Documentaries are often becoming the base of new dramatic films: similar ground in 2010’s multi-BAFTA-winning Senna in covered in Ron Howard’s equally lauded Rush while Oscar winners Man on Wire and Citizenfour are soon to be adapted into Robert Zemeckis’ tightrope adventure The Walk and Oliver Stone’s NSA thriller Snowden (both, coincidently, starring Joseph Gordon Levitt. It received far less exposure than the aforementioned films but the 2013 documentary The Battle of the Sexes told the true story of the 1973 tennis match between women’s Wimbledon winner Billie Jean King and retired male champ Bobby Riggs and the underlying sexual politics that the game represented.
The lead stars of the new adaptation are the Crazy Stupid Love costars and recent Oscar nominees Steve Carell (Despicable Me, Anchorman, The 40 Year Old Virgin, The Office, Foxcatcher) and Emma Stone (The Help, Easy A, The Amazing Spider-Man, Zombieland, Birdman). The directors are Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton (Little Miss Sunshine, Ruby Sparks) and is written by Oscar winner Simon Beaufoy (The Full Monty, Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire).
Disney’s new liveaction adaptation of their classic animation Beauty and the Beast has already garnered an incredible ensemble. Bill Condon (Kinsey, Dreamgirls, Mr Holmes) will be helming the cast of Emma Watson (Harry Potter, My Week Marilyn), Luke Evans (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Fast & Furious 6), Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey, The Guest), Gugu Mbatha Raw (Belle, Jupiter Ascending), Emma Thompson (Saving Mr Banks, Sense and Sensibility), Josh Gad (Frozen, The Wedding Ringer), Audra McDonald (Private Practive), Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda, Cry Freedom) and Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings, X-Men). The newest addition is Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting, Big Fish) who’ll play the talking candle Lumiere, famed for the iconic Oscar nominated number Be Our Guest.
Tomorrowland (sometimes known as A World Beyond) is a new Disney science fiction mystery adventure that was plucked right off the drawing board of Walt Disney himself. Brand new posters for the film have been revealed. Brad Bird (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, The Incredibles) directs the cast of George Clooney (Ocean’s Eleven, Syriana, Gravity), Britt Robertson (The Longest Ride, Under the Dome), Judy Greer (Archer, Men Women & Children) and Hugh Laurie (House).
Tomorrowland – May 22nd
Beauty and the Beast – 2017
Battle of the Sexes – 2017
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