The Weinstein Company has announced that it has acquired US rights to Jonathan Teplitzky’s The Railway Man, starring Academy Award-winner Colin Firth, Academy Award-winner Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, Stellan Skarsgard, Sam Reid, Tanroh Ishida and Hiroyuki Sanada. Featuring a screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce and Andy Paterson, The Railway Man was produced by Paterson, Chris […]
Days after the movie first made waves with its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, Jonathan Teplitzky’s The Railway Man, starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman, has debuted its first international trailer. Based on Eric Lomax’s autobiography, Firth plays Lomax, an engineer with a passion for trains who is captured by the Japanese during […]
Colin Firth is adding another spy role to his to-do list, in addition to Matthew Vaughn’s “The Secret Service” (guess what it’s about), the actor has just been cast in another spy flick, “A Foreign Country”, based on Charles Cumming’s so-named novel and produced by Silver Reel and Raindog (who are also behind another of […]
Nicole Kidman will play Colin Firth’s wife in The Railway Man, as Rachel Weisz has had to drop the role due to scheduling conflicts with The Bourne Legacy and Oz The Great and Powerful per Variety To be directed by Jonathan Teplitzky, the drama is based on the best-selling autobiography by Eric Lomax which is […]