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variety.com - 1/5/2009

John Curran to direct 'Damned' - Entertainment News, Film News, Media

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Filmmaker to helm Keira Knightley drama John Curran is set to direct "The Beautiful and the Damned," a Film Department period drama that will star Keira Knightley. Pic begins production in March. Hanna Weg script concerns the turbulent marriage of alcoholic writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his ...

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getthebigpicture.net - 1/5/2009

Keira's 'The Beautiful and the Damned' Gets a Director

— getthebigpicture.net — Keira Knightley's next period drama, the Scott and Zelda bio-pic 'The Beautiful and the Damned,' has a... new director. John Curran , most recently of another period piece, 'The Painted Veil,' will be behind the camera when production starts in March. (more) Keira's 'The Beautiful and the Damned' Gets a Director

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John Curran set as 'The Beautiful and the Damed' Director
FilmWad — John Curran will direct The Beautiful and the Damned starring Keira Knightley.  According to Variety Lance Sloane and Devin Sloane are producing with Mark Gill and Robert Katz while Neil Sacker and Michael Goguen are exec producing. Hanna Weg script concerns the turbulent marriage of alcoholic writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his mercurial wife Zelda Sayre, who was schizophrenic. The tempestuous relationship, which unfolded in the high society of the Roaring '20s, inspired some of the novelist's works. Fitzgerald has become quite hot in Hollywood: His short story inspired the David Fincher-directed ...

Jazz age romance of Fitzgerald and Zelda heads for big screen
Film | guardian.co.uk — ... Their tempestuous relationship was reputedly the basis for some of his most famous works. Now the story of F Scott Fitzgerald and his novelist wife Zelda Sayre is to made into a Keira Knightley-starring film called The Beautiful and the Damned, reports Variety. ...

Keira's 'The Beautiful and the Damned' Gets a Director
Get The Big Picture — ... which is a sort of bio-pic of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre, with writer Hanna Weg covering the couple's incredibly stormy marriage. It's a good time to make a Scott and Zelda movie, with Benjamin Button in theaters and reports that Baz Luhrmann has just purchased the rights to Fitzgerald's best-known story, The Great Gatsby. And now, The Beautiful and the Damned has a new director, according to Variety . John Curran , most recently of another period ...

John Curran to direct Knightley in 'Damned'
The Screening Log — John Curran is set to replace Nick Cassavetes as director for Film Department's upcoming period drama "The Beautiful and the Damned." The film is set during the Roaring '20s and centers on the extravagant lifestyle and turbulent marriage of alcoholic writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda Sayre, a schizophrenic. Hanna Weg wrote the script for the film, and Keira Knightley is on board to star. Curran's credits include the decent "The Painted Veil" and "We Don't Live Here Anymore." As for Fitzgerald, one of his short stories recenely inspired David Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin ...

Keira Gets Damned By Someone New
Cinema Blend News — ... the insanely successful romance The Notebook , son of legendary director John Cassavetes-- but he's not a guy who screams "high-toned period piece." Luckily, John Curran is, and he's replaced Cassavetes as the director of The Beautiful and the Damned , the story of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his totally loony wife, Zelda. Keira Knightley, of course, will be starring as Zelda-- is there a period piece she won't star in?-- and has been on board since Cassavetes was the director. Variety doesn't explain what happened to Cassavetes, just that he "fell out along the way," ...

Morning Deal Report: Horton Hears a Hex
The Screengrab — Horton Hears a Who director Jimmy Hayward has lined up his next gig: he’ll be bringing DC comics gunslinger Jonah Hex to the screen. “The character of Hex, known for having the right side of his face disfigured and wearing a Confederate army uniform, was a rough-and-tumble gunslinger and part-time bounty hunter whose adventures always ended in blood,” notes The Hollywood Reporter. Josh Brolin is attached to star as Hex. The Painted Veil director John Curran will direct Keira Knightley in The Beautiful and the Damned. “Hanna Weg script concerns the turbulent marriage of alcoholic writer F. ...