Stars: Tom Payne, Ben Kingsley, Stellan Skarsgard, Olivier Martinez, Emma Rigby, Elyas M’Barek, Fahri Yardim, Makram Khoury, Michael Marcus, Stanley Townsend | Written by Jan Berger, Philipp Stölzl, Simon Block, Christoph Müller | Directed by Philipp Stölzl
When nine-year-old Rob Cole (Tom Payne) feels the life force slipping from his mother’s hand upon her death he is unaware that his gift of sensing impending death would lead him from 11th Century England to a medical school at Ispahan. At a time when Christians are banned from becoming a student at the school, Cole disguises himself as a Jew to become famed physician Avicenna’s (Ben Kingsley) student.
The Physician uses the history of medicine as the foundations of a story that focuses on the power of superstition and religion to hold back progress. In it we see how the Barber (Stellan Skarsgard) is held back from saving lives as to...
When nine-year-old Rob Cole (Tom Payne) feels the life force slipping from his mother’s hand upon her death he is unaware that his gift of sensing impending death would lead him from 11th Century England to a medical school at Ispahan. At a time when Christians are banned from becoming a student at the school, Cole disguises himself as a Jew to become famed physician Avicenna’s (Ben Kingsley) student.
The Physician uses the history of medicine as the foundations of a story that focuses on the power of superstition and religion to hold back progress. In it we see how the Barber (Stellan Skarsgard) is held back from saving lives as to...
- 10/8/2015
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
Boyzone frontman to provide the singing voice of Postman Pat in upcoming film.
Ronan Keating has joined the cast of the upcoming Postman Pat: The Movie.
Keating will provide the singing voice of Postman Pat in the big screen outing produced by Rgh Entertainment’s Robert Anich with Rubicon’s Randa Ayoubi and David Corbett.
Dreamworks Classics’ Eric Ellenbogen and Doug Schwalbe serve as executive producers.
Currently in production, the film is directed by Mike Disa from a screenplay co-written by the award-winning Kim Fuller, Annika Bluhm and Nicole Dubuc. The cast is led by Stephen Mangan as Postman Pat, with Jim Broadbent, Rupert Grint and David Tennant also set to star.
Keating, who will also have a cameo appearance in the film, commented: “It’s been a true honour to help bring Postman Pat’s singing voice to life. I grew up watching Pat and all the great characters in Greendale so I can’t wait...
Ronan Keating has joined the cast of the upcoming Postman Pat: The Movie.
Keating will provide the singing voice of Postman Pat in the big screen outing produced by Rgh Entertainment’s Robert Anich with Rubicon’s Randa Ayoubi and David Corbett.
Dreamworks Classics’ Eric Ellenbogen and Doug Schwalbe serve as executive producers.
Currently in production, the film is directed by Mike Disa from a screenplay co-written by the award-winning Kim Fuller, Annika Bluhm and Nicole Dubuc. The cast is led by Stephen Mangan as Postman Pat, with Jim Broadbent, Rupert Grint and David Tennant also set to star.
Keating, who will also have a cameo appearance in the film, commented: “It’s been a true honour to help bring Postman Pat’s singing voice to life. I grew up watching Pat and all the great characters in Greendale so I can’t wait...
- 12/5/2013
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
The first teaser trailer is out for Beta Cinema’s film adaptation of Noah Gordon’s international bestseller, The Physician, starring British actor Tom Payne, alongside Ben Kingsley and Stellan Skarsgard.
Tom, originally from Bath, is a graduate of Cssd and played Brett Aspinall in two of the early series of Waterloo Road, as well as starring as George Best in the ITV drama Best:His Mother's Son. He has recently been seen as a regular in HBO's acclaimed series Luck, and in Hiam Abbass's directorial debut, Inheritance.
The Physician tells the story of Rob Cole (Tom Payne) who as a boy is left a penniless orphan in an 11th-century English mining town when his mother dies of a mysterious illness. Vowing to become a physician and vanquish death itself, he travels to Persia to study medicine under the great Ibn Sina (Ben Kingsley). Through countless ordeals and challenges, and...
Tom, originally from Bath, is a graduate of Cssd and played Brett Aspinall in two of the early series of Waterloo Road, as well as starring as George Best in the ITV drama Best:His Mother's Son. He has recently been seen as a regular in HBO's acclaimed series Luck, and in Hiam Abbass's directorial debut, Inheritance.
The Physician tells the story of Rob Cole (Tom Payne) who as a boy is left a penniless orphan in an 11th-century English mining town when his mother dies of a mysterious illness. Vowing to become a physician and vanquish death itself, he travels to Persia to study medicine under the great Ibn Sina (Ben Kingsley). Through countless ordeals and challenges, and...
- 1/11/2013
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
I just love these silent projects. No photos, no interviews, no drama, no nothing… and all of the sudden you get an awesome teaser trailer for the whole thing. The Physician is an upcoming adventure/history/drama (sounds silly, but it works for this movie) which comes from director Philipp Stölzl and has an awesome cast on board. More about that cast in the rest of this report, now – just a little reminder: the movie is actually the big-screen adaptation of Noah Gordon’s international bestseller of the same name!
So, Philipp Stölzl directs the whole thing from a script written by Jan Berger, and the movie will tell us the story of a Christian English boy in the 11th century who journeys across Europe in order to study medicine from the Muslims.
Rob Cole is a boy who is left a penniless orphan in an 11th-century English mining town...
So, Philipp Stölzl directs the whole thing from a script written by Jan Berger, and the movie will tell us the story of a Christian English boy in the 11th century who journeys across Europe in order to study medicine from the Muslims.
Rob Cole is a boy who is left a penniless orphan in an 11th-century English mining town...
- 12/14/2012
- by Jeanne Standal
- Filmofilia
29 year British actor Tom Payne (represented by The Rights House in the UK) will star alongside Ben Kingsley and Stellan Skarsgard in a medieval period drama The Physician, based on the best-selling novel by Noah Gordon about a healer traveling across Europe in the 11th century.
Tom, originally from Bath, is a graduate of Cssd and played Brett Aspinall in two of the early series of Waterloo Road, as well as starring as George Best in the ITV drama Best:His Mother's Son. He has recently been seen as a regular as in HBO's acclaimed series Luck, and will be seen later this year in Hiam Abbass's directorial debut, Inheritance.
In the new film, Tom will play the leading role of physician Rob Cole, who searches for the scientific truth of illness and healing in a medieval world dominated by religion and superstition.
Oscar-winner Kingsley will play Ibn Sina, the...
Tom, originally from Bath, is a graduate of Cssd and played Brett Aspinall in two of the early series of Waterloo Road, as well as starring as George Best in the ITV drama Best:His Mother's Son. He has recently been seen as a regular as in HBO's acclaimed series Luck, and will be seen later this year in Hiam Abbass's directorial debut, Inheritance.
In the new film, Tom will play the leading role of physician Rob Cole, who searches for the scientific truth of illness and healing in a medieval world dominated by religion and superstition.
Oscar-winner Kingsley will play Ibn Sina, the...
- 5/29/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Ben Kingsley and Stellan Skarsgard are presently perched at the top of the box office, the former showcasing his comedy chops opposite Sacha Baron Cohen in The Dictator, the latter mixing it up with The Avengers. While credit for these movies' numbers may never go to this pair, it's hard to argue that they didn't offer solid support in the big budget studio flicks. Now, they'll have a chance to draw a little more notice, as THR reports they'll be co-starring opposite up-and-coming leading man Tom Payne in the forthcoming adaptation of Noah Gordon's best-selling novel The Physician. The book, which kicks off Gordon's Cole Family Trilogy, follows young Rob Cole, a Christian born into poverty in 11th century England who ventures across Europe and into Muslim-dominated Persia to better study the emerging study of healing. Payne, who recently co-stared on the short-lived HBO series Luck, will shoulder the...
- 5/22/2012
- cinemablend.com
Mark Duplass has had busy couple of years, directing and writing three films with his brother, and starring in a number of projects including the raunchy FX comedy, “The League,” and in the upcoming sci-fi tinged indie dramedy “Safety Not Guaranteed” with Aubrey Plaza. He’s following up that role with one in another indie film with a sci-fi element, “Convention,” and he’s going to be acting opposite some pretty big names.
Duplass will be playing an inventor who unveils his latest creation at a national box convention: the five-sided box. The mysterious new design initially seems perfect, until Duplass’ inventor learns that each time its special fold is created, he rips a hole in the space-time continuum. It’s up to him and his sister to put things back together and save the role. Jennifer Aniston is circling the sister role and Ben Kingsley is officially signed up...
Duplass will be playing an inventor who unveils his latest creation at a national box convention: the five-sided box. The mysterious new design initially seems perfect, until Duplass’ inventor learns that each time its special fold is created, he rips a hole in the space-time continuum. It’s up to him and his sister to put things back together and save the role. Jennifer Aniston is circling the sister role and Ben Kingsley is officially signed up...
- 5/21/2012
- by Cain Rodriguez
- The Playlist
With The Dictator in theaters, Iron Man 3 about to shoot, and a role in Convention being announced just a few days back, we’re being inundated with Ben Kingsley at the moment; savor it while it lasts. Adding to that influx would be the news that he, Stellan Skarsgård, Tom Payne, and Olivier Martinez are planning to lead The Physician, an adaptation of Noah Gordon‘s medieval novel that Philipp Stölzl (Young Goethe in Love) will direct. [THR]
Adapted for film by Jan Berger, The Physician follows Rob Cole (Payne), a (you know what he does) trying to uncover the secrets behind “illness and healing in a medieval world dominated by religion and superstition.” Trying to help him in that quest would be Ibn Sina (Kingsley), a super-doctor, and Barber (Skarsgård), his mentor & guide; Martinez is playing Shah Ala ad-Daula.
We can’t zero in on the film’s true potential just yet,...
Adapted for film by Jan Berger, The Physician follows Rob Cole (Payne), a (you know what he does) trying to uncover the secrets behind “illness and healing in a medieval world dominated by religion and superstition.” Trying to help him in that quest would be Ibn Sina (Kingsley), a super-doctor, and Barber (Skarsgård), his mentor & guide; Martinez is playing Shah Ala ad-Daula.
We can’t zero in on the film’s true potential just yet,...
- 5/20/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
The Physician lands Alexander Skarsgard, Ben Kingsley and Tom Payne in adaptation of Noah Gordon's bestseller The Ufa Cinema adaptation of the story concerning a medieval healer traveling from England to Persia in order to study medicine, is being helmed by Young Goethe In Love director Phillip Stoelzl, reports Variety. Script comes from Jan Berger, and tells of Rob Cole (played by Payne), a poor orphan in an 11th Century English mining town who travels to Persia to study medicine under philosopher-scientist Ibn Sina (Kingsley). Dark Water's Olivier Martinez also forms part of the cast as the Shah of Persia. Filming is scheduled to start in June in Morocco and Germany. Olivier Martinez as the Persian shah...
- 5/20/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Cannes – Ben Kingsley, Tom Payne and Stellan Skarsgard have joined the cast of the medieval period drama The Physician, based on the best-selling novel by Noah Gordon about a healer traveling across Europe in the 11th century. Payne, a regular on the HBO series Luck and whose credits include the BBC’s Waterloo Road and the feature Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008), will star as the physician Rob Cole, who searches for the scientific truth of illness and healing in a medieval world dominated by religion and superstition. Photos: Cannes 2012: Opening Night Gala Oscar-winner Kingsley
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- 5/20/2012
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Physician lands Stellan Skarsgard, Ben Kingsley and Tom Payne in adaptation of Noah Gordon's bestseller The Ufa Cinema adaptation of the story concerning a medieval healer traveling from England to Persia in order to study medicine, is being helmed by Young Goethe In Love director Phillip Stoelzl, reports Variety. Script comes from Jan Berger, and tells of Rob Cole (played by Payne), a poor orphan in an 11th Century English mining town who travels to Persia to study medicine under philosopher-scientist Ibn Sina (Kingsley). Dark Water's Olivier Martinez also forms part of the cast as the Shah of Persia. Filming is scheduled to start in June in Morocco and Germany. Olivier Martinez as the Persian shah...
- 5/19/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The Physician lands Stellan Skarsgard, Ben Kingsley and Tom Payne in adaptation of Noah Gordon's bestseller The Ufa Cinema adaptation of the story concerning a medieval healer traveling from England to Persia in order to study medicine, is being helmed by Young Goethe In Love director Phillip Stoelzl, reports Variety. Script comes from Jan Berger, and tells of Rob Cole (played by Payne), a poor orphan in an 11th Century English mining town who travels to Persia to study medicine under philosopher-scientist Ibn Sina (Kingsley). Dark Water's Olivier Martinez also forms part of the cast as the Shah of Persia. Filming is scheduled to start in June in Morocco and Germany. Olivier Martinez as the Persian shah...
- 5/19/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
British TV’s ‘Postman Pat’ Heads To The Big Screen Stephen Mangan, Jim Broadbent, Rupert Grint and David Tennant lead the voice cast for the 3-D animated feature. Mike Disa (Hood vs. Evil) will direct. The screenplay will be co-written by Kim Fuller and Annika Bluhm, who produced the Postman Pat kids TV series in the UK. Robert Anich and Miles Horst are producing for Rubicon Group Entertainment, with Ceri Barnes and Annika Bluhm for Classic Media. Production begins this month. Timeless Films is selling the film worldwide. Icon Film Distribution has picked up the rights in the UK and Ireland. France Picks ‘Declaration of War’ For Oscar Consideration The low-budget tale centers on a couple coping with their baby boy’s tumor. Valerie Donzelli wrote the script from her own experience and stars in the film along with Jeremie Elkaim, the father of her two children. Sundance Selects bought the U.
- 9/17/2011
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
In celebration of Postman Pat's 30th birthday, it's been announced that there will be a CG animated 3D movie made based on the 1980's British stop-motion animated kids TV series. I have never seen this series, but then I didn't grow up in the UK.
The movie will be called Postman Pat: The Movie – You Know You're the One. "The film finds Pat, everyone's favorite postman, coming face-to-face with the temptations of money, status and a shiny new suit when he enters a national TV talent show competition that threatens to tear him away from his hometown of Greendale and the friends he loves. What happens when kindness meets selfishness? When local fame meets global notoriety? A nice cup of tea is kicked aside by a frappacappucino? Pat is set to find out as he falls for the age old temptation of the grass being greener..."
The movie...
The movie will be called Postman Pat: The Movie – You Know You're the One. "The film finds Pat, everyone's favorite postman, coming face-to-face with the temptations of money, status and a shiny new suit when he enters a national TV talent show competition that threatens to tear him away from his hometown of Greendale and the friends he loves. What happens when kindness meets selfishness? When local fame meets global notoriety? A nice cup of tea is kicked aside by a frappacappucino? Pat is set to find out as he falls for the age old temptation of the grass being greener..."
The movie...
- 9/16/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Yesterday I awoke to a press release telling me that the BT Tower was going to be turned into a Lightsaber (and last night it came true) and this morning I get news that one of my childhood heroes, Postman Pat is going to get his own feature film! There’s a full press release from a well respected PR firm so it has to be true doesn’t it?!
The film finds Pat, everyone’s favourite postman, coming face-to-face with the temptations of money, status and a shiny new suit when he enters a national TV talent show competition that threatens to tear him away from his hometown of Greendale and the friends he loves. What happens when kindness meets selfishness? When local fame meets global notoriety? A nice cup of tea is kicked aside by a frappacappucino? Pat is set to find out as he falls for the...
The film finds Pat, everyone’s favourite postman, coming face-to-face with the temptations of money, status and a shiny new suit when he enters a national TV talent show competition that threatens to tear him away from his hometown of Greendale and the friends he loves. What happens when kindness meets selfishness? When local fame meets global notoriety? A nice cup of tea is kicked aside by a frappacappucino? Pat is set to find out as he falls for the...
- 9/16/2011
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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