Middlemarch: "What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?" Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes has announced that he will make the first big-screen version of George Eliot's 1871 novel Middlemarch. Andrew Davies, who created the 1994 Middlemarch mini-series for the BBC, is currently writing the script; filming will begin next year. Says Davies: "It's strange to be revisiting [Middlemarch] again and trying to cut it down to two hours...I'm struggling with that at the moment. I think, though, it'll be like the last one I did but I'll make it more of a love story... I'm going to concentrate on the four main characters. It'll be much more romantic and emotional than the series. And I think Sam wants Kate Winslet [Mendes's wife] to play Dorothea. I don't think she'll be able to say no, will she?" Shown here: Rufus Sewell as Will Ladislaw and Juliet Aubrey as Dorothea Brooke in the BBC mini-series. Read more...Wolfman: "Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright." It looks like Anthony Hopkins may be joining Benicio Del Toro in the cast of Wolfman, a remake of the 1941 Lon Chaney Jr. horror classic, which tells the story of a man who returns from America to his ancestral home in Victorian-era Britain only to be bitten by a werewolf and turned into one himself. Shooting starts this fall; Mark Romanek will direct; script by Andrew Kevin Walker. Read more...
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