Gaumont and Paris-based Lgm Cinema have set The Hills Have Eyes and Horns helmer Alexandre Aja to direct The Marquis. Billed as an epic and sensual 17th century-set romance drama, it’s based on the true story of the Marquis de Montespan. The English-language, $25M pic starts shooting at the end of the year/early 2017. Inspired by Jean Teulé’s novel, Le Montespan, which has been adapted by Aja, it covers the doomed and passionate relationship between the Marquis Louis…...
- 6/2/2016
- Deadline
Gaumont and Paris-based Lgm Cinema have brought on the French genre specialist to direct what is being described as an “epic, sensual and riveting” 17th period romance based on the life of the Marquis de Montespan.
The Marquis will shoot in English and is being earmarked for a winter 2016-17 production start.
Aja is adapting the screenplay inspired by Jean Teulé’s novel Le Montespan.
The project, which the parties say is budgeted at $25m, will depict the ill-fated passion between de Montespan and his wife Athénaïs, a beautiful and ambitious woman who became the mistress of Louis Xiv.
The marquis dismissed the prestige associated with one’s wife being a lover to the monarch and tried at all costs to reclaim her.
“This is the story of an extremely passionate couple, who, for nearly 30 years sought to free themselves from the muck of this hypocritical society they lived in,” said Aja.[p...
The Marquis will shoot in English and is being earmarked for a winter 2016-17 production start.
Aja is adapting the screenplay inspired by Jean Teulé’s novel Le Montespan.
The project, which the parties say is budgeted at $25m, will depict the ill-fated passion between de Montespan and his wife Athénaïs, a beautiful and ambitious woman who became the mistress of Louis Xiv.
The marquis dismissed the prestige associated with one’s wife being a lover to the monarch and tried at all costs to reclaim her.
“This is the story of an extremely passionate couple, who, for nearly 30 years sought to free themselves from the muck of this hypocritical society they lived in,” said Aja.[p...
- 6/1/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The French have a sense of humor that can be almost as macabre as the British; and they're unafraid to channel it into their animation. Somehow a new French animated feature has managed to escape my radar thus far, but better late than never. Patrice Leconte's Le Magasin des Suicides, aka The Suicide Shop, opened this week's Annecy Animation Festival on Monday, and in 3D no less. Check out the trailer after the jump. In case you're still wondering where The Suicide Shop is going, Cartoon Brew reports that it's "based on a bestselling book by Jean Teulé. It's a black comedy about a morose family who run a shop for suicide supplies in a bleak and depressing city. Their family business is...
- 6/6/2012
- FEARnet
For Moving Image Source, David Phelps has conducted a rare and remarkable interview with Masahiro Shinoda in which the director addresses, among other things, the making of Double Suicide (1969): "Because we, the artists, auteurs living in the 20th century, were going to tell the story of a love affair taking place in the 17th century in Osaka, and because we were not just approaching the play, but approaching it through the author, Chikamatsu, and approaching it through his inner landscape, I feel the way we were able to bring the classic into modern times was itself a trip, and one that left very different tracks from the normal way you would recreate a classic for contemporary times."
Cullen Gallagher introduces a two-week series at Not Coming to a Theater Near You: "Charles Bronson belongs to that rare breed of artists whose very presence defines an entire genre."
Performa 11 is...
Cullen Gallagher introduces a two-week series at Not Coming to a Theater Near You: "Charles Bronson belongs to that rare breed of artists whose very presence defines an entire genre."
Performa 11 is...
- 11/3/2011
- MUBI
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