Neil Jordan's Byzantium

[Project862006]

CANNES -- Oscar winning filmmaker Neil Jordan is reuniting with producer Stephen Woolley to make Byzantium, a female vampire movie with Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton as the lead bloodsuckers.

The original script is penned by Moira Buffini and details the story of a mother vampire who turns her own daughter into a vampire and the pair form a lethal partnership, sometimes posing as sisters.
The £8 million ($11 million) budgeted movie is set to shoot in October.
Jordan and Woolley have made several movies dating back to 1984’s The Company of Wolves, based on Angela Carter’s novel.
Woolley produced Jordan’s Oscar winning The Crying Game also and last worked together on Breakfast on Pluto in 2005.
“I love the horror genre and we’ve been working on this for three or four years. I sent it to Neil and he liked the script,” Woolley said. “We’d both recently revisited Angela Carter’s book and it was just chance that when I called [Jordan], we were thinking along the same lines.”
The original script is based on a youth theater play by Buffini but has been taken to a slightly more adult, darker level, Woolley said.
Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen’s Number 9 Films production banner is gearing up to shoot its $17 million budgeted Mike Newell directed adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, penned by David Nicholls.
Cast includes Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes and Jeremy Irvine.
It is backed by Optimum Releasing, BBC Films and the British Film Institute, which now has lottery funding duties since the end of the U.K. Film Council. It is being sold here by Hanway Films.
Along with Number 9 Films production banner partner Elizabeth Karlsen, the company is gearing up to give longtime assistant and Number 9 stalwart Joanna Laurie her first taste of filmmaking.
Laurie is producing Hyena, an alternate London cops thriller written and directed by Gerard Johnson. Billed as a police noir inspired by Jean-Pierre Melville, one of the forerunners of the French New Wave, the film is set in contemporary West London amongst the Turkish and Albanian communities of asylum seekers.
It is being developed with Film4, the broadcaster’s standalone movie-making unit and marks Johnson’s second big screen outing and will star Peter Ferdinando.
Ferdinando appeared in Johnson’s debut horror thriller, Tony, about a serial killer in a rundown suburb of London. It is being sold at the Marche du Film by Independent.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/saoirse-ronan-gemma-arterton-star-188454

 

[kvz5]

First set pics:

More here - http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/gemma-arterton-oogled-on-the-set-of-neil-jordans-byzantium

 

[Project862006]

3 Actors Join Byzantium

Tom Hollander (Hanna), Jonny Lee Miller (Dexter), and Sam Riley (Control) have joined Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton in Neil Jordan‘s vampire movie Byzantium. Ronan and Arterton play a daughter and mother who are vampires who arrive in a small 18th century British town. Ronan’s character begins a relationship with a young man (Caleb Landry Jones) who’s dying of leukemia, which in turn forces him to struggle with his mortality and her to question her immortality.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...rterton-stars-vampire-new-role-Byzantium.html

 

[chamber-music]

The whole family drama of Vampires sounds like Neil Jordan's last vampire movie 'Interview With The Vampire'

 

[Project862006]

Eleanor and Clara, two mysterious and penniless young women, flee the scene of a violent crime and arrive in a run-down coastal resort. They try to find money and refuge along the tawdry seafront and in the dilapidated hotels.
Clara, ever-practical, sells her body. She soon meets shy and lonely Noel, who provides a roof over their heads in his seedy guesthouse, Byzantium. Clara, always looking towards the future, turns it into a ‘pop-up’ brothel.
Meanwhile Eleanor, the eternal schoolgirl, meets Frank, a kindred spirit who unwittingly prompts her to tell the truth about her life. She tells him that Clara is her mother; yet Clara is only a few years older. She says that she was born in 1804; yet she is just sixteen. She confesses that she must drink human blood to stay alive – and so must her mother. In the small, quiet town, people start to die.
The past that the girls have been running from for so long, finally catches up with them – with astonishing consequences.
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[kvz5]

 

[Project862006]

1st Official Clip
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayl...-neil-jordans-vampire-tale-byzantium-20120907
creepy!!

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton. Has someone been peeking at my Christmas list?

 

[TheFuture]

I like the look and tone in that clip, it looks like he is using a very real, suburban/ordinary setting, kind of how like Boyle did in 28 Days Later.

 

[E.NormusJohnson]

This kinda raised my interest because I've always loved the history of the Byzantine Greeks... but then I saw it was vampires and went

 

[matrix_ghost]

Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton. Has someone been peeking at my Christmas list?

There must be nudity.
Otherwise this movie is useless.

 

[Project862006]

Byzantium - Clara visits Frank


awesome clip and supports reviews of gemma's performance they say she is very sexy and viscous!!

 

[DarthSkywalker]

There must be nudity.
Otherwise this movie is useless.

I seriously doubt it sadly.

 

[Project862006]

Awesome International Trailer

 

[DarthSkywalker]

They had me at Saoirse and Gemma.

 

[KenK]

Looks like a bloody good time! t:

 

[kedrell]

Well this just jumped up out of nowhere and onto my list of must see films for 2013.

 

[Lord]

Another vampire movie? Seriously?

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Another vampire movie? Seriously?

You act as if there are so many good vampire films out there.

 

[Lord]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_films

In the past 5 years there have been a lot of vampire films and tv shows. This vampire craze probably began with Twilight, which ironically enough didn't follow some of the rules we associate with vampires.

 

[Piper Maru]

Another vampire movie? I tremble with excitement...

 

[DarthSkywalker]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_films

In the past 5 years there have been a lot of vampire films and tv shows. This vampire craze probably began with Twilight, which ironically enough didn't follow some of the rules we associate with vampires.

And the vast majority are bad. Considering the talent involved here, it has a chance of actually being different and actually being good.

 

[kedrell]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_films

In the past 5 years there have been a lot of vampire films and tv shows. This vampire craze probably began with Twilight, which ironically enough didn't follow some of the rules we associate with vampires.

99.9% of those are of such ilk that anyone who likes their vampire movies to suck blood rather than raw eggs would probably not even bother watching them. I personally blame Buffy for the crappy vampire craze. Twilight just came along in the same style of crap.

 

[Lord]

I wish most of those films were as entertaining as Buffy, the show may have garnered some interest in vampires but by 2004 that effect was already gone, since Twilight came we've had in least 3 vampire tv shows and a load of vampire movies. I don't care if the people behind it have talent, i'm just tired of new movies deciding to use vampires over and over again.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Then don't watch it. You came into this thread about a film you know nothing about to complain about films having vampires in them. You have absolutely nothing to say about the film itself. It is the perfect example of being a troll.

Next thing you will be going into a superhero film thread and start talking about how you are tried of superhero films.