September 4, 2009
RT Visits the Set of Cemetery Junction
"He won't do it," says Ricky Gervais, striding over to RT. He's referring to his round-headed friend Karl Pilkington. Last time we sat down with Gervais he'd suggested Pilkington -- co-star of his phenomenally successful podcast series with Stephen Merchant - as a film reviewer for the Tomatometer. "I said, 'They'll pay you £50.' He wasn't interested. I said, 'We'll dress you up as a giant tomato.' He went, 'Oh, this is getting better and better.'" But while Gervais has failed in that particular recruiting mission, he and Merchant are on fine form today. It's late July and RT has come to the Shepperton Studios set of Cemetery Junction, their first feature film together after success on the small screen with The Office and Extras.
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January 14, 2009
Steve McQueen Biopic in the Works
Variety reports that a Steve McQueen biopic, based on Marshall Terrill's biography "Steve McQueen: Portrait of an American Rebel," is headed for the screen. Let the casting speculation begin!
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August 22, 2007
Steve McQueen Returning to the Big Screen (Sort Of)
He was nicknamed "The King of Cool" during his Hollywood career, and even more than 25 years after his death, Steve McQueen still has enough pull to rate a biopic. Variety is reporting that producer Kevin Kasha has purchased the film rights to My Husband, My Friend, the memoir written by McQueen's first wife, Neile McQueen Toffel, about their 16-year marriage.
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September 8, 2005
Brosnan to Participate in "The Topkapi Affair"
FilmFocus' Joe Utichi brings some news from former Bond-sman Pierce Brosnan, and it looks like the class-act actor will be bringing Eric Ambler's novel "Light of Day" to the big screen. Adapted into the 1964 film "Topkapi," "Light of Day" will act as inspiration to "The Topkapi Affair," a rendition in which Mr. Brosnan will reprise his role from "The Thomas Crown Affair." (Got all that?)
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