BECOMING JANE shooting location details
An article about films currently in production in Ireland includes a tidbit of news about BECOMING JANE (as well as repeating the stuff we’ve been snarking for the past several weeks).
Top actresses Dame Maggie Smith, Julie Walters and Brokeback Mountain starlet Anne Hathaway will begin shooting scenes in Charleville Castle in Co Offaly as well as in Ardmore Studios just outside Bray, Co Wicklow.
A castle? Goodness. We dare say that it inspired that well-known Gothic novel Northanger Abbey, set in a crumbling castle on a lonely moor… (or was that Longbourn? Can’t keep ‘em straight).
(Private to lurking media: that was a joke.)
Also, Alert Janeite Jen P. sent us this article, which also repeats the usual crap and also says, to our high amusement,
They had to do a biopic at this point…after Bride and Prejudice, Bridget Jones’ Diary and Clueless, they’re beginning to run out of ways to re-tell Austen novels as well.
Obviously they haven’t been to any Austen fan fiction sites lately! Of course, a film studio would actually have to PAY the fan fiction authors to use one of their stories…
I just looked at some pictures of Charleville Castle – it looks like Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria’s Irish hunting lodge, circa 1880. Quite which corner of Steventon or Ashe it will stand in for, I’m not sure…
“Attractive, Irish bad boy” Tom Lefroy? When do they put Fabio on the cover of Pride & Prejudice?
The pics from the first two days of shoting are up. Here are the links
http://photo.wenn.com/index.php?ref=EXCL%20becoming%20jane%20280306&session_id=dad7e0d9cd018ee2c134ca21deb2f887
And:
http://photo.wenn.com/index.php?ref=EXCL%20becoming%20jane%20280306&session_id=dad7e0d9cd018ee2c134ca21deb2f887
They are having difficulty with the weather but the set does seem promising though.
any idea when pictures will be realeased of Dame maggie Smith and Julie walters in character, or is there any word on who they’re playing yet?