How deep is director Kenneth Branagh’s love for the Bee Gees? I suppose we’re about to find out. The veteran director has been tapped to direct the untitled Bee Gees biopic for Paramount, according to Deadline.
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Manori Ravindran International EditorSky has unveiled the first look at Kenneth Branagh playing U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the forthcoming drama “This Sceptred Isle.”Production has begun on the Fremantle-produced drama, which charts the events surrounding Johnson, his government, and the country in the face of the first wave of the global pandemic.The Sky Original drama will air on Sky Atlantic and streaming service NOW TV in 2022.
How deep is director Kenneth Branagh’s love for the Bee Gees? I suppose we’re about to find out. The veteran director has been tapped to direct the untitled Bee Gees biopic for Paramount, according to Deadline.
Bee Gees biopic, it has been reported.A deal for the as-yet-untitled film was made back in 2019 when it was announced that Graham King – who produced Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody – had teamed up with Paramount Pictures to create the project.According to Deadline, Oscar-nominated actor and filmmaker Branagh (Dunkirk, Wallander, Henry V) will helm the movie on the Gibb brothers’ life and career.
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Kenneth Branagh is set to direct Paramount Pictures’ untitled Bee Gees movie. The biopic, with Ben Elton writing the script, had long gestated at Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks and, more recently, at Amblin, before heading to Paramount through Bohemian Rhapsody producer Graham King, who had teamed with former DreamWorks exec Stacey Snider and her new company Sister.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterKenneth Branagh has been tapped to direct the upcoming Bee Gees biopic for Paramount Pictures.The movie will center on the life and times of the genre-spanning band, following the humble beginnings of brothers Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb into their journey to pop superstardom. Following their first No.
Kenneth Branagh has been set to direct the untitled Bee Gees biopic movie for Paramount Pictures.
Kenneth Branagh will direct the Bee Gees biopic for Paramount Pictures, an individual with knowledge of the deal told TheWrap.Ben Elton is writing the script for the film that is still untitled.More to come…
polarised opinions about Wales’ future,He spoke as a new poll showed a dramatic rise in support for Welsh independence to nearly 40 per cent.Drakeford said: “I do think the effect of the pandemic and the last 12 months has been to polarise opinion in Wales about the way it should be governed.“What we have to do – to quote a Conservative member of the Senedd, David Melding – is we have to recognise that the union as it is, is over.
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It's Kenneth Branagh as you've never seen him before. For an actor who has donned insane mustaches (as detective Hercule Poirot) and a wide array of Shakespearean costumes, the first still of him as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Michael Winterbottom's TV drama This Sceptred Isle is perhaps Branagh at his most unrecognizable.