Is the musical ‘Cats’ heading to the big screen? There are reports that director Tom Hopper is set to direct a new screen version of the popular musical. Hopper has previously directed the screen version of ‘Les Miserables’ and this year brought us ‘The Danish Girl’. Hopper also directed the popular film ‘The Kings Speech’ […]
Tags: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Broadway, Cats, helen mirren, Jezebel, Joanna Rothkopf, les miserables, musical, Prime Suspect, Ross Hannaford, Suki Waterhouse, The Danish Girl, The King's Speech, Tom Hopper
8 May 2016 /
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Tom Hooper’s film ‘The Danish Girl’ has been banned from screening in Qatar due to a number of online complaints accusing the work of ‘”depraved” content. The film draws from the story of one of the earliest known transgender pioneers, Lili Elbe – played by British actor Eddie Redmayne. The Guardian reports that citizens of […]
Tags: doha, Eddie Redmayne, qatar, The Danish Girl, tom hooper
12 Jan 2016 |
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The first posters have emerged for director Tom Hooper’s upcoming biopic ‘The Danish Girl’, which depicts the life of Lili Elbe – one of the world’s first known recipients of sexual reassignment surgery. Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne will be portraying Elbe, both as Lili Elbe and her prior male identity Einer Wegener, with Swedish actor […]
Tags: alicia vikander, david ebershoff, Eddie Redmayne, einer wegener, Lili Elbe, The Danish Girl
4 Aug 2015 |
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Two well-known actors have recently been announced as playing transgender characters in separate films. Eddie Redmayne, known for playing Marius in the 2012 screen adaptation of ‘Les Miserables’, will be playing a transgender women in the screen adaptation of the novel ‘The Danish Girl’. ‘The Danish Girl’ is a semi-fictionalized account of the life of […]
Tags: Eddie Redmayne, Elle Fanning, Film, Jared Leto, Laverne Cox, Lili Elbe, Naomi Watts, Susan Sarandon, The Danish Girl, Three Generations, transgender
6 Nov 2014 |
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