Ben to star on The Fateful Pattern?
According to an article, Ben is in negotiations for the male lead of the movie “The Fateful Pattern”, and will be directed by Meta Akkus.
Alex Brown of British production house Studio Eight Productions is producing the £1.2 m budgeted Oxford and Istanbul set drama, which will be shot for five weeks in Istanbul and a week in Oxford.
Akkus co-wrote with Joe O’Bryne (Pete’s Meteor) the 1950s-set story of a young Englishman who travels to Istanbul and falls in love with a mysterious rug seller.
Akkus is best known for her shorts La Solitude and La Peur. Cinematographer Vincent Mathias (State Affairs) and Art Director Frank Walsh (Agora [trailer]) are also attached to the project.
Studio Eight has produced and co-produced over 30 feature films including David Bailey’s The Intruder (Charlotte Gainsbourg, John Hannah) and Terence Ryan’s The Brylcreem Boys (Gabriel Byrne, Bill Campbell).
Akkus said, “On Sunday, the first woman won the Academy Award for best director and this was a momentous occasion. This autumn, I’m making my first film as a young director. I work in hope to be the first French woman to lift the same award one day, by touching millions of hearts with my stories.”
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Article from Russian Magazine translated
Thanks to Julietta and Boogiepop we could understand a bit what was said on this article. Thank you girls!
On this page, Ben talks about his role in the film Dorian Gray. He said he was satisfied with Oliver Parker, as a director. He talks about Dorian’s appearance and says that he wanted to dye his hair to the white colour, but director said that he wanted a “dark Dorian”, not like the one from the book. Ben was ready to disguise and put on contact lenses, but the director was against it.
Also Ben said that he likes the Dorian Gray adaptation by Herd Hetfield. Ben liked the film adaptation of Albert Lewis, but it (the screening) is too meticulous and too much of the original, in his opinion.
You can read another translation from the same article, here!
