[Rydra63]

Ladies,

Researching at Google, I just found this news about a new film.
http://www.productionweekly.com/
http://www.rte.ie/ar...913/byrneg.html
Roy will play one of 5 main characters, along with Susan Sarandon, Gabriel Byrne, Christopher Plummer and Max von Sydow, if this intel is correct.
Wow.

Shoko

[Karen K]

Great intel, Shoko! A film much closer to home for Roy and with some well known actors. And obviously will be in English. It will be interesting to see what publicity surrounds this if, as you said,

this intel is correct.

[Rydra63]

Hi Karen, hi danielle!

Mr. Cristopher Plummer talked about this film in an article "Plummer's prescription" on "The Globe and Mail". I tried to put the link but it didn't work (the link just brings you to the regstration page), but Mr Plummer said,

But before that, he will squeeze in at least two more movies. One of them is Emotional Arithmetic, which he will begin shooting in October and features Susan Sarandon and Gabriel Byrne. "It's a very interesting film. Don't ask me to explain it to you. It's got a lot of humanity and edge."

[SusanJ]

Wow! Shoko - that was interesting! Good grief, does this man never stop?? He is going to be really exhausted if he actually is shooting next month!

[Rydra63]

Hi Susan!

Finally, it appeared in the Quebec Media:
http://www.showbizz....=20060913072647
http://www.corusnouv...c-26347-10.html
Now I'm thrilled!

Shoko

[SusanJ]

Thanks again Shoko - nice photo too!!

[Mary]

Great news Shoko!!
Thanks for letting us know!
This one sounds like it has the potential for a wide release too with so many well known actors.
I'm wondering if the movie 'Toi' with Anne-Marie Cadieux is still on the table? I think it was supposed to be filming this fall. According to Voir she will be busy doing theatre this fall.
http://www.voir.ca/a...IDArticle=43574

Well, it looks like Roy will be busy as usual! Sounds like we may be going back to the younger looking Roy for this movie if he's to be playing Susan Sarandon's son.

[Melody]

Hi Susan!

Finally, it appeared in the Quebec Media:
http://www.showbizz....=20060913072647
http://www.corusnouv...c-26347-10.html
Now I'm thrilled!

Shoko

Yeah! More Roy and filming in Quebec. I can only hope some of it will be in Montreal. The city lost alot of film work over the last few years and it would be great to see more work for the Quebec Industry.

I guess we don't have to worry about funding and distribution for this movie. Wow, Susan Sarandon - my fave actress playing Roy's mom...this could be interesting.

[Mary]

Hmmmm......looks like this one has been around a while. There were plans in 1996 for a movie based on the book & the production company was the same one that did Passage des Hommes Libre:
http://www.bbrproduc...t.htm#emotional

http://www.playbackm...600.html?page=4

[gretchenohio]

Hmmmm......looks like this one has been around a while. There were plans in 1996 for a movie based on the book. . . http://www.playbackm...600.html?page=4[/url]

Wow, that Playback magazine article is from 1996? Ten years in the making.

A few paragraphs below the mention of Emotional Arithmetic is a reference to The Hanging Garden:

Last on the list is The Hanging Garden, written and to be directed by Nova Scotian filmmaker, writer and actor Thom Fitzgerald. The film is about a young gay man who returns home after a decade for his sister's wedding. It's a new piece and Stratton says it's at the very early stages.

I've actually seen that movie on late-night Canadian TV! The lead character imagines that he hung himself from a backyard tree in his adolescence, frustrated by his homosexuality and the callous lack of understanding from his family. Throughout the rest of the movie he (as an adult) and the audience see his dead teenage body hanging there every time the scene shows the yard. Yet no one else can see it though as they go about their business. Hence, the "hanging garden." Of course, that's only one part of the movie.

Canadian films are so interesting, don't you find?

-- Gretchen

[viv]

Great catches everyone - the Google Sleuths are out in force!!

First draft in 1996 - and I thought my prjects at work took a long time! Looks like first director Jane Thompson moved on though - to be replaced by Paulo Barzman (Relic Hunter, Largo Winch)
Another source - comingsoon.net
So - Roy the son of Christopher Plummer & Susan Sarandon!! He IS moving in the big league!

[gretchenohio]

So - Roy the son of Christopher Plummer & Susan Sarandon!!  He IS moving in the big league!

It just makes me want to sing with happiness.

♬ The hills are alive, with the sound of R... D....! ♬

... or ...

♬ Let's do the ROY warp, again! ♬

-- Gretchen

[viv]

The Rocky Horror Sound of Music

[Karen K]

Oh, my, there's a musical in the works here. I'm scared, very scared..............

It will be interesting to see how big Roy's role is. I hope Susan and Christopher are ready to be amazed by what we have known for many years.

[MaryM]

Wow! Shoko - that was interesting! Good grief, does this man never stop?? He is going to be really exhausted if he actually is shooting next month! 

Susan, when I had the chance to talk to Roy at the MIRA Meet and Greet last year, one of the things I asked him was how, since he gets so completely into the "skin" of his characters, he managed to shift characters from film to film, and if he ever suffered from adrenalin withdrawal after a film is done. He told me that it was easier for him if he had another film to go to right away. He also said that sometimes he almost welcomed the mild depression when a very intense film was over. Since "Shake Hands With The Devil" was definitly an intense film, he may be very glad to have this one to go to right away.

I'm going to have to think about this new film though....Roy the son of Christopher Plummer and Susan Sarandon? And bitter about it? Definitely a different thing for him.