Stephen Amell), who goes to war with his best friends Jack (Gregory Smith) and Chuck (David Alpay), but not all of them make it back alive…
Extras include 30 minutes of interviews with Lord Attenborough, Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer & Mischa Barton.
Variety reports that Neve Campbell (“Scream” trilogy, Wild Things) has joined biopic Vivaldi, with Joseph Fiennes, Gerard Depardieu, Jacqueline Bisset, Lena Headey, Malcolm McDowell, Elle Fanning and Carice van Houten.
The movie is about Antonio Vivaldi’s early life, when the young priest became the music teacher at a school for the illegitimate daughters of Venice’s courtesans.
Campbell will play a Venetian courtesan with access to the city’s most powerful men in the pic, which is being produced and directed by Boris Damast.
We finally get a look at the UK trailer for Closing the Ring which is scheduled for release on December 28, 2007. The Works distribution company uploaded the trailer to YouTube which you can view here or via the embedded file below. Thanks to Christopher-Plummer.com for the heads up!
Bradley Whitford (“The West Wing”) and Neve Campbell are set to star in “Burn Up,” a four-hour global-warming thriller from scribe Simon Beaufoy (The Full Monty) and director Omar Madha (“MI5″).
U.S.-based Alchemy Television is distributing the project globally and is already talking to American networks about acquiring the two-parter, which comes from Kudos Film and Television and Seven24 Films. BBC2 and Global Television will air it in England and Canada, respectively.
In addition to Whitford and Campbell, British actor Rupert Penry-Jones (Casanova) is set to star in “Burn Up.” He’ll play the head of a fictional oil company whose life comes apart as he’s pulled into a global game of intrigue. Campbell will play an oil company staffer who’s secretly working with environmentalists, while Whitford will appear as an oil industry lobbyist.