[viv]

Set in the 60's a young man, son of a humanist priest (could be shepherd), clashes with his drunken boss in a railroad camp in the North West Territories. An adventure film set in the wide open spaces of northern Canada, and starring Craig Olejnik, Roy Dupuis, Elias Koteas, Tom McCamus and Stephen McHattie.
Director: Louis Bélanger
Producer: Lorraine Dufour of COOP Vidéo de Montréal.
Distributor: Christal Films

No doubt, more anon!!!!!

[Mary]

Thanks for bringing the news over here Viv!
When I first saw this one I was thinking maybe they had ressurected Pilgrim & renamed it! But, after reading the description, obviously it is not. I'm thinking Stephen McHattie will be the boss, but ...........you never know!
IMDB has a list for Time Keeper with sparse intel - just that it is set for 2009!

[Isolde]

Roy and Stephen, again, eh?

[viv]

Further information from Cyberpresse - it's from a novel by Trevor Ferguson, and it will be filmed in English!!

Deux projets de longs métrages en anglais ont également été approuvés par la SODEC hier. Il s'agit de l'adaptation du roman de Trevor Ferguson, Timekeeper, réalisée par Louis Bélanger

The book is not available from Amazon UK or US, but you may be able to pick up 1 of the 2 remaining used copies from Amazon Canada.

Lorraine Dufour was also executive producer of Délivrez-moi.

[Karen K]

Wow!!! I would love to read this one. Off to Amazon.ca............but is in in French????? Guess I'll find out.

Well so much for that..........I couldn't get it to accept my mailing address and I've never had a problem before. And it is in English.

Never give up should be my middle name...........there are several available at Barnes & Noble including a couple signed by the author. I went the cheap route!


And this is the description over there.....

From the Publisher
Trevor Ferguson returns to the wilderness of land and soul.
The late critic Ken Adachi once wrote of Trevor Ferguson: "Ferguson writes as if he were on a wild binge, as if he were determined to compensate us for all the tidily assembled and yet listless or lifeless novels we've read." In The Timekeeper,á Ferguson is still on a binge of wild, darkly funny storytelling, rich in meaning and myth.

Martin Bishop, a 16-year-old farm boy forced from his land after the death of his father, joins the construction gang at the Great Slave Lake railway. Alone, except for his sense of right and wrong, Martin is thrown into his job of timekeeper, immediately inciting the wrath of his brutal foreman, whose unorthodox payroll reaches new standards in the slimy pit of graft and corruption.

Stocked with eccentric, truly evil and not-so-evil characters, The Timekeeperá is by turns a brutally shocking and comically rich journey, a compelling follow-up to The Fire Line.

[viv]

Martin Bishop, a 16-year-old farm boy forced from his land after the death of his father,

Looks like it was 'shepherd' after all then.

[Praise for the actor]

Thanks Viv & Karen! Very Kool. Many films for us to look forward to .
Of course you were right re: shepherd Viv

[Karen K]

Received the book today. A mere 240 pages. The book has this description

"The Timekeeper is a soring novel of the lyric quality we have come to expect from master storyteller Trevor Ferguson. It tells of the half-wits, drunks, criminals, and lunatics building the Great Slave Lake Railway, men who allow filth to collect under their fingernails, though, not Martin Bishop. An innocent cast into the wilderness, 16-year-old Martin disrupts the brutal rhythm of life on the railway gang - with shocking consequences."

Info on TF....."He began his literary career while travelling and working on construction crews and rail gangs, writing at night in the bunkhouses. A past chairperson of The Writers' Union of Canada, he lives near Montreal." Of course that was back when this was published in 1996. Viv, he is even older than us by a couple of years!!

Sounds like there will be a seedy part for Roy to play.

[MaryM]

Further information from Cyberpresse - it's from a novel by Trevor Ferguson, and it will be filmed in English!! 

I'm getting so that some of the best information about a new film is that it's in English!

This really does sound like a good one for Roy. Right up his artistic alley!

[Melody]

Set in the 60's a young man, son of a humanist priest (could be shepherd), clashes with his drunken boss in a railroad camp in the North West Territories.  An adventure film set in the wide open spaces of northern Canada, and starring  Craig Olejnik, Roy Dupuis, Elias Koteas, Tom McCamus and Stephen McHattie.
Director: Louis Bélanger
Producer: Lorraine Dufour of COOP Vidéo de Montréal.
Distributor: Christal Films

No doubt, more anon!!!!!

Wow, I have not visited this board in weeks and when I take a peek I hear about a new movie with Roy and Elias Koteas (I love this man). Can't wait.

Thanks for the info, Viv.

[viv]

2 in the can (Shake Hands with the Devil; Emotional Arithmetic)
2 in the offing (Truffe; Timekeeper)
2 in the doldrums (Pilgrim; Plainsong)
a TV series (Nirvana) and
a stage play (Blasted)

Quite a lot to keep track of ...

[SusanJ]

2 in the can (Shake Hands with the Devil; Emotional Arithmetic)
2 in the offing (Truffe; Timekeeper)
2 in the doldrums (Pilgrim; Plainsong)
a TV series (Nirvana) and
a stage play (Blasted)

Quite a lot to keep track of ...

But you are so able Viv!!

[Nik4sure]

a TV series (Nirvana)

Is this show for American or Canadian television?

An adventure film set in the wide open spaces of northern Canada, and starring  Craig Olejnik, Roy Dupuis, Elias Koteas, Tom McCamus and Stephen McHattie.

I saw 300 this past weekend and Stephen Mchattie has a small role in the movie.

[Karen K]

And nice that we have that problem. Just hope the majority materialize.

[viv]

Is this show for American or Canadian television?

Produced by Radio-Canada.