Strong word is Joe Wright has emerged as a front - runner and has an established relationship with Focus and Universal having directed period dramas PRIDE & PREJUDICE, ANNA KARENINA, as well as romantic
war drama ATONEMENT and action - thriller HANNA.
Not exact matches
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 7, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS
Atonement (R for profanity, sexuality and disturbing
war images) Decades - spanning romance
drama, opening in England in 1935, about the budding relationship between a rich girl (Keira Knightley) and the son (James McAvoy) of her family's maid aborted when he is falsely accused of a crime by her jealous younger sister (Saoirse Ronan).
Combined with the
drama of
war, «Ali & Nino» is a cross between «
Atonement» and «Love and...
Gary Oldman steps into the imposing persona of Winston Churchill in Joe Wright's (Pride and Prejudice,
Atonement) period
drama set in the early years of the Second World
War, when Churchill's rousing leadership inspired a nation.
Those early years included a turn as Hugh Laurie's son in the short - lived series, Fortysomething; starring as Stephen Hawking in the TV movie, Hawking, and Vincent van Gogh in the TV movie, Van Gogh: Painted with Words; and roles in period
dramas Atonement, The Other Boleyn Girl,
War Horse and Parade's End.