Jenna Coleman is one of the most talented and charming actresses working in the film and TV industry. The English actress made her TV debut with the 2005 British soap opera Emmerdale, and her first feature film role was a very small one but it was in Captain America: First Avenger. She recently starred in the adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s DC comics The Sandman as Johanna Constantine and she is currently starring in the Prime Vide thriller series Wilderness. So, if you also love Coleman’s performances here are the 10 best movies and TV shows starring Jenna Coleman that should be on your watchlist.
10. Room at the Top (Not Available in the US) Credit – BBC
Synopsis: Room At The Top is a drama series based on John Braine’s classic book about Joe Lampton, a young man on the make in 1940’s Yorkshire.
9. Dancing on the Edge (Tubi & Prime Video...
10. Room at the Top (Not Available in the US) Credit – BBC
Synopsis: Room At The Top is a drama series based on John Braine’s classic book about Joe Lampton, a young man on the make in 1940’s Yorkshire.
9. Dancing on the Edge (Tubi & Prime Video...
- 9/11/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Bloods star Jane Horrocks is joining the cast of another Sky original in the UK.
She has been cast in the third season of explosive political drama series Cobra, playing populist Defence Secretary Victoria Dalton in the UK government, opposite Robert Carlyle’s returning Prime Minister Robert Sutherland and his Chief of Staff, Anna Marshall (Victoria Hamilton).
Horrocks, also known for BBC comedy Absolutely Fabulous, has most recently been appearing opposite Samson Kayo in Sky paramedics comedy Bloods.
The latest six-part season of Cobra is titled Rebellion and will follow the aftermath of an unforeseen environmental disaster that reveals itself as a crisis of corruption in the arms industry and the rise of shadowy corporate security firms, challenging Sutherland to decide what he is willing to sacrifice to stay in power.
Production has begun ahead of a 2023 debut on Sky Max and streamer Now in the UK.
David Haig (Killing Eve...
She has been cast in the third season of explosive political drama series Cobra, playing populist Defence Secretary Victoria Dalton in the UK government, opposite Robert Carlyle’s returning Prime Minister Robert Sutherland and his Chief of Staff, Anna Marshall (Victoria Hamilton).
Horrocks, also known for BBC comedy Absolutely Fabulous, has most recently been appearing opposite Samson Kayo in Sky paramedics comedy Bloods.
The latest six-part season of Cobra is titled Rebellion and will follow the aftermath of an unforeseen environmental disaster that reveals itself as a crisis of corruption in the arms industry and the rise of shadowy corporate security firms, challenging Sutherland to decide what he is willing to sacrifice to stay in power.
Production has begun ahead of a 2023 debut on Sky Max and streamer Now in the UK.
David Haig (Killing Eve...
- 11/2/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
There’s always a tricky question of semantics when it comes to stories about criminals who deal in deception. The lines between the points where one persona ends and another begins make it difficult to focus on who the “real” figure at the center is.
That’s true for “The Serpent,” the eight-part limited series about the life and crimes of Charles Sobhraj, but only to an extent. Though Tahar Rahim plays all forms of the man who led an international crime ring, he exists for most of the series as “Alain Gautier.” What begins as an alias — the origins of which the audience sees in fits and starts as the series progresses — comes to encompass all of what allowed him to grow his intercontinental passport- and jewel-laundering scam, ensnaring a growing net of murder victims and accomplices and enemies along the way. In the process, the show surrounding him...
That’s true for “The Serpent,” the eight-part limited series about the life and crimes of Charles Sobhraj, but only to an extent. Though Tahar Rahim plays all forms of the man who led an international crime ring, he exists for most of the series as “Alain Gautier.” What begins as an alias — the origins of which the audience sees in fits and starts as the series progresses — comes to encompass all of what allowed him to grow his intercontinental passport- and jewel-laundering scam, ensnaring a growing net of murder victims and accomplices and enemies along the way. In the process, the show surrounding him...
- 4/2/2021
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
The case of Charles Sobhraj seems perfect for the age of the true-crime dramatization. Sobhraj, currently incarcerated in Nepal, was a serial murderer in the 1970s, preying especially upon Western travelers on the so-called Hippie Trail in Asia. His notoriety intersects with the anxieties of his era, and his deeds demonstrate an almost boundless capacity for cruelty and compartmentalization: Both of these facts would seem to serve a genre that seeks within stories from the past ways of understanding our times and ourselves.
“The Serpent,” a limited series appearing on Netflix after running on BBC One earlier this year, unfortunately never gets there. Through the writing of Richard Warlow and Toby Finlay, we are given an intriguing — if at times somewhat generic-feeling — look into the world of seekers and believers trying to find themselves between Kathmandu and Bangkok, and we see that world preyed on by an archvillain whose skillfulness...
“The Serpent,” a limited series appearing on Netflix after running on BBC One earlier this year, unfortunately never gets there. Through the writing of Richard Warlow and Toby Finlay, we are given an intriguing — if at times somewhat generic-feeling — look into the world of seekers and believers trying to find themselves between Kathmandu and Bangkok, and we see that world preyed on by an archvillain whose skillfulness...
- 3/30/2021
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s TV news roundup, Netflix revealed the premiere date and trailer for “The Serpent,” and Apple TV Plus announced the streaming premiere date for “It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown.”
Dates
Netflix announced that crime drama “The Serpent” will premiere on April 2. Inspired by real events set in the 1970s, the limited series tells the story of the merciless killer Charles Sobhraj (Tahar Rahim) and his girlfriend Marie-Andrée Leclerc (Jenna Coleman), who prey on tourists exploring the “hippie trail” in South Asia. When Sobhraj becomes the chief suspect in a series of murders of young Western travelers, it’s up to Herman Knippenberg (Billy Howle), a Dutch diplomat in Bangkok, to investigate the spree of crimes. The series also stars Ellie Bamber, Amesh Edireweer and Tim McInnerny. Directed by Tom Shankland and Hans Herbots, the series was written by Richard Warlow and Toby Finlay. Warlow, Shankland, Preethi Mavahalli,...
Dates
Netflix announced that crime drama “The Serpent” will premiere on April 2. Inspired by real events set in the 1970s, the limited series tells the story of the merciless killer Charles Sobhraj (Tahar Rahim) and his girlfriend Marie-Andrée Leclerc (Jenna Coleman), who prey on tourists exploring the “hippie trail” in South Asia. When Sobhraj becomes the chief suspect in a series of murders of young Western travelers, it’s up to Herman Knippenberg (Billy Howle), a Dutch diplomat in Bangkok, to investigate the spree of crimes. The series also stars Ellie Bamber, Amesh Edireweer and Tim McInnerny. Directed by Tom Shankland and Hans Herbots, the series was written by Richard Warlow and Toby Finlay. Warlow, Shankland, Preethi Mavahalli,...
- 3/5/2021
- by Antonio Ferme
- Variety Film + TV
Tahar Rahim stars as “Asia’s most notorious killer” Charles Sobhraj in a new trailer for the upcoming Netflix series “The Serpent,” released on Thursday.
Inspired by real events, the eight-episode series tells the story of Sobhraj, a serial conman who posed as a gem dealer and travelled across Southeast Asian in the 1970s with his girlfriend Marie-Andrée Leclerc (played in the series by Jenna Coleman), carrying out a spree of crimes on the so-called “Hippie Trail.” Together the duo became the chief suspects in a series of murders of young Western travelers.
The limited series also stars Billy Howle as Dutch diplomat Herman Knippenberg; Ellie Bamber as Herman’s wife Angela Knippenberg; Amesh Edireweera as Ajay Chowdhury; and Tim McInnerny as Paul Siemons.
A co-production between BBC One and Netflix, “The Serpent” is set to debut on Netflix on April 2.
Richard Warlow and Toby Finlay are writers on the series,...
Inspired by real events, the eight-episode series tells the story of Sobhraj, a serial conman who posed as a gem dealer and travelled across Southeast Asian in the 1970s with his girlfriend Marie-Andrée Leclerc (played in the series by Jenna Coleman), carrying out a spree of crimes on the so-called “Hippie Trail.” Together the duo became the chief suspects in a series of murders of young Western travelers.
The limited series also stars Billy Howle as Dutch diplomat Herman Knippenberg; Ellie Bamber as Herman’s wife Angela Knippenberg; Amesh Edireweera as Ajay Chowdhury; and Tim McInnerny as Paul Siemons.
A co-production between BBC One and Netflix, “The Serpent” is set to debut on Netflix on April 2.
Richard Warlow and Toby Finlay are writers on the series,...
- 3/4/2021
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Roster of participants includes 44 female producers out of 73 in total.
The latest projects from producers of French Exit and The Babadook are among the roster at the virtual 15th Ontario Creates International Financing Forum (iff) set to run from September 13-14.
The co-financing and co-production market takes place in association with Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and serves international and Canadian producers developing mostly English-language projects.
The two-day schedule includes networking opportunities for producers with international sales agents, financiers, distributors, agents, and executive producers, as well as an exclusive state-of-the-industry panel discussion, producer drop-in sessions, and access to a TIFF case study on co-productions.
The latest projects from producers of French Exit and The Babadook are among the roster at the virtual 15th Ontario Creates International Financing Forum (iff) set to run from September 13-14.
The co-financing and co-production market takes place in association with Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and serves international and Canadian producers developing mostly English-language projects.
The two-day schedule includes networking opportunities for producers with international sales agents, financiers, distributors, agents, and executive producers, as well as an exclusive state-of-the-industry panel discussion, producer drop-in sessions, and access to a TIFF case study on co-productions.
- 9/1/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Roster of participants includes 44 female producers out of 73 in total.
The latest projects from producers of French Exit and The Babadook are among the roster at the virtual 15th Ontario Creates International Financing Forum (iff) set to run from September 13-14.
The co-financing and co-production market takes place in association with Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and serves international and Canadian producers developing mostly English-language projects.
The two-day schedule includes networking opportunities for producers with international sales agents, financiers, distributors, agents, and executive producers, as well as an exclusive state-of-the-industry panel discussion, producer drop-in sessions, and access to a TIFF case study on co-productions.
The latest projects from producers of French Exit and The Babadook are among the roster at the virtual 15th Ontario Creates International Financing Forum (iff) set to run from September 13-14.
The co-financing and co-production market takes place in association with Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and serves international and Canadian producers developing mostly English-language projects.
The two-day schedule includes networking opportunities for producers with international sales agents, financiers, distributors, agents, and executive producers, as well as an exclusive state-of-the-industry panel discussion, producer drop-in sessions, and access to a TIFF case study on co-productions.
- 9/1/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Roster of participants includes 44 female producers out of 73 in total.
The latest projects from producers of French Exit and The Babadook are among the roster at the virtual 15th Ontario Creates International Financing Forum (iff) set to run from September 13-14.
The co-financing and co-production market takes place in association with Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and serves international and Canadian producers developing mostly English-language projects.
The two-day schedule includes networking opportunities for producers with international sales agents, financiers, distributors, agents, and executive producers, as well as an exclusive state-of-the-industry panel discussion, producer drop-in sessions, and access to a TIFF case study on co-productions.
The latest projects from producers of French Exit and The Babadook are among the roster at the virtual 15th Ontario Creates International Financing Forum (iff) set to run from September 13-14.
The co-financing and co-production market takes place in association with Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and serves international and Canadian producers developing mostly English-language projects.
The two-day schedule includes networking opportunities for producers with international sales agents, financiers, distributors, agents, and executive producers, as well as an exclusive state-of-the-industry panel discussion, producer drop-in sessions, and access to a TIFF case study on co-productions.
- 9/1/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Netflix and BBC’s serial killer series “The Serpent” is one of the international shows whose filming was impacted by the pandemic, and required shifting production from Asia to Europe.
The drama, which stars Tahar Rahim (“A Prophet”) as the French conman and mass murderer Charles Sobhraj, was on its last stretch of shooting on location in Thailand in late March when the country went into lockdown. After a near five-month pause, the series had to relocate filming to the U.K. where production decamped in Hertfordshire, just north of London, on Aug. 17. The lensing, which took place for 10 days and will conclude Friday, consisted of remaining scenes that were initially scheduled to be shot in Thailand in March.
“It’s a testament to the hard work and sheer inventiveness of ‘The Serpent”s creative team, cast and crew that we’ve been able to safely wrap the series here in the U.
The drama, which stars Tahar Rahim (“A Prophet”) as the French conman and mass murderer Charles Sobhraj, was on its last stretch of shooting on location in Thailand in late March when the country went into lockdown. After a near five-month pause, the series had to relocate filming to the U.K. where production decamped in Hertfordshire, just north of London, on Aug. 17. The lensing, which took place for 10 days and will conclude Friday, consisted of remaining scenes that were initially scheduled to be shot in Thailand in March.
“It’s a testament to the hard work and sheer inventiveness of ‘The Serpent”s creative team, cast and crew that we’ve been able to safely wrap the series here in the U.
- 8/28/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Jenna Coleman will switch from starring as the long-reining British sovereign in “Victoria” to play Marie-Andrée Leclerc, the partner and accomplice of French serial killer Charles Sobrhaj, in the BBC and Netflix drama “The Serpent.” Coleman will star alongside the previously announced Tahar Rahim, who plays Sobrhaj, as well as Ellie Bamber and Billy Howle, who have joined the series.
Sobhraj was the chief suspect in the unsolved murders of up to 20 young travelers across India, Thailand, and Nepal’s hippie trail in the mid-1970s. Having slipped repeatedly from the grasp of authorities worldwide, he became Interpol’s most wanted man.
Howle will play Herman Knippenberg, a junior diplomat at the Dutch Embassy in Bangkok who unwittingly walks into Sobhraj’s web of crime and ultimately seeks to bring him to justice. Bamber will appear as his wife, Angela.
The BBC will launch the series in the U.K.
Sobhraj was the chief suspect in the unsolved murders of up to 20 young travelers across India, Thailand, and Nepal’s hippie trail in the mid-1970s. Having slipped repeatedly from the grasp of authorities worldwide, he became Interpol’s most wanted man.
Howle will play Herman Knippenberg, a junior diplomat at the Dutch Embassy in Bangkok who unwittingly walks into Sobhraj’s web of crime and ultimately seeks to bring him to justice. Bamber will appear as his wife, Angela.
The BBC will launch the series in the U.K.
- 9/8/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Victoria’s Jenna Coleman, Dunkirk’s Billy Howle and Nocturnal Animals’ Ellie Bamber are to lead BBC/Netflix drama The Serpent.
The trio join Tahar Rahim, who plays Charles Sobrhaj, one of the most elusive criminals of the 20th century. Filming has begun in Thailand on the eight-part Mammoth Screen-produced series.
Coleman will play Marie-Andrée Leclerc, Sobhraj’s partner and frequent accomplice, with Howle and Bamber cast as Herman and Angela Knippenberg.
Charles Sobhraj (Rahim) was the chief suspect in the unsolved murders of up to 20 young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal’s ‘Hippie Trail’ in 1975 and 1976. Psychopath, con man, thief and master of disguise, having slipped repeatedly from the grasp of authorities worldwide, by 1976 serial killer Sobhraj was Interpol’s most wanted man and had arrest warrants on three different continents.
When Herman Knippenberg (Howle), a junior diplomat at the Dutch Embassy in Bangkok, unwittingly walks into...
The trio join Tahar Rahim, who plays Charles Sobrhaj, one of the most elusive criminals of the 20th century. Filming has begun in Thailand on the eight-part Mammoth Screen-produced series.
Coleman will play Marie-Andrée Leclerc, Sobhraj’s partner and frequent accomplice, with Howle and Bamber cast as Herman and Angela Knippenberg.
Charles Sobhraj (Rahim) was the chief suspect in the unsolved murders of up to 20 young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal’s ‘Hippie Trail’ in 1975 and 1976. Psychopath, con man, thief and master of disguise, having slipped repeatedly from the grasp of authorities worldwide, by 1976 serial killer Sobhraj was Interpol’s most wanted man and had arrest warrants on three different continents.
When Herman Knippenberg (Howle), a junior diplomat at the Dutch Embassy in Bangkok, unwittingly walks into...
- 9/8/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Tahar Rahim will play French serial killer Charles Sobhraj in the BBC drama “The Serpent,” which Netflix is boarding as a co-producer. The streaming giant will play it in the U.S. and around the world.
Rahim (“The Looming Tower”) will star as conman and mass murderer Sobhraj, who was discovered and trailed by a young diplomat in mid-1970s Southeast Asia and who escaped prison more than once.
The eight-part series is written by Richard Warlow (“Ripper Street”) and based on the true story of how the elusive Sobhraj was caught and brought to trial. The drama follows a junior diplomat from the Dutch Embassy in Bangkok as he unwittingly walks into the web of crime that leads him to chase down the murderer in the twilight years of the Asian Hippie Trail.
The series will be directed by Tom Shankland (“The Missing”) and produced by ITV-owned Mammoth Screen...
Rahim (“The Looming Tower”) will star as conman and mass murderer Sobhraj, who was discovered and trailed by a young diplomat in mid-1970s Southeast Asia and who escaped prison more than once.
The eight-part series is written by Richard Warlow (“Ripper Street”) and based on the true story of how the elusive Sobhraj was caught and brought to trial. The drama follows a junior diplomat from the Dutch Embassy in Bangkok as he unwittingly walks into the web of crime that leads him to chase down the murderer in the twilight years of the Asian Hippie Trail.
The series will be directed by Tom Shankland (“The Missing”) and produced by ITV-owned Mammoth Screen...
- 7/15/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy and Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Gullane, the Brazilian producer of Marco Bellocchio’s Cannes competition player “The Traitor,” has linked with production partners for anticipated projects by two of Brazil’s highest-profile auteurs: Karim Ainouz and Fernando Coimbra.
In further news, Luiz Bolognesi, writer-director of Annecy winner “Rio 2096,” is leading “Senna,” Gullane’s biggest movie project to date, a live-action biopic of the Formula One legend.
On “Neon River,” the English-language debut and biggest-scale movie ever of Ainouz, whose Rodrigo Teixeira-produced “Invisible Life” world premieres in Cannes Un Certain Regard this week, Gullane will co-produce with Germany’s Match Factory Prods. and Japan’s Bitters End.
A romantic action-thriller set in Tokyo’s near-future underworld, “Neon River” has been adapted by Ainouz and the U.K.’s Toby Finlay. Sergio Machado, director of Brazil’s biggest animated movie “Noah’s Ark,” which Gullane is producing with Walter Salles, is writing the latest screenplay version.
In further news, Luiz Bolognesi, writer-director of Annecy winner “Rio 2096,” is leading “Senna,” Gullane’s biggest movie project to date, a live-action biopic of the Formula One legend.
On “Neon River,” the English-language debut and biggest-scale movie ever of Ainouz, whose Rodrigo Teixeira-produced “Invisible Life” world premieres in Cannes Un Certain Regard this week, Gullane will co-produce with Germany’s Match Factory Prods. and Japan’s Bitters End.
A romantic action-thriller set in Tokyo’s near-future underworld, “Neon River” has been adapted by Ainouz and the U.K.’s Toby Finlay. Sergio Machado, director of Brazil’s biggest animated movie “Noah’s Ark,” which Gullane is producing with Walter Salles, is writing the latest screenplay version.
- 5/19/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Coming off its finest episode yet last week, Ripper Street was recomissioned by BBC One - things were looking good for Richard Warlow's Victorian crime drama, but could newest instalment 'Tournament of Shadows' hope to continue the show's run of success?
After Bennett Drake got his dues last week, here Ripper Street shifts its attentions back to Detective Inspector Reid (Matthew MacFadyen) and his relationship with his wife (Amanda Hale), which continues to be strained by the loss of their daughter Matilda the year before.
Our hero is haunted by ghosts of the past, and while any attempt to explore character on a procedural drama such as this is welcome, we found our interest in Reid's family drama waning a little - that is, until 'Tournament' delivers the surprising revelation that Matilda may still be alive, since her body was never found.
Reid remains convinced of her continued survival,...
After Bennett Drake got his dues last week, here Ripper Street shifts its attentions back to Detective Inspector Reid (Matthew MacFadyen) and his relationship with his wife (Amanda Hale), which continues to be strained by the loss of their daughter Matilda the year before.
Our hero is haunted by ghosts of the past, and while any attempt to explore character on a procedural drama such as this is welcome, we found our interest in Reid's family drama waning a little - that is, until 'Tournament' delivers the surprising revelation that Matilda may still be alive, since her body was never found.
Reid remains convinced of her continued survival,...
- 2/3/2013
- Digital Spy
“How do you keep law in a lawless town,” the question is asked. The 1889 H division of East London is the answer we are given; the antidote to the chaos of Whitechapel.
On Sunday the 30th January, BBC1′s Ripper Streets burst onto our screens; the first episode of an eight-part series of a Victorian age, police procedural set in London’s East End. Created by the writers Richard Warlow (Mistresses, Waking the Dead), Julie Rutterford (Life on Mars, Shameless), Declan Croghan (Waking the Dead, The Body Farm) and Toby Finlay who have sculpted the story in the aftermath of the Whitechapel murders, six months following Jack the Ripper’s last murder. The main cast is headed by Matthew Macfadyen (Spooks, Pride & Prejudice, Anna Karenina), a talented stage and screen actor who fills the boots of Detective Inspector Edmund Reid; based on his real life namesake, head of H Division...
On Sunday the 30th January, BBC1′s Ripper Streets burst onto our screens; the first episode of an eight-part series of a Victorian age, police procedural set in London’s East End. Created by the writers Richard Warlow (Mistresses, Waking the Dead), Julie Rutterford (Life on Mars, Shameless), Declan Croghan (Waking the Dead, The Body Farm) and Toby Finlay who have sculpted the story in the aftermath of the Whitechapel murders, six months following Jack the Ripper’s last murder. The main cast is headed by Matthew Macfadyen (Spooks, Pride & Prejudice, Anna Karenina), a talented stage and screen actor who fills the boots of Detective Inspector Edmund Reid; based on his real life namesake, head of H Division...
- 1/9/2013
- by Stu Whittaker
- Obsessed with Film
Exclusive: British actress Annabelle Wallis is headed home to UK television to star opposite Cillian Murphy in the six-part BBC Two drama series Peaky Blinders. Created by Eastern Promises scribe Steven Knight, an Oscar-nominee for Stephen Frears’ Dirty Pretty Things, the series is set in 1919 Birmingham where a ruthless family of gangsters, led by Murphy’s character Tommy, rules the lawless post-war slums. Wallis, whose credits include X-Men: First Class and W.E. along with TV programs The Tudors and Pan Am, will play a mysterious new arrival in the neighborhood who peaks Tommy’s interest. The Tiger Aspect/Caryn Mandabach Productions crime saga is produced by Katie Swinden, with Otto Bathurst directing. Writers include Knight, David Leland, Stephen Russell and Toby Finlay. Principal photography has just gotten underway in Birmingham and Leeds. Peaky Blinders is expected to air in 2013 in the UK. Wallis is repped by ICM Partners and United Agents.
- 9/13/2012
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
Irish actor Cillian Murphy has been cast as the head gangster of a crime family in new BBC series 'Peaky Blinders'. Murphy will play Tommy, a member of the tough Delaney family, who rule a Birmingham neighbourhood in post-war 1919. 'Peaky Blinders' is written by Steven Knight, the writer behind gritty British features 'Eastern Promises' and 'Dirty Pretty Things'. He wrote the six-part script with David Leland (Band of Brothers), Stephen Russell (Shameless) and Toby Finlay (Ripper Street).Otto Bathurst (Five Days, Criminal Justice) will direct with Katie Swinden (Luther, Spooks) producing.
- 8/2/2012
- IFTN
Despite it's great literary pedigree - a staple of sexually repressed intellectuals and first year literature students for decades - there have been surprisingly few attempts to bring Oscar Wilde's cautionary tale of preternatural self-destruction to the screen. And on this evidence it's easy to see why. A surprisingly confusing interpretation of what is in essence a very simple idea - unbridled excess is it's own punishment - British helmer Oliver Parker's stuffy period puff muddles the source's central dilemma by being too literal. Laying bare everything that is alluded to in the book, Dorian Gray leaves absolutely nothing to the imagination, reducing the sins of all man to the level of an arthouse softcore porn flick.
Arriving in London to inherit the estate of his estranged late father, sheltered young fop Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) falls in with high-society fellow Harry (Colin Firth), a misanthropic, unapologetic hedonist...
Arriving in London to inherit the estate of his estranged late father, sheltered young fop Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) falls in with high-society fellow Harry (Colin Firth), a misanthropic, unapologetic hedonist...
- 9/18/2010
- by Neil Pedley
- JustPressPlay.net
The Movie
The role of Dorian Gray has to be a tricky one: the story of beautiful youth unsullied by years of debauchery requires an actor who can play both wide-eyed innocence and later exhausted cynicism. Unfortunately for 2009's Dorian Gray, Ben Barnes is not that actor, meeting only the first half of the role but lacking any of the necessary energy to rise to the second half. In fact, Barnes' energy is endemic of most of the problems plaguing the latest screen adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel, which often feels "almost but not quite," lurching forward with the general elements of the story but never feeling specific enough in its world and characters to work.
Co-starring Colin Firth (who is often better than the material and clearly aware of it) as the libertine Henry, and Ben Chaplin as Basil, the enamored painter of the doomed picture, the film was directed by Oliver Parker.
The role of Dorian Gray has to be a tricky one: the story of beautiful youth unsullied by years of debauchery requires an actor who can play both wide-eyed innocence and later exhausted cynicism. Unfortunately for 2009's Dorian Gray, Ben Barnes is not that actor, meeting only the first half of the role but lacking any of the necessary energy to rise to the second half. In fact, Barnes' energy is endemic of most of the problems plaguing the latest screen adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel, which often feels "almost but not quite," lurching forward with the general elements of the story but never feeling specific enough in its world and characters to work.
Co-starring Colin Firth (who is often better than the material and clearly aware of it) as the libertine Henry, and Ben Chaplin as Basil, the enamored painter of the doomed picture, the film was directed by Oliver Parker.
- 8/16/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Oliver Parker's latest telling of the famed story of Dorian Gray is finally coming home to American DVD and Blu-ray, and we've got the skinny and the artwork for ya!
From the Press Release
Eternity has its price in Dorian Gray, a new horror adaptation from National Entertainment Media based on Oscar Wilde’s landmark Victorian-era thriller. The lavish genre film, starring Academy Award nominee Colin Firth (A Single Man, Mamma Mia!, “Pride and Prejudice”), Ben Barnes (The Chronicles of Narnia, Stardust), Golden Globe nominee Rebecca Hall (Frost/Nixon, Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and Ben Chaplin (The Water Horse, The New World) arrives in a specially loaded DVD and Blu-ray edition featuring cast and crew interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and deleted scenes.
When a strikingly handsome but naive Dorian (Barnes) arrives in Victorian London he is swept into a social whirlwind by the charismatic Lord Henry Wotton (Firth), who introduces him...
From the Press Release
Eternity has its price in Dorian Gray, a new horror adaptation from National Entertainment Media based on Oscar Wilde’s landmark Victorian-era thriller. The lavish genre film, starring Academy Award nominee Colin Firth (A Single Man, Mamma Mia!, “Pride and Prejudice”), Ben Barnes (The Chronicles of Narnia, Stardust), Golden Globe nominee Rebecca Hall (Frost/Nixon, Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and Ben Chaplin (The Water Horse, The New World) arrives in a specially loaded DVD and Blu-ray edition featuring cast and crew interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and deleted scenes.
When a strikingly handsome but naive Dorian (Barnes) arrives in Victorian London he is swept into a social whirlwind by the charismatic Lord Henry Wotton (Firth), who introduces him...
- 7/28/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Pawel Pawlikowski ("My Summer of Love," "The Last Resort") has signed on for a film adaptation of James Meek's Prince Maurice prize-winning novel "We Are Now Beginning Our Descent" for Coded Pictures says Screen Daily.
Toby Finlay ("Dorian Gray") will adapt the story about a Scottish journalist and aspiring novelist who becomes a war correspondent in the Afghan mountains in the early days after 9/11. There he falls for an American reporter who causes him to often blur the line between observer and participant.
Pawlikowski just wrapped work on the Paris-set thriller "The Woman In The Fifth". Filming on this is likely to kick off next year.
Toby Finlay ("Dorian Gray") will adapt the story about a Scottish journalist and aspiring novelist who becomes a war correspondent in the Afghan mountains in the early days after 9/11. There he falls for an American reporter who causes him to often blur the line between observer and participant.
Pawlikowski just wrapped work on the Paris-set thriller "The Woman In The Fifth". Filming on this is likely to kick off next year.
- 6/25/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Mpc has updated their website with some behind-the-scenes VFX breakdowns of what you can see in “Dorian Gray.”
Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) is a young man of impossible physical beauty whose portrait painted by the artist Basil Hallward (Ben Chaplin). Drawn into a corrupt and sensual life by the dissolute Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth), Dorian remains young and beautiful, while the painting ages in his stead.
The movie directed from the script by Toby Finlay also stars Emilia Fox as Lady Victoria Wotton, Rebecca Hall as Emily Wotton and Rachel Hurd-Wood as Sybil Vane.
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Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) is a young man of impossible physical beauty whose portrait painted by the artist Basil Hallward (Ben Chaplin). Drawn into a corrupt and sensual life by the dissolute Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth), Dorian remains young and beautiful, while the painting ages in his stead.
The movie directed from the script by Toby Finlay also stars Emilia Fox as Lady Victoria Wotton, Rebecca Hall as Emily Wotton and Rachel Hurd-Wood as Sybil Vane.
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- 10/9/2009
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
Director: Oliver Parker
Screenwriter: Toby Finlay
Starring: Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Ben Chaplin, Rebecca Hall
Running time: 112 mins
Certificate: 15 Oliver Parker’s adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic novel The Picture Of Dorian Gray is an enjoyable and suspenseful movie that has a surprisingly contemporary thematic feel despite its period setting. A revelatory central performance by Ben Barnes as the alluring title character, seduced by the equally impressive Colin Firth’s debauched statesman, certainly goes a long way to covering up a handful of minor flaws in the telling of Dorian Gray’s tale. A non-linear beginning that jumps one year ahead reveals that Gray will develop some serious lifestyle issues, as we witness him dispose of a body hidden in a wooden chest into the River Thames. Once the creepy tone is established, full of dark, murky (more)...
Screenwriter: Toby Finlay
Starring: Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Ben Chaplin, Rebecca Hall
Running time: 112 mins
Certificate: 15 Oliver Parker’s adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic novel The Picture Of Dorian Gray is an enjoyable and suspenseful movie that has a surprisingly contemporary thematic feel despite its period setting. A revelatory central performance by Ben Barnes as the alluring title character, seduced by the equally impressive Colin Firth’s debauched statesman, certainly goes a long way to covering up a handful of minor flaws in the telling of Dorian Gray’s tale. A non-linear beginning that jumps one year ahead reveals that Gray will develop some serious lifestyle issues, as we witness him dispose of a body hidden in a wooden chest into the River Thames. Once the creepy tone is established, full of dark, murky (more)...
- 9/9/2009
- by By Ben Rawson-Jones
- Digital Spy
Oliver Parker seems to have a “thing” for the works of Oscar Wilde – having already made two films based on the legendary Irish wit’s plays: The Importance of Being Earnest and An Ideal Husband. This time, Wilde’s first and only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is up for cinematic treatment.
A gothic horror-tinged morality story laced with Wilde’s rapier wit; the film adaptation is, like the doomed protagonist of the title, not the most faithful of creatures – even part of the title has been discarded. Now it is simply Dorian Gray.
Parker’s film is successful in allowing the once frowned upon homosexual undertones of Wilde’s novel to be more explicit – indeed in one scene Basil Hallward (Ben Chaplin), the painter of the infamous portrait – is seduced into sexual acts by the magnetic Dorian. As the endless nights of passion and partying go on, Wilde...
A gothic horror-tinged morality story laced with Wilde’s rapier wit; the film adaptation is, like the doomed protagonist of the title, not the most faithful of creatures – even part of the title has been discarded. Now it is simply Dorian Gray.
Parker’s film is successful in allowing the once frowned upon homosexual undertones of Wilde’s novel to be more explicit – indeed in one scene Basil Hallward (Ben Chaplin), the painter of the infamous portrait – is seduced into sexual acts by the magnetic Dorian. As the endless nights of passion and partying go on, Wilde...
- 9/8/2009
- by Craig Sharp
- FilmShaft.com
Oliver Parker seems to have a “thing” for the works of Oscar Wilde – having already made two films based on the legendary Irish wit’s plays: The Importance of Being Earnest and An Ideal Husband. This time, Wilde’s first and only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is up for cinematic treatment.
A gothic horror-tinged morality story laced with Wilde’s rapier wit; the film adaptation is, like the doomed protagonist of the title, not the most faithful of creatures – even part of the title has been discarded. Now it is simply Dorian Gray.
Parker’s film is successful in allowing the once frowned upon homosexual undertones of Wilde’s novel to be more explicit – indeed in one scene Basil Hallward (Ben Chaplin), the painter of the infamous portrait – is seduced into sexual acts by the magnetic Dorian. As the endless nights of passion and partying go on, Wilde...
A gothic horror-tinged morality story laced with Wilde’s rapier wit; the film adaptation is, like the doomed protagonist of the title, not the most faithful of creatures – even part of the title has been discarded. Now it is simply Dorian Gray.
Parker’s film is successful in allowing the once frowned upon homosexual undertones of Wilde’s novel to be more explicit – indeed in one scene Basil Hallward (Ben Chaplin), the painter of the infamous portrait – is seduced into sexual acts by the magnetic Dorian. As the endless nights of passion and partying go on, Wilde...
- 9/8/2009
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
Oliver Parker seems to have a “thing” for the works of Oscar Wilde – having already made two films based on the legendary Irish wit’s plays: The Importance of Being Earnest and An Ideal Husband. This time, Wilde’s first and only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is up for cinematic treatment.
A gothic horror-tinged morality story laced with Wilde’s rapier wit; the film adaptation is, like the doomed protagonist of the title, not the most faithful of creatures – even part of the title has been discarded. Now it is simply Dorian Gray.
Parker’s film is successful in allowing the once frowned upon homosexual undertones of Wilde’s novel to be more explicit – indeed in one scene Basil Hallward (Ben Chaplin), the painter of the infamous portrait – is seduced into sexual acts by the magnetic Dorian. As the endless nights of passion and partying go on, Wilde...
A gothic horror-tinged morality story laced with Wilde’s rapier wit; the film adaptation is, like the doomed protagonist of the title, not the most faithful of creatures – even part of the title has been discarded. Now it is simply Dorian Gray.
Parker’s film is successful in allowing the once frowned upon homosexual undertones of Wilde’s novel to be more explicit – indeed in one scene Basil Hallward (Ben Chaplin), the painter of the infamous portrait – is seduced into sexual acts by the magnetic Dorian. As the endless nights of passion and partying go on, Wilde...
- 9/8/2009
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
After we saw the first great movie clip for “Dorian Gray,” today we have more. Take a look at the first TV Spot, new clip from the movie and the featurette which shows some new footage and offers commentary from Ben Barnes.
The movie based on Oscar Wilde’s novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray” is directed by Oliver Parker from the script by Toby Finlay.
Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) is a young man of impossible physical beauty whose portrait painted by the artist Basil Hallward (Ben Chaplin). Drawn into a corrupt and sensual life by the dissolute Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth), Dorian remains young and beautiful, while the painting ages in his stead.
Immersed in the hedonistic pleasures of the city, Dorian vows he would give anything to keep his youth and beauty-even his soul.
The movie also stars Emilia Fox as Lady Victoria Wotton, Rebecca Hall as...
The movie based on Oscar Wilde’s novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray” is directed by Oliver Parker from the script by Toby Finlay.
Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) is a young man of impossible physical beauty whose portrait painted by the artist Basil Hallward (Ben Chaplin). Drawn into a corrupt and sensual life by the dissolute Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth), Dorian remains young and beautiful, while the painting ages in his stead.
Immersed in the hedonistic pleasures of the city, Dorian vows he would give anything to keep his youth and beauty-even his soul.
The movie also stars Emilia Fox as Lady Victoria Wotton, Rebecca Hall as...
- 9/2/2009
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
The first and great clip from “Dorian Gray,” the movie based on Oscar Wilde’s novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray” has hit the web. The movie adaptation is directed by Oliver Parker from the script by Toby Finlay.
The clip shows us Dorian Gray who is stunned by how life-like his painting looks from artist Basil. The image’s mortality opens up a discussion with Lord Henry Wotton.
Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) is a young man of impossible physical beauty whose portrait painted by the artist Basil Hallward (Ben Chaplin). Drawn into a corrupt and sensual life by the dissolute Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth), Dorian remains young and beautiful, while the painting ages in his stead.
Immersed in the hedonistic pleasures of the city, Dorian vows he would give anything to keep his youth and beauty-even his soul.
The movie also stars Emilia Fox as Lady Victoria Wotton,...
The clip shows us Dorian Gray who is stunned by how life-like his painting looks from artist Basil. The image’s mortality opens up a discussion with Lord Henry Wotton.
Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) is a young man of impossible physical beauty whose portrait painted by the artist Basil Hallward (Ben Chaplin). Drawn into a corrupt and sensual life by the dissolute Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth), Dorian remains young and beautiful, while the painting ages in his stead.
Immersed in the hedonistic pleasures of the city, Dorian vows he would give anything to keep his youth and beauty-even his soul.
The movie also stars Emilia Fox as Lady Victoria Wotton,...
- 8/26/2009
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
Oliver Parker – directed adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray” has its new, the third poster.
Immersed in the hedonistic pleasures of the city, Dorian vows he would give anything to keep his youth and beauty-even his soul.
Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) is a young man of impossible physical beauty whose portrait painted by the artist Basil Hallward (Ben Chaplin). Drawn into a corrupt and sensual life by the dissolute Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth), Dorian remains young and beautiful, while the painting ages in his stead.
The movie directed from the script by Toby Finlay also stars Emilia Fox as Lady Victoria Wotton, Rebecca Hall as Emily Wotton and Rachel Hurd-Wood as Sybil Vane.
“Dorian Gray” will hit UK theaters on September 9, 2009 and will be shown at Toronto Film Festival in September 2009.
For more movie info, photos, posters and trailers go to “Dorian Gray” FilmoFilia...
Immersed in the hedonistic pleasures of the city, Dorian vows he would give anything to keep his youth and beauty-even his soul.
Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) is a young man of impossible physical beauty whose portrait painted by the artist Basil Hallward (Ben Chaplin). Drawn into a corrupt and sensual life by the dissolute Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth), Dorian remains young and beautiful, while the painting ages in his stead.
The movie directed from the script by Toby Finlay also stars Emilia Fox as Lady Victoria Wotton, Rebecca Hall as Emily Wotton and Rachel Hurd-Wood as Sybil Vane.
“Dorian Gray” will hit UK theaters on September 9, 2009 and will be shown at Toronto Film Festival in September 2009.
For more movie info, photos, posters and trailers go to “Dorian Gray” FilmoFilia...
- 8/14/2009
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
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