Post by HELENA MARIA on Sept 21, 2018 10:41:35 GMT
Nicole Kidman and Ralph Fiennes are negotiating to star together in a film about the discovery of Anglo-Saxon treasures at Sutton Hoo.
The actress told me she and Fiennes had read Moira Buffini's script, adapted from John Preston's novel The Dig — a fictionalised look at the excavation of a royal burial chamber in Suffolk in 1939, where a 90ft-long ship was entombed 1,400 years earlier.
Kidman said the 'delicate' screenplay is 'very much about the relationship between Edith Pretty, who owned the land at Sutton Hoo, and Basil Brown, the archaeologist who found what was discovered there'.
The actress told me she and Fiennes had read Moira Buffini's script, adapted from John Preston's novel The Dig — a fictionalised look at the excavation of a royal burial chamber in Suffolk in 1939, where a 90ft-long ship was entombed 1,400 years earlier.
Kidman said the 'delicate' screenplay is 'very much about the relationship between Edith Pretty, who owned the land at Sutton Hoo, and Basil Brown, the archaeologist who found what was discovered there'.
She said she was 'excited' to be making a film with Fiennes. 'I've wanted to work with him my whole life,' she said.
The pair caught up with each other at the Telluride Film Festival, where both had world premieres of their respective movies.
Kidman was at the annual festival (held in a box canyon in the Rocky Mountains) with director Karyn Kusama's thriller Destroyer, in which she gives one of the year's top performances as a burnt-out undercover sheriff's deputy in Los Angeles.
The pair caught up with each other at the Telluride Film Festival, where both had world premieres of their respective movies.
Kidman was at the annual festival (held in a box canyon in the Rocky Mountains) with director Karyn Kusama's thriller Destroyer, in which she gives one of the year's top performances as a burnt-out undercover sheriff's deputy in Los Angeles.
Fiennes travelled to the former Colorado mining town with The White Crow — his most accomplished work as a director — about Rudolf Nureyev's defection to the West in 1961. Fiennes also appears in the film as Alexander Pushkin, a mentor of Nureyev (played by ballet dancer Oleg Ivenko in an extraordinary screen debut).
Both films are being shown at the BFI London Film Festival next month.
The Dig will be directed by Simon Stone, an Australian celebrated for his contemporary adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca's tragedy Yerma, a triumph at the Young Vic with Billie Piper in the central role. 'How brilliant was Billie in that?' Kidman asked.
Fiennes' long-time cinematic partner Gabrielle Tana will produce the film.
Kidman hopes shooting will start next summer. 'The British film industry gave me my great roles, so I'm raring to go,' she said, referring to The Portrait Of A Lady, Eyes Wide Shut and The Hours — for which she won an Academy Award.
Both films are being shown at the BFI London Film Festival next month.
The Dig will be directed by Simon Stone, an Australian celebrated for his contemporary adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca's tragedy Yerma, a triumph at the Young Vic with Billie Piper in the central role. 'How brilliant was Billie in that?' Kidman asked.
Fiennes' long-time cinematic partner Gabrielle Tana will produce the film.
Kidman hopes shooting will start next summer. 'The British film industry gave me my great roles, so I'm raring to go,' she said, referring to The Portrait Of A Lady, Eyes Wide Shut and The Hours — for which she won an Academy Award.
Please tell me they are coming to a neighborhood near me. 
