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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.

  • WATCH | ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ fame Henry Golding suits up in first trailer of GI Joe spin off

    By ANI
    WASHINGTON: ‘Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins’ first trailer starring Henry Golding and Samara Weaving got unveiled on Sunday night during the MTV Movie and TV Awards.

    According to Variety, the ‘G.I. Joe’ spinoff is set for a theatrical release on July 23.

    In the movie, Golding essays the titular character, a ninja commando who wields a deadly katana blade, wears all-black, hides his face behind a mask and doesn’t speak. Though, the film, which explores the origins of the mysterious Snake Eyes, allows Golding to talk.

    Weaving plays Scarlett, an original member of the ‘G.I. Joe’ team with whom Snake Eyes has a special relationship.

    Golding said, “I wanted to see something different, and I wanted it to look different, to feel different.To be able to launch a franchise like that, it was just too good to be true — and especially with a character like Snake Eyes about whom a lot of people don’t know too much.”

    She added, “They know him as this insane operator that completes missions and is an absolute weapon, but who’s the guy behind the mask and what’s his story?”

    Variety quoted the film’s producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura in a conversation with Entertainment Weekly. He said, ‘Snake Eyes’ will answer some key questions about the character, based on the Hasbro toy of the same name. Fans will learn Snake Eyes’ real name, who he is and where he came from.

    From Paramount, Skydance and AllSpark, ‘Snake Eyes’ is directed by Robert Schwentke and written by Evan Spiliotopoulos. The film is executive produced by Jeff G. Waxman and produced by Bonaventura, Brian Goldner, Stephen Davis, David Ellison, Josh Feldman, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger.