Batra to direct an English film
The lunchbox director Ritesh Batra is all set to make his English movie debut with an adaptation of Julian Barnes' Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending, starring Oscar-winning actor Jim Broadbent. Batra shot to global fame with The lunchbox while Broadbent is known for his films like Topsy Turvy, Iris, Moulin Rouge, The Iron lady and Harry Potter. “I am thrilled to adapt one of my favourite novels to screen and to work with a great team. Julian’s characters are an important part of my life and work, and I am looking forward to spend time with Jim whom I have always admired,” Batra said. Nick Payne is writing the screenplay of the movie.
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Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne is in negotiations to play the lead in Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, the upcoming prequel to superhit fantasy series Harry Potter. Redmayne, 33, will play Newt Scamander, who wrote Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, a textbook used by Potter and his friends when they attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
JK Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, has progressed through the first screenplay. The new film series takes place 70 years before the Harry Potter films.
That franchise was hugely important to Warner Bros, which is eager to get it back. Frequent Potter helmer David Yates will direct and David Heyman will be back to produce the film.
‘Women are misrepresented’
Hollywood beauty Charlize Theron says sci-fi movies have the tendency of misrepresenting female characters. Theron, 39, who is currently one of the stars of Mad Max: Fury Road, vented her frustration at the typical depiction of women in science fiction films on a reality show. “I've always wanted to explore the genre a little bit more, especially because I think it's a misconception that women don't like the genre, or that they don't want to go and see these movies,” she said and added, “I just feel like women have been so misrepresented in these films — why do we have to go and see the genre every single time with the girl in the back of the frameIJ”