The Sundance Film Festival made their final feature film line-ups with the Premieres category announcements. Sixteen films with huge name talent, returnee filmmakers and...
As of late, IFC have food some comfort food in the works of Michel Winterbottom. The filmmaker who is now tackling the well versed in the mass media tale of the Amanda Knox Murder Case, had recently delivered a two-hour cut of The Trip at TIFF --- a downsized version from 6 television episodes that has or is about to air in the U.K.
Without any info on the run time, I'm not entirely sure how much Michael Winterbottom will strip away from The Trip. The six episode BBC sitcom starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon will be shown at TIFF probably in a two-hour form, allowing it to be shopped to the same territories that may have picked up Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story.
Firth will now reunite with the filmmaker on a completely different blend - The Promised Land political crime thriller set in British-ruled Palestine at the end of World War II - circa 1948 when the partition of Palestine and the subsequent creation of the state of Israel. Basically, this could be an explosive indie film. Written by Laurence Coriat (who wrote pair of Winterbottom projects in Genova and Seven Days), Firth and Matthew Macfadyen will join the already cast Jim Sturgess.