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Post by sophiero on Mar 4, 2010 10:16:18 GMT -5
Brian Cox! A fellow Scotsman, bet he and Gerry will get along great!
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Post by I'm in Oklahoma Gerard! on Mar 4, 2010 10:27:53 GMT -5
I am so excited for this movie! I can't wait for it to hit theaters!
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Post by canadia on Mar 5, 2010 12:44:34 GMT -5
Gerard Butler - Gerard Butler Training For 'Coriolanus' www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/gerard-butler-training-for-coriolanus_1134378Gerard Butler is in training to prepare for his role in Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut, an adaptation of Shakespeare tragedy 'Coriolanus'. Gerard Butler is in training for his role in Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut 'Coriolanus'. The Scottish actor - who is currently promoting 'The Bounty Hunter' with Jennifer Aniston - is heading to Belgrade to start shooting the movie, in which he plays rebel leader Tullus Aufidius, and he is currently bulking up. He said: "Tullus is totally fearless and I'm getting in shape and having fight training. War's not supposed to be fun, but I'm looking forward to making the film with Ralph." The story - which was originally a tragedy written by legendary English playwright William Shakespeare - tells the tale of a hero of Rome who is banished from the city only to return with its sworn enemy in an effort to avenge his honour. Speaking about his character, Gerard told Daily Mail columnist Baz Bamigboye: "I'm playing Tullus Aufidius, the general of the Volscian rebel forces. They're the underdogs and Tullus is Coriolanus' sworn, hated enemy - but Coriolanus respects him. "They have shed blood on the battlefield and there's an admiration they have for each other." As well as directing the movie, Ralph plays titular character Coriolanus, while recent BAFTA Academy Fellowship honouree Vanessa Redgrave also stars. The movie is still in production and does not yet have a preliminary release date
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Post by sophiero on Mar 5, 2010 14:20:50 GMT -5
It's looks like Gerry is going for the lean and muscular look for this film, from recent photos we've seen. He's getting pretty thin. Bet he can hardly wait to get on set....
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Post by canadia on Mar 10, 2010 12:33:39 GMT -5
Redgrave, Cox join Ralph Fiennes and Gerard Butler in 'Coriolanus' March 10, 10:02 AM Ralph Fiennes begins filming his directorial debut, Coriolanus, in Belgrade next week. (Icon International)The Hollywood Reporter confirms that Vanessa Redgrave and Brian Cox have joined the cast of Ralph Fiennes' directorial film debut, Coriolanus. The two veteran thesps join Fiennes, Gerard Butler, John Kani, Paul Jesson, James Nesbitt, Ashraf Barhom, Lubna Azabal and Jessica Chastain for the production, which begins filming in Belgrade next week. Fiennes plays Coriolanus who is at odds with the city of Rome and his fellow citizens. Butler plays his sworn enemy, Tullus Aufidius. Pushed by his controlling mother (Redgrave) to enter the Senate, Coriolanus is loath to ingratiate himself with the masses whose votes he needs to secure a Senate seat. When the public refuses to support him, Coriolanus's anger prompts a riot, which culminates in his expulsion from Rome. The banished hero then allies with his sworn enemy (Butler) to take his revenge on the city. The film, penned by John Logan (The Aviator), will use Shakespeare's language combined with modern technology and a contemporary environment. The Hurt Locker cinematographer Barry Ackroyd and sound mixer Ray Beckett are key members of the crew. Butler started his acting career in a 1996 London stage production of Coriolanus at the Mermaid Theatre, directed by Stephen Berkoff. www.examiner.com/examiner/x-30536-Gerard-Butler-Examiner~y2010m3d10-Redgrave-Cox-join-Ralph-Fiennes-and-Gerard-Butler-in-CoriolanusJames Nesbit is that wonderful Irish actor who starred in the series Jekyl, amongst a whole host of othe things, that cast just gets better and better.
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Post by canadia on Mar 10, 2010 12:54:26 GMT -5
Another article Ralph Fiennes starts on Coriolanus (UKPA) – 29 minutes ago Ralph Fiennes will begin shooting his directorial debut Coriolanus next week. The award-winning British actor will also star in the historic epic alongside Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave and Brian Cox when filming begins in Belgrade, Serbia, on March 17 Rest of article www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5iPKDVu2NYNR3OW6L6nzLTWykhzHAIt does sound like they can shoot all the initial stuff without Gerry if they shoot in chronological order and in this case they may have no choice - the stuff with Coriolanus trying to secure a Senate seat causing a riot and being banished....
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Post by canadia on Mar 10, 2010 12:59:47 GMT -5
And yet another article today Ralph Fiennes filming "Coriolanus" in Serbia Wed Mar 10, 2010 4:32pm GMT By Aleksandar Vasovic BELGRADE (Reuters Life!) - After two years struggling to win funding amid the global financial crisis, actor Ralph Fiennes said Wednesday he would start filming his directorial debut of a Shakespeare tragedy next week in Serbia. Filming of "Coriolanus" will start in Belgrade on March 17 in the country's highest profile movie project in decades, and is expected to last two months, the British actor said in an interview. In the movie, Fiennes also plays the leading role of Coriolanus, a Roman general who betrays his native city Rome and allies with his sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius for revenge. "Shakespeare is always examining in his plays how society functions ... he always looks at the fallibility of leadership," he said in Belgrade, which is still emerging from wartime isolation under nationalist leadership in the 1990s. "We see the necessity for the strong leadership, but also how the human element can corrupt leadership." Fiennes, who was nominated for Academy Awards for his roles in the "The English Patient" and "Schindler's List," said he chose Belgrade rather than better known locations in Eastern Europe because "there's a spirit to Belgrade which I liked and responded to. "There's history in the stones and I needed the weight of a capital city," he said. "There was an eagerness which was inspiring." In 2007, Fiennes first visited Belgrade where he teamed up with a local production house. It took him two years to secure funds, described by producer Colin Vanes as "a medium budget for a European movie." Fiennes said his project felt the pinch of the economic downturn: "Last year I thought I had funds and it fell away. It's been a challenge." Most of the filming will be done in the Serbian parliament building and other locations in Belgrade, which offers settings from the Roman era, a medieval Serbian state and buildings destroyed by NATO aircraft during the 1999 bombing of then Yugoslavia. Fiennes will direct a script by John Logan, who also worked on "Gladiator," "The Aviator" and "The Last Samurai." The actor said he and Logan wanted to make the play -- written 400 years ago -- by using the original lines in a contemporary urban setting. "Coriolanus as a play is thought to be difficult ... as the text is very dense," Fiennes told Reuters. "We've edited it quite aggressively and this is the case with Shakespeare adaptations, you have to lose a lot of text ... but the narrative lines of Coriolanus are very dynamic." Gerard Butler, who starred in "The Phantom of the Opera," plays Afidius, and others in the heavyweight cast include Brian Cox and Vanessa Redgrave, who plays Coriolanus' overbearing mother Volumnia. Fiennes said his past acting role as the evil wizard Lord Voldemort in the "Harry Potter" movies impacted casting of children, as some were afraid to meet him. (Editing by Adam Tanner and Paul Casciato) uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE62939720100310
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Post by canadia on Mar 10, 2010 13:10:23 GMT -5
And another, each one has a bit different take, sorry for repetition www.totalfilm.com/news/ralph-fiennes-to-direct-and-star-in-coriolanusRalph Fiennes might have only just finished dusting himself off from work on Clash of the Titans, but it seems the star will be donning his sandals once again for Roman epic Coriolanus. Adapted from Shakespeare’s historical tragedy of the same name, Fiennes will star as the eponymous General, who finds himself expelled from Rome when the public turn against him. Not one to take such a slight lying down, Coriolanus soon joins forces with sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius (Gerard Butler) to take his revenge on the Eternal City. And if Aufidius is even half as angry as 300’s Leonidas, the Romans should be very afraid indeed… The film will be Fiennes’s first outing behind the camera, and he’s assembled quite the cast for his first attempt, with Vanessa Redgrave and Brian Cox adding gravitas to a stellar lineup. Filming kicks off next week in Belgrade, with The Hurt Locker’s Oscar-winning cinematographer Barry Ackroyd heading up the crew. We haven’t had a good Shakespeare adaptation in a while now, and as an accomplished Shakespearean actor himself, Fiennes could be just the man to deliver one. We’re also looking forwards to seeing Gerard Butler in something a bit sturdier than the half-baked romcoms his agent keeps signing him up for! Fingers crossed Coriolanus will do the trick. Ready for another swords-and-sandals epic? Let us know!
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Post by sophiero on Mar 10, 2010 14:29:54 GMT -5
It sounds like Gerry won't be needed until the last week of March then.... at that point all the promotion duties should be wrapped up.
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Post by canadia on Mar 10, 2010 15:03:28 GMT -5
I am even thinking beginning of April - has anyone read the play and remember at one point Tullus comes into it, at the one third mark the half way the last third perhaps? I hope it is at least the half way mark....do you think the play is online? Well of course it's been adapted too so they may cut out sections of the play or rearrange them as they did with Mel Gibson's Hamlet. When is Easter?
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Post by sophiero on Mar 10, 2010 16:34:07 GMT -5
It's been years since I've read that play, since college in fact and that's going back to the stone age.... I thought it was a bore (loved MacBeth and Much Ado about Nothing though). And feel asleep during a local rep production here in town- but it was a pretty awful production. I'll just wait to see what RF can do with the material, age may give me a new outlook on the play. Here's the Wikipedia plot description: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolanus
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Post by canadia on Mar 10, 2010 18:19:32 GMT -5
Very true Sopheiro, I remember I never really cared for Hamlet in high school, the Scottish play is my all time favourite play [sadly the theatre production of it I saw this summer was very disappointing, even with the wonderful Colm Feore as MacBeth, and I hate to say this but the Roman Polanski film of MacBeth is actually a very good one, I was pleasantly surprised] however when older I loved the movie Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and along with Franco Zepphirelli's Hamlet with Mel Gibson I actually had some ah ha moments and the play finally clicked in my head. Shakespeare was a clever rascal.
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Post by Dianne on Mar 11, 2010 4:27:38 GMT -5
It's been years since I've read that play, since college in fact and that's going back to the stone age.... I thought it was a bore (loved MacBeth and Much Ado about Nothing though). And feel asleep during a local rep production here in town- but it was a pretty awful production. I'll just wait to see what RF can do with the material, age may give me a new outlook on the play. Here's the Wikipedia plot description: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoriolanusThanks Soph for the thoughtful link.. Karma
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Post by canadia on Mar 11, 2010 14:40:33 GMT -5
Interview of Ralph Fiennes regarding Coriolanus Culture&Showbiz INTERVIEW: Ralph Fiennes, Hollywood actor ‘Quince rakija has enchanted me’ A. Novakovic | 11. 03. 2010. - 08:41h | Foto: M. Periæ | Komentara: 0 Ralph Fiennes, who begins shooting Coriolanus on 17 March in Belgrade, speaks in an interview for Blic and confirms he is thrilled with what he has seen in Serbia, the domestic actors and especially with quince rakija [fruit brandy]. Fiennes explains why he has decided to film an adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy in Belgrade. How did you come to a decision to pick Belgrade as the shooting location for Coriolanus? - “I needed an important and big capital city and I didn’t want it to be Rome, but any contemporary city. Given this is a modern interpretation of Shakespeare, Rome just wasn’t the suitable location because Rome of today is reminiscent of a mighty state like the USA or Russia, and I wanted it to be something different. I’ve come to realize here in Belgrade that a lot of history is reflected through buildings. This is a capital city with a great history. I have been to Bucharest and Zagreb, but Belgrade has always been the first choice for me. Initially, I was attracted by Belgrade’s spirit and later I realized this was an ideal filming location.” Coriolanus is bound to be a big challenge for you, as this will be your maiden directorial experience, while you also play one of the leading roles and co-produce the film. - “I am lucky to have a great crew from Serbia and the UK, and I’ve been working on the script with John Logan for almost three and a half years. This is a big challenge and there are bound to be days when I will regret getting involved in this all, but deep inside I believe in this undertaking and we’ll see how it all pans out.” What is your opinion of the Serbian actors Dragan Micanovic and Slavko Stimac? - “I met Dragan Micanovic at the shooting of White Countess and I saw him here in a theatre play when he played a woman character in The Merchant of Venice. I’ve known Slavko for a while and I can tell you he was great when we were rehearsing our lines one evening. You really do have fantastic actors here in Serbia as well as a long theatre tradition, which is probably why it’s now even stronger than that of London and I’m really flattered to be filming here.” Given the fact you have been to Serbia on many occasions, what dish have you come to like? - “I adore the Serbian cuisine, you have excellent restaurants here, but I’ve simply been enchanted with the quince rakija.” There are always fears and prejudice when there is an adaptation of a Shakespeare play. - “For me, the most important thing is the link between Shakespeare and the modern world. His language is universal, portraying the same problems, family drama and conflicts. Essentially, the Shakespeare’s humanity is the humanity of the modern world. I think Laurence Olivier’s Henry V was a marvellous interpretation.” Did it take long to get Gerard Butler to accept a part in Coriolanus? - “No, he instantly liked the role and he quickly agreed to do it. Also, I am extremely happy a great actress such as Vanessa Redgrave will be playing Coriolanus’ mother Volumnia, because the essence of the film is the relationship between the two of them.” english.blic.rs/Culture-Showbiz/6145/Quince-rakija-has-enchanted-meRalph Looks like he is going for the bearded look as well.
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Post by canadia on Mar 12, 2010 13:23:28 GMT -5
Mr. Fiennes is so articulate, he adds something new each time he is interviewed: www.backstage.com/bso/news-and-features-news/ralph-fiennes-filming-coriolanus-in-serbia-1004074707.storyExcerpts: Ralph Fiennes Filming 'Coriolanus' in Serbia By Aleksandar Vasovic March 11, 2010 PHOTO CREDIT John MacDougall BELGRADE – After two years struggling to win funding amid the global financial crisis, actor Ralph Fiennes said on Wednesday he would start filming his directorial debut of a Shakespeare tragedy next week in Serbia. Filming of "Coriolanus" will start in Belgrade on March 17 in the country's highest profile movie project in decades, and is expected to last two months, the British actor told Reuters in an interview. In the movie, Fiennes also plays the leading role of Coriolanus, a Roman general who betrays his native city Rome and allies with his sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius for revenge. "Shakespeare is always examining in his plays how society functions ... he always looks at the fallibility of leadership," he said in Belgrade, which is still emerging from wartime isolation under nationalist leadership in the 1990s. "We see the necessity for the strong leadership, but also how the human element can corrupt leadership." ............. Most of the filming will be done in the Serbian parliament building and other locations in Belgrade, which offers settings from the Roman era, a medieval Serbian state and buildings destroyed by NATO aircraft during the 1999 bombing of then Yugoslavia. Fiennes will direct a script by John Logan, who also worked on "Gladiator," "The Aviator" and "The Last Samurai." The actor said he and Logan wanted to make the play -- written 400 years ago -- by using the original lines in a contemporary urban setting. "Coriolanus as a play is thought to be difficult ... as the text is very dense," Fiennes told Reuters. "We've edited it quite aggressively and this is the case with Shakespeare adaptations, you have to lose a lot of text ... but the narrative lines of Coriolanus are very dynamic." ............... Fiennes said his past acting role as the evil wizard Lord Voldemort in the "Harry Potter" movies impacted casting of children, as some were afraid to meet him.
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