Brit Filmmakers Update: Andrea Arnold, Enda Walsh, Matt Greenhalgh, Peter Strickland and co.

Thanks to the workaholic folks at thePlaylist for making this press release “more” public, as there are plenty of noteworthy projects in development mentioned in the UK Film Council from talented filmmakers who’ve yet to even mention these future films. While we are aware of what Winterbottom, Ramsay, Hirschbiegel and Terry Gilliam, there is some fresh stuff in here to be excited about. Here are a half dozen that are now on my radar, I’ve include the press release below or you can click on the quicklinks for further info on all of these projects. 

Andrea Arnold, from Fish Tank, Red Road and Wasp fame, will be hitting Wuthering Heights next, but she might be following that up with another original piece called The Cleaner.

Peter Strickland (see pic above) who made waves last year with his film Katalin Varga, will be going to Italy for his next project – a horror film called who is developing The Berberian Sound Studio.

Matt Greenhalgh detailed the lives of John Lennon and Joy Division frontman in Nowhere Boy and Control respectively, his next project will be called Xcalibre.

Actor Paddy Considine left a great impression with his festival winning short film Dog Altogether, now he is heading towards his directorial debut with the feature The Journeyman.

Another actor will also be getting behind the camera, after about two decades Danny Huston is looking to call the shot again, this time for the Mexican thriller Day of the Dead.

And finally, at one point there were a pair of dueling Dusty Springfield projects, one that had Nicole Kidman in the lead and another that saw Kristin Chenoweth circling the lead role. We can now add a third one going by Dancing with Demons – an authorized biography of Dusty that Enda Walsh (Hunger) is penning.

Here are the other projects receiving support:

Award-winning director Lynne Ramsay (Morvern Callar, Ratcatcher), who is currently developing her upcoming feature We Need To Talk About Kevin;

Bestselling author Nick Hornby, Oscar®-nominated for An Education, who is co-writing family animation The Babymakers with Giles Smith;

Award-winning author Sadie Jones who is adapting her debut novel The Outcast for John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) to direct;

Lee Hall, award-winning writer of Billy Elliot, currently working on For The End of Time about French musical genius, Olivier Messiaen;

Oliver Hirschbiegel, director of Five Minutes of Heaven, currently working with the Bond writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade on mafia thriller Corsica 72;

Conor McPherson (The Eclipse), who is writing a ghost story Strangers to be directed by Oscar®-winning director James Marsh;

Leading British author Jeanette Winterson (Oranges are Not the Only Fruit), writing her screen debut Gertrude and Alice about Gertrude Stein and Alice B Tokles;

Hanif Kureishi, the renowned novelist, playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker, who is adapting Aravind Adiga’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel The White Tiger;

BAFTA-winning screenwriter Jeremy Brock (The Last King of Scotland), currently writing The Spare about Prince Harry, to be directed by Peter Kosminsky, and also working on How I Live Now, based on the novel by Meg Rosoff;

James Watkins, breakthrough director of BIFA award-winning film Eden Lake, whois developing his next, as yet untitled, project;

Noel Clarke, 2009 BAFTA Rising Star and actor/writer/director (Adulthood, Kidulthood), who is currently co-writing his new Olympics film Fast Girls with Jay Basu, and working with Kidulthood director Menhaj Huda on new film Despatched;

BAFTA award winning writer Matt Greenhalgh (Control, Nowhere Boy), who is developing his new project Xcalibre;

Stephen Fry, the writer, actor, and film director, who is developing Hallelujah!, a film about Handel’s Messiah, co-written with Nick Adams;

John Maybury (The Edge of Love), developing Lee Miller, about the American model, muse, photographer and war reporter;

John Crowley (Boy A, Is Anybody There?), developing his new project Iggy, about the Jamaica-based Sister Iggy, the nun who nurtured reggae;

Tony Grisoni (Death Defying Acts) and Terry Gilliam (The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus) co-writing The Man Who Killed Don Quixote for Gilliam to direct;

Roger Michell (Venus, Enduring Love), directing Hyde Park on Hudson, written by Richard Nelson;

Frank Cottrell-Boyce (Grow Your Own, 24 Hour Party People) who is adapting Michael Morpugo’s award-winning novel Kensuke’s Kingdom, for Anand Tucker (And When Did You Last See Your Father) to direct;

Oscar®-winning writer Simon Beaufoy, (Slumdog Millionaire, The Full Monty), who is adapting The Raw Shark Texts from the novel by Steven Hall, and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, from the novel by Paul Torday, to be directed by Bill Condon (Dreamgirls);

Michael Winterbottom (The Shock Doctrine), co-writing The Promised Land with Laurence Coriat (Genova), a drama set in Palestine;

Oscar®-winning writer Christopher Hampton (Atonement, Dangerous Liaisons), who is adapting the bestselling novel The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield;

Zam Salim, the BAFTA Scotland-nominated newcomer is developing his short film Laid Off, into his first feature.