A day without sunshine, apparently
No real P&P3 news today, though the film is mentioned in several of the articles already posted. However, we have a few tidbits for the slavering hordes enthusiastic fans.
Paul from KeiraWeb.com sent us a link to an auction of the P&P3 press pack. Bidding, unfortunately, has ended (sorry we didn’t get this link up sooner!) But more of the same will no doubt be available soon, and much of it is on the web anyway.
Paul also sent an article from the Daily Mirror in which the newly-single Miss Knightley squees over Matthew Macfadyen as Darcy and also let out another interesting tidbit about her casting.
Her love-life may be in tatters but Keira can console herself with a burgeoning film career. Starring with Spooks star Matthew McFadyen in a new film version of Jane Austen’s Pride And Prejudice gave her a good idea of the kind of men she’s after.
Keira, who plays Elizabeth Bennet, believes Matthew’s appeal is that he looks like a real man rather than the pretty boys women are meant to fancy.
She says: “One of the most romantic things in the world is a proper man and Matthew plays Darcy with huge vulnerability which makes him really interesting. He did a spectacular job and I’m an even bigger fan of his now.” Keira reveals she was initially turned down for the role because the director thought she was “too pretty”. “Then he met me and realised I was a complete scruff and said I’d be perfect,” she laughs.
Curiouser and curiouser.
Alert Janeite Robyn sent us a P&P3 preview from Entertainment Weekly.
The Oregon Daily Emerald brings the snark in a review of autumn films, though they are about a year behind the times. However, it made us giggle.
And if that weren’t enough for you, there is also a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” the fifth in the last decade (if you count “Bridget Jones’s Diary”). Apparently director Joe Wright seems to think that he has something new to add to the story, such as sewer mutants or Donald Sutherland.
Ha!
And it does look like a thunderstorm is brewing at AustenBlog World Headquarters…
August 14th, 2005 at 9:42 pm
Apparently director Joe Wright seems to think that he has something new to add to the story, such as sewer mutants or Donald Sutherland.
So funny. ROFL..It’s true pics of new Mr. Bennet can pass for some new stills from the new Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, without stirring any suspicion. LOL
August 15th, 2005 at 12:01 am
*From Daily Mirror:
The 20-year-old says: “I’d go for someone who is a little bit brooding and somebody you can have a good conversation with, a good fight with, who will always keep you guessing and make you laugh. And he has to have good shoes.”*
Hm .. making P+P3 must’ve mighty effects on her.