Daniel Radcliffe is attached to play British politician and former Olympic athlete Sebastian Coe in "Gold" for Embankment Films.
Sounding like "Rush," but for the sport of middle distance running, Radcliffe plays the obsessive Coe in a film that deals with his rivalry with Steve Ovett.
Coe was a quiet loner driven to the limit of endeavour by his ambitious father. Ovett was an effortless and natural athlete fighting to prove himself in an elitist world.
James Watkins ("Eden Lake," "The Woman in Black") helms the film from a script by Simon Beaufoy and Will Davies.
Joanna Anderson, Vicky Licorish and Kevin Loader will produce. Filming will begin next year.
Source: Embankment Films...
Sounding like "Rush," but for the sport of middle distance running, Radcliffe plays the obsessive Coe in a film that deals with his rivalry with Steve Ovett.
Coe was a quiet loner driven to the limit of endeavour by his ambitious father. Ovett was an effortless and natural athlete fighting to prove himself in an elitist world.
James Watkins ("Eden Lake," "The Woman in Black") helms the film from a script by Simon Beaufoy and Will Davies.
Joanna Anderson, Vicky Licorish and Kevin Loader will produce. Filming will begin next year.
Source: Embankment Films...
- 10/30/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Daniel Radcliffe has joined Gold where he'll play Sebastian Coe in the film which focuses on the rivalry between Steve Ovett and Coe, starting with the years leading to the Olympic Games of 1980 which were held in Moscow. Gold is based on “The Perfect Distance” book written by Pat Butcher who, Variety reports, is serving as a consultant on the project. James Watkins who helmed Eden Lake, as well as horror The Woman in Black which starred Radcliffe, will direct from the script by Slumdog Millionaire scribe Simon Beaufoy. Joanna Anderson and Vicky Licorish are producing alongside Hyde Park on Hudson's Kevin Loader.
- 10/30/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Exclusive: Radcliffe to star as Olympic champion in Gold. Simon Beaufoy’s script to be directed by James Watkins, Embankment to handle sales.
Daniel Radcliffe is to play four-time Olympic gold medallist Sebastian Coe in what will be one of the hottest projects to hit the American Film Market (Afm) next month.
Radcliffe will reunite with Woman in Black director James Watkins on Gold, which will tell the story of Coe’s rivalry with fellow athlete Steve Ovett in the years leading up to the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games.
The buzzed-about screenplay is by Oscar-winning writer Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) and Will Davies (How to Train Your Dragon).
Planning is underway for a shoot in the UK and Russia in April next year.
The film will be produced by Joanna Anderson and Vicky Licorish (Small Island) and Kevin Loader (Hyde Park on Hudson, Le Week-end).
BBC Films and the British Film Institute have developed the project with Al...
Daniel Radcliffe is to play four-time Olympic gold medallist Sebastian Coe in what will be one of the hottest projects to hit the American Film Market (Afm) next month.
Radcliffe will reunite with Woman in Black director James Watkins on Gold, which will tell the story of Coe’s rivalry with fellow athlete Steve Ovett in the years leading up to the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games.
The buzzed-about screenplay is by Oscar-winning writer Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) and Will Davies (How to Train Your Dragon).
Planning is underway for a shoot in the UK and Russia in April next year.
The film will be produced by Joanna Anderson and Vicky Licorish (Small Island) and Kevin Loader (Hyde Park on Hudson, Le Week-end).
BBC Films and the British Film Institute have developed the project with Al...
- 10/30/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
New movie about the great 80s rivalry between Olympic champions Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe aims to be in cinemas in time for the 2012 Games in London
The last time a British film about a celebrated Olympic track rivalry hit the headlines around the world was in 1982, when Chariots of Fire writer Colin Welland made his famous "The British are coming!" speech in celebration of the film's four Academy Awards. Now a new homegrown effort hopes to repeat that feat by focusing on the famous competition between Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe at the Moscow and La Olympics.
As yet, the movie has no title and no director, but it does have a writer. La-based Brit William Davies, who penned the animated tale Flushed Away, the Rowan Atkinson spy spoof Johnny English and the Arnold Schwarzenegger-Danny Devito 80s comedy Twins, has been hired to work on the screenplay.
The last time a British film about a celebrated Olympic track rivalry hit the headlines around the world was in 1982, when Chariots of Fire writer Colin Welland made his famous "The British are coming!" speech in celebration of the film's four Academy Awards. Now a new homegrown effort hopes to repeat that feat by focusing on the famous competition between Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe at the Moscow and La Olympics.
As yet, the movie has no title and no director, but it does have a writer. La-based Brit William Davies, who penned the animated tale Flushed Away, the Rowan Atkinson spy spoof Johnny English and the Arnold Schwarzenegger-Danny Devito 80s comedy Twins, has been hired to work on the screenplay.
- 2/16/2010
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
London -- BBC Films, the pubcaster's standalone movie-making unit, is staring into the middle distance by developing a movie centered on the Olympic rivalry of British runners Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe.
The two athletes went head-to-head at both the Moscow and Los Angeles games and dominated the sports headlines here for years, racing against each other in major competitions for years.
BBC Films is teaming with U.K. production banner Al Films for the project.
Joanna Anderson and Vicky Licorish of Al Films, the producers behind BBC 1's recent TV drama "Small Island," have signed up William Davies ("Flushed Away") to run with the screenplay.
Al Films optioned the account of the athletic rivalry portrayed in "The Perfect Distance" by sports journalist Pat Butcher. The author secured unprecedented access to Coe and Ovett, as well as those closest to them.
The movie is expected to be released prior to London 2012 Olympics.
The two athletes went head-to-head at both the Moscow and Los Angeles games and dominated the sports headlines here for years, racing against each other in major competitions for years.
BBC Films is teaming with U.K. production banner Al Films for the project.
Joanna Anderson and Vicky Licorish of Al Films, the producers behind BBC 1's recent TV drama "Small Island," have signed up William Davies ("Flushed Away") to run with the screenplay.
Al Films optioned the account of the athletic rivalry portrayed in "The Perfect Distance" by sports journalist Pat Butcher. The author secured unprecedented access to Coe and Ovett, as well as those closest to them.
The movie is expected to be released prior to London 2012 Olympics.
- 2/16/2010
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Producer Vicky Licorish (Goodbye, Mr. Steadman) has recently completed a labour of love in the shape of 'Small Island', a drama from Ruby Television in association with Al Films for BBC, which chronicles the intertwining lives and loves of Jamaicans and Londoners in the 1940s where English landlords' signs reading 'No Irish, No Coloureds, No Dogs' appeared to be the message of almost an entire country. 'Small Island' was filmed in Belfast and Jamaica during February / March 2009, with a few days also spent shooting in Dublin. The crew shot for six weeks in Belfast having transformed parts of the city into post war London. The drama feature, which is expected to broadcast as two 90 minute pieces, is adapted from Andrea Levy's novel of the same name, directed by John Alexander (The Shadow in the North) and adapted by Paula Milne (I Dreamed of Africa). Produced...
- 11/4/2009
- IFTN
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