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Universal Planning Serge Gainsbourg Pic
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Universal Planning Serge Gainsbourg Pic The life of the iconic French warbler BY James White Nov 25th 2008 7:07AM FILED UNDER: Movie news Be the first to comment Universal has decided to launch a French-language arm, and the company s first release will be a film based on the life of Je t aime singer Serge Gainsbourg. Variety reports that Eric Elmosnino will play Gainsbourg, who was known not only for his singing but for his string of famous, beautiful lovers, including Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin. Sexy French model Laetitia Casta has signed on as Bardot, while Anna Mouglalis will play fellow singer Juliette Greco, who ...
Paul Schrader Books for Bollywood. Trade Roughage 11/25/08
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Paul Schrader is reportedly done with Hollywood. His next film will be a Bollywood production titled Extreme City. The action pic will be a cross-cultural story, though probably more Bollywood-style than Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire; it won’t be a masala film but is likely to have a few more musical numbers.
Universal is producing a French-language biopic of Serge Gainsbourg, which will neither be animated in claymation nor with Thunderbird-like puppets, despite what you might suspect after seeing Variety’s choice of photo. It will instead ...
Shooting To Begin On Serge Gainsbourg Biopic In January
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The Serge Gainsbourg biopic, "Vie Heroique," will reportedly begin shooting this January in Paris, France. Helming the project is comic-book artist Joann Sfar, who will be making his directorial debut. We reported on the casting for the film back in September, but the trades has been sluggish with news and have just now reacted to the biopic. The project will document the life of hard-living French music legend, Serge Gainsbourg, who passed away in 1991. Sfar will also be penning the screenplay, but intends to stay away from the traditional biopic, such as last ...
Morning Deal Report: Paul Schrader Goes Bollywood
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“Saying he feels the U.S. film market has become ‘barren,’ the writer of classics Taxi Driver and Raging Bull is packing his bags for Mumbai to write and direct the Bollywood action movie Extreme City,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. Paul Schrader is working on the script for this “cross-cultural tale that will center on an American man who travels to India to help resolve a kidnapping case for his father-in-law, only to get caught up in a gangster plot. There likely will be some musical numbers, and dialogue will be spoken in English and Hindi.” Call me crazy, but I’m intrigued. ...
