Neve Campbell is the wild card in a new real-time British gangster film about four drug dealing punks trying to figure out which one of them has $4 million in cash.
It took ten years, but after debuting at the 1998 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and being staged in London’s West End the following spring, the play Matchstalk Man is finally set to be turned into a movie. Unfolding in real time, the black comedy adaptation takes place mostly in a derelict, abandoned warehouse, where four small-time hoodlums on the run from police engage in a game of cat and mouse to figure out where the cash proceeds from an illicit cocaine sale has gone. The film will mark the directorial debut of theater veteran Alexander Holt and will feature Neve Campbell playing the part of Pansy, one of the four conniving principals. Also attached to the film alongside Campbell are Billy Boyd (The Lord of the Rings), Kelly Reilly (Mrs. Henderson Presents) and Jamie Foreman, son of 1960’s London gangster Freddie Forman. ‘Matchstalk Man is a film about atmosphere, claustrophobia and above all characters and plot racing to a final conclusion which should leave the audience gasping, heads reeling and wanting more,’ Holt writes on the film’s official website. ‘We will be paying homage to a variety of styles using different formats e.g. for fantasy flashbacks, imagine the style of Tim Burton meets Quentin Tarantino; for the present grittiness of the warehouse, imagine Michael Mann meets Danny Boyle.’ Further bolstering the Matchstalk Man cast are a pair of co-stars with notable roles in recent musical biopics: Toby Kebbell, who played Joy Division manager Rob Gretton in the fantastic 2007 British film Control; and Leo Gregory, who portrayed Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones in the 2005 drama Stoned. Holt tells the Hampstead and Highgate Express that he and his partners have raised $2 million to shoot their $4 million caper and hope to roll cameras this summer for a planned February 2009 release. Other projects in the works from production company Quicksilver Films include the futuristic sci-fi thriller The Last Olympian and the thriller No Reason. (FilmStew
According Hollywood Reporter, Neve and Tim Roth have joined Sebastian Kich in the cast of “Sea Wolf’, the $20 million adventure two-parter from Herbert Kloiber’s Tele-Munchen Group for RHI Entertainment and German public broadcaster ZDF.
Koch will star as the crazed seaman Wolf Larson in the new adaptation of the Jack London classic. Roth will play his brother and rival Death Larsen while Campbell will star as Maude, a runaway bride who lands on Wolf’s ship.
Shooting is set to start in Halifax, Canada at the end April for delivery this fall. ZDF will air the series in Germany with RHI handling U.S. rights.
First of all, sorry for the lack of updates. There’s nothing new on Neve, and also I was a little busy.
I’ve a lot of new pictures added, and more to come.
We have the first pictures on Neve from 2008. She was with John at Natalie Inbruglia birthday, last February. Beautiful!
Universal Pictures have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of Closing the Ring on 21st April 2008 priced at £19.99. This tale of love, loss and redemption from director Richard Attenborough stars Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton, Pete Postlethwaite and Brenda Fricker.
In 1991, a small American town mourns the passing of Chuck Harris; father, husband and Second World War veteran. His widow, Ethel (Shirley MacLaine), refuses to mourn, drowning herself in alcohol and cigarettes as she neglects her hysterical daughter, Marie (Neve Campbell). A phone call from a young Irishman, claiming to have found a ring belonging to Ethel, reawakens Ethel’s lifetime of heartache and reveals the deeply hidden secrets of her love life.
As the narrative travels back in time we see the young, beautiful and confident Ethel (Mischa Barton), deeply in love with farmer Teddy (Stephen Amell), who goes to war with his best friends Jack (Gregory Smith) and Chuck (David Alpay), but not all of them make it back alive…
Extras include 30 minutes of interviews with Lord Attenborough, Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer & Mischa Barton.
Thanks to Johnny Testa, for the heads up. The portal Askmen.com recently published an article with the 10 all time Canadian babes, including our Neve in the list. I think it may be interesting to read, despite I didn’t agree with the rating.
Unlike our neighbors to the South, Canada isn’t a nation known to boast. That isn’t to suggest, however, that we don’t have plenty to be proud of. Take, for instance, our remarkably sexy native daughters. From St. John’s to Victoria, the True North is overflowing with comely vixens and fabulous femmes. So grab some back bacon and a dollop of maple syrup as we proudly present the top 10 all-time Canadian babes.
Partition (2007)
Closing the Ring (2007)
Agent Crush (2008)
Burn Up (2008)
The Death of Harry Tobin (2008)
