PROJECTS
Current / upcoming / rumored projects :
The Lovely Bones 2009
Rachel: Abigail Salmon
Released: December 11
Based on the best selling book by Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones is the story of a 14-year-old girl from suburban Pennsylvania who is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from Heaven, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.
Agora 2009
Rachel: Hypatia
Released: December 19
Set in Roman Egypt in the fourth century AD, “Agora” toplines Weisz as real life figure astrologer-philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria. Trapped in the Library of Alexandria as religious riots flare on the city’s streets, Hypatia battles to save the collected wisdom of the ancient world.
Meanwhile, her slave Davus (Minghella) is torn between his love for his mistress and the freedom he could attain by joining the rising tide of Christianity.
Dirt Music 2009
Rachel: Georgie Jutland
Status: pre-production
Set in the dramatic landscape of Western Australia, Dirt Music tells the story of Luther Fox, a broken man who makes his living as an illegal fisherman — a amateur. Before everyone in his family was killed in a freak rollover, Fox grew melons and counted stars and loved playing his guitar. Now, his life has become a “project of forgetting.” Not until he meets Georgie Jutland, the wife of White Point’s most prosperous fisherman, does Fox begin to dream again and hear the dirt music — “anything you can play on a veranda or porch,” he tells Georgie, “without electricity.” Like the beat of a barren heart, nature is never silent.
Face Value 2010
Rachel: Hedy Lamarr
Status: Announced
The film centers on the Austrian-American actress who garnered fame in the 1940s for her luminous screen presence, most famously for playing Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille’s Samson and Delilah. The film will focus on Lamarr’s eccentric life, particularly her less-publicized second career as a scientist.
Unbound Captives 2010
Rachel: Unknown
Status: Announced
Rachel Weisz will play a woman whose husband is killed and her two children kidnapped by a Comanche war party in 1859. She is rescued by a frontiersman, to be played by Jackman. Pattinson will play the son.
The Colossus 0000
Rachel: Olive Schreiner
Status: pre-production
An ornithologist at the turn of the 20th century transports hundreds of songbirds to an ailing prime minister in South Africa and falls for a political activist trying to stop the impending Boer War.
