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Cornish is among the future’s ‘Bright Star’

Published on March 27, 2007

An Aussie match made in movie heaven – the well rested Jane Campion (The Piano, In the Cut) is looking to tap the hottest thesp property from Down Under (and no it isn’t Watts or Kidman). Abbie Cornish is in negotiations to topline Campion's next project.

Scripted by Campion, Bright Star is based on the three-year romance between 19th century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, which was cut short by Keats' untimely death at age 25. Cornish will portray Brawne. The period romance drama should go into production in the late summer or early fall start.

Cornish has been doings somersaults since well, Somersault. She has just completed Shekhar Kapur’s The Golden Age and is onboard Kimberly Peirce’s anti-war film Stop-Loss. Those lucky enough to attend Cannes will get to see Campion’s next piece – she is one among 35 in Chacun son cinema.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).