The thriller revolves around the attempt to solve a series of murders that took place in 1830 at the US Military Academy at West Point.
Tag: Lucy Boynton
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Searchlight Pictures’ film ‘Chevalier de Saint-Georges’ adds Minnie Driver
By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Oscar-nominated actor Minnie Driver has joined the cast of Searchlight Picture’s movie “Chevalier de Saint-Georges.”
Driver will feature alongside Kelvin Harrison Jr, Samara Weaving and Lucy Boynton in the movie, which will be directed by Stephen Williams from an original script by Stefani Robinson, reported Deadline.
The true-life period drama centres on Joseph Bologne, or the Chevalier de Saint-Georges (Harrison Jr), who is known as the Black Mozart.
Born in the Caribbean, Bologne was the illegitimate son of a plantation owner and a slave who was then educated in France and became a fencing master, which served as an entree into French high society.
With his music and operas, he ascended to the upper echelons of Marie Antoinette’s Paris society until a court scandal laid him low.
Driver will play La Guimard, a favourite dancer of Queen Marie Antoinette (Boynton) who took exception to the Chevalier’s rise.
Weaving will be starring as Marie-Josephine, a woman who yearns for creative fulfilment outside of her empty, loveless marriage and defies her controlling husband to become the voice of Bologne’s opera.
The movie will be produced by Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Element Pictures along with Robinson and Dianne McGunigle.
Driver, who was nominated for an Oscar for performance in “Good Will Hunting”, currently stars in Amazon’s anthology show “Modern Love”.
She will be next seen in “Cinderella”, alongside Camila Cabello, Pierce Brosnan, James Corden and Billy Porter.
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Chevalier de Saint-Georges biopic adds Lucy Boynton to cast
By Express News Service
Actor Lucy Boynton has been roped in to play Marie Antoinette in the upcoming biopic Chevalier de Saint-Georges. The film stars Kelvin Harrison Jr. in the titular role. Written by Stefani Robinson, the biopic will be helmed by Watchmen director Stephen Williams. Samara Weaving also recently joined the cast.
de Saint-Georges, born in 1745 in the French Caribbean, was the illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner. He rose to improbable heights in French society, dazzling as a violinist, a composer and a champion fencer. However, an ill-fated love affair with a French noblewoman and a falling out with Marie Antoinette and her court led to his untimely downfall.
Chevalier de Saint-Georges will be produced by Element Pictures, Robinson and Dianne McGunigle. Boynton is best known for her breakout role opposite Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody. She recently wrapped production on The Ipcress File, and will soon star in Hugh Laurie’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? She will also be seen as Marianne Faithfull in Faithfull, a biopic about the iconic rock singer’s rise to fame during the British Invasion.