Dylan Thomas's radio play to be directed for the screen by Kevin Allen ahead of release around the centenary of the poet's birth
In 1972, Richard Burton starred in a screen version of Dylan Thomas's "play for voices", with Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole and Vivien Leigh in support. Forty-two years on and the iconic radio drama, first performed in 1954, is to enjoy another big screen outing, with Rhys Ifans in the lead as First Voice, and Kevin Allen (brother of Keith) behind the camera.
The two men have secured the rights to the work following a lengthy negotiation process as part of the fFATTI fFILMS collective, which also includes poet Murray Lachlan Young and "metaphysics guru" Michael Breen.
Set in the fictional Welsh seaside town of Llareggub ("bugger all" spelt backwards, generally assumed to be based on Laugharne in Carmarthenshire), the film will be shot on the west coast...
In 1972, Richard Burton starred in a screen version of Dylan Thomas's "play for voices", with Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole and Vivien Leigh in support. Forty-two years on and the iconic radio drama, first performed in 1954, is to enjoy another big screen outing, with Rhys Ifans in the lead as First Voice, and Kevin Allen (brother of Keith) behind the camera.
The two men have secured the rights to the work following a lengthy negotiation process as part of the fFATTI fFILMS collective, which also includes poet Murray Lachlan Young and "metaphysics guru" Michael Breen.
Set in the fictional Welsh seaside town of Llareggub ("bugger all" spelt backwards, generally assumed to be based on Laugharne in Carmarthenshire), the film will be shot on the west coast...
- 3/21/2014
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Famed Welsh poet’s The Beach of Falesa to receive airing on May 4.
Radio 3 is to air Dylan Thomas’ unproduced film script The Beach of Falesa.
To commemorate the centenary of the birth of the famed Welsh poet, Thomas’ script will air as a radio drama on May 4. Based on a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, it centres on the romance between a British trader and an island girl.
Published as a novella 12 years after his death, the script was never filmed despite interest from Richard Burton.
Radio 3’s spring schedule also includes Alison Hindell’s production of Antony and Cleopatra, with Sir Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston in the lead roles, to mark the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth.
Radio 3 is to air Dylan Thomas’ unproduced film script The Beach of Falesa.
To commemorate the centenary of the birth of the famed Welsh poet, Thomas’ script will air as a radio drama on May 4. Based on a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, it centres on the romance between a British trader and an island girl.
Published as a novella 12 years after his death, the script was never filmed despite interest from Richard Burton.
Radio 3’s spring schedule also includes Alison Hindell’s production of Antony and Cleopatra, with Sir Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston in the lead roles, to mark the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth.
- 1/30/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Famed Welsh poet’s The Beach of Falesa to receive airing on May 4.
Radio 3 is to air Dylan Thomas’ unproduced film script The Beach of Falesa.
To commemorate the centenary of the birth of the famed Welsh poet, Thomas’ script will air as a radio drama on May 4. Based on a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, it centres on the romance between a British trader and an island girl.
Published as a novella 12 years after his death, the script was never filmed despite interest from Richard Burton.
Radio 3’s spring schedule also includes Alison Hindell’s production of Antony and Cleopatra, with Sir Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston in the lead roles, to mark the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth.
Radio 3 is to air Dylan Thomas’ unproduced film script The Beach of Falesa.
To commemorate the centenary of the birth of the famed Welsh poet, Thomas’ script will air as a radio drama on May 4. Based on a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, it centres on the romance between a British trader and an island girl.
Published as a novella 12 years after his death, the script was never filmed despite interest from Richard Burton.
Radio 3’s spring schedule also includes Alison Hindell’s production of Antony and Cleopatra, with Sir Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston in the lead roles, to mark the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth.
- 1/30/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
The actors talk about playing Hollywood's most star-crossed lovers, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
"Well, there's no point in trying to look like her, is there?" Helena Bonham Carter says, as she twiddles her monstrous fake £1m diamond ring. "And if you do try, you're just going to be perpetually disappointed."
"On no," Dominic West says. "Pointless. The thing we had going for us is, we're playing them when they're not in their prime. And we're younger than they were at the time."
Bonham Carter and West are playing the ultimate celebrity couple, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, in a new BBC4 film. It wasn't simply their level of celebrity that made them special; it was the scale of their lives. Both actors dealt only in superlatives raised to the power of X. So Taylor became the world's biggest child star when she made National Velvet at 12, and went on...
"Well, there's no point in trying to look like her, is there?" Helena Bonham Carter says, as she twiddles her monstrous fake £1m diamond ring. "And if you do try, you're just going to be perpetually disappointed."
"On no," Dominic West says. "Pointless. The thing we had going for us is, we're playing them when they're not in their prime. And we're younger than they were at the time."
Bonham Carter and West are playing the ultimate celebrity couple, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, in a new BBC4 film. It wasn't simply their level of celebrity that made them special; it was the scale of their lives. Both actors dealt only in superlatives raised to the power of X. So Taylor became the world's biggest child star when she made National Velvet at 12, and went on...
- 7/13/2013
- by Simon Hattenstone
- The Guardian - Film News
Christian McKay has been teased about his uncanny resemblance to Orson Welles, a comparison he did not like. He wanted to be compared to Richard Burton. Still, when he found himself relegated to playing eunuchs in Shakespearean productions—"and that's several rungs lower than spear carriers," he says—followed by 18 months of unemployment, he reappraised the idea of Welles as a kind of alter ego. McKay performed the one-man show "Rosebud: The Lives of Orson Welles," by his pal Mark Jenkins, at the Edinburgh Festival and in London, Toronto, and New York. In Gotham, the actor was seen by Richard Linklater, who cast him as Welles in his film "Me and Orson Welles." McKay admits it's a meteoric career leap. Nevertheless, he acknowledges there's something to be said for being an unknown. "Audiences aren't going to say, 'There's so-and-so trying to be so-and-so,' " says the 36-year-old Lancashire, England,...
- 11/27/2009
- backstage.com
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