| 20 Most Anticipated Period Films (Part 1) - Page 2 |
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# 5 - Clash of the Titans - (Release date: March 26, 2010) Timeline: 200-300 BC (?) Director: Louis Leterrier Stars: Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes The Plot: In a loose adaptation from Greek mythology, Perseus (Worthington) who was born of a god but raised as a man, sets off on an epic mission to combat Hades (Fiennes) before he can seize power from Zeus (Neeson) and unleash hell on earth.
- - - # 4 - Sherlock Holmes - (Release date: December 25, 2009) Timeline: 1890s in England Director: Guy Ritchie Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams The Plot: Detective Sherlock Holmes (Downey Jr.) and his stalwart partner Watson (Law) engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.
Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories that feature Holmes. The first story, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 and Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890, respectively. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the beginning of the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine in 1891; further series of short stories and two serialised novels appeared until 1927. The stories cover a period from around 1875 up to 1907, with a final case in 1914. Conan Doyle said that the character of Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Like Holmes, Bell was noted for drawing large conclusions from the smallest observations. - - -
# 3 - The Wolf Man - (Release date: Februaru 12, 2010) Timeline: 1880s in Britain Director: Joe Johnston Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt The Plot: Nobleman Lawrence Talbot (Del Toro) returns to his ancestral homeland, where his brother has gone missing and villagers are being killed by a nightmarish beast. The search reunites him with his estranged father (Hopkins) and draws him near to his brother's fiancée (Blunt), however, Talbot's lager concern is the discovery of a side to himself which he never could have imagined existed ...
ShockTillYouDrop has posted the plot synopsis of The Wolfman:
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# 2 - Shutter Island - (Release date: February 19, 2010) Timeline: 1954 in the US Director: Martin Scorsese Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo The Plot: When a psychotic killer (Mortimer) disappears from a mental institution on Shutter Island, a pair of U.S. Marshals (Ruffalo and DiCaprio) race against the clock in order to track her down.
The author of Shutter Island is Dennis Lehane, the acclaimed author who has written several award-winning novels, including A Drink Before the War and the New York Times bestseller Mystic River, which was later made into an Academy Award-winning film. Another novel, Gone, Baby, Gone, was also adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film. The following description appears on the book: In 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, are sent to Shutter Island to find a mass murderer who has escaped from Ashecliffe Hospital, a fortress-like federal institution for the criminally insane. As an intense hurricane bears relentlessly down on the island, the marshals are forced to piece together clues to a shocking puzzle hidden within Shutter Island, taking them on a dark, twisted journey, where paranoia assumes an air of cool rationality and the line between sanity and madness disappears... This movie is the latest collaboration between Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio. - - - # 1 - Invictus - (Release date: December 11, 2009) Timeline: 1995 in South Africa
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, former President of South Africa and the first to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of the African National Congress's armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe. The South African courts convicted him on charges of sabotage, as well as other crimes committed while he led the movement against apartheid. Mandela served 27 years in prison, spending many of these years on Robben Island. Following his release from prison on 11 February 1990, Mandela supported reconciliation and negotiation, and helped lead the transition towards multi-racial democracy in South Africa. Since the end of apartheid, many have frequently praised Mandela, including former opponents. Mandela has received more than one hundred awards over four decades, most notably the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
The film is based on the book Playing The Enemy: Nelson Mandela And The Game That Changed a Nation by John Carlin. The filmakers met with Carlin for a week in his Barcelona home, discussing how to transform the book into a screenplay. Morgan Freeman was the first actor to be cast, as Mandela. Matt Damon was then cast as Francois Pienaar. He was given intensive coaching by Chester Williams, a star of the 1995 team, at the Gardens Rugby Club. Filming began in March 2009 in Cape Town. "In terms of stature and stars, this certainly is one of the biggest films ever to be made in South Africa," said Laurence Mitchell, the head of the Cape Film Commission. - - - What's on your mind? Among the list of 10 movies above, which are your favorites? Any particular film you look forward to the most? Why is that? Let us know what you think! - - - |
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