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- Daniel Radcliffe to play athlete in film
- Rachel McAdams is heading into space
- <i>X-Men: Days Of Future Past</i> trailer
| Daniel Radcliffe to play athlete in film Posted: The grown-up Harry Potter star is set to portray British sportsman Sebastian Coe. Daniel Radcliffe is to play British athletics great Sebastian Coe in a film about his rivalry with fellow middle-distance runner Steve Ovett, filmmakers announced recently. Gold will examine the tussles between countrymen Coe and Ovett, who exchanged titles and world records during the early 1980s. Ovett beat Coe over 800m at the Moscow Olympics in 1980, but Coe claimed revenge in the 1,500m final six days later and successfully defended his title at the 1984 Los Angeles Games. Coe went on to head the organising committee of the 2012 London Olympics and is the current chairman of the British Olympic Association. The film is expected to focus on Coe and Ovett's preparations for the 1980 Olympics, but it has not yet been announced who will play Ovett. "You were either an Ovett person or a Coe person and that's what makes it such a great character piece as well," said the film's producer, Vicky Licorish. Filming for the movie, which was first announced in February 2010, is expected to begin in April next year. The screenplay will be based on an account of the rivalry in a book called The Perfect Distance by British athletics journalist Pat Butcher. Radcliffe, 24, shot to fame by playing the title role in eight film adaptations of J.K. Rowling's blockbuster series of books about child wizard Harry Potter. — AFP Relaxnews |
| Rachel McAdams is heading into space Posted: The Canadian actress is set to star alongside Keanu Reeves in a new movie. The star of Richard Curtis's About Time, Rachel McAdams, is negotiating the female lead in the forthcoming science-fiction film opposite Keanu Reeves, Variety reports. Director Brian Kirk (Game Of Thrones, Dexter) will make his film debut behind the camera for this romance in space. Based on a screenplay by Prometheus writer Jon Spaihts, Passengers will take place within the passageways on a spaceship headed towards a habitable planet. Due to a technical error, one of the passengers is woken 90 years before schedule. Unable to face his fate alone, the lonely hero (Reeves) decides to wake a lovely young woman to keep him company (McAdams, pending current negotiations). Kirk will begin shooting Passengers sometime in 2014. McAdams will soon return to cinemas in Every Thing Will Be Fine and A Most Wanted Man. — AFP Relaxnews |
| <i>X-Men: Days Of Future Past</i> trailer Posted: The X-Men: Days Of Future Past trailer is out. We know you've been waiting for this ... The trailer for X-Men: Days Of Future Past was launched late last night. It's a little melodramatic ... but at least it gives us more clues as to what to expect in director Bryan Singer's upcoming movie. Check it out for yourself: |
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