Bankside Films has boarded Calum Macdiarmid’s prison thriller Wasteman starring 2023 Screen Star of Tomorrow David Jonsson and Tom Blyth and has struck an early deal with Lionsgate for UK & Ireland rights.
Macdiarmid’s feature debut follows parolee Taylor, whose hopes of a fresh start are jeopardised by the arrival of dominant cellmate Dee, played by Blyth, who recently played the young Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes.
As Taylor finds solace and protection in Dee’s shadow, their bond is tested when Dee becomes the target of a vicious attack, leading to an...
Macdiarmid’s feature debut follows parolee Taylor, whose hopes of a fresh start are jeopardised by the arrival of dominant cellmate Dee, played by Blyth, who recently played the young Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes.
As Taylor finds solace and protection in Dee’s shadow, their bond is tested when Dee becomes the target of a vicious attack, leading to an...
- 5/10/2024
- ScreenDaily
It’s shaping up to be quite the year for Benedict Cumberbatch. Towards the end of 2016, the fan-favorite Brit will execute the one-two punch of Doctor Strange and Sherlock season 4, with the latter signalling his final turn as the illustrious sleuth – you know, potentially.
But Cumberbatch’s streak doesn’t there; Variety is reporting that the Oscar-nominated thesp is attached to produce and star in Rogue Male, a period thriller penned by Michael Lesslie of Macbeth and Assassin’s Creed fame.
It’s a fairly high-concept piece, too, one lifted from Geoffrey Household’s novel of the same name. Taking point as the lead, Cumberbatch will assume the role of a deadly assassin. His target? A malevolent dictator. One that Household himself designed to evoke Adolf Hitler in all the wrong ways.
1930-something: a professional hunter is passing through an unnamed Central European country that is in the thrall of a vicious dictator.
But Cumberbatch’s streak doesn’t there; Variety is reporting that the Oscar-nominated thesp is attached to produce and star in Rogue Male, a period thriller penned by Michael Lesslie of Macbeth and Assassin’s Creed fame.
It’s a fairly high-concept piece, too, one lifted from Geoffrey Household’s novel of the same name. Taking point as the lead, Cumberbatch will assume the role of a deadly assassin. His target? A malevolent dictator. One that Household himself designed to evoke Adolf Hitler in all the wrong ways.
1930-something: a professional hunter is passing through an unnamed Central European country that is in the thrall of a vicious dictator.
- 8/4/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
He’s TV’s mystery-solver on “Sherlock,” an acclaimed stage thespian, an Oscar nominated actor, and soon to be Marvel‘s “Doctor Strange” — basically, Benedict Cumberbatch can’t be pinned down to any one thing, so the news that he’s gonna play the trigger man in a high concept thriller? Sure, why not. Cumberbatch is set to produce […]
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- 8/2/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Transformers: The Last Knight: New imagery for Transformers: The Last Knight reveals Optimus Prime wielding a sword against the threat of dragons, the first serious hint about the possible meaning of the movie's title. We know the villainous robot Megatron, who has occasionally taken the form of a dragon, is returning in this installment, though we don't have any confirmation yet as to specifics. Look for the movie in theaters on June 23, 2017. [Twitter] Rogue Male: Benedict Cumberbatch will star in and produce Rogue Male, based on a novel by Geoffrey Household. First published in 1939, the book follows a hunter who tries to assassinate a dictator and ends up pursued by the police as well as enemy agents. Previous screen versions include Fritz Lang's...
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- 8/2/2016
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
After Star Wars and Mission: Impossible both went rogue, another feature film will do so as well. In adaptation news, Variety reports the British novel Rogue Male is being turned into a feature with Benedict Cumberbatch set to star, as well as produce the story about a hunter who is tortured and left to die after he attempts to assassinate a dictator. He escapes, and is then hounded by enemy agents and the police in his rural hometown. The script is penned by Michael Lesslie, whose resume include Macbeth and Assassin’s Creed. Also producing with Cumberbatch is Lloyd Levin, Black Sheep Pictures’ Beatriz Levin and Branwen Prestwood Smith. This is not the first time Rogue Male has been adapted to the screen, as Fritz Lang brought it to life with his 1941 film Man Hunt.
In another exciting pairing, Aubrey Plaza is set to star alongside Elizabeth Olsen in director...
In another exciting pairing, Aubrey Plaza is set to star alongside Elizabeth Olsen in director...
- 8/2/2016
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
Benedict Cumberbatch is making the transition into full-blown action star. THR reports that the Star Trek Into Darkness and Doctor Strange actor has signed on to star in and produce a film adaptation of Geoffrey Household's bestselling British novel Rogue Male, which "told of a hunter who attempts to assassinate a dictator but is caught, tortured and left for dead. When he escapes back home to England, he must hide out in a harsh countryside with the enemy agents as well as the police in hot pursuit."
Sounds like a role that could allow him to transform himself physically, which would be a new challenge for him. Check out the official synopsis of the book below, and let us know what you think about Cumberbatch starring in this project:
1930-something: a professional hunter is passing through an unnamed Central European country that is in the thrall of a vicious dictator.
Sounds like a role that could allow him to transform himself physically, which would be a new challenge for him. Check out the official synopsis of the book below, and let us know what you think about Cumberbatch starring in this project:
1930-something: a professional hunter is passing through an unnamed Central European country that is in the thrall of a vicious dictator.
- 8/2/2016
- by Ben Pearson
- GeekTyrant
Transformers: The Last Knight: New imagery for Transformers: The Last Knight reveals Optimus Prime wielding a sword against the threat of dragons, the first serious hint about the possible meaning of the movie's title. We know the villainous robot Megatron, who has occasionally taken the form of a dragon, is returning in this installment, though we don't have any confirmation yet as to specifics. Look for the movie in theaters on June 23, 2017. [Twitter] Rogue Male:...
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- 8/2/2016
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
Nick Harley Aug 2, 2016
Benedict Cumberbacth will tackle another adaptation of a classic British novel, Geoffrey Household’s Rogue Male.
Benedict Cumberbatch is taking on another classic British literature roles, with the Sherlock star set to star in an adaptation of Geoffrey Household’s 1939 survival thriller, Rogue Male.
The World War II-era novel centers on a hunter who attempts to assassinate a powerful dictator, only to be caught, tortured, and left to die. After he manages to make it back home to England, he’s forced to remain in exile in the countryside, dodging enemy hitmen as well as police. Household is said to have based the dictator character on Adolf Hitler.
Cumberbatch will star in and produce the adaptation alongside producers Loyd Levin, Branwen Prestwood Smith and Beatriz Levin of Black Sheep Pictures and Adam Ackland of SunnyMarch, Cumberbatch’s production company. The picture is set up at Fox Searchlight with Michael Lesslie (Macbeth,...
Benedict Cumberbacth will tackle another adaptation of a classic British novel, Geoffrey Household’s Rogue Male.
Benedict Cumberbatch is taking on another classic British literature roles, with the Sherlock star set to star in an adaptation of Geoffrey Household’s 1939 survival thriller, Rogue Male.
The World War II-era novel centers on a hunter who attempts to assassinate a powerful dictator, only to be caught, tortured, and left to die. After he manages to make it back home to England, he’s forced to remain in exile in the countryside, dodging enemy hitmen as well as police. Household is said to have based the dictator character on Adolf Hitler.
Cumberbatch will star in and produce the adaptation alongside producers Loyd Levin, Branwen Prestwood Smith and Beatriz Levin of Black Sheep Pictures and Adam Ackland of SunnyMarch, Cumberbatch’s production company. The picture is set up at Fox Searchlight with Michael Lesslie (Macbeth,...
- 8/2/2016
- Den of Geek
Benedict Cumberbatch is undertaking an adaptation of the classic British novel Rogue Male. The star of Sherlock and Doctor Strange will star in and produce the film with Lloyd Levin, Branwen Prestwood Smith and Beatriz Levin of Black Sheep Pictures. Also producing will be Adam Ackland of SunnyMarch, Cumberbatch’s production company. Michael Lesslie (Macbeth, Assassin’s Creed) has been hired to write the screenplay for the project, which is set up at Fox Searchlight. The survivalist thriller told of a hunter who attempts to assassinate a dictator but is caught, tortured and left for dead. When he escapes back home to
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- 8/1/2016
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Looking for a good book recommendation? Our writers have a few unsung sci-fi, fantasy and horror gems up their sleeves...
Other people. What’s the point of them? They’re noisy and everywhere.
There is one thing they’re especially good at, however, and that’s recommending new stuff. In the spirit of that, we asked our writers to recommend great books that, for whatever reason, haven’t been surrounded by as much fuss and recognition as they deserve.
Nominations came in for personal favourites in fiction, non-fiction, children’s books and graphic novels, so we’ve divided them up into a series of features, the first of which is below, on great unsung sci-fi, fantasy, horror and thriller adult fiction.
Our hope is that you’ll demonstrate your worth as other people by carrying on the recommendations in the comments section below. Thanks in advance.
The Ladies Of Grace...
Other people. What’s the point of them? They’re noisy and everywhere.
There is one thing they’re especially good at, however, and that’s recommending new stuff. In the spirit of that, we asked our writers to recommend great books that, for whatever reason, haven’t been surrounded by as much fuss and recognition as they deserve.
Nominations came in for personal favourites in fiction, non-fiction, children’s books and graphic novels, so we’ve divided them up into a series of features, the first of which is below, on great unsung sci-fi, fantasy, horror and thriller adult fiction.
Our hope is that you’ll demonstrate your worth as other people by carrying on the recommendations in the comments section below. Thanks in advance.
The Ladies Of Grace...
- 7/2/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
The Interview and the geopolitical crisis it caused is arguably the most important movie-related story of recent weeks.
The story device featured in The Interview, the idea of a film featuring the assassination of the current ruling leader, is nothing new, and in fact is seen through much of film’s history. In 1941 a German-in-exile Fritz Lang shown an unsuccessful attack on Adolf Hitler in Man Hunt (this story was also told in BBC’s Rogue Male from 1976 starring Peter O’Toole). The Shaw Brothers used the actual newsreel footage of Queen Elisabeth visiting Hong-Kong (then a British colony) in their 1976 martial arts flick A Queen’s Ransom (a.k.a. The International Assassin) starring post-James Bond George Lazenby as an Ira assassin and Angela Mao as a heroine trying to stop him. In fact, the Queen of England might be the most popular assassination target among actual world leaders...
The story device featured in The Interview, the idea of a film featuring the assassination of the current ruling leader, is nothing new, and in fact is seen through much of film’s history. In 1941 a German-in-exile Fritz Lang shown an unsuccessful attack on Adolf Hitler in Man Hunt (this story was also told in BBC’s Rogue Male from 1976 starring Peter O’Toole). The Shaw Brothers used the actual newsreel footage of Queen Elisabeth visiting Hong-Kong (then a British colony) in their 1976 martial arts flick A Queen’s Ransom (a.k.a. The International Assassin) starring post-James Bond George Lazenby as an Ira assassin and Angela Mao as a heroine trying to stop him. In fact, the Queen of England might be the most popular assassination target among actual world leaders...
- 2/2/2015
- by Jakub Mejer
- MUBI
It took me a while to watch something in tribute to the late Peter O'Toole—too upsetting—and I still haven't been able to face Joan Fontaine on the screen since her recent passing, though when I do perhaps I'll go for September Affair (1950) or Something to Live For (1952), neither of which I've ever seen.
With O'Toole, I eventually plumped for Rogue Male (1977): the title seemed to fit him to a tee. This is a television adaptation of Geoffrey Household's excellent thriller, previously filmed by Fritz Lang under the title Man Hunt, back in 1941 when the events were current.
A hunter (O'Toole) called Hunter takes aim at Hitler, but is apprehended before he can pull the trigger. Tortured by the Gestapo, he miraculously escapes and now Hunter becomes the hunted, pursued all the way back to England and run to earth in a self-made burrow, trapped like a rat.
With O'Toole, I eventually plumped for Rogue Male (1977): the title seemed to fit him to a tee. This is a television adaptation of Geoffrey Household's excellent thriller, previously filmed by Fritz Lang under the title Man Hunt, back in 1941 when the events were current.
A hunter (O'Toole) called Hunter takes aim at Hitler, but is apprehended before he can pull the trigger. Tortured by the Gestapo, he miraculously escapes and now Hunter becomes the hunted, pursued all the way back to England and run to earth in a self-made burrow, trapped like a rat.
- 1/9/2014
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
Daniel Craig makes 007 his own in this very British Bond adventure – perhaps the best in the series' 50-year history
Fifty years ago this month, the first James Bond movie, Dr No, opened at United Artists's West End showcase, the London Pavilion in Piccadilly Circus, a former Victorian music hall. United Artists no longer exists as a major production company and the cinema became a shopping arcade a quarter of a century ago, but the franchise goes on. For the first time in more than a decade, the final credits confidently tell us there will be a new Bond film soon.
Though produced by children of the American who launched Dr No, the Bond series is now a British institution with a global reach greater than our former empire, and the latest addition, Skyfall, was given its world premiere not in a movie house but at the Royal Albert Hall.
Fifty years ago this month, the first James Bond movie, Dr No, opened at United Artists's West End showcase, the London Pavilion in Piccadilly Circus, a former Victorian music hall. United Artists no longer exists as a major production company and the cinema became a shopping arcade a quarter of a century ago, but the franchise goes on. For the first time in more than a decade, the final credits confidently tell us there will be a new Bond film soon.
Though produced by children of the American who launched Dr No, the Bond series is now a British institution with a global reach greater than our former empire, and the latest addition, Skyfall, was given its world premiere not in a movie house but at the Royal Albert Hall.
- 10/27/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Mark Steven Johnson, the director of the first Ghost Rider film, as well as of Daredevil, Simon Birch and When in Rome, is now set to direct a movie called Killing Season. This will be the first film to team Robert De Niro and John Travolta, and the two actors will face off in a pretty classic adventure scenario. A press release from Millennium Films says that the script is by Evan Daugherty (Snow White and the Huntsman) and that Killing Season will be, an action movie set in the Appalachian Mountains about an American military veteran (De Niro) who has retreated to a remote cabin in the woods. When a rare visitor, a European tourist (Travolta), appears on the scene, the two men strike up an unlikely friendship. But in fact the visitor is a former Serbian soldier bent on revenge. What follows is a tense, action packed battle...
- 11/1/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
1941, PG, Optimum
Hitler and Goebbels were great admirers of Fritz Lang's films, most especially Metropolis. When the Nazis came to power they banned his first two sound movies, but then invited him to run the German film industry. A Jewish liberal, Lang fled into exile and seven years later directed this Hollywood version of Geoffrey Household's novel Rogue Male, the first of his four anti-Nazi movies. It begins with Captain Alan Thorndike, a celebrated British big-game hunter (Walter Pidgeon) holding Hitler in the cross hairs of his gunsight from a hill above Berchtesgaden in July 1939. The audience is similarly transfixed for the next 90 minutes. Thorndike doesn't fire the shot, is captured, tortured and escapes back to a very Hollywoodian England where the hunter becomes the prey.
He's pursued by suave, monocled Nazi colonel George Sanders and sinister Gestapo agent John Carradine, and along the way he's assisted by...
Hitler and Goebbels were great admirers of Fritz Lang's films, most especially Metropolis. When the Nazis came to power they banned his first two sound movies, but then invited him to run the German film industry. A Jewish liberal, Lang fled into exile and seven years later directed this Hollywood version of Geoffrey Household's novel Rogue Male, the first of his four anti-Nazi movies. It begins with Captain Alan Thorndike, a celebrated British big-game hunter (Walter Pidgeon) holding Hitler in the cross hairs of his gunsight from a hill above Berchtesgaden in July 1939. The audience is similarly transfixed for the next 90 minutes. Thorndike doesn't fire the shot, is captured, tortured and escapes back to a very Hollywoodian England where the hunter becomes the prey.
He's pursued by suave, monocled Nazi colonel George Sanders and sinister Gestapo agent John Carradine, and along the way he's assisted by...
- 2/6/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Man Hunt is based on the 1939 novel 'Rogue Male' by Geoffrey Household and is set just before the start of the Second World War. We are introduced to big-game hunter Captain Alan Thorndike (Walter Pidgeon) as he hunts in an undisclosed location. It quickly becomes apparent that he is stalking the ultimate prey - Adolf Hitler. The suspense mounts as he traps the dictator in his sights and fires off a blank shot. On the spur of the moment, Thorndike rushes to load his gun with live ammunition, but at the very last minute his plan is foiled and he is seized by Nazi guards.
Here we are introduced to Gestapo leader Quive-Smith, excellently portrayed by George Sanders. The Nazi attempts to force Thorndike into signing a statement, declaring that he was trying to assassinate Hitler by order of The Queen. Thorndike boldly refuses, boasting that should he go missing,...
Here we are introduced to Gestapo leader Quive-Smith, excellently portrayed by George Sanders. The Nazi attempts to force Thorndike into signing a statement, declaring that he was trying to assassinate Hitler by order of The Queen. Thorndike boldly refuses, boasting that should he go missing,...
- 1/26/2011
- Shadowlocked
"Clive Donner, who helped launch the careers of actors such as Sir Ian McKellen and Alan Bates, has died at the age of 84," reports the BBC. "He was best known for a series of 1960s films including Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush and What's New Pussycat," which, "released in 1965, featured Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Woody Allen and Ursula Andress in the leading roles. Allen also wrote the screenplay, while Burt Bacharach composed the music."
The BFI's screenonline has a fine biography; let's pick it up in the early 60s, when he's just had a surprise box office hit, Some People (1962). "Despite this success Donner was unable to find a backer for a film version of The Caretaker (1963 [clip above]), written by his friend Harold Pinter, but a private consortium, headed by Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Noël Coward and Peter Sellers, agreed to put up a minimum of £1000 each. The film...
- 9/7/2010
- MUBI
Director who captured swinging London's zeitgeist and remade classics for television
For a few years in the 1960s, Clive Donner, who has died aged 84 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease, was among the leading film directors of swinging London. Unfortunately, when London stopped swinging, so did Donner. The four films that made his name were a low-budget adaptation of Harold Pinter's play The Caretaker (1963); Nothing But the Best (1964), a wicked satire on the British class structure; the farcical What's New Pussycat? (1965); and the coming-of-age comedy Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968).
Already in his 30s when he started directing, Donner gained a reputation for being tuned in to "youth". His debut movie, The Secret Place (1957), a heist drama shot on location in the East End, had David McCallum as a Brandoesque leather-jacketed "crazy mixed-up kid".
The Heart of a Child (1958) concerned a boy and his St Bernard dog, Rudi,...
For a few years in the 1960s, Clive Donner, who has died aged 84 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease, was among the leading film directors of swinging London. Unfortunately, when London stopped swinging, so did Donner. The four films that made his name were a low-budget adaptation of Harold Pinter's play The Caretaker (1963); Nothing But the Best (1964), a wicked satire on the British class structure; the farcical What's New Pussycat? (1965); and the coming-of-age comedy Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968).
Already in his 30s when he started directing, Donner gained a reputation for being tuned in to "youth". His debut movie, The Secret Place (1957), a heist drama shot on location in the East End, had David McCallum as a Brandoesque leather-jacketed "crazy mixed-up kid".
The Heart of a Child (1958) concerned a boy and his St Bernard dog, Rudi,...
- 9/7/2010
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
The great Fritz Lang takes on Der Fuehrer in 1941‘s Man Hunt, a neglected 1941 gem of film noir and ballsy left-wing thriller, scripted by John Ford‘s liberal conscience, Dudley Nichols. Lang’s source novel is Geoffrey Household’s Rogue Male, a furiously topical pre-WW2 bestseller about a British big game hunter (played by Walter Pidgeon), who goes after Adolf Hitler (played by the actual Schickelgruber in documentary footage) , and then finds himself the target of Nazis, killers and fifth columnists in a very foggy London of shadowy houses and rain-slickened streets, where chills, betrayal and murder are always in the air.
- 6/2/2009
- Movie City News
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