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Is ‘Cats’ heading to the big screen?

Is ‘Cats’ heading to the big screen?

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’ […]

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The Danish Girl pulled from Qatar cinemas

The Danish Girl pulled from Qatar cinemas

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 […]

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First Look: Eddie Redmayne as trans icon Lili Elbe

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 […]

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Eddie Redmayne and Elle Fanning to Take On Trans* Roles

Eddie Redmayne and Elle Fanning to Take On Trans* Roles

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 […]

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