BIFA nominations unveiled and Alan Taylor’s Terminator auditioners announced

Brie Larson is the 24 year old 21 Jump Street and Scott Pilgrim star who’s recently stunned the critics in new drama Short Term 12. Margot Robbie started her career with TV roles on Pan Am and Neighbours but is going big after a role in About Time and soon stars with Leonardo Di Caprio and Matthew McConaughey in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street and is in IMDB’s Top 100 on the Starmeter (ranked 51st currently). Emilia Clarke, Daenerys Targaryen on HBO’s legendary Game of Thrones, is ranked at 44th on that same meter and recently starred with Jude Law in the comedy Dom Hemmingway. It’s announced that they’ll be going head to head for a very important role.

Sarah Connor, the focus of the first two Terminator films, is that role but what we said about going head to head isn’t quite true. The Hollywood Reporter, well, reported that the three stars were under consideration by director Alan Taylor. He’s just released his Marvel epic Thor: The Dark World and is also known for Palookaville. At first glance, Clarke looks like a real contender as she and Taylor will know eachother through their work on Game of Thrones.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is rumoured to be starring in the new reboot of the James Cameron classic but not much more is known. We could guess of a switch of time zone from the most recent instalment, Salvation, seeing as they’ll be casting a young Sarah Connor.

Finally, we’ve find out the nominations for the BIFA, or British Independent Film Awards. They were unveiled via Scot star Ewan MacGregor reading them out. This year, there’s particular focus on Filth, Philomena and Le Week-End. There also appears to be an effort to bring in youth with Scarlett Johansson, Felicity Jones and Saorise Ronan given nods. You can find out who wins on the event itself, December 8th.

BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM
Metro Manila
Philomena
The Selfish Giant
Starred Up
Le Week-end

BEST DIRECTOR
Jon S Baird, Filth
Clio Barnard, The Selfish Giant
Sean Ellis, Metro Manila
Jonathan Glazer, Under The Skin
David Mackenzie, Starred Up

THE DOUGLAS HICKOX AWARD [BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR]
Charlie Cattrall, Titus
Tina Gharavi, I Am Nasrine
Jeremy Lovering, In Fear
Omid Nooshin, Last Passenger
Paul Wright, For Those In Peril

BEST SCREENPLAY
Jonathan Asser, Starred Up
Clio Barnard, The Selfish Giant
Steven Knight, Locke
Hanif Kureishi, Le Week-end
Jeff Pope, Steve Coogan, Philomena

BEST ACTRESS
Judi Dench, Philomena
Lindsay Duncan, Le Week-end
Scarlett Johansson, Under The Skin
Felicity Jones, The Invisible Woman
Saoirse Ronan, How I Live Now

BEST ACTOR
Jim Broadbent, Le Week-end
Steve Coogan, Philomena
Tom Hardy, Locke
Jack O’Connell, Starred Up
James McAvoy, Filth

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Siobhan Finneran, The Selfish Giant
Shirley Henderson, Filth
Imogen Poots, The Look Of Love
Kristin Scott Thomas, The Invisible Woman
Mia Wasikowska, The Double

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
John Arcilla, Metro Manila
Rupert Friend, Starred Up
Jeff Goldblum, Le Week-end
Eddie Marsan, Filth
Ben Mendelsohn, Starred Up

MOST PROMISING NEWCOMER
Harley Bird, How I Live Now
Conner Chapman / Shaun Thomas, The Selfish Giant
Caity Lotz, The Machine
Jake Macapagal, Metro Manila
Chloe Pirrie, Shell

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION
A Field in England
Filth
Metro Manila
The Selfish Giant
Starred Up

BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
Shaheen Baig – Casting, Starred Up
Johnnie Burn – Sound Design, Under The Skin
Amy Hubbard – Casting, The Selfish Giant
Mica Levi – Music, Under The Skin
Justine Wright – Editing,  Locke

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer
The Great Hip Hop Hoax
The Moo Man
The Spirit Of ’45
The Stone Roses: Made Of Stone

BEST BRITISH SHORT
L’Assenza
Dr Easy
Dylan’s Room
Jonah
Z1

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM
Blue Is The Warmest Colour
Blue Jasmine
Frances Ha
The Great Beauty
Wadjda

THE RAINDANCE AWARD
Everyone’s Going To Die
The Machine
The Patrol
Sleeping Dogs
Titus

Terminator – July 1st 2015

British Independent Film Awards – December 8th

New posters for The Double, Foxx and Stone to make Martin Luther King and Michael Bay plans Telemark thriller

You may have read any of my previous blogs about The Double and so know a bit about this film. Richard Ayoade (the brilliantly comedic star of The IT Crowd and director of the 2011 hit Submarine) directs this film which has some major faces of Hollywood in it; Jesse Eisenberg (Now You See Me, The Social Network, 30 Minutes or Less), Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland, Stoker, The Kids Are All Right), Chris O’Dowd (Friends With Kids, Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel, Bridesmaids), Wallace Shawn (Toy Story, The Princess Bride), Paddy Considine (The Bourne Ultimatum, Cinderella Man), Noah Taylor (Vanilla Sky, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), Yasmin Paige (Ballet Shoes) and Craig Roberts (Submarine, Jane Eyre) are all set to star!

The story sees Eisenberg’s character Simon as he looses his grasp on his life when his doppleganger (Eisenberg again) turns up and starts stealing everything and everyone he loves. Both Eisenberg and Wasikowska feature in these new character posters from Empire which you can enjoy be clicking next to cycle through.

Jamie Foxx (Oscar winner for Ray as well as being loved for Collateral, Django Unchained and Law Abiding Citizen) recently starred as the President in the recent action thriller White House Down. After that, he’s got a voice credit in the upcoming comedy animation Rio 2 (April 4th 2014) before he’s off to terrify Marvel fans as Electro in The Amazing Spiderman 2 (April 18th 2014) and then give us something to smile about in comedy Annie (December 19th 2014). His next potential role is in a Martin Luther King biopic though.

Oliver Stone (3 time Oscar winner of Platoon, JFK, Any Given Sunday and Wall Street fame) is set to direct the production which Paul Greengrass and Lee Daniels were linked to before. Dreamworks, who got the rights back in 2009, are going to produce the project. Screenwriter Kario Salem will be rewriting a draft script originally written by Ronald Harwood (known for smash hits like The Pianist and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and the successful Quartet and Australia).

We move on to Michael Bay, director of the Transformers trilogy, Armageddon, Pearl Harbour and many others, and his possible next project called Sabotage: A Genius Scientist, His Band of Young Commandos and the Mission to Kill Hitler’s Super Bomb. It’s nothing to do with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington, Olivia Williams and Terrence Howard’s crime thriller of name Sabotage but it tells a story similar to Anthony Mann’s 1965 thriller The Heroes of Telemark (however based upon the yet unreleased novel by Neal Bascomb) and sees a team of heroes going into 1940s Germany and destroying Hitler’s secret weapon.

The Double – October 12th at the London Film Festival

Martin Luther King – 2016?

Sabotage: A Genius Scientist, His Band of Young Commandos and the Mission to Kill Hitler’s Super Bomb – 2016 or 2017?

Richard Ayoade directs Jesse Eisenberg in The Double trailer

Sorry that today’s post isn’t massively long but, after beginning on my next feature The Autumn 2013 TV Preview with Doctor Who 50th Anniversary and 8th series, Cumberbatch and Freeman returning for Sherlock series 3, The Big Bang Theory season 7, How I Met Your Mother 8, Freddie Highmore in Bates Motel, Karl Urban in Almost Human, Joss Whedon’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, The Michael J Fox Show, Game of Thrones 4 and many more, I realised that that project may need a but more time than I had today.

Even though nobody can pronounce his name, the London born Richard Ayoade is an undeniable, BAFTA nominated, acting, writing and directing talent. He’ll be known best, for some, for acting alongside Chris O’Dowd in comedy series The IT Crowd and Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill sc-fi comedy The Watch as well as directing the successful British teen rom-com Submarine with Paddy Considine. His first follow-up to Submarine is The Double.

Here’s the film’s trailer. The comedy stars Oscar nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network, Now You See Me, Zombieland) playing Simon who’s happy life takes a horrific turn when his doppleganger, James (Eisenberg again), turns up. Mia Wasikowska (Stoker, Alice in Wonderland), Wallace Shawn (Toy Story, The Princess Bride), James Fox (Sherlock Holmes, Patriot Games) and Submarine star Noah Taylor and Yasmin Paige.

It’s certainly going to be a bit more grim and less whimsical than Submarine, despite IMDB clearly listing it as a comedy. Hopefully this’ll confirm Ayoade as one of the most promising British triple threats (writer, director, actor) of the moment.

The Double is on now at the Toronto Film Festival, Canada, and will be commercially available soon

The Tuorhoth Autumn 2013 preview will be available here on Tuorhoth Movies later this week.