While bumming a cigarette off a stranger is becoming rarer these days, “Thank You for Smoking” could end up coming to our TVs anyway, reports Variety.
Thanks to Keshet Studios, the 2005 Jason Reitman satire is being adapted into an anthology series that would focus on a social issue each season. The first season of the revamped comedy would look at the gun control debate using the new title “Thank You for Shooting.”
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In the original film, Aaron Eckhart starred as Big Tobacco spokesman Nick Naylor who used everything in his power, including bribes, charisma and the logic of false equivalency to push his agenda. The movie also co-starred Maria Bello, William H. Macy, Rob Lowe, Adam Brody, Katie Holmes, J.K. Simmons, and Robert Duvall.
“Thank You for Smoking” is just one of many concepts being developed by Keshet, including...
Thanks to Keshet Studios, the 2005 Jason Reitman satire is being adapted into an anthology series that would focus on a social issue each season. The first season of the revamped comedy would look at the gun control debate using the new title “Thank You for Shooting.”
Read More: The Best TV Guest Stars Ever — IndieWire Critics Survey
In the original film, Aaron Eckhart starred as Big Tobacco spokesman Nick Naylor who used everything in his power, including bribes, charisma and the logic of false equivalency to push his agenda. The movie also co-starred Maria Bello, William H. Macy, Rob Lowe, Adam Brody, Katie Holmes, J.K. Simmons, and Robert Duvall.
“Thank You for Smoking” is just one of many concepts being developed by Keshet, including...
- 3/28/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Safe, conventional, and not particularly sympathetic to women, cis or trans. Mistakes the external signifiers of femininity with actually being a woman. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Lili Elbe was a transgender pioneer. She lived openly as a woman, even though she was born in a man’s body, in 1920s Europe at a time when such a thing was seen as perverted or actually clinically insane; she wrote the memoir Man Into Woman about her transition; and she was one of the first people to receive sex-reassignment surgery, which was then highly experimental; complications from it killed her in 1931. She’s an important person to be telling stories about, especially today, as we are starting to be more aware of the trials transgender people face, both publicly and personally,...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Lili Elbe was a transgender pioneer. She lived openly as a woman, even though she was born in a man’s body, in 1920s Europe at a time when such a thing was seen as perverted or actually clinically insane; she wrote the memoir Man Into Woman about her transition; and she was one of the first people to receive sex-reassignment surgery, which was then highly experimental; complications from it killed her in 1931. She’s an important person to be telling stories about, especially today, as we are starting to be more aware of the trials transgender people face, both publicly and personally,...
- 1/13/2016
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Vulture is speaking to the screenwriters behind the year's most acclaimed movies about the scenes they found most difficult to crack. In today's post, The Danish Girl screenwriter Lucinda Coxon — who adapted David Ebershoff's source novel of the same name — discusses the challenge of revealing married couple Gerda (Alicia Vikander) and Einar's (Eddie Redmayne) backstory while also offering hints of Einar's long-kept secret. There’s a scene where Gerda Wegener describes first meeting her spouse. She talks about how shy ‘Einar’ was, blushing at her polite approach. And later, after she had invited the young painter for coffee, she had initiated a kiss, and discovered “the strangest thing ... It was like kissing myself …” This line went in and out of the script countless times. It’s in David Ebershoff’s novel, so I always wanted to keep it, but I worried that it was too heavy a foreshadowing. I...
- 1/7/2016
- by Lucinda Coxon,Stacey Wilson Hunt
- Vulture
The story of transgender pioneer Lili Elbe is stripped of complexity and danger in favour of slick, sumptuous costume drama
There’s a scene in The Danish Girl in which a group of female shop assistants in 1920s Copenhagen are told by their supervisor that serving customers is a matter of performance. One new recruit gives a knowing smile, as well she might; for she is Lili Elbe, born a male named Einar Wegener, and knows a thing or two about playing a role. Based on the true story of a pioneering recipient of gender reassignment surgery, and on David Ebershoff’s book of the same name, Tom Hooper’s drama constantly emphasises the dimension of acting in gender identity – but too often in the film, performance blurs uneasily with pantomime.
Eddie Redmayne lays it on with a pearl-handled trowel, relentlessly working the toothy grins and coy averted glances
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There’s a scene in The Danish Girl in which a group of female shop assistants in 1920s Copenhagen are told by their supervisor that serving customers is a matter of performance. One new recruit gives a knowing smile, as well she might; for she is Lili Elbe, born a male named Einar Wegener, and knows a thing or two about playing a role. Based on the true story of a pioneering recipient of gender reassignment surgery, and on David Ebershoff’s book of the same name, Tom Hooper’s drama constantly emphasises the dimension of acting in gender identity – but too often in the film, performance blurs uneasily with pantomime.
Eddie Redmayne lays it on with a pearl-handled trowel, relentlessly working the toothy grins and coy averted glances
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- 1/3/2016
- by Jonathan Romney
- The Guardian - Film News
The story of transgender pioneer Lili Elbe is stripped of complexity and danger in favour of slick, sumptuous costume drama
There’s a scene in The Danish Girl in which a group of female shop assistants in 1920s Copenhagen are told by their supervisor that serving customers is a matter of performance. One new recruit gives a knowing smile, as well she might; for she is Lili Elbe, born a male named Einar Wegener, and knows a thing or two about playing a role. Based on the true story of a pioneering recipient of gender reassignment surgery, and on David Ebershoff’s book of the same name, Tom Hooper’s drama constantly emphasises the dimension of acting in gender identity – but too often in the film, performance blurs uneasily with pantomime.
Eddie Redmayne lays it on with a pearl-handled trowel, relentlessly working the toothy grins and coy averted glances
Continue reading.
There’s a scene in The Danish Girl in which a group of female shop assistants in 1920s Copenhagen are told by their supervisor that serving customers is a matter of performance. One new recruit gives a knowing smile, as well she might; for she is Lili Elbe, born a male named Einar Wegener, and knows a thing or two about playing a role. Based on the true story of a pioneering recipient of gender reassignment surgery, and on David Ebershoff’s book of the same name, Tom Hooper’s drama constantly emphasises the dimension of acting in gender identity – but too often in the film, performance blurs uneasily with pantomime.
Eddie Redmayne lays it on with a pearl-handled trowel, relentlessly working the toothy grins and coy averted glances
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- 1/3/2016
- by Jonathan Romney
- The Guardian - Film News
This fictionalised biopic of pioneering transgender artist Lili Elbe is well made and sympathetic, if a little too tasteful
The title is ambiguous, applying to either of its lead characters, but in both cases it should be The Danish Woman, surely? This is the fictionalised reimagining of the story of Lili Elbe, formerly Einar Wegener, the pioneering transgender artist from Denmark who, in 1930, was one of the first people to undertake sex reassignment surgery. Screenwriter Lucinda Coxon has adapted David Ebershoff’s 2000 novel based on Elbe’s life, and Tom Hooper directs with the same accomplishment and flair he brought to The King’s Speech, the same eye for sartorial elegance – Eddie Redmayne’s male suits make him look an elfin Prince of Wales. There is the same Pygmalion trope of remedial transformation.
Related: Danish Girl director Tom Hooper: film industry has 'problem' with transgender actors
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The title is ambiguous, applying to either of its lead characters, but in both cases it should be The Danish Woman, surely? This is the fictionalised reimagining of the story of Lili Elbe, formerly Einar Wegener, the pioneering transgender artist from Denmark who, in 1930, was one of the first people to undertake sex reassignment surgery. Screenwriter Lucinda Coxon has adapted David Ebershoff’s 2000 novel based on Elbe’s life, and Tom Hooper directs with the same accomplishment and flair he brought to The King’s Speech, the same eye for sartorial elegance – Eddie Redmayne’s male suits make him look an elfin Prince of Wales. There is the same Pygmalion trope of remedial transformation.
Related: Danish Girl director Tom Hooper: film industry has 'problem' with transgender actors
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- 12/31/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The Danish Girl
Written by Lucinda Coxon (from the novel by David Ebershoff)
Directed by Tom Hooper
UK/Germany/USA, 2015
It’s always puzzling whenever an emotionally-charged subject yields such a cold film. Tom Hooper’s painfully-subdued drama, The Danish Girl, has much truth to speak about the agony of gender identity confusion. He also gets one of the year’s best performances from the emerging star, Alicia Vikander. Sadly, Hooper unsuccessfully straddles the line between love story and psycho-sexual commentary, resulting in a disjointed film that feels like a collection of dramatic vignettes rather than a unified statement.
Since he was a little boy, Danish painter Einar Wegener (Eddie Redmayne) knew there was something wrong about his gender; an inescapable yearning for something that was missing. He learned to conceal these feelings shortly after his father caught him kissing his childhood friend, Hans (Matthias Schoenaerts). Einar channeled this forbidden passion into the canvas,...
Written by Lucinda Coxon (from the novel by David Ebershoff)
Directed by Tom Hooper
UK/Germany/USA, 2015
It’s always puzzling whenever an emotionally-charged subject yields such a cold film. Tom Hooper’s painfully-subdued drama, The Danish Girl, has much truth to speak about the agony of gender identity confusion. He also gets one of the year’s best performances from the emerging star, Alicia Vikander. Sadly, Hooper unsuccessfully straddles the line between love story and psycho-sexual commentary, resulting in a disjointed film that feels like a collection of dramatic vignettes rather than a unified statement.
Since he was a little boy, Danish painter Einar Wegener (Eddie Redmayne) knew there was something wrong about his gender; an inescapable yearning for something that was missing. He learned to conceal these feelings shortly after his father caught him kissing his childhood friend, Hans (Matthias Schoenaerts). Einar channeled this forbidden passion into the canvas,...
- 12/18/2015
- by J.R. Kinnard
- SoundOnSight
The Danish Girl is the remarkable love story inspired by the lives of Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener, portrayed in the film respectively by Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) and Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina), directed by Academy Award winner Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech).
In 1926 in Copenhagen, artist Einar Wegener is married to Gerda Wegener and is revered for landscape paintings. Gerda is also an artist, less renowned but steadily working as a portraitist of prominent citizens. Theirs is a strong and loving marriage, yet personal and professional epiphanies have eluded them both. That all begins to change one day when, on deadline for a portrait, Gerda asks her husband to fill in for a model by putting on a dress so that she can finish the painting. The experience is transformative, as Einar soon realizes that being Lili is an expression of her truest self,...
In 1926 in Copenhagen, artist Einar Wegener is married to Gerda Wegener and is revered for landscape paintings. Gerda is also an artist, less renowned but steadily working as a portraitist of prominent citizens. Theirs is a strong and loving marriage, yet personal and professional epiphanies have eluded them both. That all begins to change one day when, on deadline for a portrait, Gerda asks her husband to fill in for a model by putting on a dress so that she can finish the painting. The experience is transformative, as Einar soon realizes that being Lili is an expression of her truest self,...
- 12/16/2015
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The second annual The Power Of Words: Book to Screen will take place on January 7 under the auspices of the 27th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (Psiff).
Barbara Keller and Susan Rosser curate the event in which authors, producers, stars and screenwriters will discuss adaptations.
The upcoming symposium’s participants will include Carol screenwriter Phyllis Nagy, Far From The Madding Crowd (pictured) screenwriter David Nicholls and The Danish Girl author David Ebershoff and screenwriter Lucinda Coxon.
Guests include Black Mass author Dick Lehr, The Run Of His Life: The People vs. O.J. Simpson author Jeffrey Toobin, TV show creator Darren Starr and Younger author Pamela Redmond Satran.
Select films from the programme will screen at the festival on January 6 and relevant books will be available for purchase at a Barnes & Noble “pop-up store” at the venue.
Programme sponsors include Spencer’s, Lulu California Bistro, Hilton Palm Springs and Barnes & Noble.
Psiff will take...
Barbara Keller and Susan Rosser curate the event in which authors, producers, stars and screenwriters will discuss adaptations.
The upcoming symposium’s participants will include Carol screenwriter Phyllis Nagy, Far From The Madding Crowd (pictured) screenwriter David Nicholls and The Danish Girl author David Ebershoff and screenwriter Lucinda Coxon.
Guests include Black Mass author Dick Lehr, The Run Of His Life: The People vs. O.J. Simpson author Jeffrey Toobin, TV show creator Darren Starr and Younger author Pamela Redmond Satran.
Select films from the programme will screen at the festival on January 6 and relevant books will be available for purchase at a Barnes & Noble “pop-up store” at the venue.
Programme sponsors include Spencer’s, Lulu California Bistro, Hilton Palm Springs and Barnes & Noble.
Psiff will take...
- 12/10/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Before making "The Danish Girl" (Focus Features, November 27) Alicia Vikander thought she knew what it was like to be female. And Eddie Redmayne explored a place he had never been when channeling transgender pioneer Lili Elbe. At the start of the movie directed by Oscar-winner Tom Hooper ("The King's Speech") and written by British playwright/screenwriter Lucinda Coxon (from the novel by David Ebershoff), Elbe is a happily married painter who is trying to be supportive of his wife Gerda Wegener's attempts to make her mark as an artist. It's when he puts on hair and makeup, stockings and a tutu to fill in for a missing model and experiences what it feels like to be a woman that he undergoes a profound change. He's compelled to keep returning to his feminine self and leave behind the man he can no longer be. In the film's most delightful sequences,...
- 11/25/2015
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The International Film Festival of India (Iffi) today announced that music maestro A. R. Rahman will be the Chief Guest of closing ceremony of Iffi 2015. The festival also announced Argentina‘s Oscar entry and this year’s biggest Argentinean box office hit-The Clan (El Clan) as the Closing Film of Iffi 2015. Directed by Pablo Trapero, The Clan has set new record for the best opening ever of an Argentinean movie. Directed by Academy Award winner Tom Hooper, Danish Girl will be the mid fest film.
With each edition, the biggest film festival of India is creating new benchmarks of content, films, and achievements. The 46th edition of the film festival will be held from November 20 to 30 in Goa. The festival will screen a variety of brilliant national and international films in different sections including World Cinema section that will present 187 films from 89 countries and Indian Panorama section, which will bring...
With each edition, the biggest film festival of India is creating new benchmarks of content, films, and achievements. The 46th edition of the film festival will be held from November 20 to 30 in Goa. The festival will screen a variety of brilliant national and international films in different sections including World Cinema section that will present 187 films from 89 countries and Indian Panorama section, which will bring...
- 11/18/2015
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
The film adaptation of David Ebershoff's bestselling 2000 novel The Danish Girl was a passion project for everyone who came into contact with it, including tenacious producers Gail Mutrux and Anne Harrison and screenwriter Lucinda Coxon, who never gave up during the 12 years the film took to get off the ground. Such duration shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone in this town, but what is unique to this film is the real-life love story of Einar and Gerda Wegener, happily…...
- 11/12/2015
- Deadline
Eddie Redmayne's lanky physique and gentle features make him well suited for the versatile demands of "The Danish Girl," in which he starts out as a man and transitions into being a woman. Director Tom Hooper is a less natural fit. In "The King's Speech" and "Les Misérables," Hooper used an elegant visual style typical of many traditional period dramas that doesn't serve "The Danish Girl." Based on David Ebershoff's 2000 novel, the story embellishes on the experiences of Copenhagen painter Einar Wegener, who eventually took the identity of Lili Elbe, one of the first recipients of a sex reassignment surgery in 1930. Aided by fellow painter and wife Gerda Wegener (Alicia Vikander), Einer/Lili steadily confronts her desire and seeks help. This central drama maintains an engrossing quality thanks to its skilled leads, whose unique chemistry never strains credibility. While Redmayne technically faces the greater challenge, Vikander...
- 9/13/2015
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Toronto – Like Einar Wegner’s battle to acknowledge her true self, there is something off about “The Danish Girl.” It’s beautifully made. It features strong performances from leading actors Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander. It tackles a subject matter Hollywood has long ignored with a serious and compassionate voice. But, as Tom Hooper’s new drama unspools over its two-hour running time it’s clear something isn’t quite right The adaption of David Ebershoff’s acclaimed novel chronicles how Einar (Redmayne) transitioned from a married, moderately successful painter in 1920’s Denmark to Lili Elbe, reportedly the first transgender woman to undergo successful sexual reassignment surgery. Moreover, it focuses a good deal of attention on how Lili’s arrival affected her unsuspecting wife Gerda (Vikander). So much so that the story often seems to be more from Gerda’s perspective even if Lili’s journey is fueling the narrative.
- 9/13/2015
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
Period drama awards fare, especially period drama awards fare from British director Tom Hooper, can be counted on for certain surface pleasures. The production design will be lavish and tactile. The costuming will be spectacular, but not try overly hard to present itself as such. And the cast will emote such that hearts of stone are softened, or outright eroded in a downpour of waterworks. As the latest addition to the Hooper oeuvre, The Danish Girl makes for another very nice looking historical bauble.
Unfortunately for The Danish Girl, it arrives with the weight, or perhaps responsibility of being one of the most notable films about transgender living in a year very much defined by discussion of gender fluidity. Adapted from David Ebershoff’s award-winning novel of the same name, The Danish Girl is a fictionalized account of the life of Lili Elbe, the first known transgender woman to receive sex reassignment surgery.
Unfortunately for The Danish Girl, it arrives with the weight, or perhaps responsibility of being one of the most notable films about transgender living in a year very much defined by discussion of gender fluidity. Adapted from David Ebershoff’s award-winning novel of the same name, The Danish Girl is a fictionalized account of the life of Lili Elbe, the first known transgender woman to receive sex reassignment surgery.
- 9/12/2015
- by Sam Woolf
- We Got This Covered
For some, Labor Day signals a Monday off from school and work, the final hurrah of the summer and college football games galore.
But for Oscar watchers, the three day break heralds the beginning of the Awards Season with film festivals being held at Venice (Sept. 2 – 12) and Telluride (Sept. 4 – 7).
Getting a shot in the arm from the weekend festivals were Spotlight, Steve Jobs, Black Mass and The Danish Girl. Below is a sampling of the films in play this awards season that screened over the busy holiday weekend.
The Danish Girl (Nov. 27)
Synopsis:
Based on the book by David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl is the remarkable love story inspired by the lives of Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener (portrayed by Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne [The Theory of Everything] and Alicia Vikander [Ex Machina]), and directed by Academy Award winner Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech, Les Misérables). Lili and Gerda’s marriage and work evolve...
But for Oscar watchers, the three day break heralds the beginning of the Awards Season with film festivals being held at Venice (Sept. 2 – 12) and Telluride (Sept. 4 – 7).
Getting a shot in the arm from the weekend festivals were Spotlight, Steve Jobs, Black Mass and The Danish Girl. Below is a sampling of the films in play this awards season that screened over the busy holiday weekend.
The Danish Girl (Nov. 27)
Synopsis:
Based on the book by David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl is the remarkable love story inspired by the lives of Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener (portrayed by Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne [The Theory of Everything] and Alicia Vikander [Ex Machina]), and directed by Academy Award winner Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech, Les Misérables). Lili and Gerda’s marriage and work evolve...
- 9/7/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
★★☆☆☆ Following his Oscar-winning turn as Stephen Hawking in James Marsh's The Theory of Everything (2014), British actor Eddie Redmayne makes his bow on the Venice Lido in Tom Hooper's The Danish Girl (2015), complete with another transformative portrayal - this time of a Danish painter who slowly realises his true identity as a woman. It's the 1920s and Einar Wegener (Redmayne) is a moderately successful landscape painter who obsessively paints the same vista from his childhood time and again: a bog, a line of trees, the mountains beyond. His wife Gerda (Alicia Vikander) is a thoroughly modern type who paints portraits and smokes cigarettes in her cigarette holder.
Gerda is generally supportive of her husband but longs for her own breakthrough as well as a child. They live in their spacious artist's garret and seem happily in love, lustily enjoying each other with healthy regularity. However, Einar hides a secret.
Gerda is generally supportive of her husband but longs for her own breakthrough as well as a child. They live in their spacious artist's garret and seem happily in love, lustily enjoying each other with healthy regularity. However, Einar hides a secret.
- 9/7/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Tom Hooper's "The Danish Girl" had its world premiere at the Venice film festival on Saturday and rave reviews establish last year's Best Actor champ Eddie Redmayne as a strong contender to become the sixth performer to win back-to-back Oscars. He plays artist Einar Wegener, one of the world’s first sex-change patients, who became Lili Elbe in the 1920s. Among the rest of the cast, Alicia Vikander is a stand-out as Wegener's wife Gerda as is Ben Whishaw as a would-be suitor to Lili. -Break- British playwright Lucinda Coxon ("Happy Now?") adapted David Ebershoff’s 2000 novel of the same name. For her work bringing Michael Farber's sweeping period novel "The Crimson Petal and the White" to television, she earned both BAFTA and Royal Television Society nominations. The lavish production design of "The Danish Girl" is by Eve St...
- 9/5/2015
- Gold Derby
The Danish Girl review - Eddie Redmayne's swan neck is best thing in pain-free transgender melodrama
The story of Danish gender reassignment pioneer Einar Wegener and her transformation into Lili Elbe becomes a handsome but over-tasteful film in director Tom Hooper’s hands
The point about The Danish Girl, of course, is that it has two Danish heroines - and that one of them started life as a Danish boy. Adapted by Lucinda Coxon from David Ebershoff’s novel, Tom Hooper’s film retells a true-life story: that of painter Einar Wegener, who underwent a pioneering gender reassignment operation in the 1930s to become Lili Elbe. Einar/Lili is played by Eddie Redmayne, who is certain to reap plentiful laurels in the forthcoming awards season, with another role – following his Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything – about a slow process of physical and psychological transformation. And no doubt this sumptuously mounted, high-minded and unabashedly Oscar-baiting undertaking will overall emerge dripping with honours. But well-meaning and polished as it is,...
The point about The Danish Girl, of course, is that it has two Danish heroines - and that one of them started life as a Danish boy. Adapted by Lucinda Coxon from David Ebershoff’s novel, Tom Hooper’s film retells a true-life story: that of painter Einar Wegener, who underwent a pioneering gender reassignment operation in the 1930s to become Lili Elbe. Einar/Lili is played by Eddie Redmayne, who is certain to reap plentiful laurels in the forthcoming awards season, with another role – following his Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything – about a slow process of physical and psychological transformation. And no doubt this sumptuously mounted, high-minded and unabashedly Oscar-baiting undertaking will overall emerge dripping with honours. But well-meaning and polished as it is,...
- 9/5/2015
- by Jonathan Romney
- The Guardian - Film News
The director of The King’s Speech and Le Miserable, Tom Hooper, has recently unveiled the trailer for his new film. The Danish Girl is based on the book by David Ebershoff and is love story about Lili Elbe (Eddie Redmayne) and Gerda Wegener (Alicia Vikander). Taking place in Denmark around the turn of the 20th Century, a young couple is faced with […]
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- 9/4/2015
- by Mark Hallum
- Uinterview
With a few months to go before its limited release, “The Danish Girl” just debuted a new trailer, courtesy of Focus Features and Working Title Films.
Starring Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Ben Whishaw, Amber Heard and Matthias Schoenaerts, the Lucinda Coxon project is based on a novel of the same name by David Ebershoff and will open in New York and Los Angeles on November 27th.
Per the synopsis, “The Danish Girl is the remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Einar and Gerda Wegener, whose marriage and work are cast into the unknown when Einar begins a groundbreaking journey to become one of the world’s first transgender women, Lili Elbe.”...
Starring Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Ben Whishaw, Amber Heard and Matthias Schoenaerts, the Lucinda Coxon project is based on a novel of the same name by David Ebershoff and will open in New York and Los Angeles on November 27th.
Per the synopsis, “The Danish Girl is the remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Einar and Gerda Wegener, whose marriage and work are cast into the unknown when Einar begins a groundbreaking journey to become one of the world’s first transgender women, Lili Elbe.”...
- 9/1/2015
- GossipCenter
Tom Hooper's "The Danish Girl" may the most Oscar-baity Oscar-bait ever to bait the Oscar. Then again, it might also be good. It's certainly a captivating story, the true-life tale of Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener, and director Tom Hooper's got himself a hell of a cast with Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander playing the couple who found themselves grappling with a relationship that helped break new ground for people around the world who felt that they were born wearing the wrong skin. Lili Elbe was a transgender pioneer, and I'll be curious to see if this film faces any of the same blowback that "About Ray" has been facing because they cast cisgender actor Elle Fanning to play a character who is beginning the transition from male to female. Director Gaby Dellal has defended that choice, but there are plenty in the Lbgt community who feel that the casting is a problem.
- 9/1/2015
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
You may not have been familiar with the name Eddie Redmayne before he stunned people in last year’s The Theory of Everything, but everyone is going to know him soon enough, and if The Danish Girl isn’t enough, his turn in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will lock up the rest of the general populace.
More importantly, perhaps, it looks as though he may be taking another run at Best Actor awards, not just because he’s talented, but because he has back-to-back vehicles that are designed for award attention. Both are biopics that require one to act in ways that are, at the very least, out of the ordinary. They are biopics that focus on people who have to deal with massive adversity of one sort or another. And, they are biopics of people that, by and large, people aren’t especially interested in. Your...
More importantly, perhaps, it looks as though he may be taking another run at Best Actor awards, not just because he’s talented, but because he has back-to-back vehicles that are designed for award attention. Both are biopics that require one to act in ways that are, at the very least, out of the ordinary. They are biopics that focus on people who have to deal with massive adversity of one sort or another. And, they are biopics of people that, by and large, people aren’t especially interested in. Your...
- 9/1/2015
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
The Theory of Everything star Eddie Redmayne is wasting no time in chasing another Oscar. The Danish Girl trailer has arrived online, and its brief but lush look at the story of trans pioneer Lili Elbe will melt your heart. This is one to watch come awards season. Watch the trailer below. Following his Oscar-winning performance as Stephen Hawking, Redmayne re-teams with his Les Miserables director Tom Hooper for The Danish Girl. It.s the story of Lili Elbe, who was born Einar Magnus Andreas Wegener. She is the first documented trans person to undergo sexual reassignment surgery, and she did it with the support of her wife Gerda Gottlieb, played by Alicia Vikander in the film. The Danish Girl is as much about Gerda as it is about Lili. Based on the book by author David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl tells of their early marriage, both spouses making a...
- 9/1/2015
- cinemablend.com
Here is Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory Of Everything) and Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) in the official trailer for Focus Features’ The Danish Girl. From Academy Award-winning director Tom Hooper (Les Misérables) and based on the book by David Ebershoff, with screenplay by Lucinda Coxon. The Danish Girl will have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and also is slated for Toronto, with Focus releasing the transgender love story in New York and Los…...
- 9/1/2015
- Deadline
The first trailer is out for Tom Hooper's transgender drama "The Danish Girl". Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander star in the story, based on David Ebershoff's 2001 novel, about the first person to undergo a sex-change operation.
Redmayne plays transgender artist Lili Elbe, who was born as Einar Wegener, and Vikander plays Elbe's wife Gerda. The story focuses on their love story as Lili makes a pioneering journey. The film premieres at the Venice Film Festival shortly ahead of a November 27th theatrical release.
Redmayne plays transgender artist Lili Elbe, who was born as Einar Wegener, and Vikander plays Elbe's wife Gerda. The story focuses on their love story as Lili makes a pioneering journey. The film premieres at the Venice Film Festival shortly ahead of a November 27th theatrical release.
- 9/1/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Eddie Redmayne's The Danish Girl has unveiled its first official poster.
The Oscar-winning actor and his co-star Alicia Vikander appear on the promo image for the film, which is expected to be a serious contender in the upcoming awards season.
Redmayne plays transgender pioneer Lili Elbe, while Vikander portrays the artist's wife Gerda Wegener.
Previously known as Einar Wegener, Lili became one of the world's first known recipients of gender confirmation surgery in 1930.
The Tom Hooper-directed film is based on David Ebershoff's novel of the same name.
Redmayne recently hailed Caitlyn Jenner's public debut as an "amazing" moment for the transgender rights movement.
The Danish Girl will be released in the Us on November 27, and it will follow in the UK on January 1, 2016.
The Oscar-winning actor and his co-star Alicia Vikander appear on the promo image for the film, which is expected to be a serious contender in the upcoming awards season.
Redmayne plays transgender pioneer Lili Elbe, while Vikander portrays the artist's wife Gerda Wegener.
Previously known as Einar Wegener, Lili became one of the world's first known recipients of gender confirmation surgery in 1930.
The Tom Hooper-directed film is based on David Ebershoff's novel of the same name.
Redmayne recently hailed Caitlyn Jenner's public debut as an "amazing" moment for the transgender rights movement.
The Danish Girl will be released in the Us on November 27, and it will follow in the UK on January 1, 2016.
- 8/28/2015
- Digital Spy
Hollywood Contenders: We’re excited to share the official U.S. theatrical release poster for Academy Award-winning director Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl. Inspired by the lives of Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener, the new movie starring Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander opens in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, November 27th, and in additional cities in December 2015. World-premiering at the Venice International Film Festival and screening at the Toronto International Film Festival. The remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener (portrayed by Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne [“The Theory of Everything”] and Alicia Vikander [“Ex Machina”]), directed by Academy Award winner Tom Hooper (“The King’s Speech,” “Les Misérables”). Lili and Gerda’s marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili’s groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer. Director: Tom Hooper Writer: Lucinda Coxon, based on the book The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff Producers: Gail Mutrux,...
- 8/27/2015
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
While some really great international posters for “The Danish Girl” were pulled earlier this month, Universal and Focus Features have finally dropped the first official one sheet. Director Tom Hooper’s latest is a transgender love story, long in development, that stars recent Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne (“The Theory Of Everything”) and Alicia Vikander (“Ex Machina”) with Matthias Schoenaerts, Ben Whishaw and Amber Heard rounding out the cast. Here’s the official synopsis: The Danish Girl is the remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Einar and Gerda Wegener (being portrayed, respectively, by Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander), whose marriage and work are cast into the unknown when Einar begins a groundbreaking journey to become one of the world’s first transgender pioneers, Lili Elbe. The Danish Girl has been adapted into a screenplay by BAFTA Award nominee Lucinda Coxon, based on the novel of the same name by David Ebershoff.
- 8/27/2015
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Sneak Peek new poster images from director Tom Hooper's upcoming dramatic feature "The Danish Girl", based on the 2000 novel of the same name by author David Ebershoff, starring Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander and Matthias Schoenaerts, opening November 27, 2015:
"...in early 1920's Copenhagen, the illustrator and artist 'Gerda Wegener' (Vikander) asks her husband, 'Einar Wegener' (Eddie Redmayne) to stand in for a female model. The popularity of the portraits leads to Gerda painting her husband in further pictures as a woman.
"Then Einar develops an attraction for a female physical appearance and begins living as a woman named 'Lili Elbe'.
"Then a childhood friend of Einar, 'Hans Axgil' (Matthias Schoenaerts), shows up and forms a complex love triangle with the couple..."
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"...in early 1920's Copenhagen, the illustrator and artist 'Gerda Wegener' (Vikander) asks her husband, 'Einar Wegener' (Eddie Redmayne) to stand in for a female model. The popularity of the portraits leads to Gerda painting her husband in further pictures as a woman.
"Then Einar develops an attraction for a female physical appearance and begins living as a woman named 'Lili Elbe'.
"Then a childhood friend of Einar, 'Hans Axgil' (Matthias Schoenaerts), shows up and forms a complex love triangle with the couple..."
Click the images to enlarge...
- 8/3/2015
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Focus Features has set a November 27 platform release date for The Danish Girl the Tom Hooper movie that stars Oscar Best Actor winner Eddie Redmayne along with Matthias Schoenaerts, Alicia Vikander and Amber Heard. The pic, inspired by the novel written by David Ebershoff, is a love story about Danish painters Einar Wegener (Redmayne) and his wife Gerda. In 1930, Wegener was one of the first men ever to undergo operations to become a woman. The pic is a reteam of Hooper…...
- 3/5/2015
- Deadline
The Danish Girl has been given a Us release date.
The film, which sees Eddie Redmayne star as transgender pioneer Einar Wegener, will open in the Us on November 27, Screen Daily reports.
Based on David Ebershoff's novel of the same name, The Danish Girl centres on the relationship between painters Einar and Gerda Wegener.
Einar was later known as Lili Elbe, and in 1930, underwent then-pioneering gender confirmation surgery.
The full cast for the film, directed by Tom Hooper, is yet to be confirmed.
It was recently announced that Redmayne, who won a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, would voice a character in a new Thomas the Tank Engine film.
Watch Eddie Redmayne discuss his Oscar-winning role in The Theory of Everything with Digital Spy below:...
The film, which sees Eddie Redmayne star as transgender pioneer Einar Wegener, will open in the Us on November 27, Screen Daily reports.
Based on David Ebershoff's novel of the same name, The Danish Girl centres on the relationship between painters Einar and Gerda Wegener.
Einar was later known as Lili Elbe, and in 1930, underwent then-pioneering gender confirmation surgery.
The full cast for the film, directed by Tom Hooper, is yet to be confirmed.
It was recently announced that Redmayne, who won a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, would voice a character in a new Thomas the Tank Engine film.
Watch Eddie Redmayne discuss his Oscar-winning role in The Theory of Everything with Digital Spy below:...
- 3/5/2015
- Digital Spy
Awards season has transformed into pretty much a 12 month a year event (outside of maybe a few weeks in June) which means there is news to report about some of the more anticipated prestige players of 2015. Fox Searchlight announced today that John Crowley's acclaimed romantic drama "Brooklyn" will hit theaters in platform release on Nov. 6. The tearjerker was one of the big surprises at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival where it screened out of competition (read my review here). Stars Saoirse Ronan, Michael Zegen, Domhnall Gleeson and Julie Walters are all potential acting category contenders and Nick Hornby delivers another wonderful screenplay adaptation after last year's "Wild." Screenings at Telluride or Toronto seem likely, but a slot at the New York Film Festival just makes too much sense, doesn't it? Tom Hooper's "The Danish Girl" also found a release date today as Focus Features announced it will open in New...
- 3/4/2015
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
Focus Features has secured a prime awards season slot for the Working Title drama starring Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander.
The Danish Girl will open in the Us on November 27. Universal Pictures International handles territories outside the Us.
The film reunites Redmayne and director Tom Hooper from Working Title’s Les Misérables. Redmayne just won the lead actor Academy Award for his turn as Stephen Hawking in The Theory Of Everything, which has grossed more than $110m worldwide via Focus and Universal Pictures International.
The Danish Girl is a love story inspired by the lives of artists Einar and Gerda Wegener. Redmayne portrays the former (pictured), who become one of the world’s first transgender women, Lili Elbe.
Rounding out the cast are Matthias Schoenaerts, Ben Whishaw and Amber Heard.
Lucinda Coxon adapted the screenplay from the novel of the same name by David Ebershoff.
Gail Mutrux produces through her Pretty Pictures alongside Anne Harrison via Harrison Productions...
The Danish Girl will open in the Us on November 27. Universal Pictures International handles territories outside the Us.
The film reunites Redmayne and director Tom Hooper from Working Title’s Les Misérables. Redmayne just won the lead actor Academy Award for his turn as Stephen Hawking in The Theory Of Everything, which has grossed more than $110m worldwide via Focus and Universal Pictures International.
The Danish Girl is a love story inspired by the lives of artists Einar and Gerda Wegener. Redmayne portrays the former (pictured), who become one of the world’s first transgender women, Lili Elbe.
Rounding out the cast are Matthias Schoenaerts, Ben Whishaw and Amber Heard.
Lucinda Coxon adapted the screenplay from the novel of the same name by David Ebershoff.
Gail Mutrux produces through her Pretty Pictures alongside Anne Harrison via Harrison Productions...
- 3/4/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Working Title Films’ The Danish Girl, directed by Academy Award winner Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech, Les Misérables) and starring Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything, Les Misérables) and Alicia Vikander (A Royal Affair, Anna Karenina), will be released domestically by Focus Features in exclusive engagements in New York and Los Angeles beginning Friday, November 27th, 2015, and by Universal Pictures International overseas. Focus CEO Peter Schlessel made the announcement today.
The Danish Girl is the remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Einar and Gerda Wegener (being portrayed, respectively, by Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander), whose marriage and work are cast into the unknown when Einar begins a groundbreaking journey to become one of the world’s first transgender women, Lili Elbe.
The Danish Girl has been adapted into a screenplay by BAFTA Award nominee Lucinda Coxon, based on the novel of the same name by David Ebershoff.
The Danish Girl is the remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Einar and Gerda Wegener (being portrayed, respectively, by Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander), whose marriage and work are cast into the unknown when Einar begins a groundbreaking journey to become one of the world’s first transgender women, Lili Elbe.
The Danish Girl has been adapted into a screenplay by BAFTA Award nominee Lucinda Coxon, based on the novel of the same name by David Ebershoff.
- 3/4/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Michael Keaton should just take the year off. No matter how good the Birdman star is in this fall’s Boston Globe drama Spotlight, next year’s Best Actor Oscar could quite possibly be Eddie Redmayne’s for the taking once again. The first image from Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl, which stars the Theory of Everything actor (who last partnered with Hooper on Les Misérables) as a transgender pioneer, has surfaced online, finding Redmayne looking radiant as always.
Redmayne stars in the pic as Einer Wegener, who would later rename herself Lili Elbe, one of the first men to undergo a sex reassignment surgery. Adapting David Ebershoff’s novel, The Danish Girl specifically looks at the complicated relationship between Elbe and her wife Greta (Alicia Vikander), who became a famed artist for painting Elbe in drag.
The project has been a hot commodity for years, with such respected...
Redmayne stars in the pic as Einer Wegener, who would later rename herself Lili Elbe, one of the first men to undergo a sex reassignment surgery. Adapting David Ebershoff’s novel, The Danish Girl specifically looks at the complicated relationship between Elbe and her wife Greta (Alicia Vikander), who became a famed artist for painting Elbe in drag.
The project has been a hot commodity for years, with such respected...
- 2/27/2015
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Just days after Eddie Redmayne won the Oscar for Best Actor for his performance as Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything," the British actor is undergoing another transformation for his upcoming film, "The Danish Girl." Working Title tweeted the first photo of the actor's portrayal of transgender artist Lili Elbe in the film. Born as Einar Wegener, the Danish artist was the first man to undergo a sex-change operation. The film follows on the love story between Wegener and his wife, Gerda Gottlieb (Alicia Vikander), as he makes his journey to become a woman in the 1920s. Redmayne recently addressed criticism that the role was not being played by an actual transgender woman. "There is an incredibly valid discussion for why a trans actress isn’t playing the part, because there are so many brilliant trans actresses, and I’m sure there are many who could play this part sensationally,...
- 2/27/2015
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
"It's been a crazy couple of weeks," Eddie Redmayne said to Indiewire hours before going on to win his first Oscar for Best Actor at the 87th Academy Awards for his performance as Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything." He wasn't kidding around. When Redmayne stopped by Indiewire's spot on the red carpet outside the Dolby Theater on Sunday afternoon before the awards ceremony got underway, he revealed that he had just landed in Los Angeles the day before, fresh from the set of his next project, "The Danish Girl," and that he was set to return to set on Tuesday. The upcoming biopic sees him reunite with his "Les Miserables" director Tom Hooper for an adaptation of the 2001 novel by David Ebershoff. In the film, Redmayne is expected to deliver another transformative performance as 1900s transgender pioneer Einar Wegener, an artist who in the 1920's became Lili Elbe...
- 2/27/2015
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
You've never seen newly minted Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne quite like this. The 33-year-old actor is currently working on The Danish Girl, which follows the story of transgender pioneer Lili Elbe (played by Redmayne) who was one of the first recipients of sex reassignment surgery, almost a century ago. And now, the production company behind the film has released the first photo of Redmayne in the role - in full makeup and curly red wig. The film, which is currently in production, is being directed by Tom Hooper, whom Redmayne worked with in 2012's Les Misérables. The project is being...
- 2/27/2015
- by Tim Nudd, @nudd
- PEOPLE.com
Oscar winner Redmayne is filming what already sounds like a tailor-made Oscar role in "Les Mis" and "The King's Speech" director Tom Hooper's "The Danish Girl" slated for 2016. Redmayne plays 1900s trans pioneer Einar Wegener, an artist who in the 1930s became Lili Elbe after receiving one of the first known gender-reassignment surgeries. With the Hooper namesake and an international cast including Belgian babe Matthias Schoenaerts and American actress Amber Heard, "Danish Girl" could be Redmayne's next awards vehicle. Based on the 2001 novel by David Ebershoff, the Lucinda Coxon-sripted drama follows the love story between Elbe and wife Gerda Gottlieb. Anne Harrison and Gail Mutrux developed the project and are producing via their Harrison Productions and Pretty Pictures. Working Title’s Working Title partners Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan will produce with Hooper.
- 2/27/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Whether or not you think that Michael Keaton deserved the Best Actor Oscar for "Birdman," there's no denying that winner Eddie Redmayne virtually transformed into Stephen Hawking for his performance in "The Theory Of Everything." What's more, Academy voters might like what the actor is doing next in "The Danish Girl." A first look from "The King's Speech" and "Les Miserables" director Tom Hooper's next movie has arrived. Based on the novel by David Ebershoff and penned by Lucinda Coxon (Guillermo Del Toro's upcoming "Crimson Peak"), the film chronicles the first-ever sex-change patient, Einar Wegener, a Danish artist whose love affair with his wife —fellow Danish artist Gerda Wegener— set him on the path to an eventual male-to-female operation. The cast is rounded out by Matthias Schoenaerts, Alicia Vikander and Amber Heard, but it's Redmayne's work that is already...
- 2/27/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Daily Mail
Not one for resting on his laurels with an Oscar in his hand, Eddie Redmayne is daring to go for another award-possible role in the The Danish Girl, which will see him step into shoes of Einar Wegener, one of the first men who went under the knife in the earliest transgender operations.
Directed by Tom Hooper and based on David Ebershoff‘s book of the same name, The Danish Girl tells the story of Einar and his wife, Greta (Alicia Vikander), who painted her husband in drag, ushering in the decision to change his gender and become Lili Elebe.
Redmayne told the Daily Mail, that he’s being very careful with the part, that is the most ‘sensitive role’ he’s ever done. Seeing everything from a female perspective, the Theory of Everything lead is figuring out “how to sit, to walk, to pose, roll on a pair of stockings.
Not one for resting on his laurels with an Oscar in his hand, Eddie Redmayne is daring to go for another award-possible role in the The Danish Girl, which will see him step into shoes of Einar Wegener, one of the first men who went under the knife in the earliest transgender operations.
Directed by Tom Hooper and based on David Ebershoff‘s book of the same name, The Danish Girl tells the story of Einar and his wife, Greta (Alicia Vikander), who painted her husband in drag, ushering in the decision to change his gender and become Lili Elebe.
Redmayne told the Daily Mail, that he’s being very careful with the part, that is the most ‘sensitive role’ he’s ever done. Seeing everything from a female perspective, the Theory of Everything lead is figuring out “how to sit, to walk, to pose, roll on a pair of stockings.
- 2/27/2015
- by Nicholas Staniforth
- Obsessed with Film
The first image of Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl has been revealed.
The 33-year-old Oscar-winning actor will portray transgender pioneer Einar Wegener in the movie.
Based on David Ebershoff's novel, the film will centre around the relationship between painters Einar and Gerda Wegener.
Einar was later known as Lili Elbe, and in 1930, underwent then-pioneering gender reassignment surgery.
The full cast for the film, directed by Tom Hooper, has yet to be confirmed.
Yesterday, it was announced that Redmayne would voice a character in a new Thomas the Tank Engine film.
Watch Eddie Redmayne discuss The Theory of Everything with Digital Spy below:...
The 33-year-old Oscar-winning actor will portray transgender pioneer Einar Wegener in the movie.
Based on David Ebershoff's novel, the film will centre around the relationship between painters Einar and Gerda Wegener.
Einar was later known as Lili Elbe, and in 1930, underwent then-pioneering gender reassignment surgery.
The full cast for the film, directed by Tom Hooper, has yet to be confirmed.
Yesterday, it was announced that Redmayne would voice a character in a new Thomas the Tank Engine film.
Watch Eddie Redmayne discuss The Theory of Everything with Digital Spy below:...
- 2/27/2015
- Digital Spy
It took a long time to get off the ground, but the big screen adaptation of David Ebershoff's novel "The Danish Girl" is finally in production. The fictionalized account Lili Elbe's life features Eddie Redmanye in the title role and reunites him with his "Les Miserables" director Tom Hooper. The first image of this year's Best Actor winner as Elbe has now been revealed. Elbe is known as being one of the first people to have sexual reassignment surgery (or at least have it publicly revealed). The movie centers on her relationship with her wife Gerda (Alicia Vikander) and how her transition affected their lives. The project has been in the works for years with Tomas Alfredson and Lasse Hallström both attached to direct at one time and Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard and Charlize Theron all potentially on board to play Elbe. The film also features Amber Heard and...
- 2/27/2015
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
Fresh off a strong turn in underrated crime drama The Drop, Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts has joined the cast of The Danish Girl, a period love story to be helmed by Les Misérables director Tom Hooper.
Schoenarts, whose previous films include Bullhead and Rust & Bone, will act opposite a trio of tremendously talented stars, including The Theory of Everything‘s Eddie Redmayne, veritable Next Big Thing Alicia Vikander (her upcoming films include Ex Machina, Testament of Youth, The Man from Uncle, Tulip Fever and The Light Between Oceans) and The Rum Diary‘s Amber Heard.
The Danish Girl, adapted from the novel by David Ebershoff by Lucinda Coxon (The Crimson Petal and the White), focuses on the unusual romance between Danish painter Einar Wegener (Redmayne) and his wife Gerda (Vikander), also an accomplished painter. In 1930, Einar became one of the first men to ever undergo a sex change operation. The...
Schoenarts, whose previous films include Bullhead and Rust & Bone, will act opposite a trio of tremendously talented stars, including The Theory of Everything‘s Eddie Redmayne, veritable Next Big Thing Alicia Vikander (her upcoming films include Ex Machina, Testament of Youth, The Man from Uncle, Tulip Fever and The Light Between Oceans) and The Rum Diary‘s Amber Heard.
The Danish Girl, adapted from the novel by David Ebershoff by Lucinda Coxon (The Crimson Petal and the White), focuses on the unusual romance between Danish painter Einar Wegener (Redmayne) and his wife Gerda (Vikander), also an accomplished painter. In 1930, Einar became one of the first men to ever undergo a sex change operation. The...
- 1/9/2015
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
• Reese Witherspoon will star opposite Matt Damon in Downsizing. Alexander Payne will direct from a script he wrote alongside Jim Taylor. Set in the near future, the film follows a man who realizes he'd be better of if he shrunk himself. Payne, Taylor, and Witherspoon all previously worked on Election. [Variety] • The Fault in Our Stars’ Ansel Elgort is joining Chloë Grace Moretz and Catherine Keener in November Criminals. Sacha Gervasi is directing. Steven Knight adapted Sam Munson’s teen-thriller novel for the screen. The story tracks two teenagers in Washington D.C. who investigate a friend’s murder, and fall in love in the process.
- 1/9/2015
- by C. Molly Smith
- EW - Inside Movies
After 2011’s "Bullhead" earned a Best Foreign Language Academy Award nomination, Matthias Schoenaerts could have become a James Bond villain and called it a day. Instead, the muscle-laden Belgian actor has challenged type-casting by sticking to promising films and name costars. Schoenaerts’ next project is destined for an awards frenzy: He’s set to join current Best Actor contender Eddie Redmayne in "The Danish Girl." Academy Award-winning director Tom Hooper follows up "Les Misérables" with the culled-from-real-life story, dramatizing the life of Danish painter Einar Wegener, who became one of the first men to undergo gender reassignment surgery. Lucinda Coxon ("Crimson Peak") wrote "The Danish Girl," based on a novel by David Ebershoff. Redmayne signed on to play Wegener last April. Deadline’s original report is unclear about who Schoenaerts will play in "The Danish Girl," though his mere inclusion bumps up the film’s prestiguous cast, which includes Alicia Vikander...
- 1/8/2015
- by Matt Patches
- Hitfix
After directing Les Miserables and The King's Speech, director Tom Hooper is sticking with period drama. This time he's heading to the 1930s for the sex change drama The Danish Girl. Hooper had already rounded up an impressive cast with Eddie Redmayne leading the story of Danish painter Einar Wegener, who would become the first person to receive a sex change operation from a man to woman in 1931, becoming Lili Elbe. Redmayne is joined by Alicia Vikander as Wegener's wife Gerda and Amber Heard as a character named Oola. Now Deadline reports The Drop star Matthias Schoenaerts has landed a role too. It's not clear who the actor will play, but it's likely a meaty part. The film is based on David Ebershoff's book of the same name, and has been adapted by Lucinda Coxon (Wild Target, Crimson Peak). It's another remarkably different role for Redmayne following solid work...
- 1/8/2015
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: Matthias Schoenaerts (The Drop) is joining Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl opposite Eddie Redmayne (The Theory Of Everything), Alicia Vikander (Testament Of Youth) and Amber Heard (Magic Mike 2). The film, boasting an increasingly formidable cast, sees director and producer Hooper re-teaming with Working Title’s powerhouses Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. The trio previously worked together with much success on Les Miserables.
Inspired by the novel written by David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl is a love story about Danish painters Einar Wegener and his wife Gerda. In 1930, Wegener was one of the first men ever to undergo operations to become a woman. Lucinda Coxon adapted the screenplay. Anne Harrison and Gail Mutrux developed the film and will produce through their Harrison Productions and Pretty Pictures banners.
Schoenaerts is repped by CAA and Ubba. The Belgian actor has the Thomas Vinterberg-directed adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s classic...
Inspired by the novel written by David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl is a love story about Danish painters Einar Wegener and his wife Gerda. In 1930, Wegener was one of the first men ever to undergo operations to become a woman. Lucinda Coxon adapted the screenplay. Anne Harrison and Gail Mutrux developed the film and will produce through their Harrison Productions and Pretty Pictures banners.
Schoenaerts is repped by CAA and Ubba. The Belgian actor has the Thomas Vinterberg-directed adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s classic...
- 1/8/2015
- by Ali Jaafar
- Deadline
Les Misérables director Tom Hooper has already been building quite the cast for his latest project, true-life tale The Danish Girl. He’s just added Matthias Schoenaerts to the impressive line-up.The Danish Girl finds Hooper re-teaming with Les Mis’s Eddie Redmayne for a film inspired by a true story. Based on a 2000 book by David Ebershoff, and scripted by Lucinda Coxon, it’ll chronicle Danish painter Einar Wegener's life as he became the first man to undergo a sex change operation in the early 1930s, becoming Lili Elbe. Alicia Vikander is already attached to co-star as Wegener’s wife, Gerda, while Amber Heard has role of Oola.As for Schoenaerts, nothing has been announced about his role yet, according to Deadline. Schoenaerts has several films coming up on his schedule, including Far From The Madding Crowd (out here on May 1), Close Protection, A Bigger Splash, and Galveston, which is still in development.
- 1/8/2015
- EmpireOnline
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