A Neil Diamond bio-musical, with a score by the iconic singer-songwriter and a book by Bohemian Rhapsody writer Anthony McCarten, is heading to Broadway. Producers Ken Davenport and Bob Gaudio announced today that the as-yet-untitled project is in development.
Michael Mayer (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Spring…
EXCLUSIVE: Bohemian Rhapsody screenwriter Anthony McCarten will write the script and produce a narrative film based on Three Identical Strangers. The film, being mounted by Raw, Film4 and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, is based on the smash hit documentary film from last year.
McCarten has the unusual distinction of…
An admirer of great orators, looking for his next project after Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything—for which he was nominated for two Oscars—screenwriter Anthony McCarten found a natural fit in Joe Wright’s World War II drama, Darkest Hour. An unorthodox war film with no scenes taking place on the front…
After an impressive bow at the Toronto Film Festival, where the film spurred talk of Oscar nominations for director Joe Wright and star Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour writer/producer Anthony McCarten and editor Valerio Bonelli talked Deadline’s first The Contenders London audience through their gripping period piece…
EXCLUSIVE: Add Pope Francis to Netflix’s continually growing TV and movie roster names. The streaming service is moving forward with the feature film The Pope, with Jonathan Pryce tapped to play the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, and Anthony Hopkins in talks to play his predecessor Pope Benedict. The film will…
EXCLUSIVE: Producer Michael De Luca has teamed with Yoko Ono, The Theory Of Everything scribe Anthony McCarten and Josh Bratman on an untitled feature drama about the love story between Ono and Beatles icon John Lennon. McCarten will write the script and produce with Ono, De Luca Productions' De Luca, and Immersive…
EXCLUSIVE: He shall fight on the beaches. Gary Oldman is in talks to play Winston Churchill in Brit production powerhouse Working Title’s Darkest Hour. Joe Wright is directing the epic drama, which takes place in 1940 as Churchill becomes Prime Minister in the midst of World War II and faces a moment of truth. Anthony…
EXCLUSIVE:Joe Wright is in talks to direct Brit production powerhouse Working Title’s Winston Churchill pic Darkest Hour. The director, who has a long history with Working Title co-toppers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, seems perfectly suited to the material, which takes place in 1940 as Churchill becomes Prime Minister…
EXCLUSIVE: The pieces are being put back together the pieces of the movie on Queen and the band’s iconic lead singer Freddie Mercury. The project has been adrift since Sacha Baron Cohen pulled out over creative differences with the surviving members of the band. GK Films has hired as its new writer Anthony McCarten…
EXCLUSIVE:Â Justin Kurzel is readying what looks likely to be his next project and it’s a humdinger: an adaptation of Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark’s book The Siege: 68 Hours Inside The Taj Hotel. The book recounts in terrifying detail the terrorist attack in 2008 on the iconic Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in India by a…
EXCLUSIVE: After The Theory Of Everything garnered five Oscar nomination including Best Picture, writer-producer Anthony McCarten, producer Lisa Bruce and Working Title partners Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan have set a 2016 production start and are re-teaming for the epic WWII dramaDarkest Hour. Working Title acquired…
