Burns - Aggiornamenti sulla produzione

Ancora voci che fanno sperare che Burns si faccia....

http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/thegeek...-on-how-he.html

Vadim explained that his history studies were essential in helping him research his proposed film on the world-famous Scottish poet Robert Burns, for which he hopes to cast Gerard Butler in the lead role. He's currently developing the script.

(sta sviluppando la sceneggiatura...piano piano eh!)

Voglio crederci,voglio crederci voglio crederciiiii!!!


Butler Protagonista del film BURNSSSSSS


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/s...icle5581288.ece

From The Sunday Times
January 25, 2009
Butler to star in Burns movie
The long-awaited film based on the life of Scotland’s favourite son is to start filming this year
Stuart MacDonald

A biopic of Robert Burns, starring the Scots actor Gerard Butler, will begin shooting in Scotland this year.

The £5m production, which has been beset with financial difficulties, will begin filming following the launch of a government-backed campaign to raise funding.

Glasgow-born Butler, 39, has starred in blockbusters including The Phantom of the Opera and 300. The script has been written by Greenock-born Alan Sharp, who penned Rob Roy, the 1995 blockbuster starring Liam Neeson.

The film, which will be directed by Vadim Jean, a French film-maker, and produced by James Cosmo, a Scots actor, will be shot on location in Edinburgh and Burns’s native Ayrshire.

Most of the budget, which includes investment from Scottish Screen, is already in place. The remainder will be raised by signing up 250 “subscribers” to the project.

Each will commit a sum to the project in the same way that investors backed the publication in 1786 of the famous Kilmarnock Edition of Burns’s poetry. The success of the collection convinced Burns to stay in Scotland rather than emigrate to Jamaica, as he had planned.

Alex Salmond, the first minister, will host a dinner at Edinburgh Castle in May to help raise funds.

The film, titled Burns, will be the first big-screen biopic of the poet since the 1930s. It will focus on his love affairs with his wife Jean Armour and Agnes McLehose, also known as Clarinda, an Edinburgh society hostess.

“Robert Burns is rightly regarded as Scotland’s favourite son,” said Salmond.

“It would be great for Scotland if Burns could be immortalised in modern film, particularly as we mark the 250th anniversary of his birth this year and celebrate his genius through Scotland’s Year of Homecoming.”

Qui c'è l'indirizzo dell'Official site:

http://www.robertburnsmovie.com/press.htm

In effetti è una votazione sterile...se è vera la ntoizia data dal Sunday Times!

Sulla notizia,addirittura un video:

http://news.stv.tv/entertainment/71975-but...in-burns-movie/


Butler to star in Burns movieScotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, has pledged his support to a new feature film on the life of Robert Burns starring Gerard Butler

Alex Salmond, Scotland’s First minister, today pledged his support to the last stage of fund-raising for a new feature film about the life of Robert Burns.

The film, written by Alan Sharp, who wrote Rob Roy, is to be directed by French director Vadim Jean and will star Gerard Butler, the actor from Paisley who is best known for his starring roles in beefcake movies such as 300 and Beowulf.

Butler, currently a hot property in Hollywood, has been attached to the movie for some time but there have been substantial difficulties in raising the finance for it.

Now, with investment from Scottish Screen behind it, an ingenious scheme to recruit 250 subscribers to bridge the final funding gap has been launched and principal photography is expected to go ahead later this year in Ayrshire and Edinburgh. The figure of 250 mirrors the 250 subscribers who clubbed together to bring out the first, or Kilmarnock, edition of Robert Burns’ poems in 1786.

Salmond will host a dinner at Edinburgh Castle in May to help raise funds. He announced the fund-raising scheme at the Homecoming Burns Supper in Alloway on Saturday night, the official launch of the Year of Homecoming, just before proposing the health of Robert Burns at the end of the dinner.

Butler said: “Scotland is very proud of Burns. It’s a great honour to be asked to play him. He had the most extraordinary and colourful of lives.”

The Supper took place at the Brig o’ Doon House Hotel, close by the Auld Brig o’ Doon, where Burns’ famous character Tam o’ Shanter so nearly met his fate, on the day before Burns Night. Although the menu featured the traditional haggis, neeps and tatties, the form of the evening dispensed with most of the traditional format of various toasts and speeches.

Instead there were a series of dramatic and music performances relating to various aspects of Burns’s life and work, performed by some of Scotland’s leading actors and singers, including Karen Matheson, Siobhan Redmond, Iain Robertson and Sandi Thom.